Root Capital is a Proud Partner of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Thank you to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters for selecting Root Capital as the nonprofit partner for their "Horizon Blend by Kevin Costner" coffee line.
Learn more about our partnership, Root Capital, and how you can support our work below!
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Root Capital
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and Root Capital have worked collaboratively since Root Capital’s founding in 1999 to deliver catalytic finance and critical advisory services to coffee cooperatives to help them grow into prosperous, resilient businesses. Together with their support, Root Capital has been able to expand and grow its pioneering credit plus capacity model, and to date has helped more than 2.4 million farming families build prosperity and resilience.
We are deeply grateful to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters for their years of partnership, and their long-standing commitment to supporting supply chain resiliency through regenerative agriculture.-Willy Foote, Root Capital CEO and Founder
Growing Prosperity in Rural Communities
In remote rural communities around the globe, cooperatives and other small agricultural enterprises connect farming families with incomes and opportunities that would otherwise be out of reach. But too often, these businesses lack access to the resources they need to grow.
That’s where Root Capital comes in. We provide credit and capacity building to small and growing agricultural enterprises across Africa, Latin America, and Indonesia. Together, we are building a more prosperous, inclusive, and resilient future for rural communities.
Our Impact Since 1999
$1.96B
loaned to agricultural businesses
1,964
advisory clients reached
2.4M+
farmers and employees reached
2023 by the Numbers
562K
farmers and employees reached
by Climate Finance or Advisory
625K
women farmers reached
91%
of loans filled critical financing needs
unmet by commercial lenders
Client Spotlight: Rebuild Women’s Hope
Founded by Marcelline Budza in 2013, Rebuild Women’s Hope (RWH) is a women-led coffee cooperative dedicated to empowering women in agriculture. Located on the large remote island of Idjwi in Lake Kivu in the eastern DRC, RWH boasts more than 3,050 farmer members who grow coffee. RWH has played a critical role in the local community, expanding access to the local farmers’ coffee by introducing new buyers and new markets for export, which in turn has improved farmer livelihoods.
RWH became a Root Capital lending client in 2019, with their first loan totaling $150,000. Since then, we have increased our financial support, providing $1.4 million in financing to RWH to date. During the most recent harvest in February 2023, we provided $300,000 in seasonal working capital, coupled with advisory services in business management and agronomic training. Thanks to these on-site advisory workshops, RWH has streamlined their accounting, taxation, and financial processes, thereby improving overall operational efficiency. The cooperative also received a resilience grant from Root Capital in 2021, which they used to reconstruct a coffee washing station destroyed by rainwater in a strong storm.
RWH is deeply committed to the Idjwi community and strongly believes in increasing women’s income so that they can improve their standard of living and become financially independent. With our support, RWH is creating a more inclusive environment for women working in coffee in the DRC.
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