Singing Rooster Inc

Results: Since 2009: We've purchased over 120,000 lbs of Haitian green coffee beans, which translates into paying $360,000 to farmer cooperatives and their 5,000+ farming member families. We've sold over 60,000 bags of our farmer's roasted coffee and over 10,000 lbs of our farmer's green coffee beans (to coffee roasters across the United States). We've returned over $86,000 from sales to our Haitian partner farmers. These proceeds have helped farmers to improve agricultural techniques and implement business growth projects like equipment upgrades, building repairs, seedling nurseries, and more. Along with retailing our farmer’s roasted and green coffee on our website, our wholesale business is the heart and soul of our market development. Since 2009, we've helped other non-profits to raise over $150,000 through Singing Rooster's coffee fund raiser program. Our seedling nurseries have produced over 59,000 new coffee trees -- in a country where only 2% of lands are forested, THIS is significant.

Target demographics: alleviate rural poverty with economic development through coffee agriculture

Geographic areas served: Haiti: Dondon, Artibonite, Thiotte, Marigot, Jacmel, Les Cayes, Beaumont

Programs: We partner with farmer-owned coffee cooperatives to provide farmers direct access to markets. By helping farmers to improve crops, paying premium prices for those crops and then transforming and marketing those crops on behalf of farmers, we've created a farmer-to-table model for rural coffee communities. It is through product transformation (i.e., roasting) that farmers garner true living wages; 100% of coffee sale proceeds are returned to Haiti for business growth and development. Read more about our comprehensive approach.