Our community
Families helping families.
Giving back starts before the first cup. We only work with family-owned businesses, so every order we place helps a family keep its dream alive.
Why we do it this way
Donating once a month is a good start. It isn't enough.
Every month, our customers choose a local organization and we give back to it. We also wanted the money we spend every day to do good.
So we buy from families. The people who sew our bags and make our ingredients are building something for their kids, the way we are. When you book Infuse the Bean, you support them too.
Family-owned only
We collaborate only with family-owned businesses, from the people who make our ingredients to the people who make our merch.
Local whenever we can
We look in our own community first, so more of every dollar stays close to home.
A cause every month
Our customers choose a local organization each month, and every cup we sell helps it.
The families behind the cart
Meet the people we build with.
These are the family businesses we're proud to work beside. We'll add every new partner here.
Misty Mountain Mfg.
Locally made in Georgetown, handed from mother to daughter.
Misty Mountain Mfg. started in 1984. It's family-owned and operated and has always been led by women: the mother who started the company passed it down to her daughter.
They're a cut-and-sew factory. They spread the fabric, cut it and sew every tote to order, right in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood. Coffee shops, bookstores, restaurants and nearly every vendor at Pike Place Market have carried their bags. They've worked on everything from the 1990 Goodwill Games to small local brands, and they're proud partners of the Seattle Made program.
We're meeting with Misty Mountain about Infuse the Bean totes and merch, made in Seattle.
Story from mistymtn.com/about.
Sérgio Dias · JC Coffee Farms
From his family's farm to our cart.
Sérgio grew up on his family's coffee and dairy farm in Carmo de Minas, Brazil. He was born the same day the Cocarive cooperative was founded. In 1980 he came to Washington as an exchange student, lived with a family in Tukwila, and stayed for college. He watched Seattle's coffee scene grow and dreamed of bringing his hometown's coffee here.
In 2006, after building a screen printing business and a family in Seattle, he bought back the farm that had belonged to his grandfather. With his brother-in-law Ibraim, he became one of the first farmers to export coffee from Carmo de Minas to the US. Today Sérgio and his wife Anita run Canaan Estate, a farm that has been in the Dias family for more than 70 years.
He didn't stop at his own farm. Sérgio helps the roughly 800 family farms of the Cocarive cooperative raise their quality and connects them directly with buyers, so more of every sale reaches the farmer.
“Farming is hard. … You have to pay for everything that goes into that out of your own pocket for one year. … And then you won’t get paid for that product until the following year. That’s why I do this.”Sérgio Dias, to Seven Coffee Roasters
Every cup we pour starts on family farms in the Mantiqueira mountains, and Sérgio brings that coffee to Seattle.
Story from jccoffeeimporters.com and Seven Coffee Roasters. Photo shared with Sérgio's approval.
Our signature
The elephant on every cup.
Each drink is finished by hand with our elephant stencil, a small reminder that every cup gives back to our community.
- LattesCocoa
- ChaiCinnamon
- MatchaMatcha powder
Our promise
How we give back, before and after the sale.
Every partnership and every cup follows the same four commitments.
- We buy from familiesEvery supplier we work with is family-owned.
- We tell their storiesWe share our partners with our customers so they can support them too.
- You choose the causeEach month, our customers pick the local organization we support.
- We show the resultsWe share what we gave each month, with real numbers.
Be part of it
Help us give back, with every cup.
Book the cart for your next event, suggest the organization we support next, or tell us about a family business we should know.