for businesses and foundations

Your Business Membership with Coffee Kids is a wise investment. By helping create healthy communities and economic options for coffee farmers, you are helping to ensure a sustainable, consistent supply of coffee now and in the future. Look here to see over 400 other businesses who currently support Coffee Kids programs.

Your gift helps make education, health care, and economic stability a reality for coffee-farming families in Latin America. By supporting Coffee Kids, you help coffee farmers create long-lasting programs that ensure vibrant communities.

Ways of Giving

Annual Memberships – Donate Now
The minimum donation for a business membership is $500 per year, but many choose to support our efforts at higher levels. You can make your donation in a lump sum or pay with our monthly or quarterly options. Members can also use our Automatic Monthly Program, which automatically charges a fixed amount to their credit card each month.

Business Members receive a subscription to La Voz (Coffee Kids’ quarterly newsletter), a link to your Web site on the Coffee Kids Web site, and the opportunity to promote your fundraisers on our social media networks. Please contact us at for ideas, materials and resources.

Commercial Agreements
Coffee Kids also offers an opportunity for businesses to donate a percentage of their net sales or the sales of a particular product to Coffee Kids. In exchange, you receive limited rights to use the Coffee Kids logo and tag line on your product to let your customers know you are supporting grassroots development in coffee-farming communities. For more information, contact our membership administrator at .

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Corporate Grants
We welcome corporate contributions (usually over $5,000) made in response to a Coffee Kids proposal/request. It is sometimes possible to designate funds to a particular program. Our program proposals are released on a yearly basis in October. Please contact our membership administrator at .

Employee Payroll Deduction Plans
Businesses can set up an employee payroll deduction plan (with an employer matching option), in which employees can choose to donate a set amount from each paycheck to Coffee Kids. Involving your employees in a giving program is a wonderful way to instill an ethic of social responsibility and build a sense of shared purpose among your staff.

Membership Levels
Along with a higher donation come more opportunities to tout your association with Coffee Kids. Coffee Kids membership levels are:

  • Sustaining donor ($75,000+)
  • Benefactor ($40,000 – $74,999)
  • Patron ($25,000 – $39,999)
  • Sponsor ($10,000 – $24,999)
  • Advocate ($5000 – $9999)
  • Friend ($1000 – $4999)
  • Member ($500 – $999)
  • Supporter ($1—$499)

    Other Options

    Fundraisers
    Many of our business members hold special events and promotions for Coffee Kids throughout the year. Fundraisers help educate your customers and staff about the reality of life in coffee-growing communities. They also let members of your community know that you care about the origin of your coffee. Our fundraising ideas guide provides examples of fun and easy ways to host a fundraising event in community. Please download our fundraising idea guide here: Coffee Kids Fundraising Guide (PDF: 232KB) and contact for help in setting up your fundraiser.

    Merchandise
    Visit our online store to purchase Coffee Kids merchandise such as t-shirts, caps and tote bags. Purchasing these items supports our work and helps spread the word about Coffee Kids. You can also purchase posters, coin drops and brochures to help educate consumers and employees about Coffee Kids’ efforts.

    Coin Drop
    This counter-top collection box is perfect for retail locations like coffee shops, restaurants, bookstores, etc. An $18 start-up fee covers the cost of materials. Coffee Kids brochures are included and you can order coin drop boxes from our online store.

    Posters/ Countertop Displays
    Make your support of Coffee Kid known with a poster or brochure holder. We offer a 20” X 24” full-color poster or a small 8.5” X 11” countertop display with brochures. Business members who have donated $300 or more in the past 12 months can request a countertop display and initial supply of brochures for free or you can order both of these items from our online store.

    Point-of-Origin Trips
    Coffee Kids occasionally works with companies to organize trips to point-of-origin. On these trips you and your employees will not only have the opportunity to see how coffee is produced, but you’ll be able to see firsthand how Coffee Kids efforts are improving lives. For more information on organizing a trip, please contact Coffee Kids at (505) 820-1443.

    Subscribe to Our Monthly E-Newsletter
    Receive our monthly e-newsletter with news of our partners’ efforts in coffee-farming communities, creative fundraisers hosted by our members, facts of life in coffee-farming communities and other news. Subscribe below!





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Coffee Kids has over 400 business members. Visit one in your neighborhood and please say "gracias" for us!