Paid what
the harvest is worth
A wage floor on 14 coffee, tea and cocoa farms, verified twice a year, funded by a premium per pound, and published farm by farm. See the ledger →
The gap
Before a farm joins, the people who pick the crop are paid a daily rate that is usually well under the regional living-wage benchmark. The floor closes that gap on a published schedule; the visits check that it did.
The median paid daily rate across the 14 farms at their first verification visit, in US dollars at the rate of that day. A sample figure on this demonstration. The median of the SAMPLE benchmarks on this ledger. A real ledger uses the regional living-wage benchmark published by the Global Living Wage Coalition (Anker methodology); no real benchmark figure appears on this demonstration.
Farms
Every partner farm is on the ledger with what it pays, the benchmark, the gap, and when a verifier last checked. These six have the furthest to go, so they come first.
Wage floor: 68% of benchmarkSassandra Riverside Cocoa
Côte d’Ivoire · Cocoa
Wage floor: 79% of benchmarkAwaro Highland Growers
Ethiopia · Coffee
Wage floor: 81% of benchmarkNsuta Ridge Cocoa Cooperative
Ghana · Cocoa
Wage floor: 83% of benchmarkNamutumba Slope Growers
Uganda · Coffee
Wage floor: 89% of benchmarkKazuri Valley Tea Cooperative
Kenya · Tea
Wage floor: 90% of benchmarkGagnoa Plateau Cocoa
Côte d’Ivoire · CocoaGet
involved
Even Harvest pays no wages itself and sells no mark. Three kinds of people make the floor hold: the brands that pay the premium, the donors who pay for the verification, and the verifiers who go and look.
Brands
Pledge a premium per pound on what you already buy. Verified, then paying — both in public.
Donors
A gift pays for the visits and the ledger, never for wages. One worker-month of gap is the unit.
Verifiers
Six contracted field verifiers, each with no tie to any farm. The steps that keep it that way are published.
Purpose
A daily rate the farm signs, at or above a living-wage benchmark.
A farm that joins signs a floor: the lowest daily rate it will pay anyone on its payroll, and the yearly steps by which that floor rises to the regional benchmark. The benchmark is published by someone else; the floor is the farm’s own promise. On this demonstration every benchmark figure is a sample.
Twice a year, someone with no stake reads the pay sheets and asks.
A contracted verifier visits each farm twice a year, reads the pay records against the floor, and interviews workers the verifier chooses, not the farm. Pass, shortfall or pending goes on the ledger with the date. A shortfall is paid back before the next visit or the farm leaves the list.
Brands pay cents per pound; the money goes to the farm against verified payroll.
A partner brand adds 8 to 12 cents a pound to what it already pays for the crop. Even Harvest holds that money for the farms and pays it out against the pay sheets the verifier has read. It is never the organization’s revenue and never a wage the organization pays itself.
Every farm, every visit, on one page anyone can read.
The ledger shows what each farm pays, the benchmark, the gap, the floor date and the last visit, with the two-year history underneath. Staff update it after every visit and the home page, the numbers and the flags follow. No worker is ever named.
Brands
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Sample video. Even Harvest is invented, so it has no footage of its own: the clips are free stock (Pexels), no child appears, and the narration is a synthetic voice. For a real organization connectNPO uses only the photos and clips its staff send.
The gap, the visits, and where the money went — the same figures published on this site and in the sample Form 990: $3.20 against a $4.10 sample benchmark, 14 farms, about 2,900 workers, $712,000 spent, and the $240,000 premium held for the farms, shown apart from revenue.
Made by connectNPO, who built this site. Up to five short videos a year are part of the plan.
Built for a wage ledger, not a brochure
Even Harvest is invented. The features are real and working, and each one is an example of what connectNPO builds for nonprofits. Youth arts → · Scholarships → · Community theatre → · Youth center → · Youth soccer → · Family counseling → · Animal rescue → · Food pantry → · Free clinic → · Resource directory → · House museum → · Domestic-violence services → · Soil cleanup → · Land trust →
The wage ledger
Every farm’s paid rate, benchmark, gap and last visit, with the history underneath. Staff edit one sheet; the bars, flags and home cards follow.
Farms →A flag that computes itself
A farm not verified in 180 days is flagged on the ledger and on the staff home — from the date, never typed.
The flagged farm →Premium arithmetic
One number in — cents per pound — and the page shows what it funds, from the same data as the ledger.
Try it →Brand status in public
Pledged, verified or paying, edited by staff; a pledge older than 90 days that is not paying is flagged to them.
Partner brands →Numbers with a method
Six numbers, each with the sentence that says how it was counted, and the stat chips link to them.
Impact →Money held for others
Brand premiums shown apart from revenue, on the page and in the sample 990.
Financials →Demo forms that send nothing
The pledge, the verifier application and the newsletter validate, explain what a real site would do, and make no network call.
Pledge a premium →The staff side
One menu for farms, visits, brands, numbers and documents. Signs you in as sample staff; nothing you change is saved.
Open the staff preview →