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The Federation and its partners offer a variety of resources to help you educate your community about Fair Trade. If you use any of these resources, please let folks know you got them from FTF!

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Organizing Tools
  • Convert Dining Services - Easy steps from Equal Exchange to educate your dining services office about converting to fair trade.
  • Organize a Campaign - Time-tested methods for jump-starting or strengthening a fair trade campaign on college campuses from United Students for Fair Trade.
  • Convert your Store Checklists - Download these handy checklists of items that local stores can source under Fair Trade Principles. Mark places where they (or you) are succeeding or how you can transform their (or your) shop.
Videos
  • Awaken Your Consciousness - A thirteen minute video from Equal Exchange that takes viewers on a journey through the coffee-growing lands of Nicaragua to meet coffee farmers and learn to offer hope and dignity to farmers across the globe by transforming business and trade.
  • A Thousand Fibers: Binding Together Through Fair Trade - An education tool both for individuals, community groups, retail stores, and others; extended version can accompany the Partners for Just Trade Bible Study.
  • Banana Split - Explores the North/South split between consumers and the people whose lives revolve around banana production
  • Calcutta Hilton - Find out how FTF member Freeset Bags started in Calcutta's Red Light district to meet the needs of women fleeing the sex trade.
  • Trading as One - Learn about Trade as One's producers in Cambodia and Thailand, as well as how the company began through their YouTube videos and free DVDs
  • Market Driven Restoration and other videos - Guayaki Founder Alex Pryor discusses the role of yerba mate in providing marketd-riven restoration of the rainforest in Argentina
  • Black Gold - Trace Tadesse Meskela's journey from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to London, UK to Seattle, WA in his effort save his struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy.
  • WorldCrafts Village - See and hear how WorldCrafts is making a difference in the lives of 60+s artisan groups around the world.
  • Other Videos - The Fair Trade Resource Network lists videos from around the world that exhibit the strong connections that consumers have with those who make the goods we use and the food we eat.
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