963 Coffee

Our friends over at 963 Coffee have started this wonderful business to facilitate the fair trade of coffee so that you get your daily Joe and coffee farmers get their fair share of what would otherwise be a $5 cup of coffee. Instead of beans on the dollars, they get a fair wage, good working conditions, the right to organize themselves into unions, and a host of other benefits not afforded by other coffee companies.

In addition to what is already a great product, the 963 Coffee guys have set up an affiliate program through which all of your purchases made by linking from I Heart Community 4 Life will go into an account with the Buy Shoes. Save Lives. name on it. Buying coffee and helping South Americans and African will now fund heart surgeries for Iraqi kids to boot!

Here's our coffee campaign: We get 40% of sales from the store through this affiliate program. If you buy 10 bags of coffee for $10 each children in Iraq will receive $40 of your purchase.

If you are an addict, we recommend you to sign up for the Monthly Obsession (like a subscription to coffee!). If we get 63 friends signed up for 2 bags of coffee a month, that would be $6,000 to children in Iraq in one year alone! That's an entire heart surgery funded by drinking coffee!

That's a great cup of coffee!

So forgo your Starbucks today and drink some 963 Coffee instead.


I have personally been a 963 coffee customer and have been very pleased with the product... and I'm kind of a coffee snob (starbucks = gross). I also have written Starbucks (and spoken to several store managers) about brewing fair trade coffee in their stores. Due to the amount of money it would cost them to make a significant investment in fair trade coffee, they are currently unwilling to switch to fair trade. While they sell some fair trade coffee in some locations, they do not currently brew it in their stores. So - not that I'm saying Starbucks is bad or you should not go there...but maybe you could think about investing in the lives of coffee farmers and their communities simply through choosing fair trade, and while you're at it you can help fund a heart surgery for an Iraqi child. Have you had a better cup of coffee than that? ... I didn't think so.