Fall Foliage Fun Run (or not) at Tinker Nature Park

The Coffee Connection empowers women in recovery from addiction, trauma, and incarceration. We create jobs and train women for sustainable employment as a not-for-profit business selling fair trade, organically-grown, and sustainably-farmed coffee to retail and wholesale customers. And we provide comprehensive, continuous support for women on their journey toward sustainable recovery, integrating their learning of life practices through our program in the context of running the business. 

Since 2001, The Coffee Connection (formerly the Women’s Coffee Connection) has been one of Rochester's premiere coffee roasters, providing savory coffee and unique merchandise to the Rochester community, while supporting social and environmental causes at home and abroad. Founder Nancy Sawyer-Molina began this project in the hopes of helping struggling women in the Rochester area receive valuable employment training and improved interpersonal skills. By providing a valuable mix of counseling and pre-employment training, The Coffee Connection has helped many area women create new lives for themselves.

In November 2011, the nonprofit organization Life Listening Resources merged a 5-year program of working with women in recovery – Project Empower – with the Coffee Connection. Under the direction of our executive director, Joy Bergfalk, we have been fully engaged in social entrepreneurship in the Rochester area.  We now have 20 employees who run the daily business operations – roasting coffee, selling to wholesale customers, operating the Roastery and Café on South Avenue and our store on the food court at the Marketplace Mall in Henrietta.

https://www.ourcoffeeconnection.org/donate-today