Coffee Kids

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Coffee Kids is a non-governmental organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, dedicated to improving the lives of coffee farmers and their families. Coffee Kids operates predominantly in Central and South America. The organization currently supports several community-based microcredit projects.

History

Coffee Kids was founded in 1988 by David Abedon, Dean Cycon and Bill Fishbein. All three founders had spent time in South America, where they first came into contact with coffee growing communities.Bill Fishbein had been in the coffee business for several years and knew the structure of the industry. Dean Cycon had a decade of international development experience with indigenous peoples in different countries. David Abedon was involved with natural resource policy and education at URI.

Frustrated by the impoverishment of the coffee farmers they met, as well as the lack of financial resources available to coffee farmers, Abedon, Cycon and Fishbein resolved to form Coffee Kids as a way to support coffee growing communities around the world.

Locations of projects and partners

Nation

Partner Organizations

Type of Project

Mexico

AUGE
CAMPO
FomCafe
ICSUR

Microcredit
Community-Based Projects
Community-Based Projects
Community-Based Projects

Guatemala

ASESPA
APROS
CHAJULENSE
STIAP

Community-Based Projects
Health Care
Microcredit & Education
Community-Based Projects

Costa Rica

CECOCAFEN

Microcredit & Education

Nicaragua

FHC
SOPPEXCCA

Education
Education

Peru

COCLA

Health Care

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Funding

Business donations make up 87% of the budget followed by 5% from individual donors, 4% from in-kind donations of goods and services, 3% from foundations and 1% from merchandise sales. Coffee Kids is a 501(3) tax-exempt organization.