Fair Trade Fridays

Saint Mary's is a FAIR TRADE COLLEGE! We are committed to sourcing coffee, tea, chocolate and other products from growers that ensure fair wages, safe working conditions and that use sustainable practices. Fair Trade directly connects with the fidelity of our educational mission, Catholic principles and Lasallian identity. Saint Mary's has been a delegated Fair Trade College since 2014. We are the first college in Northern California to achieve this delegation. Read the article posted by SMC about this honor here.

Upcoming Events:

Shopping for the holidays? Consider supporting our FUNDRAISER for Lasallian Women of Hope, an international Lasallian project in its 6th year of fostering educational access, empowering women and girls, and creating sustainable change. 

Our goal is to raise $500, which will go directly toward these current LWH projects: funding a clean water system at a girl’s school in Kenya and expanding the Menstrual Education Program in India. 25% of proceeds from your purchases will go toward these projects. 

For further Fair Trade shopping, we encourage you to support the following vendors that we have highlighted at past Fair Trade Fridays:

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Fall 2022 Fair Trade Fridays:

  • September 2
  • October 14
  • November 4
  • December 2

Past Events:

Fair Trade Fridays, Spring Semester 2022

For our April 1 Fair Trade Friday, we invited you to remember that "EARTH DAY is EVERY DAY" with Fair Trade. Click on the image below to find out more!

 

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!

Holiday Fair Trade Friday

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).

Fair Trade Friday

Featured Articles

Saint Mary's First NorCal Higher-Ed Institution to Achieve Fair Trade Designation

First Fair Trade Friday of the year: SMC shows encouragement for fair and safe working conditions

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.

Dark Side of Chocolate

 

True Cost Film Screening Wednesday April 24, 2019

True Cost Film

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

 

Fair Trade Holiday Fair
Friday, December 2, 2016 Dryden Hall

Fair Trade Holiday Fair

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 Good Eats 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 Bake Off

Fair Trade Festival

Brought to you by the Fair Trade Committee, Good Eats, 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
  • Good Eats & Legacy Garden
  • Three Twins Ice Cream
  • Whole Foods

Fair Trade Festival and BBQ Flyer