Organizations That Trust Us

These organizations reached out to us, trusted us with the people they care for — and then came back, again and again. They are employment agencies, school districts, settlement and newcomer services, youth programs, and community health and rehabilitation organizations.

They run the programs. They know their participants, hold the relationships, and carry the wraparound support that makes a training placement actually work. We do the coffee portion — and we do it ourselves. We don't hand over a curriculum, licence a program, or train someone else's staff to deliver it. Running a coffee school is what we do. We have done it for decades, and it is the thing we do well. Our partners do what they do well.

That is the whole arrangement, and it is why it works: with good partners, everyone knows what lane they are in. They are not trying to be us, and we are not trying to be them.

This is not an approval or a certification, and nobody applies to be on it. There is no pledge to sign and nothing to renew. An organization is on this page for one reason: it trusted us with its people, and it came back.

Every organization below is Canadian, because Canada is where our labs are and so far that is who has asked. The arrangement travels, though — an employment agency in Auckland or a college in Dublin running a hospitality program has the same gap we fill here, and the same reason not to try to fill it themselves. We would take that conversation gladly.

In some cases we contribute toward participant tuition through our Changing Lives through Coffee program.

What These Organizations Have in Common

  • They run a program of their own — employment, education, settlement, youth, or rehabilitation — with participants they are responsible for
  • They bring us in to teach the coffee portion, rather than improvising it in-house or buying a curriculum off a shelf
  • The work actually happened: real cohorts, real training days, real people who finished
  • They came back

17 organizations. Last reviewed: November 2026.

If a program ends or a relationship lapses, we take the name down — this page is meant to be current, not historical.

Canada

Our Other Lists

This page is about trust between organizations. Separately, we keep two lists built on a coffee standard, where every business has confirmed in writing that it meets it: our Approved Coffee Roasters and our Approved Coffee list of cafés, bakeries and other businesses serving coffee.

Working With Us

If you run a program for newcomers, youth, or job seekers and there is a coffee component you would rather not improvise — anywhere in the world — contact us here. It starts with a conversation, not a form. Tell us who you serve and what you are trying to build, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.