Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company

If you are using an auto drip machine, the grind should be fine. For French press or non filter drip machines, the grind should be more coarse.

Use at least 1 heaping tablespoon of coffee per cup. You may use more, if you like your coffee stronger, but we don't recommend using less. Coffee brewed on the stronger side allows you to taste the distinctive flavors. You should especially keep this in mind if you add milk or cream to your coffee.

Always use fresh, clean water when brewing your coffee.

Grounds 4 Good prides ourselves in getting your coffee to you as soon as possible after roasting for optimum freshness. 

Tomas Kern White CVO Chief Vision Officer

Kern is a visionary leader, life coach, and social entrepreneur. His unique ability to think outside of industry and cultural boxes allows him to create new paradigms in response to the current economic, leadership, and social injustices we are facing in our world today.

Kern has 25 plus years of business and ministry experience. He has traveled the globe working in more than 30 countries training and consulting leaders. He has led within the following organizations: Pragmatica Venture Capital Fund, Euro Partners, Leaders Shaping Leaders, The Vail Church, Hope Church, Integra Group, and now Grounds 4 Good of which he is a founding member. Kern's unique gift mix and journey has allowed him the opportunity to experience both business and ministry from every angle.

Kern and his family lived in Europe for 5 years serving cultural, marketplace, and spiritual leaders. Kern has a passion for this generation's emerging leaders. He loves influencing leaders to think globally and build kingdom initiatives. Kern pours into others his passion for sustainable models for business and ministries, enlightening and empowering people who want to make a difference in our world. He brings creativity, innovation, and redemptive strategies to bear in businesses, churches, mission agencies, and non profits. Kern has a ThM degree from Dallas Theological Seminary and BA from Texas Tech University.

Kern and his wife, Wendy, have three children, Jake 16, Brooke 14, and Ana 10. They live in Vail, CO. He loves all types of music, good food, art, the outdoors, skiing, hiking, fishing on the Eagle River, and spending quality, authentic time with friends and family from around the world. Kern and Wendy have learned to live life open-handed, passionately, serving others and on purpose...realizing that life is a fragile gift from God.

Wendy White, CCO Chief Creative Officer

Wendy is an artist, designer, and writer. She has a deep faith and love for people that shines through her work. Wendy has a BA from Texas Tech University where she studied Technical Writing and Art. In the past, she served as a Technical Editor for Lomas Information Systems, and a copywriter for House of 1776. Now she puts her skills to work at Grounds 4 Good.

Wendy and her husband Kern have spent the last 21 years of marriage seeking first the kingdom of God. In doing so, they've had quite and adventure. The Whites have lived in places like China and Spain, and have served at several churches both in the states and abroad. Wendy loves the people she's met around the world, and cherishes the works the Lord has allowed her to participate in.

On the art side, she often paints on topics that are intriguing, inspiring, or influencing. Her goal for each project is that it will move people and evoke emotion-speaking to hearts without words. Many years of traveling through the villages of Europe and the coast of the Mediterranean have had an impact Wendy as an artist. She soaked in all the colors, sights, sounds, and tastes of many beautiful cultures. The textures and colors from her experiences are evident in her work.

Wendy and Kern have 3 children: Jake 16, Brooke 14, and Ana 10. They currently live in Vail, CO and are blessed to see God's glory represented all around them on a daily basis. Wendy loves to hike, read, cook (as an artform!), and spend time with family and friends. Her wonderful family is a constant reminder of how God has blessed her. They support her and encourage her to be the best she can be.

David Watson, CCO Chief Coffee Officer

David is an entrepreneur, an unleasher of people and causes, an advocate/modeler of foster care, and has a heart for missions. A graduate of the University of Arkansas with a BSBA in Marketing and a Masters in Education, he started 2 businesses while in college, and is currently CEO of a successful security and life safety system company, Arcom Systems, Inc. David is a founding member of Grounds 4 Good.

David loves Christ and serving. He has served as a mission intern of Fellowship Bible Church, Little Rock, was on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ Jesus Film Project for a few years, and lived in Kiev Ukraine. His international experience covers 9 countries from South America to Russia. David is a strategic partner and board member of Fellowship Guatemala, a Guatemalan led effort to train leaders and plant externally focused churches and to bring hope and transformation to the people of the region.

David has been married to Caryl for 20 years. They have 3 biological children (Hannah 18, Jacob 15, Ella 13). They are living out their passion for foster care and adoption. Their adopted daughter, Mariah, is 5. They currently have 3 foster children (Jamie 16, Micah 6 months, and Timothy newborn).

David's passions include flyfishing, reading, time with friends and family, kingdom entrepreneurship, travel, advocating causes, and of course Grounds 4 Good coffee!

Caryl Watson, CCO Chief Compassion Officer

Caryl is passionate about orphans and children in foster care. She believes that all children deserve to be loved, nurtured, and valued. She received a BS in Speech Pathology from SMU and a MEd in Early Childhood Education/Special Ed from The University of Texas. Caryl has vast experience working with high risk infants, toddlers, children, and teens.

Caryl also has a heart for the world. She lived in London and Kiev, Ukraine. She and her husband, David, worked with the Campus Crusade for Christ Jesus Film Project. She has traveled to Guatemala and Haiti, often working in orphanages as part of her outreach.

Caryl provided leadership to help launch and sustain The CALL (Children of Arkansas Loved for a Lifetime) and the Watson's were a founding family. The CALL is a faith-based initiative to educate, equip, encourage, and recruit the Christian community to provide a future and a hope for the children in foster care. Caryl is also a member of the Pulaski County Adoption Coalition which trains and recruits families to adoption. Through her service there, Caryl coordinated the Heart Gallery, a collection of phhotographs of the children waiting for forever families that travels around to churches and other venues to get the word out.

Caryl and David have 3 biological children (Hannah 18, Jacob 15, Ella 13). Their adopted daughter, Mariah, is 5. They currently have 3 foster children (Jamie 16, Micah 6 months, and Timothy newborn). They are truly living it!

Grounds 4 Good has a heart for people that beats to the core of every coffee bean. We believe we can make a difference in this generation. We believe our grassroots movement not only provides revenue for sustaining worthy causes doing good, but one that changes the way you think, the way you live, the way you buy.

We are social entrepreneurs changing lives with every cup. Join us! Get in the game of really living by waking up to do good.

360 Value Add...Not Just Coffee

When you drink our coffee, you are making a difference with every sip. From the grower to your cup, we make sure value is added every step of the way. When you drink our coffee you are supporting the entire value chain. You are changing lives, one cup at a time.

We at Grounds 4 Good strive to be fair to our growers and our environment. We have relationships with friends in the countries that grow the beans, and we know the impact fair trade has on the communities there. Our coffee is grown organically as we seek to be responsible for our impact on the environment.

People

Who are the people? Every person participating in the value chain from the coffee bean picker, to the preparer of the green bean, to the roaster, to the bagger, to the shipper, to you, to the person who goes out to do good supported by your decision to buy from Grounds 4 Good. We greatly esteem the lives along the chain and will do our best to serve each one to the best of our ability.

Product

Our coffee is the tool. It's the gas that makes the value chain run. It provides a livelihood to those who produce it, and they are being compensated fairly for their efforts. It provides an affordable luxury for you, the social entrepreneur. Coffee is something you will most likely buy anyway, why not do it for good with purpose behind it? Our coffee provides a way to put money behind the causes you care about in this day and age where many non profits are hurting.

Purpose

We wear our hearts on our sleeves. Everything we do has a greater purpose. We are all part of something much larger than ourselves. Our goal is to have a successful company that models virtuous business and best practices while doing good in our world at the same time. We are fighting injustices, serving the needy, supporting good works enterprises with everything we've got. Join us! This is a grassroots movement you can participate in...we'd love to partner with you in your journey.

Grounds 4 Good partners with schools, churches, youth groups, sports teams, and other non profits in our unique Partner Program.  By becoming a Grounds 4 Good Partner, your cause receives $5 per month for every monthly member you enroll for the duration of their membership.

Click on the BECOME A PARTNER button for more information.

Grounds 4 Good is partnering with these organizations, supporting their efforts to do good in our world. Each receives $5 every month per member that signs up with their cause. Don't see your cause? Sign them up as a Grounds 4 Good partner today!

As a Grounds 4 Good Monthly Coffee Member, you will receive two 12 oz. bags of great tasting coffee each month. Our coffee is a premium organic house blend. With your purchase each month, Grounds 4 Good will give $5 to the cause you care about.

Click on the BUY COFFEE tab to partner through your purchase.

Want to get involved with this grassroots movement called Grounds 4 Good on a volunteer basis? Our Grounds Crews are stirring up innovative ways to get the message out here, there, and everywhere!

Click on the BECOME A VOLUNTEER button for more information.

Posted by Wendy White on May 1st, 10  |  No Comments

Posted by admin on Thursday Feb 11, 2010 Under Electronics, Miscellaneous, Reviews

Two of the most enjoyable things in life are music and coffee. No matter what kind of music you listen to, the challenge is always deciding what to listen to. So what is the solution to that challenge? Answer…use an Escient music manager. An Escient device will let you store all of your music on their hard drive, sort the music and automatically download cover art and meta data from an online database. With Escient, you will never go looking for that lost cd, or iPod again. Sound Ideas is an authorized Escient dealer and we have the experienced installers to get it running in your house seamlessly.

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Now that your music is up and running, it’s time for a good cup of joe. Well, we would like to encourage you to consider a company called Grounds4Good to supply your coffee needs.

“Grounds 4 Good has a heart for people that beats to the core of every coffee bean. We believe we can make a difference in this generation. We believe our grassroots movement not only provides revenue for sustaining worthy causes doing good, but one that changes the way you think, the way you live, the way you buy.” -grounds4good.com
Grounds4Good is a great company that is seeking to make a real difference in the world by harnessing the power of an informed and caring consumer. Not to mention they have great coffee!

www.sihometheater.com/blog/tag/grounds-4-good/ 

Posted by Wendy White on Mar 15th, 10  |  No Comments

Now that I am a farmer, I have a redeemed perspective of and new appreciation for the first rain of the year. The early rain does far more than break a dry, stressful season for our coffee trees; it serves as a token promise of the imminent harvests that are yet to come.

Some of our most exciting news is about BBC World's visit to Bolaven Farms. BBC has completed the filming of their next Earth Report which focuses on the biodiversity of Laos. Bolaven Farms is featured in the film as an effort to heal and redeem depleted land that has suffered from unsustainable “Slash and Burn” cultivation practices.

Bolaven Farms is boldly claiming “Beyond Fair Trade and Organic” in what we do:

Paying Fair Trade pricing base on quality and disseminating Integrated Organic System for improved crop yields.

Complying strictly to a zero tolerance for chemical and commercially produced organic inputs. All our fertilizers and pesticides are produced on-site using indigenous organic ingredients.

Working to reclaim the Plateau’s biodiversity that has been diminishing from deforestation and unsustainable “Slash and Burn” and “Shifting” cultivation practices.

Posted by Wendy White on Mar 6th, 10  |  No Comments

Tomas Kern White:

A movement is growing across the country. People are changing things. People are done with business, NGOs, nonprofits, and churches as usual. They are looking for organizations that are engaged in meaningful, purposeful, authentic living in a real world with real needs.

We at Grounds 4 Good want to encourage, support, and serve this growing movement. Grounds 4 Good was created as a game-changing tool to fight injustices found in our world locally and globally. Simply put, we want everyone to “wake up…do good” as we follow Jesus into the trenches of everyday life.

Grounds 4 Good is a social innovation for causal people that delivers great coffee AND supports great causes. For every person that buys coffee from Grounds 4 Good, $5 dollars a month is directed to the cause of their choice for as long as they are members. It’s that easy.

It is time to shift the paradigm…to a new vision for the future. People above profits. Global good.

We need leaders, influencers, and social entrepreneurs who will lead businesses, NGOs, nonprofits, and churches that will transform communities, redeem the lost, seek the welfare of the city, encourage the oppressed, care for the orphans and widows, give a drink to the thirsty...people who will wake up and do good wherever they are. 

Posted by Wendy White on Mar 6th, 10  |  No Comments

Coffee addicts it is time to come out of hiding and listen in on how you can turn your caffeinated mornings into something fabulous. If you have ever given thought to just how much money you spend each month on coffee, then you probably realize it is more than you would like to ever publicly admit.

Fear not, one organization appropriately named Grounds 4 Good (www.grounds4good.com) is affording coffee lovers the opportunity to guzzle java and give to a good cause with a small monthly subscription. Here is how it works… You register for a monthly supply of coffee which includes two 12 oz. bags of exotic organic coffee mailed to your home for $20.

The best part is that for each purchase, $5 goes to a cause of your choice.

Grounds 4 Good is currently linked multiple causes, here are a few… Help Haiti – an organization committed to helping rebuild Haiti, Compassion Int’l. – releasing children from poverty in Jesus name, Kiva – loans that are changing lives of those in poor economic countries, World Vision – building a better world for children.

Being intentional with all of your life to further the Kingdom of God, including your cup of coffee is a reality.Be intentional and visit Ground 4 Good so that your coffee investment can become an investment in the life of someone who needs the Gospel.

Posted by

Stephen Wickliffe, Grace Community Church

http://www.transformgrace.org/

You can shop at Grounds 4 Good online with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to offer safe and secure credit card and electronic check transactions for our customers.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the credit card and electronic check processing networks (see an online payments diagram). The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

• 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.
• Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.
• Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy.

Grounds 4 Good is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.

If for any reason you decide to cancel an automatic reorder from Grounds 4 Good, you can do so with no questions asked in these ways:

• Click Here to fill out an online cancellation form 
• Email support@grounds4good.com and request a cancellation

Please be prepared to provide us with your OrderID you received in your order confirmation.

Privacy Policy

When you visit grounds4good.com, our commitment to you as our valued customer is to provide a valuable, informative, and quality experience that is synonymous with Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company. In order to do so, we may obtain information about you so that we may provide you with all of the benefits that grounds4good.com offers. That information may include your name, address(s), phone number, email address, products ordered and website usage statistics. (Grounds 4 Good will never ask you for your social security number, driver's license number or date of birth.) Because we respect your privacy, we will always handle your information in a safe and responsible manner. We will never sell your personal information to anyone for any reason.

When you provide grounds4good.com with information about yourself or anyone else, that information is safely stored in our secure web server. To best serve you, grounds4good.com will share that information only with its own employees and with carefully-selected outside companies that we hire to perform services for us, such as maintaining our database of customer information or preparing and distributing e-mail or paper-mail messages to our customers. We require that these outside companies agree, in writing, to keep confidential all information that we share with them and to use such information only to perform their obligations in their agreements with grounds4good.com.

We will continue to find new ways to enhance your experience at grounds4good.com, and we welcome your periodic review of our Privacy Policy as we update it from time to time to reflect improved technologies and services.

Security Policy

We have a robust encryption technology to secure your credit card number and other personal information as it travels over the Internet from your computer to our secure server. SSL is a standard technology used by millions of other commercial e-commerce websites.

Using your credit card with grounds4good.com is safe and secure and we are fully committed to this goal. Therefore, we use 128 bit, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). An online order with grounds4good.com is safer than using your credit card in a store or over the phone. This is true for several reasons both technical and practical, but most notably because your credit card number is handled by only one designated person at Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company instead of many, as is potentially the case in a busy store or phone-sales line. Grounds 4 Good does not store your credit card in any way on any of its computers. Credit cards are processed through a Visa CISP Certified payment gateway, Authorize.net.

However, in very rare cases, some older internet browsers may not be able to communicate with our secure server. If you experience any difficulties with your online order, please feel free to call our office at 1 800 901 2933 to place your order.

Terms and Conditions of Use

Only by agreement to the Terms and Conditions outlined in this section is permission granted to use the Grounds 4 Good web site and e-commerce software.

Copyright

All compilation and content of this website, including its assembly, design, text, illustrations, photographs, logos, etc., is the intellectual property of Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company or their respective suppliers -- and constitutes copyrighted material, trademarks and/or trade dress. Any reproduction of these materials is strictly prohibited without advance written permission from Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company. All violations will be pursued to the limits of the law. All worldwide rights, titles and interests are reserved.

Limited Liability

This website and its content are provided on an "as is" basis without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied, as to the website's operation or content. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company disclaims all warranties, express or implied Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company will not be liable for damages of any kind arising from your use of or inability to use this website.

Software Available on this Web Site

Any software that is made available to download from this website is the copyrighted work of Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company and/or respective suppliers. Use of this web site and the software contained herein is governed by the terms of this agreement.

Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company hereby grants to the User a personal, nontransferable license to use the this website and included software for viewing and otherwise using this website in accordance with these terms and conditions, and for no other purpose.

Please note that all computer programming code contained in this website is owned by Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company and/or its suppliers, and is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provisions. Any reproduction or redistribution of the software is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible.

Without limiting the foregoing, copying or reproduction of the software to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is expressly prohibited. The software is warranted, if at all, only according to the terms of this agreement.

General Service Inquiries

If you have a question or concern, we'd be happy to help. You can use our contact form to email us directly or call customer services at 1 800 901 2933.

Business Partners
This site contains links to other sites. Grounds 4 Good  is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Information collected on this website--such as sales data or general demographic information--is available to certain business partners of Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company. Each such business partner enters into a confidentiality agreement with Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company. This insures that data we collect from our customers will not be sold, rented, or otherwise distributed to parties unknown to Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company; nor used for purposes other then those expressly sanctioned by Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company. We never share specific information such as name, address, or email address at any time.

Our Service Providers
We use the services of several third parties in connection with our site (i.e., banner advertising services or email delivery). These service providers may use cookies and web beacons on our behalf and may set and read cookies using their own servers. Each of these service providers is contractually obligated to use these technologies only to provide services to us and in a manner consistent with this privacy statement. Moreover, these vendors may only use data that they may collect on our behalf (or that we otherwise provide to them) in connection with their provision of services to us. With certain service providers, we allow them to use data in an aggregated, anonymous manner to compile statistics about their services and to publish those statistics. For example, our banner advertising service provider can say that it "serves X billion impressions on behalf of our customers each month".

We use the services of a third party site analytics vendor to assist us in better understanding your use of our site. This vendor uses cookies and web beacons on our behalf. The collection of data on our site by this vendor is accomplished through a first-party data collection mechanism, so merely blocking cookies served from third party domains will not block these first-party cookies. The information that this vendor collects and stores on our behalf allows us to better understand how our site's visitors use and respond to this site. This vendor analyzes the information it collects on our behalf and returns it to us via a secure web connection. The information and analysis will be used to assist us in better understanding your interests in our website and how to better serve those interests and provide you with more personalized product offerings. Other than possibly allowing use of collected data on an aggregate basis, this vendor is contractually prohibited from using our data for any other purpose and is required to maintain all information collected and its analysis in confidence. As a visitor to this site, you have the option to deactivate the ability of this vendor to collect your data on our behalf. You may also choose to continue to benefit from the improved shopping experience which these services allow us to provide to you, but maintain anonymity. If you delete your cookies or visit this site using another browser, you will need to opt-out again.

Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to choose how information you provide to us can be used by Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company. If you are getting promotional email from us and would like to be taken off our list, simply click the link at the bottom of any email to unsubscribe. If you would to be taken off our direct mail list, please call Customer Service at 1 800 901 2933. Please be reassured that we never sell, share, or otherwise give out any mail or email addresses to other vendors.

You can also email us at support@grounds4good.com.
You can send paper mail to the following postal address:
Grounds 4 Good Coffee Company

PO Box 1648

Edwards, CO 81632

Changes in our business or privacy policies
As we continue to develop our business, we may sell some of our assets. In such transactions, visitor information may be one of the transferred assets. Also, in the event that all or substantially all of our assets are acquired in a transaction, our visitor information may be an asset that is reviewed and transferred. Such a transaction will be disclosed per the guidelines below. Also, we reserve the right to disclose any data we collect at our sites if required by law or valid order of a court or other governmental authority or to protect the health and safety of our employees or the general public.

If we decide to change our privacy policies, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If, however, we are going to use visitors' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify visitors by posting a notice on our website for thirty (30) days in advance of such use.

Children
This website is not intended to nor does it seek to receive information from children under the age of 13. However, due to the nature of our services, purchase information is collected without requiring the customer to disclose his or her age on this website.

Shipping Policy
Grounds 4 Good is committed to freshness. We are committed to getting your coffee to you as fresh as possible. If you order an item that is not in stock, we will notify you of the delay as soon as we receive your order. We won't charge you until your item is shipped.

100% Product Guarantee
We guarantee your satisfaction 100%. If there is any problem or question regarding your shipment, please contact us immediately by phone at 1 800 901 2933 or by email at support@grounds4good.com.