Get involved

Three ways in

Brands pay the premium, donors pay for the verification, verifiers go and look. Each of the three forms below is a demonstration: it validates, explains what a real site would do, and sends nothing.

Brands

Pledge a premium per pound

Tell us what you buy and from where. The partnerships lead checks that the volume comes from a partner farm (or one that could join), and the brand is listed as Pledged, then Verified, then Paying. No logo is shown; the status is the whole claim.

A woman holding harvested greens — A harvest in hand. Photo via Pexels; used for this sample, the organization is invented.

Partner brands

6 partner brands · 3 paying · 1 verified · 2 pledged. Wordmarks are typeset, never logos.

Northwind RoastersPaying · 12¢/lb · since Mar 2019Whole-bean coffee from Mukoto Hill and Gedere Forest; the first brand to pay.

Hollow Oak ChocolatePaying · 10¢/lb · since Jun 2021Bar chocolate from Asankare and Bekwai Valley.

Two Rivers Tea Co.Paying · 8¢/lb · since Sep 2020Loose-leaf black tea from all three Kenyan farms.

Cedar and Salt CoffeeVerified · 10¢/lb · since Jan 2026Sourcing from Rwamba Ridge and Limu Terrace checked in March; first premium payment due with the autumn harvest.

Marrow Lane ChocolatePledged · 10¢/lb · since May 2026Pledged for Nsuta Ridge cocoa; the sourcing check is scheduled.

Bright Kettle TeaPledged · 8¢/lb · since Aug 2026Pledged for Kazuri Valley tea from the 2027 flush.

Donors

One worker-month of gap

A gift pays for the visits and the ledger — the verification that makes the floor mean something. It is never paid to a farm as a wage; the premium does that. The unit is one worker for one month on the average farm still below benchmark, computed from the ledger.

$12 closes the gap for one worker for one month, on the average farm still below benchmark ($0.55 a day short, 22 working days). Monthly gifts let the floor rise on schedule.

Another amount

$36 covers three worker-months of gap.

Give $36 once →

Demonstration: the button opens an email; no card is taken. On a real site this is the organization’s own giving page. Gifts fund verification and the floor; they are never paid to farms as wages.

A man carrying a sack on a red-earth road — A sack on the road to the collection point. Photo via Pexels; used for this sample, the organization is invented.

A hand at a coffee branch — Ripe cherries, picked by hand: the piece rate a verifier converts to a day. Photo via Pexels; used for this sample, the organization is invented.

How a verifier stays independent

Five steps, published: a call · two references · a written conflict-of-interest declaration (no pay from, family in, or purchases from any partner farm or brand) · a paid training visit beside a current verifier · interview notes by number, never by name. This is the sample organization’s practice, written for the demonstration; a real organization’s rules come from its own policy and its auditors.

Verifiers

Apply to verify

Six contracted verifiers in East and West Africa, paid per visit, none tied to a farm or a brand. If you read pay records for a living, speak the languages of a growing region, and can travel twice a year, this is the form.