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Artisan Coffee for a Cause Program
Artisan Coffee for a Cause Program
We know we can change the world, if we want to, we just must go out there and do it, and occasionally talk about it too. We are artisan coffee roasters from the San Francisco Bay, and we love what we do. Our Master Coffee Roaster has been roasting coffee since 1980 and worked side by side with Alfred Peet and Sal Bonavita from 1980 to 1984. Weaver was then the Master Coffee Roaster at Peet's Coffee for 27 years, until he left Peet’s Coffee in 2007 to start our company with Renee Brown, Michael Brown, and Bryce Inouye.
Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation / Astral Blend Coffee
https://drsusanloveresearch.org/
Dr. Susan Love, MD, MBA has dedicated her professional life to the eradication of breast cancer. As Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, she oversees an active research program centered on breast cancer cause and prevention. She was also a Clinical Professor of Surgery at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She has worked as a surgeon, was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the National Cancer Advisory Board, works as an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at UCLA, and has overcome leukemia. The Santa Barbara Breast Cancer Research Institute was renamed the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation for her visionary work.
TheDr. Susan Love Research Foundation challenges the status quo to end breast cancer and improve the lives of people impacted through education and advocacy. Fast, flexible, and project-based, the Foundation actively engages the public in scientific research to ensure that it produces accurate and meaningful results.
Photo pouring Weaver’s Astral Blend Coffee at the LOVE WALK
The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation leads multiple projects, but perhaps their most noteworthy is the Army of Women. The Army of Women’s goal is to recruit women, non-binary, and men who have or are at high risk of breast cancer and give them access to connect to research studies. With the Army of Women, scientists who usually have a hard time finding research participants are connected directly and research can be done quicker and more effectively.
https://drsusanloveresearch.org/
Weaver's Astral Blend Coffee is sweet, smooth, and sassy with a nice earthy finish. This coffee is 100% Fair Trade Certified. When you purchase this coffee, not only are you supporting global farmers and their lives, but you are also giving back by supporting breast cancer research, funding for local hospitals and community organizations that provide breast health education, breast cancer screening, and treatment.
Black Girls Code / Hakrz Coffee
Kimberly Bryant is an electrical engineer and has worked in biotech for over twenty years. She started Black Girls Code after her daughter Kai went to a summer camp and complained to her mom that not only was the girl’s camp given less attention, but she was the only African American girl at the camp.
Photo Courtesy of Black Girls Code
Black Girls Code gives young and pre-teen women of color the opportunity to become the “Girl Scouts of Technology”. Black Girls Code Vision: To increase the number of women of color in the digital space by empowering girls of color ages 7 to 17 to become innovators in STEM fields, leaders in their communities, and builders of their own futures through exposure to computer science and technology. To provide African American youth with skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040.
Their mission is to introduce programming and technology to a new generation of coders, coders who will become builders of technological innovation and of their own futures. This organization helps empower young women to embrace the current tech marketplace by becoming builders and creators. In 2013, BGC was teaching students and hosting workshops in seven states as well as South Africa.
People who work in computer programming need some serious coffee to keep them going. Our Hackers Coffee makes for a remarkably rich, and complex cup. The Certified Natural Ethiopian bean mixed into this delicious coffee leaves a lingering note of blueberry in your mouth, and the best part is that a percentage of sales goes to Black Girls Code.
Photo Courtesy of Vincent Distrola - Hakrz Coffee
San Francisco AIDS Foundation / Pride Blend Coffee
San Francisco AIDS Foundation was founded in 1982, during the start of the HIV and AIDS epidemic when the disease was still not fully understood.
Photo Courtesy of San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Today, San Francisco AIDS Foundation is one of the largest community-based AIDS organizations in the United States. Their mission is to promote health, wellness, and social justice for communities most impacted by HIV, through sexual health and substance use services, advocacy, and community partnerships.
San Francisco AIDS Foundation has a huge number of programs and resources that they offer to support the community. SFAF continues their amazing work by connecting and are offering a wide variety of their in-person community events online.
Our Pride Blend is diverse, complex and truly addictive. Comprised of multiple coffees sourced along the equatorial belt which carefully hand-roasted in separate temperature roasts and then hand-blended to create a coffee that has a smooth, rich, mouth feel, light floral and berry overtones, with a blissful nutmeg-like earthiness finish.
Five Ways to Support Nonprofits
- Donate directly to the nonprofit.
- Volunteer your time by signing up and working with the nonprofit.
- Spread the word! If you like what a local nonprofit is doing, take advantage of your social media.
- Buy products that donate proceeds to them.
Our Artisan Coffee for a Cause Program offers three unique coffees and a percentage of sales are sent to each of these nonprofits in California. - Like and share their social media posts and videos on to your social media feeds to spread the word about the work that the nonprofit is doing.
References
Dr. Susan Love Foundation
https://drsusanloveresearch.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Love
How Black Girls Code Created The Girl Scouts of Tech, Interview May 3 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Girls_Code
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_AIDS_Foundation