Organizations Filed Purposes:
1951 Coffee Company (1951) is a non-profit organization seeking to promote the wellbeing of the refugee community by providing job training and employment to refugees while educating the surrounding community about refugee life and issues. 1951 Coffees name derives from the 1951 Refugee Convention where the United Nations (UN) defined and set forth its first guidelines for the protection of refugees. These guidelines were further expanded in the 1967 Refugee Protocols, giving the UN a global mandate. 1951 Coffee Company was founded in 2015 in the spirit of these conventions to give refugees assistance in starting their new lives through opportunities in the rapidly expanding coffee industry. This is accomplished through a barista training program that provides immediately marketable job skills for 85 refugees a year (79 in Oakland and 6 in Seattle) and through employment for 25 refugees annually at 1951s three brick and mortar coffee shops located in Berkeley, CA and Oakland, CA.
1951 Coffee Company Is a non-profit organIzatIon seeking to promote the wellbeing of the refugee community In the San Francisco Bay Area by prov1d1ng Job training and employment to refugees while educating the surrounding community about refugee life and issues.
1951 opened its second coffee shop located at UC Berkeleys ASUC Student Union, which created 9 new jobs for refugees in the community. 1951 also piloted our Barista Training Program in San Diego, serving 25 people.1951 opened a caf in Oakland, CA, which created 12 new jobs for refugees in the community. 1951 also piloted the Barista Training Program in Seattle, WA, which served 6 people.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
Doug Hewitt | CPO | 40 | $56,509 |
Rachel Taber | COO | 30 | $1,063 |
Cedar Carlton | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
Kim Aman Howard | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
Julie Sept | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
Amy Millington | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
Mokhtar Alkshanhali | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
Miaxmos Lih | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
Amy Benziger | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
Arno Holschuch | COO, Bellwether | 1 | $0 |
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