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Late last month, Clinical Director Ellen Starr, Clinical Consultant Susan Hollinger and volunteer Tatum FitzGerald traveled to the island nation of Kiribati, where they were tasked by Pacific Island Medical Aid (PIMA) to help get...

Leadership Circle, Make Room for DS Services of America, Inc.

16 Sep 2014

Jane Dale

Grounds for Health is delighted to welcome new funder DS Services of America, Inc. (DS Services) to our Leadership Circle. Their generous gift helps make possible our continued work in coffee regions of Nicaragua and Peru...

Bringing cervical cancer prevention to Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua

16 Sep 2014

Ariel Delaney

Grounds for Health and its coffee partner of three years, Prodecoop, are working together on a new program in the Nueva Segovia region of Nicaragua. This month marks the beginning of a multi-year collaboration involving...

Grounds for Health Ethiopia Launches

15 Sep 2014

Kayla Moore

After many months of planning, Grounds for Health’s Ethiopia program kicks off this month with the first set of community and clinical trainings on cervical cancer prevention. If successful, these activities will make Wonsho the...

Passing of a Friend

09 Sep 2014

Dan Cox

It is with great sadness to inform you of the recent passing of Mrs. Josephine Fote, wife of Dr. Francis Fote, co-founder of Grounds for Health. Josephine, or Jo as she was known to her...

ECOM Foundation Awards Grant to Strengthen Programs

12 Aug 2014

Jane Dale

Grounds for Health is the grateful recipient of a two-year $45,000 grant award for the Development of Origin Resources from the ECOM Foundation. Since 2006, the ECOM Foundation has made a significant contribution to Grounds...

Two Weeks In – A note from the new Executive Director

12 Aug 2014

Guy Stallworthy

It’s a great pleasure for me to write my first contribution to the Grounds for Health e-news. After a couple of months of steadily increasing anticipation, I finally began work in Waterbury on July 28th....

Ethiopia: A Welcoming to the Birthplace of Coffee

12 Aug 2014

Ariel Delaney

While it may be a known fact that Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, before I had travelled there in June with Grounds for Health I had many questions: would our partners be ready? What would the...

Dean’s Beans Makes Ethiopia Work Possible

11 Aug 2014

Jane Dale

Grounds for Health is enormously grateful to Dean Cycon of Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee for being the initial and primary underwriter of the Grounds for Health Ethiopia program. Dean traveled with the team to Ethiopia to...

Farewell Note from Executive Director August Burns

15 Jul 2014

August Burns

As I sit at my desk on my final day at the helm of Grounds for Health, I will indulge in a few thoughts about what I have learned on this incredible journey. Perhaps first and...

Nicaragua: Multiplying Impact

30 Jun 2014

Grounds for Health Staff

In late April, new Program Manager Ariel Irene Delaney traveled to Nicaragua to meet the local team and become acquainted with our current, longest-standing Grounds for Health program. Upon arriving, she was immediately whisked into...

Thank You: Farmer Brothers

30 Jun 2014

Jane Dale

For the third year in a row, the Grounds for Health reception at SCAA, held in April in Seattle, Washington, was generously sponsored by Farmer Brothers. This year the event was held at The Edgewater...

Returned from Kiribati

Leadership Circle, Make Room for DS Services of America, Inc.

Bringing cervical cancer prevention to Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua

Grounds for Health Ethiopia Launches

Passing of a Friend

ECOM Foundation Awards Grant to Strengthen Programs

Two Weeks In – A note from the new Executive Director

Ethiopia: A Welcoming to the Birthplace of Coffee

Dean’s Beans Makes Ethiopia Work Possible

Farewell Note from Executive Director August Burns

Nicaragua: Multiplying Impact

Thank You: Farmer Brothers

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