Resources

Check out our demands for Hershey here.

Reports:

Still Time to Raise the Bar: The REAL Corporate Social Responsibility Report for the Hershey Company 2011 (pdf)
Time to Raise the Bar: The REAL Corporate Social Responsibility report for the Hershey Company (pdf)
Time to Raise The Bar Report Executive Summary 2010 (pdf)

Press Releases:

March 14, 2013: Hershey and Barry Callebaut Lag Industry in Addressing Child Labor
October 3, 2012: Raise The Bar, Hershey! Campaign Welcomes Hershey’s Announcement To Source 100% Certified Cocoa By 2020
October 3, 2012: Whole Foods Drops Hershey’s Scharffen Berger Chocolates over Child Labor abuses
August 23, 2012: Consumer-Owned Grocery Retailers Call On Hershey to Address Child Slave Labor In Cocoa
June 12, 2012: Hershey’s Transgressions Mount on World Day Against Child Labor
April 5, 2012: Raise The Bar Coalition to Hershey and Cadbury: Get Child Slave Labor Out of Our Easter Baskets
March 29, 2012: Raise The Bar Coalition to Hershey: Cadbury Easter Eggs Tainted by Child Labor
February 14, 2012: Eighth Grader Asks Hershey to School Trustees to Stop Exploiting Forced and Child Labor
February 1, 2012: Hershey Will Offer Certified Chocolate Following Consumer Driven Campaign
January 30,2012: Response to Hershey’s Rainforest Alliance Certified Bliss Announcement
December 6, 2011: “Labor and Consumer Groups Call on US Government to Improve Procurement Tool in the Fight Against Forced Child Labor Globally”
October 25, 2011: “Costumed Activists to Give Hershey More Than 100,000 Signatures Demanding a Commitment to Child-Labor-Free Cocoa by Halloween”
October 13, 2011: “Thousands of Consumers Demand Hershey Stop Buying Child Labor Cocoa Before Halloween”
September 19, 2011: “Ten Years, Little Progress: As Profits Soar, Chocolate Industry Fails to Deliver on Promises to End Forced and Child Labor on Cocoa Farms”;
September 13, 2011: “Annual Report Card: Hershey, Trailing Behind Competitors, Gets “F” for Failing to Remove Child Labor From Its Chocolate Production”;
July 14, 2011: “Consumers Use Smart Phone Codes in Supermarkets to Campaign Against Child Labor in Hershey Bars”;
June 8, 2011: “Major Rally in Times Square Calls on Hershey Company to Stop Using Child Labor Chocolate”;
April 28, 2011: ”Hershey Ads Turned Inside Out: Winners Announced in ‘Brand Jamming’ Contest Critiquing Company’s Child Labor Abuses”;
September 30, 2010: Release of Payson Center’s Fourth Annual Report on Child Labor in Cocoa Sector in C’ote d’Ivoire and Ghana; (Note: Highlights from the report have been compiled here).
September 13, 2010: Release of Time to Raise the Bar: The REAL CSR report for the Hershey Company.

Materials

Petition to Hershey (PDF)
Order a Dark Side of Chocolate DVD and Home Screening Kit
Flyer to use for Dark Side of Chocolate Screening (PDF)
Flyer to spread the word about Fair Trade as you Trick-or-Treat (PDF)
Fair Trade Easter Color-In Postcard (good for kids!)
Passover seder supplement includes a Passover-themed letter to Hershey (Fair Trade Judaica offers additional resources.)
“Consumer Alert” cards to place in supermarket Hershey displays
“We Want More from our S’mores” Materials (find out more about this campaign here):

S’mores themed color-in petition

S’mores themed regular petition

Flyers for s’mores themes photo petition

S’mores event planning checklist

Register your s’mores online here

Websites