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Auction Action - Simple Way To Help

The Grounds for Health Coffee Auction rallies the coffee industries together in a meaningful way to generate funds for our programs in coffee-growing communities. It is our biggest fundraiser of the year—last year it helped raise close to $100,000.

Even though it is an event for coffee importers, producers, roasters and retailers, everyone can get involved [...]

Video: A Mother is Waiting

Grounds for Health wins 2011 SCAA Sustainability Award

We are pleased to announce that Grounds for Health has won the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s 2011 Sustainability Award!

At the opening ceremonies of the SCAA Event, Sustainability Council Chair Karyn Lee-Thomas said,

“Every year, the Sustainability Council reviews dozens of applications. We are always in awe of the depth and breath of the sustainable programs [...]

Video: Emmanuel Mtiti on Grounds for Health

Emmanuel Mtiti is the Jane Goodall Institute Program Director of the Greater Gombe Ecosystem Program. On our trip to Tanzania in February, we sat down with Mtiti to discuss his perspective on Grounds for Health.

Story from Tanzania: Life is Good

This email from Executive Director August Burns a few weeks ago was too good not to share:

February 13, 2011

It’s 87 degrees according to my LL Bean travel clock. I notice the temperature as we move from place to place. It must have been 95 today as we sat in the Air [...]

January: Cervical Cancer Awareness Month - The Facts

In developing countries, cervical cancer claims more women’s lives than any other form of cancer including breast cancer. This is despite the fact that cervical cancer is one of the easiest cancers to detect and cure. In countries with adequate health resources cervical cancer is a rare disease thanks to the combination of regular Pap [...]

Benefit Coffees - Drink and Get Involved

When you buy any of these coffees, a portion of proceeds will be donated to Grounds for Health. Who knew getting involved could taste so good?

Local Coffee Shops with GFH Coffees:

Columbus, OH – Kafe Kerouac
Lionville, PA – Healthy Beings Cafe
Salt Lake City, UT – Salt Lake Roasting Company

Boyd Coffee Roastmaster Blend Benefits GFH

In a recent press release, Boyd Coffee of Portland, Oregon, announced that it will donate $4 to Grounds for Health for every pound sold of Bahia Emerald Blend, one of its Roastmaster’s Cup Blends.

Boyds® purchased the Bahia Emerald Blend during last year’s Grounds for Health Coffee Auction, and we’re excited, humbled and thankful for this [...]

Success - 15 Years and Counting

Original hospital in Pochutla, Mexico that was the birthplace of GFH programs

August just returned from an extended trip to our sites in Latin America, and despite the after-effects of a horrible cold, her eyes were alight with what she experienced.

When asked about her visit to our original site in Mexico, her voice quivered with [...]

Frank Dennis: New Chair of Board

Frank Dennis

After a three-year tenure as our Treasurer, Frank Dennis has accepted a nomination to become the new Chair of the Board. Mr. Dennis takes over from Dan Cox, two-time President and co-founder of GFH.

“I am deeply honored to accept this role,” Frank answered in an email. “I’m hopeful that I can add as [...]

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