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This fall Renaissance will join with coffee-drinkers around Clallam County to raise funds for First Step Family Support Center... simply by doing what we (love to) do everyday, drink coffee!
 Here's the good news for coffee-drinkers who wish to support First Step, the families they serve, and some remarkable women growing coffee in the Peruvian Andes: For every bulk pound of Café Femenino purchased, Renaissance will donate $3.00 to the First Step Family Support Center's Capitol Campaign; for every 12 oz. bag of Café Femenino sold, $2.00 will be donated. 
Our Goal: To raise $10,000.00 for First Step Family Support Center's new building and programming; enough to earn the Naming Rights of their new Training & Conference Room. It's our hope to offer a name that speaks of the power of women's work to support and strengthen family. (The exact name has yet to be determined).How you can help: Please, drink more coffee! If you're not already drinking this delicious organic, bird-friendly coffee, consider switching to Café Femenino. It has a moderate body, low acidity, complex flavor, with earthy undertones, and a roast that is moderately dark. Coffee brewed from the Arabica beans grown by Café Femenino growers has approximately 50% of the caffeine as coffee brewed by the more common Robusta bean characteristic of "grocery store brands" such as Yuban, Folgers, and store name brands. Café Femenino is reasonably-priced. At $12.95 a pound and $9.95 for the 12 oz bag, Café Femenino is less expensive than the organic coffees you buy in supermarket chains.Café Femenino can be purchased--whole bean or ground to your specifications--at Renaissance, 401 E Front Street. Renaissance is open Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 7:00pm and on Saturday from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Tell your friends, your churches, your clubs, your family members: simply by drinking Café Femenino you can help empower women and their families world-round, and right here at home! 
Why drink organic coffee? Simply put, drinking organic coffee completely eliminates a daily source of synthetic pesticide and herbicide residue consumption. Most of us must make decisions about when we will buy organic and when we will not make the extra expenditure to buy organic, often choosing organic for the foods we eat most frequently and consistently. Since most Americans drink coffee daily, switching to organic coffee limits our intake of these carcinogenic substances, everyday. Buying organic coffee makes a significant impact on the men and women who grow our coffee. Cancer rates, especially ovarian cancer rates, are skyrocketing in coffee-growing regions using chemically-based pesticides and herbicides. Drinking organic coffee eliminates this health risk from coffee growers and the entire communities in which they are located. Why Buy Coffee Certified Bird-Friendly by the Smithsonian Institute? In the latter half of the 1900's American bird watchers and scientists began to notice what became a precipitous decline in the number of North American songbirds. The Smithsonian Institute began a rigorous inquiry into the reasons behind the decline finding that most was/is due to the loss of the birds' winter habitat in Latin America. Too often this loss of habitat is due to widespread destruction of native tropical forests for the establishment of fencepost-to-fencepost style coffee plantations: native species are removed and rows of robusta coffee bushes (fast-growing, machine-harvestable coffee plants) are planted to create agriforests. In 1996, the Smithsonian took a rare activist turn in response to their findings and began a certification process for coffee growers who would commit to traditional methods of coffee growing and harvesting amid native vegetation, maintaining the wintertime habitat of millions of songbirds. Café Femenino coffee has been certified by the Smithsonian as Bird-Friendly, so choosing Café Femenino assures that our daily coffee preserves the habitat of the North American songbirds that help make our lives so sweet! About Renaissance Renaissance is a woman-owned business committed to serving the highest quality organic coffees and teas, grown and produced using fair trade models of commerce. Since its inception Renaissance and its employees have worked to establish the business as a modest, but critical participant in our local community and economic development. Call us at 565-1199 or visit our website at www.renaissance-pa.com. About those special coffee-growers in Peru 
Café Femenino is a collective of women coffee growers in the Peruvian Andes who have come together to grow and process the highest quality coffee beans in service to their families and their communities, as well as their own economic independence. They are committed to organic growing practices and to maintaining critical bird habitat in their coffee farms. Café Femenino growers produce a very high quality coffee bean and ask a high premium for their beans. Roasters who purchase their beans agree to pay this premium regardless of the vagaries of the world coffee market, assuring a consistent source of income for Café Femenino families, helping to lift its members, their children, and their communities out of poverty.Café Femenino growers encourage the cafés around the world that sell Femenino coffee to use their beans to raise money for women who struggle for economic independence in their own communities. They're thrilled to learn of this endeavor! |