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For the past 12 years, Portland Coffee Roasters has sponsored a fundraising campaign featuring its annual Holiday Roast, donating a percentage from the sales to a select non-profit organization. The 2019 campaign, which concluded on Dec. 31, raised more than $10,000 –– $2,000 above its goal –– for Escuela de Caficultura, a school of agriculture in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, that teaches the essential knowledge and skills needed for coffee production. The beans for the Holiday Roast blend came from 15 smallholder cooperatives in Huehuetenango. Portland Coffee Roasters purchased the beans from these smallholders at well above market prices. The coffee was sourced through Shared Source, USA. The funds raised through the campaign will help impact the coffee industry in Guatemala by providing students with multi-course educational programs about environmentally responsible agricultural practices. For more information, visit PortlandCoffeeRoasters.com.

Those Coffee People have announced the launch of its new online matching and ordering platform for Colombian direct trade specialty green coffee. The platform is designed to both showcases the wide variety of specialty coffee origins that are available from small independent growers in Colombia, as well as make the bulk ordering of green coffee as seamless an experience as possible for international buyers. Partnerships have been formed with independent specialty coffee growers throughout Colombia, in order to connect them to global buyers via their online matching and ordering platform. The intention is to showcase the extraordinary range of varieties that the country has to offer and to make transactions as easy as possible for international buyers. It will do this using an online matching quiz, which pairs available coffee origins with customers’ tastes. Find out more at https://thosecoffeepeople.com/

I’M NOT A BARISTA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting coffee professionals, has launched the #brewathome social media campaign to connect coffee roasters and baristas to consumers at this challenging time. By encouraging coffee lovers to brew safely at home through the #brewathome campaign, I’M NOT A BARISTA is helping people find the connection to others while staying safe. The #brewathome campaign helps roasters bring their expertise to coffee lovers worldwide by encouraging them to share video tutorials about home brewing, coffee science, introduction to coffee tasting, and different coffee origins on their Instagram accounts. Coffee lovers can check notabarista.org/ brewathome for a list of dozens of participating roasters (and growing) in the UK, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas who are sharing their coffee brewing knowledge. Many are also offering discounts and giveaways on their products to help people #brewathome safely around the world.

Special Offer of Support for Roasters. CYA is Asset Tracking and Service Management Software is designed for Coffee People by Coffee People. As a way to build future value in the midst of this unprecedented global pause, we are offering Roasters and Service Companies the use of CYA Basic Software at no charge to clean up your list of capital assets, survey your deployment and plan for greater efficiency when your business ramps up. We’ll help you clean up and load your assets, provide barcode tags for scanning, and video training. You’ll start to build searchable and verified data about your assets, a large source of company value, and the engine of coffee sales. Free through June 30th. After that, we hope you’ll stay with us. Either way, we’ll provide you with your asset list. First come, first served. Let’s talk! TEXT or Call us: 224 600 3264 https://www.cya.coffee/

Dr. Frank Bald, founder of World’s Greatest Coffees With a Purpose, discovered Kilimanjaro Coffee on one of his Tanzanian trips. Being amazed at the quality and uniqueness of this coffee, he believed US coffee drinkers would love this premium coffee. He launched his website: https://worldsgreatestcoffees.com/ in April 2020 to sell Kilimanjaro Coffee. Dr. Bald, an Oral Surgeon from North Carolina, travels to Tanzania to perform Oral Surgery and to help teach sedation techniques to Dentists and Oral Surgeons to make their patients more comfortable. On his past trips, he has brought and donated medical equipment, supplies, and medications. While there he works on cases with the Tanzania Oral Surgery Group. Tanzania has 15 Oral Surgeons for a population of 55 million. Dr. Bald decided that to continue to help, he would donate 20% of the proceeds from World’s Greatest Coffees With a Purpose to the Tanzania Oral Surgery Group.

NuZee, Inc. (OTCQB: NUZE) announced that it is offering 100 independent roasters affected by COVID-19 up to 500 Coffee Blenders’ t-bag style, single-serve pour-over coffee pouches, free of charge. The offer is open to the first 100 roasters to contact NuZee, complete the necessary fields found in the link below. This service is being offered by NuZee at absolutely no charge including shipping and with no obligation. Details and the form can be found: https:// pourovercopacking.com/corona-freesamples-offer/. “We are committed to supporting our industry colleagues at this difficult time,” said Travis Gorney, President & COO. “These pouches will be manufactured at our production facility in Vista, California which operates with Level 2 SQF Certification by the Safe Quality Food Institute, assuring that our products are produced, processed, and handled according to the highest standards. On behalf of everyone at NuZee, stay safe and stay healthy.”