date:Dec 26, 2012
The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) Thursday announced a donation of $41,076 to cocoa co-ops in Ecuador and Peru.
The donation came from sales of limited edition International Year of Co-ops chocolate bars at food co-ops this fall, which were produced by Seattle-based Theo Chocolate, Inc., the first U.S. bean-to-bar maker of organic, Fair Trade and Fair for Life certified chocolate.
Privately held Theo, which operates the nations only organic, fair trade bean-to-bar chocolate f