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Featured Donor: Sweet Maria's

Over the past few years, interest in home coffee roasting has grown exponentially and Sweet Maria’s, based in Oakland, CA, has played a central role in the movement.Their website offers advice on how to choose a home roaster, detailed roasting instructions, photos of beans at each roasting stage and forums for discussing all things coffee. They also sell supplies and equipment, and green coffee to get eager home roasters started.Sweet Maria's Dog CalendarThis holiday season, Sweet Maria’s produced “The Unofficial 2010 Dogs of Coffee Calendar,” which was sold to benefit Coffee Kids and five other charities. The calendar has 15 full-color photographs of dogs from various coffee-producing regions. Co-owner Thompson Owen took the photographs during his travels around the world in search of coffee.“Maybe he misses our dogs, West Oakland mutts of the first degree, or maybe dogs tend to be a friendly presence. Whatever the reason, over time, Tom has amassed quite a collection of photographs of dogs at coffee origins,” said Maria Troy, co-owner of Sweet Maria’s.The unique calendar is available for purchase on Sweet Maria’s Web site.For over ten years, Sweet Maria’s has supported Coffee Kids through various fundraisers and they strive to educate their customers and online followers about our work. Their site is consistently one of the top referrer’s to the Coffee Kids Web site.
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Reg Barber Tamper Auction for Coffee Kids

Reg Barber is auctioning off a super limited, one-of-a-kind Coca Cola tamper with all proceeds going to Coffee Kids. Check it out here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/10704206@N08/) and place your bids in the comment area of the photo titled, 'Rejected-----Put your bids here on Comments.'Auction will be closing on Friday, June 12 at midnight (Thanks to Mike McGinness for pointing out the need for clarification!).
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Coffee Kids Fundraiser on Facebook

If you haven't checked out the Coffee Kids facebook profile, give a look and add us as a friend. We also just launched a fundraiser on our Cause page. We're trying to raise $5,000 by June.Just $25 can help provide a health and hygiene class to women around San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala. A $50 donation can provide a small business loan to women in Nicaragua. It doesn't take much to make a big difference. Take a look and sign on!Also, Coffee Kids recently got hip to Twitter. Check us out at http://www.twitter.com/coffeekids.
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Ride On! Reno... Lookin' Back

I can't express fully how satisfied I am with the Ride On! Reno event we held at Walden's Coffeehouse this past Saturday. It was a beautiful day, sun was shinin' and temperatures were in the high 70's. Great people, both long-time friends and some newly-acquainted, all came out with one goal in mind: to raise some money for a phenomenal cause and some very deserving people.The Bikes to Rwanda cause had won the hearts and minds of Reno that day, and after a kick-ass poker-run into the heart of the biggest little city, a gigantic raffle full of wonderful coffee and bike-related goodies, and a couple donated kegs of some delicious brew, we were able to raise just over $1100!!!To put it all into perspective, I'm told that $200 amounts to one cargo bike. We raised enough for 5 cargo bikes, and then some. That's at least FIVE cargo bikes that can be used by FIVE different families. That's FIVE families that can transport well OVER TWICE the amount of green beans in a single load, in LESS THAN HALF the time it would take them on foot. That's FIVE families that can maintain higher quality and a greater quantity when it comes time to harvest. And that's FIVE families that can earn that higher dollar amount per bag of green beans to help ease their burdens.So after $1100 of fundraising on Saturday, I can honestly say that each and every person who helped in the organization and promotion of Ride On!, those who donated raffle prizes, time, and money, have something to be very proud of. Thank you again to all these people who made the day a huge success!Special shout out to my Barefoot people! and to the Tour de Nez organizers! for an exceptional helping hand in every aspect of the event! And Barefoot cats... y'all need to come back for another latte art throwdown, f'sho! Practice up Mr. Roastmaster General.KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR FUTURE RIDE ON! EVENTS!
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