Fair Trade Fridays
Upcoming Events:
Fair Trade Fridays, Spring Semester 2022
For our April 1 Fair Trade Friday, we invite you to remember that "EARTH DAY is EVERY DAY" with Fair Trade. Click on the image below to find out more!
Past Events:
For our March 11 Fair Trade Friday, we invited you to "emPOWER women TOgetTHER" Click the image below to find out more!
For our February 11 Fair Trade Friday, we invited you to "Share the Love." Click the image below to find out more!
Fair Trade Fridays, Fall Semester 2021
Holiday Fair Trade Friday
It's like our usual Fair Trade Friday, but holiday-themed! We will have special items for sale including items from Equal Exchange, Divine, and SMC's very own LEGACY GARDEN. We will also have the annual Serrv/CRS Holiday Catalogs available from which to place orders. Come to do some holiday shopping, or to pick up a free cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate!
Fall 2019 Fair Trade Fridays
September 13 | October 11
One Friday each month, the Mission and Ministry Center welcomes the SMC community to enjoy free fair trade coffee, tea and chocolate samples, while learning about the importance of Fair Trade. We also have Fair Trade items for sale (cash & check only, please).
Featured Articles
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Monthly Fair Trade Friday becomes MMC tradition
Other Fair Trade Events
The Dark Side of Chocolate - Film Screening & Dinner
Thursday, November 7, 5:30-7pm
Join us to watch The Dark Side of Chocolate, a documentary about the exploitation and slave trading of African children, many from Mali, to harvest at cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast. When this documentary debuted in 2010, it was ten years after the cocoa industry pledged to end child slave labor. But as the film shows, child slave labor remained a big part of the worldwide chocolate industry in 2010 - and still does today.
There will be a simple meal provided - homemade Women's Bean Project soup, cornbread, and dessert. The film & meal will be followed by a short reflective discussion, and information about which chocolate companies are Fair Trade certified - use zero slave labor, pay a living wage, and sincerely work to better the environment and their local communities.
True Cost Film Screening Wednesday April 24, 2019
Fair Trade isn't only about chocolate, tea and coffee... your clothing can be Fair Trade too! Come watch this film with us, and find out how the fashion industry and your clothing choices have an impact on human trafficking. A Panel discussion will follow the film, and DINNER will be PROVIDED!
Fair Trade Holiday Fair
Friday, November 30th Dryden Hall
Fair Trade Holiday Fair
Friday, December 2, 2016 Dryden Hall
Fair Trade Bake Off
February 28, 12:30-1:30PM, Dryden Hall
Thank you to everyone who participated in, and attended, the Fair Trade Bake off!
Special thanks go out to our awesome judges and the Sodexo staff, particularly Matt Carroll and Chef Anton for providing many of the ingredients for our participants.
Congratulations to the winners!
- Best Overall - Colleen O'Healy da Silva, Cardamom Pu-erh Ice Cream
- Best Sweet Entry - Basha Starr, Millionaire's Shortbread
- Best Savory Entry - Hope Huber, Butternut and Yam Vegan Soup
- Best Gluten-Free Entry - Nancy Yuen, Gluten-Free Chocolate Cheesecake
Fair Trade Festival
Brought to you by the Fair Trade Committee, Sodexo, and Mission and Ministry Center...
Saint Mary's celebrates it's status as a Fair Trade College with this yearly free Fair Trade Festival, happening on Friday April 28, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Coffee, chocolate, tea, handicrafts, and other Fair Trade goods will be available - both free samples and items for purchase. Enjoy a BBQ - free for students and $5 for faculty, staff, and all other festival guests.
Vendors & Fair Trade organizations, providing educational materials, free samples, and/or items for purchase, will include:
- Alter Eco
- Asante Network
- Catholic Relief Services
- Equal Exchange
- Fair Trade USA
- GrubMarket
- Guayaki
- Heavenly Treasures
- Hi-ball Energy Drinks
- Natural Candy Store
- Numi Tea
- Sodexo & Legacy Garden
- Three Twins Ice Cream
- Whole Foods