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This year’s Fair Trade Campus Week was focused around providing campuses with digital-�rst resources and facilitating in-person dialogue around fair trade and campuses’ unique involvement in growing the movement. Our matching process was updated to allow for more transparency between campuses and the companies who donate their time and products to this campaign. By publicly sharing campuses’ need of Fairtrade products, companies could clearly see the growing demand of products that carry the FAIRTRADE Mark. We believe that this method is a positive addition to this campaign, and allows campuses and businesses to build meaningful and sustainable relationships.

Environmental sustainability was another important focus this year. Instead of mailing standard POS kits to every participating campuses, we encouraged campuses to use what they already have and only request items they need in order to lower the carbon footprint of this campaign.

By shifting our focus from printed and physical resources, we needed to ensure that our digital materials were stronger than ever. Some initiatives we introduced this year included:

• New and engaging visual assets to help campuses discuss issues around trade justice.

• A Fairtrade mobile game that offered a fun and interactive way for students to test their Fairtrade knowledge while also giving visibility to Fairtrade products.

• A series of Fairtrade-themed GIFs were created to help campuses and partners share captivating social content.

Scaling for Impact: Highlights & Looking Forward

• Custom “I Want More Fairtrade Products on my Campus” Change.org petitions to facilitate discussions around procurement and to give students, faculty and staff a voice in the decision-making.

We also launched the National Fair Trade Campus Week Challengeto add an element of friendly competition to this campaign. We challenged campuses to engage on Twitter and Instagram by using the of�cial campaign hashtags as well as to collect the most signatures on their petition. Our Campus Week All-Star, Humber College will receive national recognition at the Canadian Fairtrade Awards, an invitation to attend the Awards in Ottawa, and a $500 cash prize to go towards their fair trade programming. Our runner up, the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus will receive a year’s worth of Fairtrade chocolate sponsored by Camino.

Through Instagram Story takeovers, we allowed our followers to witness the work of six of Canada’s Fair Trade Campus leaders. UofT Mississauga, SFU, York, uOttawa, Cégep de Sorel-Tracy and McGill took over Fairtrade Canada’s Instagram Stories over the week to share their efforts.

We see Campus Week as an integral part of growing the fair trade movement in Canada and we are excited to see what next year has in store. We want to continue our efforts in ensuring FTCW is an environmentally sustainable campaign, as well as assisting the building of meaningful relationships between Fairtrade businesses and campuses.

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2374 16,500 Facebook 128,062Instagram 104,999Instagram Stories 10,189Twitter 23,408

Fairtrade Canada Social Reach IMPRESSIONS

Almost 1.5 Million Total HASHTAG Impressions

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Alberta • Ambrose University, Calgary• Bow Valley College , Calgary • MacEwan University, Edmonton• SAIT Campus, Calgary• University of Alberta, Edmonton• University of Calgary, Calgary

British Columbia• British Columbia Institute of Technology,

Burnaby• Capilano University, North Vancouver• Douglas College, New Westminster• Langara College, Vancouver• Selkirk College, Castlegar• Simon Fraser University, Burnaby• University of British Columbia Okanagan,

Kelowna• University of Victoria, Victoria• Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo

Manitoba• Menno Simons College, Winnipeg• Red River College , Winnipeg • University of Manitoba - Bannatyne

Campus, Winnipeg New Brunswick• University of New Brunswick, Fredericton• University of New Brunswick, Saint John Newfoundland and Labrador• Memorial University of Newfoundland, St.

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CAMPUS WEEK Participating Campuses

Nova Scotia• Acadia University, Wolfville• Dalhousie Student Union, Halifax • Dalhousie University, Halifax• Dalhousie University Agricultural Campus,

Truro• Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax• Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) IT

Campus, Halifax• Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC)

Ivany, Dartmouth• Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC)

Kingstec, Kentville• Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC)

Truro, Truro• St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish• Saint Mary’s University, Halifax• University of King’s College, Halifax

“Fair Trade Campus Week is a great initiative.” - Nova Scotia Community College, Truro

Acadia University

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CAMPUSOntario• Carleton University, Ottawa• Humber College Lakeshore Campus,

Etobicoke• Humber college North Campus, Toronto• King’s University College , London • Laurentian University, Sudbury • Loretto College Residence, Toronto• McMaster University, Hamilton• Niagara College Welland, Welland • Ryerson University, Toronto• Sault College, Sault Ste Marie• Sheridan Oakville, Oakville• St Pauls College, Waterloo• St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo• The University of Western Ontario ,

London• Trent University, Peterborough• University of Guelph, Guelph• University of Ottawa, Ottawa• University of St. Michael’s College,

Toronto• University of Toronto Mississauga,

Mississauga• University of Toronto Scarbrough,

Scarborough• University of Toronto, St. George, Toronto• University of Waterloo, Waterloo• University of Western Ontario, London• UOIT, Oshawa• Wilfrid Laurier University , Waterloo• York University, Toronto

Prince Edward Island• University of Prince Edward Island,

Charlottetown

Quebec• Ahuntsic, Montréal• Cegep Champlain-St. Lawrence, Québec• Cégep de Sorel-Tracy, Sorel-Tracy• Cégep du Vieux Montréal , Montréal • Cégep Édouard-Montpetit, Longueuil• Cégep Garneau, Québec• Collège de Rosemont, Montréal• College Shawinigan , Shawinigan• Concordia University, Montréal• McGill University, Montréal• Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal

• Université de Montréal, Montréal• Université de Sherbrooke , Sherbrooke• Vanier College, Montreal

Saskatchewan• University of Regina, Regina

University of Regina

University of PEI

“We are happy with fair trade campus week. students enjoy the engagement.” – McGill University

“We enjoy this promotion and it’s a great educational tool.” – Dalhousie Agricultural College

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• Count the Bean Contest, Grand Fair Trade Door Prize, Random Giveaways, and Free Fair Trade Coffee Coupons. – Wilfred Laurier University

• Banana bites demo and hot chocolate give away. Coffee cart. Fair Trade product discount. – Humber College Lakeshore

• Fair Trade Carnival - made cotton candy with sugar, giveaways, trivia, tabling. – York University

• A Ted Talk-style conference, with 6 different speakers having 10 minutes each to develop on various aspects of Fair Trade. – Cegep Champlain-St. Lawrence

• We tabled a different product each day, along with pamphlets and info on Fair Trade. Tuesday evening, we had a Fair Trade wine and karaoke night with Fair Trade trivia, and on Thursday night we had a Fair Trade board game night with fair trade snacks and refreshments. – University of Regina

• Free Coffee Pop-Up Booths: Booths situated at different student hubs around campus with information on Fairtrade, free pins/stickers, and free coffee. This event was our �rst event of the week and allowed us to really get word out about Fairtrade campus week. Bake sale with Fairtrade products and information. - University of Toronto, St. George

• Samplings, taste tests, giveaways, games. All very well received both the educational and giveaways. – Carleton University

• Guess the flavour of the tea. – Loretto College

• We organized pop-up information booths and a Fair Trade Bake Sale. Lots of positive feedback for the presence of a Fair Trade advocacy on campus and large percentage of engaged population were interested in learning more about Fair Trade – University of PEI

ACTIVITIES HELD ON CAMPUS

• We organized a Fairtrade giveaway with our Hello 2030 campaign around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. – Concordia

• We did a campaign in our restaurant sampled chocolate toaster pastries. We had a table & did custom fair trade t-shirts on the spot we also gave out coffee, bananas and toaster pops to anyone who signed our petition. – York University

• We had a spin to win wheel. It was great. - Mount Saint Vincent University

• Pancake Breakfast: distributed over 150 free pancakes made with Fairtrade sugar and chocolate chips to students. Coffee House: a good line-up of performers and offered guests free baked goods and coffee, hot chocolate, tea. Paint-A-Petition: I painted the Fairtrade Canada logo in black and white on a big white sheet, with “WE LOVE FAIR TRADE” written on the side and had students sign their names inside the University of New Brunswick – Fredericton

• Monday Morning treat distribution in collaboration with our Mental Health advocacy group on campus. Fair Trade trivia, handing out bananas and avocados once people answered a trivia question. Soccer game with BCIT. – Simon Fraser University

• For the Kick-Off day, we had a table display outside tsamples, fair trade information and had them sign up if they wished to be more involved in creating a fair trade campus. This event had great success. - McMaster University

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• We present it and work on it in class in the Geography lessons and we sell Fair Trade products as well. - Champlain-St. Lawrence

• Sustainability Awareness Week, Fairtrade Fridays that show off products we feature, Fair Trade Campus Week, Fair Trade Month. - University of Alberta

• On social media and through events like wake up Wednesday, weekly coffee servings, and bigger events like the Fair Trade Game. - Dalhousie University

• Give-aways or (chocolate) sales are typically held once a month. Our Hospitality Services department also put out promotional material and has offered to put messages across campus wide noti�cations screens. - University of Western Ontario

Ongoing Fair Trade Engagement

• Through social media postings about the Fair Trade products we currently carry and the stories that surround these products. Our associates in our Cafe are also trained to pitch the story so that everyone knows the sourcing of each Fair Trade product we carry. - St. Jerome’s University

• We are in the process of getting Fair Trade Campus designated so we do regular outreach, social media, postering, and events out of our cafe. We will do a development drinks with OCIC on Fairtrade, we are screening some �lms, I have 15 placement students who will be �lming some promo videos. Likely other things as well, the students have some creative freedom in this area! - York University

• We have major signage developed from Fairtrade Canada’s infographics that share fair trade statistics in a highly visible way. Our convenience store is very good about using the shelf wobblers to identify Fairtrade products. – University of Ottawa

• Multiple events and smaller campaigns, sending students on Origin Trips, having volunteers on campus. – Simon Fraser University

• Fair Trade Fest. Last Spring, we hired a student through Canada Summer Jobs to investigate what is needed to achieve a fair trade campus status at McMaster and this student promoted the idea at the 100inDay in Hamilton in June. – McMaster University

• Through our digital signage, at our Fair Trade working group and through the university. – Trent University

We asked how campuses will continue to promote fair trade on campus throughout the year:

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Thank you to THE sponsors of Fair Trade Campus Week 2018