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The Songbird Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that educates and motivates people to make sustainable choices to preserve migratory songbirds. One of the greatest threats to migratory songbirds is the surge in aggressive sun-grown coffee. In Latin America, coffee has traditionally been grown under the canopy of the rain forest, and a majority of the remaining regional rain forest is on coffee farms. Our current campaign goals are focused on raising awareness among coffee consumers, retailers, growers and distributors of the effect of sun-grown coffee on the songbirds and the rain forest on which they depend for essential habitat.
Our current campaign works to:
- Promote awareness of the decimation of migratory and native songbird habitat and species resulting from non-sustainable agricultural and development practices in the Americas.
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Educate American coffee consumers to ask the question, "Is this coffee 'sustainably grown?" and to encourage them to buy only shade-grown, organic, fair trade coffee.
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Partner with organizations to develop a universal "sustainably grown" certification process for shade-grown, organic coffee, and to promote the "shade-grown, organic, fair-trade" concept of sustainability.
The organization was founded by singer/songwriter Danny O'Keefe in 1997 as he became increasingly concerned with the decimation of songbirds and their habitat.
Message from Danny voicing his concern.
Members of the Board of Directors are:
- Steve Koenig, President
- Danny O'Keefe
- Laurie Hare
- Kerry Goodman-Small
- Judy Werle
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