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Cuppa help – Missoula-based Non-Profit "Alliance for Coffee Excellence" directly introduces coffee growers in five countries to its network of coffee roasters in the United States.

January 15, 2006 /

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Missoula organization connects foreign coffee growers with market

“Most people don’t know that coffee comes from cherries,” said Sara Pankratz of the Missoula-based Alliance for Coffee Excellence http://www.cupofexcellence.org/ .

The red berrylike fruit yields green pits that are roasted and ground, she said, extending a pamphlet with a photo of ripe cherries on a brown stalk.

Education and advocacy are the heart of the modest Missoula-based international coffee nonprofit. With a budget of $330,000 in 2004, just two employees and an office with no windows, the six-year-old organization still has an outsized impact on the international coffee market.

By ROBERT STRUCKMAN of the Missoulian

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