Acumen Fund: Last month, as part of Acumen's work with a coffee social enterprise, I attended the Rwanda Cup of Excellence awards ceremony, the culmination of a two-week contest to identify Rwanda's best specialty coffee.
The theory goes that spontaneous interactions over drinks, coffee, social events—allow ideas to proliferate and expand like viruses.
Host a "thank you" breakfast and coffee social for the teachers.
Ms. Lynch was dispatched to Kansas City, where she put notices in circulars at black churches inviting members to bring "scrapbooks and stuff to coffee socials" arranged for the film-makers' benefit.
I'm pretty excited," Alhagie told Guardian Australia on the day of his first shift at Long Street Coffee, a social enterprise in Richmond, Melbourne.
■ Six out of 10 (61%) think mothers are treated differently from fathers, with 84% feeling excluded at coffee mornings, social clubs and support groups.
In the coming days they will discover a Japan where eight-track tapes have been replaced by CD's, where black hair and green tea have given way to dyed hair and gourmet coffee, where social lives revolve around cellphones and the Internet, and where 14 prime ministers have spun in and out of government since they were spirited away.
It has a large, well-organized group of dog owners -- they call themselves FIDO -- who hold seminars on first aid for dogs and monthly "Coffee Bark" socials, and even offer conflict resolution for dogs and owners who just cannot get along.
In 2011, as he arrived in China, photographs of him buying his own coffee circulated on social media, as did descriptions of him carrying his own luggage.
"Ultimately, coffee shops are social environments," explains Jack Hesketh, owner of Store Street Espresso, which limits Wi-Fi in its two London outlets and has blocked the sockets in its Bloomsbury branch.
Rummaging through the accumulated possessions of adolescence in her bedroom over the summer, Jean singled out the items that she could not leave without: her sewing machine, her coffee maker, the social justice posters that covered her wall.
