2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
USA
Join us to support and welcome newly arrived refugees and asylees to the Berkeley community. Connect with friends and community members, while supporting 1951 Coffee Company’s innovative vision to help local refugees and asylees settle into life and work in the Bay Area. Enjoy great wine, music, and delicious appetizers catered by a newly arrived Syrian family.
1951 Coffee Company is a nonprofit specialty coffee organization whose name derives from the 1951 Refugee Convention where the United Nations defined and set forth its first guidelines for the protection of refugees. 1951 Coffee Company was founded in 2015 in the spirit of these conventions to give refugees resettling in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area assistance in starting their new lives.
The United Nations estimates that a record 65 million people are fleeing war and persecution around the world. The newly opened coffee shop currently employees refugees and asylees from a variety of nations including Afghanistan, Bhutan, Eritrea, Iran, Kachin (Burma), Syria, and Uganda.
Let us come together and help 1951 grow and expand their model of job-training in the coffee industry for our new neighbors.
*$65.00 OF EACH TICKET PURCHASE IS TAX DEDUCTIBLE. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PAY WITH CASH OR CHECK, EMAIL AIDA@1951COFFEE.COM*
Read more about 1951 Coffee Company on their Website