Where We're Going

in FY'10

We’re not about to rest on our laurels — here are some of our plans for FY'10:

• We plan to expand our support of food security projects to Africa and Indonesia, helping more families within our value chain to transform their lives for a healthier, more sustainable future. 
• We hope to provide funding to support educational scholarships for at least 200 young people in our value chain.
• Because chronic food insecurity in coffee-growing communities is too big a challenge for us to take on alone, we plan to initiate conversations about chronic food insecurity within the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), the world’s largest coffee trade association.  
• We will seek to expand our support of healthcare initiatives within our value chain in Latin America and Africa.
• We intend to log at least 14,000 hours of volunteer time.
• We will design and execute a pilot grant program to recognize and help support organizations and individuals focused on making their communities better places.
• We will design and begin implementing a new framework for outreach in the communities surrounding our production facilities.  This new framework will encourage strong local employee leadership, help develop clear areas of focus, and facilitate employee engagement and sharing across all our production facilities.
• We aim to achieve an additional 5% reduction in our energy metric and an additional 10% reduction in our waste-to-landfill metric for our Vermont-based facilities, and develop baseline data for both categories for new facilities outside Vermont.
• We intend to introduce a new K-cup portion pack made in part with renewable materials.
• We intend to keep our percentage of coffee pounds shipped at 30% or higher, growing the absolute amount of pounds sold along with the rest of our business.
• We aim to maintain at least 30 hours of education and training for every employee.
• We intend to achieve our goal of filling at least 20% of our new positions internally.
• We intend to hire two additional safety experts to improve our safety measures and programs and launch a multi-site manufacturing safety council.  
• We will roll out at least one of the three modules of the new “Our Winning Combination” training program. 
• We intend to enhance our employee “origin trip” program by adding a fourth destination to the program.

Click here to see highlights from our efforts in FY'10.