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Blenz in the Community

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Community participation

Corporate Support

  
    1. Blenz Garden City’s regular customers and friends put on a golf tournament on April 18, 2009.

    2. Flamenco Rosario Art Society’s 20th Anniversary Fundraising Gala was a success with the support of Blenz, who donated gift baskets for the silent auction.

    3. Blenz Cares coffee and tea are now available at the North Shore Winter Club. Purchase of these products will directly support the club. Visit the club or www.blenzcares.com for more details.

    4. Tsawwassen kids and their parents participated in an Easter Bunny Hunt at their neighbourhood Blenz. Over 200 people entered the draw to win an Easter Gift Basket.

    5. Katherine Rhodes, a barista at Blenz Horseshoe Bay, has been raising funds to run in San Diego’s Rock ‘n Roll Marathon for Blood Cancer research and prevention which takes place on May 31, 2009. Her in-store pledge box is filled with customers’ donations and her boss Alf Haley’s contributions, raising over $4500!

For more informaton on Blenz, visit www.blenz.com

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Blenz Cares and L’Arche Greater Vancouver

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

How Blenz Cares has assisted L’ArchE Foundation in their fundraising program.

L’ArchE Foundation of Greater Vancouver
7401 Sussex Avenue, Burnaby, BC
Tel: 604-435-9544 Fax: 604-435-9560
Web: www.larchevancouver.org

April 2009

The Blenz Cares program has provided L’Arche Greater Vancouver with an excellent fundraising strategy that is helping to raise funds for a designated project. Coffee and tea sales now represent about 6% of our project’s fundraising budget where we otherwise would not have had a source of funds. This percentage continues to increase over time and we predict by year end will represent between 15-20% of the overall funds raised towards the project’s goal.

The Blenz Cares program is helping our organization meet its fundraising goals. We are able to sell high quality coffee and loose leaf tea that our donors, and their families and friends, truly enjoy. We are proud to attach our label with the Blenz Coffee Co. As a result of our partnership, the Blenz Cares program also provides an opportunity for our organization to pool new donors. By selling coffee at events and through word-of-mouth networking, new and first-time donors are being added to our database. On each thank you letter and tax receipt we provide the opportunity for those donors to re-order and so we keep the cycle going.

Since we are concerned with marginalized people at a global level as well local, it was important that we partnered with a company that could offer an organic, fair-trade choice. We found that our customers were willing to buy coffee that met the criteria and Blenz was able to supply it.

Every time our donors enjoy their cup of Blenz coffee, they take heart in their purchase because they know it directly supports L’Arche Greater Vancouver, a place where adults with developmental disabilities and those who assist them live and create home together. Coffee time can also be a shared experience and because one of our core values is to create community, we consider our partnership with the Blenz Cares program to be linked to our mission.

L’Arche means the “ark” referring to the Biblical symbol of safety and refuge. It was also the name of the first home in France founded in 1964 by Canadian Jean Vanier. When Jean opened his home to two men with developmental disabilities from a local institution he inspired a large-scale social movement that has resulted in an International Federation with 135 communities in over 30 countries. The Globe and Mail recently named Jean as their 2008 Nation Builder because of his dedication to serve and learn from some of the most marginalized people in our society.

L’Arche Greater Vancouver celebrates its 35th Anniversary this year and was named ‘Not-for-Profit Organization of the Year’ by the City of Burnaby and the Burnaby Board of Trade.

We are grateful for the services and support provided by Keith R. Lloyd, the Managing Director of Blenz Cares.

For more information on Blenz Cares, visit the website at www.blenzcares.com

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BLENZ CARES – Community Coffee Sales program

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Tradeworks Training Society of British Columbia.

Based in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver BC, Tradeworks Training Society helps foster sustainable independence by providing job-related skills training, counseling, and work opportunities.
Tradeworks Training Society has been offering training and employment programs in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver since 1994. Each program is centered in the belief that mutual respect is key to any relationship, and that a hand up is more lasting than a hand out.

How Blenz Cares helped out.

Keith Lloyd, Managing Director
Blenz Coffee/Blenz Cares
#300 – 535 Thurlow Street
Vancouver, BC, V6E 3L2

RE: BLENZ CARES – Community Coffee Sales program

Dear Mr. Lloyd:

Thank you for presenting the Blenz Cares program to us and dropping off a cheque made out to Tradeworks, courtesy of Kathy Sayers. We understand her company Hat Trick participated through the corporate sponsorship component of your program. Tradeworks Training Society is pleased to be a beneficiary of the Blenz Cares program. We confirm that we are a registered charity & non-profit society.

For your reference, donations that we will derive from the program will be dedicated to our women’s workshop program and the related social enterprise, Tradeworks Custom Products. This is a project through which women in the Downtown East Side (“DTES”) are offered an opportunity to learn woodworking and related skills, build a positive community and earn money through employment. Many of the women we work with have been through some difficult times and they are working to turn their lives around.

Our project trains women and then offers casual employment, with an expectation that
subsequently many will have both the confidence and the ability to move into conventional employment. We provide a safe place, supplementary meals, and peer support. And then we provide instruction, mentoring and work experience.

The project is in part funded by the sale of custom made wood products. It is an enterprise that hopes to be self-supporting in due course. Please also encourage people to check out our web site for more information on personalized laser engraved wine boxes and other possible gift items at www.tradeworks.bc.ca.

Please do not hesitate to call me if we can provide any other information to you. And thanks again.

Yours truly

Ross Gentleman
Executive Director

87 East Pender Street, Vancouver BC V6A 1S9 t:604-253-9355 f:604-251-8984
www.tradeworks.bc.ca

For more information on Tradeworks Training Society, please visit their site at www.tradeworks.bc.ca  and to learn more about Blenz Cares, visit www.BlenzCares.com.

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Blenz Cares Fills Empty Stockings

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

By Nanako Aramaki
Blenz Coffee
Operations/Marketing

Since its inception late last spring, Blenz Cares – a fundraising program helping charities and non-profit organizations– has been making a difference throughout BC’s Lower Mainland. For the month of December,
2008, Blenz Cares worked in partnership with The Province Empty Stocking Fund.
After 85 years, The Empty Stocking Fund continues to raise funds to bring Christmas to needy families and children in BC. The sales from the Blenz Cares coffee beans sold at the Blenz stores in December supported these under privileged families through the Empty Stocking Fund. Blenz and The Empty Stocking Fund extend a warm “Thank You!” to everyone who supported this important charity by purchasing the Blenz Cares coffee beans. Another notable philanthropic effort supported by Blenz Cares is the support of the Learning Disability Association of BC who provides programs and services to people with learning disabilities in BC. Over and above the Butterfly Pin donations collected at the Blenz locations, Blenz Cares handed a $3000 cheque to the Association. During tough economic times, charitable organizations struggle to finance their programs; particularly painful is the notable reduction in corporate donations. We at Blenz encourage you to give back to your community. Support your favourite charities through Blenz Cares website at www.blenzcares.com.

Blenz gives cheque Keith Lloyd of Blenz Cares presents
a $3000 cheque to Diane Sugars
(left) and Doris Cheung (right) of
the Learning Disability Association
of BC.

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BlenzCares new fundraising partner

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

BlenzCares becomes a fundraising partner with British Columbia Centre for Ability

Founded in 1969, the BC Centre for Ability was fomerly known as the Neurological Centre.
It is a non-profit organization that provides services to more than 3,000 children, youth and adults with neurological, physical and developmental disabilities, and their families. Since its inception, the Centre has been delivering a wide range of high quality community-based services using a family centered approach. It promotes the right of individuals with disabilities to participate as valued members of their communities. These individuals are our “Heroes of Ability”. It is about what they can do and what they can accomplish inspite of challenges.

Visit BC Centre for Ability.

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