#EndYouthHomelessness
Our Mission
To create employment opportunities for youth experiencing homelessness and housing instability through the cultivation of life skills and personal empowerment.
Our Vision
To end youth homelessness.
GIMME SHELTER:
A Documentary Day @ Trylon
Join Wildflyer and our friends at the Trylon Cinema for two documentaries and a panel.
Trylon, located directly behind our Minneapolis shop, is showing two groundbreaking documentaries highlighting the lives of unhoused communities; DARK DAYS and STREETWISE.
On Sunday, August 9th, all ticket sales from the cinema will be donated to Wildflyer, and we'll be hosting a talkback at 4:30PM in our shop after the final showing.
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more than just a cup of coffee
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★ more than just a cup of coffee ★
We asked our employee, Aerick, what he saw for his future. His answer? "I'm chillin' in my mansion, my stock just went up because we merged with another company and we're doing real good. I'm in a corner office with an Apple Mac sitting in a big swivel chair. My phone is ringing off the hook 'cause I have the best ideas and investors want to talk to me".
If you meet Aerick, you'll find someone driven, forward-focused, and reaching for the top. You wouldn't know that he spent most of his life in-and-out of shelters and on the road, fleeing gang violence. Instead, you find a young entrepreneur that just knows he's going to be a success, a real boss if you will.
With cocoa, semisweet chocolate and some macadamia nut notes, this classic blend is perfect for all you go-getters.
P.S. We get where Aericks headed, but we'd argue he's also a boss right now.
We sourced this coffee from the Testi West Arsi Washing Station, which serves about 850 smallholder producers in the area, the Nansebo woreda.
The farmers deliver their cherry to the washing station, where it is de-pulped, fermented for 24–48 hours, and washed before being dried on raised beds for 12–15 days before making its way into your cup.
Notes: Juicy, Berry, Floral, Chocolate Flavors with Fruit Acidity
Roast: Light
Process: Washed
Our best selling dark roast coffee. There's nothing wrong with indulging your dark side!
Notes: dark chocolate, nuts, tobacco, cherry
Roast: Dark
Process: Washed & Wet Hulled
IN COMMUNITY
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Coffee That Creates: Opportunity. Equity. Sustainability. Futures.
“Only 10% of our farmers are under the age of 40,” Felix says, translating what Guillermo has just said in Spanish. “This is a real problem.” I nod my head. This is a problem. And that’s why I’m here. In San Jose, Costa Rica. Meeting with the CEO and other employees of Coop Libertad, a cooperative company working to empower small coffee growers facing economic and social injustice in the Central Valley.
We are hoping together to address inequality and the aging crisis within the coffee industry.
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Beyond the First Heart: Mirah’s Story of Growth
The espresso machine hisses, stretching milk into silky foam. Across from me, at a table worn smooth by years of elbows and coffee cups, sits Mirah. The chunky wooden beads in her hair clink softly as she turns her head, catching the afternoon sun.
Before I ever dive into tactical questions, I like to ask our graduates how they want to be portrayed in these stories. Powerful? Victorious? Beautiful? Confident? Mirah hesitates before answering with a quiet, “I don’t know.”
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Line By Line: Jane’s Story of Hope
Jane looks like they could be an artist. Their curly bangs fall over red, cat-eyed glasses, and when I first sat across from them at our Minneapolis shop, I caught myself thinking how easily they could be a character in one of their own sketches. Black headphones rested around their neck, an almost casual detail, but one that felt like part of their quiet armor.
I’d already written about Jane before I knew them.