Since 2001, the Coffee Connection (Formally the Women's Coffee Connection) has been providing savory coffee and unique merchandise to the Rochester community, while supporting social and environmental causes at home and abroad.

Founder Nancy Sawyer-Molina began this project in the hopes of helping struggling women in the Rochester area receive valuable worksite training and improved interpersonal skills.

By providing an invaluable mix of counseling and pre-employment training, the Coffee Connection has helped many area women create new lives for themselves. And they are not the only ones who are benefitting from the services.

The CC also reaches out to farmers in Peru who have given up their coca crops (the raw ingredient of cocaine) to grow coffee beans.