Starbucks Community Sustainability

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Downtown Starbucks Closing Good New For Local Business

 

Hurricane Katrina

This article from Net Impact (September 2005) details Starbucks' response to the disaster relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina.

MS Society & Make Your Mark

This page on the MS Society's website is for the national Starbucks' MS team, which raises money through the Walk MS or Bike MS events. It urges partners to take advantage of Make Your Mark and other fundraising incentives that Starbucks provides.

Starbucks' stores in Harlem.

June 2008 article from Harlem World about Starbucks' stores in Harlem and their impact on the community.

Providing Communities with Access to Clean Water

While this March 2007 article on Unicef's website focuses on Starbucks' sponsorship of International Water Day events in New York City, it also describes the company's overall efforts to help provide communities in the developing world with clean water.

Work with Mercy Corps.

Mercy Corps describes their partnership with Starbucks and says that the company is working to meet "the critical needs of children, families and communities...by funding innovative programs that seek to promote sustainable change...."

Focus on Literacy Programs.

The Summer/Fall 2004 issue of Books for Kids News provides details on just one of the literacy programs that Starbucks supports.

Challenges in working with Low-Income Communities.

This article from the Fall 2006 issue of ReVista, a publication of the David Rockerfeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, discusses some of the challenges that multinational corporations face in forging relationships with low-income communities in Latin America.

Community relationships in Latin America and Africa

This March 2008 article from the Seattle Times details how Starbucks is trying to use lessons learned from working with farming communities and coops in Latin America to create similar relationships with coffee-farming communities in Africa.

Community and conservation in Africa

The African Wildlife Foundation describes how its partnership with Starbucks, aimed at enhancing the lives of coffee-growing communities in Kenya, is also having a beneficial effect of wildlife conservation.