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# Mankato Area Fair Trade Town Association

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## Posts

- [MANKATO FAIR TRADE BLOG](https://www.maftti.org/blog/)
- [Our First Fair Trade Bazaar of the 2024 Season is Saturday November 16](https://www.maftti.org/2024/11/12/our-first-fair-trade-bazaar-of-the-2024-season-is-saturday-november-16/) - Get ready for the holiday season with the Fair Trade Bazaars. We kick off at St. John the Baptist Church, 632 S Broad Street, Mankato on Saturday, November 16 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm. See the Mankato Fair Trade homepage for a list of all the bazaars. We look forward to seeing you there!
- [Fair Trade Bazaars Days and Times are Here!](https://www.maftti.org/2024/10/16/fair-trade-bazaars-days-and-times-are-here/) - In the months of November and December, you can support our producers in developing countries by buying beautiful, unique, hand-crafted Fair Trade clothing, Christmas items, and home decor from 10,000 Villages, New Ulm’s Own, and Global Mamas.Here are the dates and times for each church hosting a bazaar. Hope to see you there! St. John
- [Getting Colder? How about a Fair Trade Factory jacket?](https://www.maftti.org/2024/10/16/getting-colder-how-about-a-fair-trade-factory-jacket/) - You may be familiar with Fair Trade chocolate, tea, and even crafts, but did you know you can get Fair Trade winter wear? REI https://www.rei.com/ has a selection of Fair Trade jackets. Look for "Fair Trade" under the "Sustainability" filter.
- [Fair Trade Season Is Coming!](https://www.maftti.org/2024/10/07/fair-trade-season-is-coming/) - October 6, 2024: October is Fair Trade Month. Look for Mankato Fair Trade at our winter Fair Trade Bazaars at your local churches. We will announce dates and times soon!
- [November Christmas Bazaars!](https://www.maftti.org/2023/11/09/november-christmas-bazaars/) - Mankato Fair Trade will be sponsoring the annual Christmas church Fair Trade Bazaars throughout the month of November and into December. You have the opportunity to support our producers in developing countries by buying beautiful, unique, hand-crafted Fair Trade clothing, Christmas items, and home decor from 10,000 Villages, New Ulm's Own, and Global Mamas. Here
- [With a Little Help from Our Friends](https://www.maftti.org/2023/09/29/with-a-little-help-from-our-friends/) - We, at Mankato Fair Trade, continue to strive to expand our programs to bring fair trade awareness, education and new products to the community. We do this through announcements and links on our website, www.maftti.org. In 2022, because of security advances, our old website was not supported and we needed to have a new website
- [October is Fair Trade Month](https://www.maftti.org/2023/09/22/october-is-fair-trade-month/) - October marks National Fair Trade Month in the United States: a month dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of fair trade, and the promotion of buying and using socially and commercially responsible products. If you’re reading this , you’ve probably already heard of fair trade. Yet, despite the term’s ubiquity, its full meaning still
- [How You Can Support Fair Trade](https://www.maftti.org/2023/09/22/how-you-can-support-fair-trade/) - Find & support an FTF verified store or café in your local community; Educate about fair trade with quotes, graphics, blogs, and more; Spread the word about the Fair Trade Month Silent Auction; Purchase from FTF members when shopping online;
- [Fair Trade USA in the Ivory Coast](https://www.maftti.org/2023/09/22/fair-trade-usa-in-the-ivory-coast/) - Over the course of three years, Fair Trade USA carried out a mixed methods study in nine countries and across seven commodities in order to understand the impact of Premium Investments. Premium funds are accrued through the program’s unique requirement that commodities bought on fair trade terms include additional resources for community investment. They are
- [April is Earth Month](https://www.maftti.org/2023/04/03/draft-post-2/) - Earth Month takes place in April every year. This annual awareness month is an opportunity to raise awareness and advocate for change around the issues most impacting our planet! Throughout Earth Month, environmental leaders and activists all around the world present plans, strategies, and solutions for mitigating and preventing further damage to the planet and
- [Remembering Emily Kracht, Loyola, and Mankato Fair Trade](https://www.maftti.org/2023/03/18/remembering-emily-kracht-loyola-and-mankato-fair-trade/) - by Paul Renshaw Founding Chair, Mankato Fair Trade . 35 years ago, if you were a coffee farmer anywhere in the Americas, East Africa or South-East Asia, you would have been very worried by the world price of the commodity that your livelihood depended on. You would probably not have been able to make ends
- [Women & Fair Trade](https://www.maftti.org/2023/03/11/women-fair-trade/) - Women are incredibly important in the global agriculture system! Supporting gender equality and the development of women leaders in farmer organizations is a key piece of Fairtrade’s work to make global trade fair for everyone involved. What does this look like? Here are a few examples: - Fairtrade Standards that prohibit discrimination based on gender
- [New Ulm's Own Reopening](https://www.maftti.org/2023/03/11/new-ulms-own-reopening/) - New Ulm’s Own is reopening in their new location on March 3, 2023. They are now in the front portion of 212 N. Minnesota Street in the space previously held by Nadelkunst knitting shop. The amazing new space has much more room for merchandise. They will have a monthly display that tells the story of
- [Sustainability is Top Trend for 2023](https://www.maftti.org/2022/12/31/sustainability-is-top-trend-for-2023/) - Fair Trade America WASHINGTON – Dec. 13, 2022 – Fairtrade America – the world’s most recognized label for social justice and sustainability – today shared five key trends the organization expects will drive consumer choices and brand action in 2023. Despite inflation and rising prices on products we use everyday, from gas to groceries, research
- [E.L.F. BEAUTY is joining #FairTradeCertified](https://www.maftti.org/2022/10/25/e-lf-beauty-is-joining-fairtradecertified/) - People made your makeup. E.l.f. Beauty can now certify that they are well treated E.l.f. Beauty is the first cosmetics brand to partner with Fair Trade USA to certify its manufacturing facilities. Now, other brands in the $550 billion beauty sector can follow. You can buy Fair Trade coffee, chocolate, and bananas. But what about
- [WFTO Joins Green Economy Coalition](https://www.maftti.org/2022/10/19/wfto-joins-green-economy-coalition/) - WFTO has been formally accepted as a member of the Green Economy Coalition, a broad network of allies working for structural economic reform. Together with trade unions, progressive businesses, NGOs, UN agencies and citizen’s groups, WFTO is moved by the belief that green and fair economies are possible, necessary, and achievable. Click here to read
- [Shop Fair Trade Certified](https://www.maftti.org/2022/10/01/shop-fair-trade-certified/) - We’re excited to announce the launch of the new fairtradecertified.org website! The new website streamlines the information you need, like figuring out who offers Fair Trade Certified products and where to buy them. Tell you friends to join our community, and take a look at our recent blog articles! Shop fair Trade here: https://www.fairtradecertified.org/our-community/shop-fair-trade/
- [Fair Talks from Los Angeles Fair Trade](https://www.maftti.org/2022/10/01/379/) - Fair Trade Podcasts For the season two premier of Fair Trade LA's FAIR Talks podcast, Elisha Chan (Executive Director of Fair Trade LA) chats with Joe Altepeter and Alexandria Pineda from the Downtown Women’s Center, the only organization in Los Angeles exclusively serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness. Learn more about this incredible organization from
- [October is Fair Trade Month!](https://www.maftti.org/2022/10/01/372/) - Happy Fair Trade Month! We invite you to join us for our second annual Fair Trade Month Virtual Silent Auction. The auction is now open and features 75+ beautiful, unique, and fun items and experiences all from dedicated fair trade enterprises. Explore, register, and bid! The auction is raising funds to support the Fair Trade Federation (FTF) community and the global movement of trade that values the
- [FAIRTRADE AMERICA LAUNCHES "IT'S ONLY FAIR" CAMPAIGN](https://www.maftti.org/2022/07/09/fairtrade-america-launches-its-only-fair-campaign/) - Launched on World Chocolate Day, the new campaign aims to creatively ignite conversation about how little cocoa farmers earn for their crops while they also face burdensome inflation, impacts of COVID-19 and supply chain challenges WASHINGTON, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Timed with July 7 World Chocolate Day, Fairtrade America, the world's most recognized label
- [Fast Fashion Industry Dumping Sites in Chile](https://www.maftti.org/2022/07/09/fast-fashion-industry-dumping-sites-in-chile/) - Months ago we asked the progressive Chilean President Gabriel Boric to regulate the fast fashion industry to end dumping sites in Chile. Last July 11th, our Chilean partners, the enviromental group Desierto Vestido warned about a big fire burning all the trash. You can see the alarming photos and videos showing the bad air quality
- [Fair Trade in Waconia, MN](https://www.maftti.org/2022/07/09/draft-post/) - Fair Trade in Waconia, MN Divas Fair Trade, owned by Guisela Pinto and Juan Llerena is an online and pop-up fair trade business based out of Waconia, MN. The Peruvian couple came to Minnesota about 20 years ago with dreams of making a home here, a family and careers, For doing so, they also have
- [Fashion Revolution 2022](https://www.maftti.org/2022/04/04/fashion-revolution-2022/) - Fashion Revolution Week is our annual campaign of the largest fashion activism movement for seven days of action. This year, from Monday 18th-Sunday 24th April 2022, we will collectively reimagine a just and equitable fashion system for people and the planet. The clothing supply chain is a complex system. These issues can seem overwhelming, leaving
- [So What is a Clothing Supply Chain?](https://www.maftti.org/2022/04/04/so-what-is-a-clothing-supply-chain/) - The clothing, textiles, and footwear industry is incredibly labour intensive. It is estimated that the fashion industry employs tens of millions of garment workers worldwide. But what is a clothing supply chain exactly? The fashion supply chain refers to the process of tracing each step of the clothes manufacturing process, from sourcing of the raw
- [How do certifications compare?](https://www.maftti.org/2014/01/27/how-do-certifications-compare/) - Fair World Project has produced a valuable interactive, evaluative chart focusing on six certifications, four of them seen on products in US stores. Click here.
- [The quest for Fair Trade clothing](https://www.maftti.org/2014/10/10/quest-fair-trade-clothing/) - Fair Trade clothing is a complex subject because the supply chains in the industry are so complex. The need for Fair Trade clothing was highlighted in April 2013 when the Rana Plaza garment factory complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed with tragic loss of life. In the USA the availability of Fair Trade clothing is growing,
- [How Fair is Fair?](https://www.maftti.org/2015/04/01/how-fair-fair/) - On March 17, 2015 a presentation on Fair Trade was made in the MSU Social Justice Lecture series. The speakers were Mark Hudson and Mara Fridell, sociologists from the University of Manitoba. Their speaking at MSU was proposed by MAFTTI and facilitated by the Sociology Department and other interested on-campus entitities, both faculty and student-led.
- [Fair Trade, Imagination and Empathy](https://www.maftti.org/2015/05/13/fair-trade-imagination-and-empathy/) - Famed Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s Harvard commencement speech in 2008 has just been published. Some of her thoughts are apt as World Fair Trade Day (May 9) approaches. “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” This
- [Resilience, Convergence & Fair Trade](https://www.maftti.org/2015/09/13/resilience-convergence-fair-trade/) - MAFTTI Chair Paul Renshaw attended the 9th International Fair Trade Towns Conference in Bristol, England, July 4-5, 2015. One workshop was devoted to "Resilience, Convergence and Fair Trade". This is a complex trio of concepts, one that needed much more time than the hour allotted. However, here are some notes of a preliminary nature. They contain some
- [Seven years on](https://www.maftti.org/2016/06/30/seven-years/) - Paul Renshaw, MAFTTI Chair, has compiled some “ruminations” seven years after the founding of MAFTTI and in advance of the 5th Anniversary celebration of Mankato’s status as a ‘Fair Trade Town’ in October, 2016. Paul's reflections are here. Picture: Paul & Arlene Renshaw at the first Sustainability Expo, MSU, April 2014
- [Report to Mankato City Council, October 24, 2016](https://www.maftti.org/2016/10/26/report-mankato-city-council-octiber-2016/) - Mankato City Council passed a unanimous Resolution on October 24, 2011 declaring Mankato a ‘Fair Trade Town” acceding to the criteria of the national Fair Trade Towns campaign. On the 5th Anniversary, MAFTTI presented a report to the City Council which can be read here.
- [FTT 5th Anniversary Conference, October 27, 2016](https://www.maftti.org/2016/11/03/ftt-anniversary-conference/) - Monday, October 24, 2016 was the 5th Anniversary of the unanimous passing by the Mankato City Council of a Resolution that enabled ‘Fair Trade Town’ status to be claimed according to the criteria of the national Fair Trade Campaigns, coordinating body for Fair Trade Towns, Colleges, Schools and Congregations. Thursday, October 27, saw the holding of two
- [Signs of Fair Trade](https://www.maftti.org/2017/07/28/signs-fair-trade/) - Consumers have access to more information about products of small farmers and artisans in the Global South than ever before. Fair Trade certification has evolved significantly over the last 25 years and helped to increase incomes in poor communities in many countries. Fair Trade has been a leading force in the global sustainable development movement,
- [Fair Trade Towns Global Update](https://www.maftti.org/2019/03/04/fair-trade-towns-global-update/) - The Fair Trade Towns movement started in April 2000 in Garstang (pop. 5,000) in north-west England. By 2011 it had grown rapidly to feature 1,000 Fair Trade Towns in 21 other countries. Only six years later, in October 2017, the global list of Fair Trade Towns had reached 2,000! The number of countries where campaigning around the Fair
- [Fair Trade America Releases Trends for 2022](https://www.maftti.org/2021/12/20/fair-trade-america-releases-trends-for-2022/) - WASHINGTON – Dec. 20, 2021 – Fairtrade America – an independent, third-party certification that partners with farmers and workers to negotiate better prices, decent working conditions, and a fairer deal overall – today released five key consumer trends that will impact how brands source ingredients and work to have a larger impact on people and
- [MAFTTI Messages](https://www.maftti.org/2016/10/28/maftti-messages/) - October is Fair Trade Month. In 2016 it has the added significance of featuring the 5th Anniversary of‘ “Mankato-Fair Trade Town". At this moment MAFTTI wants to bring supporters’ attention to a few issues that bear upon the future of Fair Trade education and advocacy in the area. A printed version of MAFTTI Messages, with

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.maftti.org/) - The Mankato Area Fair Trade Town Association promotes awareness of Fair Trade products and principles in Mankato, Minnesota.
- [MANKATO SHOPPING GUIDE](https://www.maftti.org/buy-fair-trade/) - Here in the Mankato area, look at our shopping list for the variety of Fair Trade Items available. Visit these Fair Trade Stores and local retailers who sell Fair Trade: NEW ULM’S OWN 212 North Minnesota, New Ulm, MN Gustavus Adophus College. (GoEx Apparel) St Peter, MN Creekside Boutique (Lur & Neon Buddha) Mankato, MN
- [RESOURCES](https://www.maftti.org/links/) - Films It has never been easier to enter into the lives of Fair Trade producers, importers, advocates and activists on film and video. If Fair Trade is new to you, start off by typing “Fair + Trade + (commodity)” into YouTube and you may be surprised by what you find. A few minutes might change
- [SCHOOLS & CONGREGATIONS](https://www.maftti.org/schools-congregations/) - There are several schools actively involved in fair trade: Loyola Catholic School in Mankato earnied the title of the first certified K-12 Fair Trade School in the country in 2012. Follow them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loyolafairtrade/ Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN was named a Fair Trade University in 2015 and the first Fair Trade University
- [DONATE](https://www.maftti.org/donate/) - Want to help MAFTTI? Question about making a Donation? Contact Jane Dow 507-625-5092 • janedow47@gmail.com
- [MEET THE TEAM](https://www.maftti.org/help-wanted/) - “A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only think that ever has.” So said Margaret Mead, celebrated American anthropologist. The current MFT Steering Committee Jane Dow, Paul Prew, Deb Fitzlof, Molly Yunkers, Paulette Bertrand Well, MFT needs some thoughtful, active people now to help it foster and sustain the Fair Trade vision
- [MANKATO - FIRST FAIR TRADE IN MINNESOTA](https://www.maftti.org/mankato-first-fair-trade-town-minnesota/) - MAFTTI, Mankato Fair Trade Town Initiative, came into existence in May-June 2009 after a visit to Mankato by two Peruvian cooperative workers, Eva Pizarro (from Lima) and Ayde Riveros (from Huancavelica, high in the Andes). They visited during a Midwest program organized by Green America and Partners for Just Trade. Eva (left) and Ayde spoke at a public
- [ABOUT MANKATO FAIR TRADE](https://www.maftti.org/about-us/) - MAFTTI owes a lot to this little llama. S/he came to Mankato on May 5, 2009, taking part in a Midwest tour by two Peruvian artisans, Ayde Riveros from Huancavelica and Eva Pizarro from Lima.. Ayde and Eva told their moving stories of emancipation and the struggle for economic justice through Fair Trade. The textiles
- [WHAT IS FAIR TRADE?](https://www.maftti.org/value-fair-trade/) - “Fair Trade is a system of exchange that honors producers, communities, consumers, and the environment. It is a model for the global economy rooted in people-to-people connections, justice, sustainability and accountability.” The Fair Trade movement has 10 guiding principles: Create opportunities for economically disadvantaged producers. Be transparent and accountable. Conduct fair trade practices. Pay promptly
- [SIGN UP FOR THE MANKATO FAIR TRADE NEWSLETTER](https://www.maftti.org/newsletters/) - Read our previous newsletters Email address * First Name Last Name Home Phone Home Phone Business Phone Mobile Phone Home Street Home City Home State Home Postal Code Leave this field empty if you're human:
- [WHAT WE DO](https://www.maftti.org/fair-trade/) - There is no Fair Trade store in Mankato itself. MFT promotes awareness of Fair Trade products and principles – in supermarkets, smaller retail shops, coffee bars and locally-owned restaurants, schools, colleges, community organizations, religious bodies, businesses and, of course, at the civic level. In the Mankato area, the Mankato Farmers’ Market and local thrift stores
- [MANKATO RESOLUTION](https://www.maftti.org/fair-trade-towns-usa/) - MANKATO CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION DECLARING MANKATO TO BE A FAIR TRADE TOWN ACCORDING TO THE CRITERIA OF THE NATIONAL FAIR TRADE TOWNS USA CAMPAIGN WHEREAS the City Council of Mankato expresses its support for sustainable and equitable commerce and economic development; and WHEREAS, the City Council of Mankato issued a Proclamation supporting the work of

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