The Starbucks Foundation has announced that it is expanding its Origin Grants program to help an additional one million women and girls around the world by 2030.

Over the past several years, the program has invested more than $14 million in more than 20 nonprofit organizations working to assist women and girls. Recipients such as Send a Cow have helped empower 250,000 women and girls in coffee-, tea-, and cocoa-growing communities around the world. The expanded effort will continue to focus on the program’s three pillars: promoting economic opportunity and empowerment, advancing women’s leadership, and increasing access to clean water, sanitization, and hygiene.

Starbucks is currently piloting several programs focused on creating income diversification and building childcare centers to support coffee-growing families during harvest. In Guatemala, Starbucks and the Wakami Foundation are working to identify women entrepreneurs in rural communities and help them create women’s groups to produce high-quality, on-trend products to sell in the global marketplace. They’re also introducing regenerative agriculture initiatives, such as raising chickens to produce eggs to sell locally and cultivating and exporting izote, a high-demand ornamental houseplant that can be grown adjacent to coffee fields.

“We have a vision to ensure a sustainable future of coffee for all…[that] goes beyond farmers and farm workers to also supporting the well-being of all those in coffee communities, helping everyone thrive,” said Michelle Burns, Starbucks executive vice president of global coffee, tea, and cocoa, who also sits on the Starbucks Foundation board. “We continue to see the incredible impact of these Origin Grants on creating socioeconomic and leadership opportunities for women and girls that in turn helps their entire family to improve their lives and livelihoods.”

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