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Business, Community Engagement, Fair Trade, Service Learning

Impacting our Local and Global Communities


Pictured from Right to Left: Marissa Schisel, Deputy David Tackett, Samantha Nowak, Valerie Stafford, Kimberly Peterson, Heidi Mahoney, Heather Fousek, Amy Harmsen
(Missing: Tara Smith, Laura Jorgensen, Tyler Kaufman and Brian Wilhelms).

Amy Harmsen’s Fall, 2019 Business Practicum students made a generous impact on their local and global communities, while learning all the ins and outs of creating and managing a small business! 10 students in Amy’s fall class partnered with our local Just Fare Market and created their own Fair Trade Pop Up Shop with beautiful Mayan Hands friendship bracelets, mini chocolates from Equal Exchange, and hot cocoa and milk chocolate bars from Divine Chocolate.

  • fall 2019 business students
    (right to left) Valerie Stafford and Taran Smith
  • fall 2019 business students
    (right to left) Heather Fousek and Laura Jorgensen
  • fall 2019 business students
    (right to left) Rachel from Just Fare Market Marissa Schisel, Samantha Nowak, Valarie Stafford, Kimberly Peterson, Heather Fousek, Amy Harmsen

Students sold Fair Trade products throughout the semester and were very proud to use their profits to give donations of $179.07 each to the FDL County Sheriff’s Shop with a Cop program and the FDL Humane Society. Sales of the Fair Trade products also benefited farmers and artisans in Guatemala, Dominican Republic and Ghana! 3 students, Heather Fousek, Taran Smith and Valerie Stafford, also earned full scholarships to attend the National Fair Trade Colleges Conference in Pasadena, CA in March. Congratulations!

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Moraine Park Technical College was named the first Fair Trade technical college in the U.S in May 2015! Fair trade supports farmers and artisans in developing countries. These producers lack economic opportunity and often face steep hurdles in finding markets and customers for their goods. Fair Trade is about making a tremendous impact on artisan and farmer communities while offering great products to the public all around the world.

January 20, 2020by Anne Lemke
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