how is Pura Vida Coffee and Fair trade coffee connected?
Pura Vida Coffee Pura Vida Coffee is a for-profit company, but one that’s wholly owned by Pura Vida Create Good, a nonprofit U.S. company that sells Fair Trade Certified organic, shade-grown coffee from Latin America, and Africa. The company advocates corporate social responsibility by donating its profits to help children and families in coffee-growing communities internationally.
Lacas Coffee Company Lacas Coffee Company is an independent coffee company established in Philadelphia in 1921. The company selects and imports new crop Arabica beans from plantations throughout the world’s coffee growing regions. The company's original blends, specialty, organic, and fair trade coffees are custom roasted at its primary roasting facility, now located in Pennsauken, New Jersey, after a 1997 fire destroyed its Philadelphia operation.