De La Gente

As a non-profit organization, we partner with coffee cooperatives to accompany small-scale producers through capacity-building and economic development. In addition to cooperative assistance, we market the final product of our partner cooperatives to both wholesale green coffee and individual roasted coffee customers. In the process, we live out our mission to create more market access for the eight cooperatives that we represent and advocate on their behalf so that the farmers who cultivate and process the final product are being fairly compensated for their labor and expertise as coffee professionals. Our efforts to cultivate conscientious coffee consumers extends to providing opportunities to visit the coffee growing communities with which we work and learn from and interact with the producers themselves.