Lemelson supports Sustainable Harvest expansion
Lemelson Foundation on Thursday announced $4.5 million in donations to Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers and two additional nonprofit organizations. The commitments were announced at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York.
The Portland-based Lemelson Foundation pledged $600,000 toward Sustainable Harvest's $3.8 million expansion of a program to help small coffee growers in Tanzania.
Sustainable Harvest, also based in Portland, is a coffee trader that pushes "relationship-based coffee" as a way to help small growers in Africa make more money. The company, recognized by Bloomberg Businessweek earlier this year for its social endeavors, plans to expand its program to new sites, with a goal to work with 10,000 farming families by 2012.
David Griswold, Sustainable Harvest founder and CEO, spoke about his program on a panel in New York Wednesday.
Lemelson Foundation also pledged $2.9 million to the Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team, which is working with small artisans in Latin America, and $1 million to the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance for an initiative to support access technology in the developing world.
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