Coffee as a force for good.
Giving back is baked into how Larry's works — from the farmers who grow our beans to the neighborhoods where we pour them. Here's where the good goes.
Beep Beep, Bean Bus coming through!
This 1973 Winnebago turned coffee truck is one of a kind! Not only for it's looks but because 50% of everything sold on the bean bus is donated back to a local non-profit or community partner!
Our mobile coffee operation is here to help boost your fundraising efforts and bring delicious coffee to festivals, markets, fundraisers, and community events across the Raleigh-Durham area.
Enhance your event with the Bean Bus today!
The Global Impact Fund
Fair trade is like minimum wage and the impact fund is how we can do even better by our farmers.
For every pound of coffee we buy through Cooperative Coffees, three cents goes into a shared Impact Fund and the growers decide how it's spent.
The farming communities themselves direct the money toward what they need most, whether that's food and water security, farming education, organic certification, or renewable energy. It's a small amount per pound that adds up to real, self-directed change at origin.
Farmers from the KODUKak Collective: Rwanada
For-A-Cause Blends
These coffees offer a percentage of sales back to a North Carolina cause. From planting trees in the Appalachian Mountains to protecting our precious marine life on the coast, we wanted to dedicate this line of blends to give back to the state our roastery calls home.
If you have ever visited you know there are lots of special places worth protecting.
Why We're Fair Trade
At its core, fair trade guarantees farmers a minimum price for their coffee, protecting them when the volatile commodity market crashes below the cost of growing it. It funds community premiums for things like schools, clean water, and healthcare, and it sets standards for safe working conditions. Paired with the direct relationships we build through Cooperative Coffees, it's part of how we make sure the value of a great cup flows back to the people who made it possible.
Sorting coffee in Ethiopia's Sidama
