This Friday 8th August 2014, take action against homeless and buy your Friday coffee from a cafe across Australia participating in CafeSmart 2014 and they’ll donate a $1 from every coffee sold. To find your local do-gooder cafe, click here.
Some cafes that you already might know are signed up….
Brisbane: Di Bella Coffee (Bowen Hills), Hotel Urban (Spring Hill), Thrive on George (CBD), John Mills Himself (CBD), Toby’s Estate Brisbane (CBD), Campos Coffee Brisbane (Fortitude Valley) Expresso Train (Nundah) and Pasta Pantry (Rosalie), Bunker Coffee (Milton and my favourite!) Sydney: The Cook and Baker (Bondi Junction) Lize & Bath Cafe (CBD), The Q on Harris (Ultimo), Oliver Brown World Square, Greenheart Expresso (CBD), BangBang Cafe and Lucky Pickle (Surrey Hills), Cafe Morso (Pyrmont). Melbourne: STREAT (all locations), Cherry & Twigs (CBD), Mister Close (CBD) Hub Cafe and Miss Jackson (St Kilda), Alice Nivens, Footscray Milking Station, 30KER65 (Fitzroy). Canberra: Coffee Guru (Erindale and Mawson), Good Brother (Dickson), Little Oink (Cook) and Tranquillo Expresso (Braddon). Perth: Yelo (Trigg), Dimattina (Osbourne Park), Mercado Negro (CBD), Jessie’s Cafe and Roastery (Myaree).
All funds raised go to StreetSmart who take action against homelessness, raising funds and awareness for small, ‘hard to reach’ grassroots services and projects. Projects that provide critical services and emergency aid as well as promoting social inclusion, empowerment and sustainable change for people who are homeless or at risk. 100% of donations raised through Streetsmart events are distributed in the form of grants. To date they have raised $3,031,680 and supported 843 grassroots projects. Like what they do on facebook or follow them on twitter. Dont forget to post a selfie Friday using hashtag #drinkcoffeedogood and donate direct to the cause here.
Would you like your local café to be involved? then download this flyer, print it off and hand it over and encourage them to get involved.