This document discusses three cafes in Melbourne that support charitable causes through their business. Ways and Means cafe in Parliament House provides work experience to young people recovering from drug and alcohol issues. All profits from the cafe go back to the Youth Support and Advocacy Service. Kerekere Green cafe in Fitzroy Gardens donates $500 monthly to various charities chosen by customers and staff. The Final Step cafe in South Yarra donates 100% of its profits to fund a healthy food and activity program for underprivileged children in Argentina.
This presentation is submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for the Stanford University Venture Lab's Crash Course on Creativity taught by Prof. Tina Seelig.
They are very popular in all most all the countries around the world like United States, Canada, and India, United Kingdom etc. tea bags were invented by an American tea importer named Thomas Sullivan in 1980.He co incidentally invented it when he found out tea bags more reasonable instead of using tins to carry tea to his customers and travelling with those tins from one place to another.
#Tropitude is something we at Tropical Smoothie Cafe talk about in our cafes, on social media, and in communication with our customers. But it's not just something we talk about - we LIVE IT! Here's a look at 2014 through the eyes of our cafes in central, northern and western Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. Want to have this kind of fun in your work? Call Kathy Benzing at 800-640-7410.
From the decorations to the dinner through gifts and greeting cards: here's how to lighten the environmental footprint of your party without sacrificing the Christmas magic.
This presentation is submitted in partial fulfillment of course requirements for the Stanford University Venture Lab's Crash Course on Creativity taught by Prof. Tina Seelig.
They are very popular in all most all the countries around the world like United States, Canada, and India, United Kingdom etc. tea bags were invented by an American tea importer named Thomas Sullivan in 1980.He co incidentally invented it when he found out tea bags more reasonable instead of using tins to carry tea to his customers and travelling with those tins from one place to another.
#Tropitude is something we at Tropical Smoothie Cafe talk about in our cafes, on social media, and in communication with our customers. But it's not just something we talk about - we LIVE IT! Here's a look at 2014 through the eyes of our cafes in central, northern and western Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia. Want to have this kind of fun in your work? Call Kathy Benzing at 800-640-7410.
From the decorations to the dinner through gifts and greeting cards: here's how to lighten the environmental footprint of your party without sacrificing the Christmas magic.
The 5 Critical Elements to Creating a Project Management Center of ExcellenceFlevy.com Best Practices
Original article from the Flevy business blog can be found here:
http://flevy.com/blog/the-5-critical-elements-to-creating-a-project-management-centre-of-excellence/
Creating a Project Management Centre of Excellence is the driving force that takes an organization forward to realize their project management mandate. It encompasses the process of creating a strategy for project management, re-shaping the culture to be more focused on the consistency in the management of projects and implementing a project management process.
Creating a Project Management Centre of Excellence
project_management_COEA Centre of Excellence is a business unit that has organization-wide authority. The key elements of a successful Project Management Centre of Excellence include:
Vision and Strategies
A clear vision of what it represents and the strategies to identify how it will reach this vision in the short and long term.
Competencies
The selection of resources based on project competency requirements compared to actual project resource competencies. The identification of coaching, training and other developmental activities to close any competency gap.
Culture
How to re-shape the organizational culture to be more supportive of the consistency in the management of projects.
Processes
The right processes, tools and templates that are helpful and meaningful to project managers and their teams.
Quality
The quality criteria for the project management framework, processes and documents.
1. Create the Vision and Strategies
One approach to creating a vision for the Centre of Excellence is to brainstorm ideas that focus on what the future will look like. Start by creating scenarios that describe what the Centre will be doing 5 years into the future. What are some of the things that they will be doing that reflect a successful Centre of Excellence? What will employees and customers be saying about them? How did they get there?
The outcome of this process is the creation of a vision statement for the Project Management Centre of Excellence. Determine how this vision aligns and supports the organization’s strategic direction.
The alignment of the Centre of Excellence to the goals of the organization is key to driving strategy implementation. Strategies translate this vision into reality. They close the gap between the present and the “ideal” future described in the vision scenarios. These strategies must be described clearly so that the organization understands and accepts them.
This is a research paper i did for my English class on the agricultural, social and cultural aspects of coffee. Enjoy the paper and any constructive criticism is welcome.
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A good bartender should understand the effect and the "timing" of a cocktail. It is not a coincidence that many cocktails are categorized by when they are best served. There are aperitifs, digestifs, corpse-revivers, pick-me-ups, and so on. Cocktails can stimulate an appetite or provide the perfect conclusion to a fine meal.
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1. Describe the different types of beer.
2. Describe the various spirits.
Nonalcoholic Beverages
Nonalcoholic beverages are increasing in popularity. In the 1990s and 2000s, a radical shift has occurred from the free love 1960s and the singles bars of the 1970s and early 1980s. People are, in general, more cautious about the consumption of alcohol. Lifestyles have become healthier, and organizations such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) have raised the social conscience about responsible alcohol consumption. Overall consumption of alcohol has decreased in recent years, with spirits declining the most.
In recent years, several new beverages have been added to the nonalcoholic beverage list. From Goji juice to passion fruit green tea, the nonalcoholic beverage world has been innovative in creating flavored teas and coffees and an ever-increasing variety of juices to satisfy all our tastes.
Nonalcoholic Beer
Guinness, Anheuser-Busch, and Miller, along with many other brewers, have developed beer products that have the same appearance as regular beer but have a lower calorie content and approximately 95 to 99 percent of the alcohol removed, either after processing or after fermentation. The taste, therefore, is somewhat different from regular beer.
Coffee
Coffee is the drink of the present. People who used to frequent bars are now patronizing coffeehouses. Sales of specialty coffees exceed $4 billion a year. The Specialty Coffee Association of America estimates that there are more than 17,400 coffee cafes nationwide.9
Coffee first came from Ethiopia and Mocha, which is in the Yemen Republic. Legends say that Kaldi, a young Abyssinian goatherd, accustomed to his sleepy goats, noticed that after chewing certain berries, the goats began to prance about excitedly. He tried the berries himself, forgot his troubles, lost his heavy heart, and became the happiest person in "happy Arabia." A monk from a nearby monastery
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surprised Kaldi in this state, decided to try the berries too, and invited the brothers to join him. They all felt more alert that night during prayers!10
In the Middle Ages, coffee found its way to Europe via Turkey but not without some objections. In Italy, priests appealed to Pope Clement VIII to have the use of coffee forbidden among Christians. Satan, they said, had forbidden his followers, the infidel Moslems, the use of wine because it was used .
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card you are given with each purchase and
customers can also benefit from the cafe’s
generosity – pick up an ace-of-hearts and
you score a free coffee.
It might be slightly off the regular
tourist track, but Wild Timor, in Coburg,
(wildtimorcoffee.com/cafe) is worth the
detour. Founded by four Australian soldiers
who discovered old coffee plantations while on
a peace-keeping mission in Timor, the Diggers
support local farmers who nurture the coffee
plants, resulting in the fair trade coffee used in
the cafe which, in turn, supports the local
Timorese community.
Co-director Shannon French explains: “The
cafe uses Single Origin organic coffee direct
from the Timor, which grows wild around the
community. It’s a hybrid bean resulting from
freak of nature [that occurred] when Indonesia
invaded and farmers couldn’t tend their crops.
But it produces an amazing creamy, smooth
coffee with a deep caramel cocoa flavour.”
Customers can buy these special beans to
take home – the more the cafe sells, the more
community projects can be completed in Timor.
This is also the only place in town where you can
sample Timorese culinary delights.
Enclaved in the swanky suburb of South
Yarra is cute espresso bar The Final Step
(thefinalstep.com.au), which is making its
mark in the bigger picture of social consciousness.
Benjamin Whitaker has created a business that
donates 100 per cent of its profits to fund Food
For Thought, a healthy food and activity
program designed to feed underprivileged
children in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Customers
can buy a coffee and read the project wall to
find out exactly where their money is going.
Owner Benjamin Whitaker says: “Food for
Thought has provided more than 6,000
nutritious meals for children since it began
in December 2013. Our weekly classes of art,
music, drama, yoga and games are part of our
education plan.”
Choosing quality over quantity, the menu is
limited to bagels and cakes. Don’t go past the
popular Seeded Savoury bagel, topped with
avocado, goat’s cheese and lime juice, the
perfect accompaniment to one of their specialty
coffees, created with beans from all over the
globe. DV
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he scent of freshly brewed coffee that
seems to waft through Melbourne is
hard to beat. It’s not just a sharp
wake-up call that most of us are after
with that cup of goodness, it’s the full
experience – the smell of the beans, the sight of
the barista lovingly preparing your cup as if it’s
the most important job of his day, it’s hearing the
hiss and churn of the espresso machine, its
feeling the hot cup between your fingers, and
finally tasting that first sip. There’s never been so
much good quality product out there, never mind
impressive coffee art that makes you smile and
then feel guilty for a nanosecond that you’re
about to ruin it.
As Melbourne’s love affair with coffee
deepens, an increasing number of cafes are
sprouting up across the city to satisfy our
caffeine cravings. But there are some places
where your dollar goes further than the barista’s
pocket for his next beard trim. Pop into one of
these charitable hot spots for a brew that is
guaranteed to hit the mark, for both your taste
buds and your conscience.
If you’ve been busy exploring the city and find
yourself near Parliament House in need a hot
cuppa and a comfy place to rest your feet, Ways
and Means (waysandmeans.org.au) does a mean
locally roasted coffee and mouth-wateringly
delicious waffles, as well as home-baked goodies.
The project is run by Youth Support and
Advocacy Service (YSAS), an organisation that
provides support and opportunities for young
people aged between 13 and 25 recovering from
alcohol, drug and mental health issues by giving
them work experience in the cafe, helping to
build up their confidence and work skills. Not
only that, all profits go directly back into YSAS.
With a weekly rotation of single origins on offer
for the more adventurous types, and balanced
blends for easy drinking, there is something for
everyone. Always accommodating barista
Nathaniel Dobson’s mantra is: “We want everyone
to be happy, always.”
Wandering around the lush Fitzroy Gardens
can be hungry work, so make a beeline towards
Kerekere Green opposite Cooks’ Cottage
(kerekere.org). This light, airy space is
entrepreneurial social worker James Murphy’s
second cafe (the first, Kerekere South, is at Boyd
Community Hub in Southbank), with both
“seeking to foster a culture of generosity and
gift giving”. Order a coffee made from Kerekere’s
own blend, and you can help choose the
distribution of the cafe’s $500 monthly donation,
which goes to four Cause Categories –
Environmental, Cultural, Social or Health – each
one with an accompanying list of charities chosen
by staff. Voting is done by allocating the playing
An increasing number of cafes
are sprouting up across the city …
but there are some places where your
dollar goes further than the barista’s
pocket for his next beard trim
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Coffee with
a conscience
Coffee lovers are spoiled for choice in Melbourne,
but a select few cafes will have you feeling warm
and fuzzy even after your coffee buzz has faded,
as Claire Henderson discovers