November Newsletter from NYCFTC

[NYC Fair Trade Coalition]

Happy Election Day! Hope everyone got a chance to go rock your vote :)

As we go into shopping season, we will do our best to coordinate as many sales opportunities as possible for you.

Cheers,

Becky and Nimet

1. November Events

Cultures of Love: Holiday Pop Up

Date: November 8th - 18th

Time: All day

Location: 193 Prince Street

Description: Please see the attached PDF with the description and how to get involved. For those who sell beverages (wine, beer, tea, etc) and snacks (chocolate, snacks, etc) they'd really love your participation. Please contact Carmen at car...@culturesoflove.com if you'd like to participate.

Jewelry Pop UP
When: Thursday, November 7, 6:3-9pm
Where: 497 Greenwich Street, Apt. 6D (home of Sarah Arison)
Cassie’s website: www.cassandracollections.com

Ecosalon Beauty Awards

Date: November 18th - 23rd
Description: http://ecosalon.com/the-first-annual-ecosalon-beauty-awards-judges/

2. Holiday Shopping

Handcrafting Justice has released their fall shopping guide - http://handcraftingjustice.org/retail-collection/fair-trade-fall-favorites

Fair Trade Federation did the same - http://www.fairtradefederation.org/2013holidayguide/

3. Shout-outs

A huge congratulations to Evie from Culture of Love on getting together this amazing line up of vendors for the Pop Up shop (read section 1)

4. Upcoming Events

Fair Trade Wine and Cheese Holiday Party

We're planning a wine and cheese party with Stellar Organics wine for this November. We'd love help planning and will need some fair trade vendors to make it a real party, so if you're interested let us know!

Holiday Market

As tradition, Global Goods Partners hosts a holiday market at the Gershwin Hotel every year. This year, NYCFTC will co-host with GGP. Date is still TBD, but if you're interested please let us know.

5. Job Opportunities

Wishwas, a non profit organization working with the immigrant women, is looking for volunteers. Please email te...@wishwas.org is you are interested in.

Weekend sales position part time for Handcrafting Justice :

Lots of full-time and part-time job opportunities are available around the US. Please check http://www.fairtradefederation.org/ht/d/sp/i/8439/pid/8439 for more information.

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Nimet & Becky
New York City Fair Trade Coalition

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