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Spring 2010

  • Postcards from the Field
  • Welcoming New Board Members
  • Meet One of Our Borrowers: Laguna Baja Aric, Ecotourism, Mexico


Summer 2009

  • Root Capital Wins Financial Times Award
  • Charity Navigator’s 4-Star Rating Awarded to Root Capital
  • Starbucks, Root Capital, and You

Spring 2009

  • Uncommon Heroes Film Premieres
  • Growth Capital Campaign Launched


January 2009

  • A Message From the Founder
  • The story behind your morning coffee...


September 2008

  • President Clinton Recognizes Root Capital - Root Capital is featured at the Clinton Global Initiative
  • Clinton Global Initiative Highlights Innovative Coffee Partnership
  • A Big Apple Welcome - New York philanthropists Veronique and Bob Pittman host party in honor of Root Capital


Summer 2008

  • Root Hits Major Milestone - Root Capital celebrates $100 million in disbursements
  • Suma Pacha


June 2008

  • Root Capital featured in Financial Times and LA Times
  • Root Capital officially launches fellowship program
  • Investment Officer and former Root Fellow reflects on his Root experience


May 2008

Root Capital is delighted to share with you a short documentary film highlighting the important work of our partners and clients in Guatemala and Nicaragua.


April 2008

  • Our Role in Mitigating Climate Change
  • Co-op Provides Alternative to Coca Production in Peru
  • Root Capital Earns Charity Navigator's Highest Rating
  • Recent Press: Miami Herald Features Root Capital
  • Personal Perspectives: PorFin Update


Febuary 2008

  • William Foote Inducted into Ashoka Fellowship
  • Supporting Organic Vanilla in Indonesia
  • Catalyzing Economic Recovery in Aceh Through Coffee
  • Welcoming New Staff to the Root Capital Team
  • Personal Perspectives: Update from Kenya in Aftermath of Election Violence


January 2008

  • Looking Back on 2007: A Year of Growth at Root Capital
  • Root Capital Supports Heirloom Rice Cultivation in the Philippines
  • Root Capital's Financial Education Program
  • 2008 Social Capitalist Award Winner
  • Partner Profile: Esperanza Dionisio Castillo


November 2007

  • Fair Trade Chocolate Benefits Growers in Ivory Coast
  • Supporting An Indigenous Permaculture in Ethiopia
  • Helping Farmers in Tanzania While Protecting Chimpanzees
  • NuWire Investor Ranks Root Capital #3 in Top Charities
  • Personal Perspectives: Passion and Creativity in Philanthropy


October 2007

  • Founder Honored with Ashoka Fellowship
  • Traditional Chilean Cookware Piques Whole Foods' Interest
  • Chilean Winemakers Move from Commodity to Specialty
  • Opening of South America Regional Office in Peru
  • Root Capital Featured in Microfinance Insights
  • Root Capital Highlighted for Innovation
  • Dispatch from the Field


September 2007

  • Female Empowerment through Ghanaian Shea Butter
  • Organic Bananas: Saving Water, Improving Livelihoods
  • Our New VP of Finance & Administration
  • Dispatch from the Field