Bids for Coffee Kids Auction Cracks $10,000 Mark

What do four homeroasters do when they aren’t roasting? Why, they organize an auction to raise funds for their favorite chartiable organization, Coffee Kids. Not content with just any auction, they nudge and challenge one another to set a seemingly difficult goal: $10,000 or bust.

Well, did they set their sights too high? Not this year. Not when you have generous vendors and donors like we have in the specialty coffee industry! For the second year in a row, the spring homeroasters auction has matched charitable business members with homeroasters in the US and Canada in need of green coffee and some cool equipment. Many of the coffee items went for well above their retail value.

This year’s auction set a record at $10,063! Forty-one generous businesses and individuals gifted Coffee Kids with coffee items that would move in an auction. The donors include:

Atlas Coffee
Barista Magazine
Behmor
Bunnomatic
Cafe imports
Chad, GCBC Member
Clive Coffee
Coffee Roasters Club
Dave, GCBC Member
Dean’s Beans
Dillanos Coffee Roasters
Green Coffee Buying Club, Host
Invalsa
Jason, GCBC Member
JC Coffee Importers
Joe Behm
Keffa Coffee LLC
Kuma Coffee
Larry, GCBC Member
Lions Gate Kona Farm
Mercanta
Mike, GCBC Member
Mypressi
Nick Cho
No Quarter Coffee
Orphan Espresso
Our Coffee Barn
Peter, GCBC Member
Qualia Coffee
Ray, GCBC Member
Roast Magazine
Rob, GCBC Member
Royal Coffee NY
Shaun, GCBC Member
Susan, GCBC Member
Synesso
Tex, GCBC Member
Thom, GCBC Member
Trish Rothgeb
Visions Espresso
Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters

Special thanks to the homeroasters at http://greencoffeebuyingclub.com for their hearty, generous, and enthusiastic bids. We will have more on the auction in our Summer newsletter. For now, we just wanted to get out the good news and a hearty thanks to our generous benefactors!