Rochester Area CrimeStoppers hopes to be getting an extra jolt of donations, thanks to the coffee drinkers who visit the Bagel Bin Café.
The Brighton eatery is selling specialty coffee, including four coffee blends for charities, through Evening Star Coffee Roasters. The coffee beans are roasted in the Avon, Livingston County-based facility and delivered within two days to restaurants, cafes, and specialty stores.
Besides focusing on being a “green” product — from the coffee packaging to the facility design to vehicles that deliver the product — anywhere from 25 cents to $1 a bag is donated to the charities, said Jody Wolfanger, president and CEO of the company.
Bagel Bin manager Randy Thompson praised the company for its green approach, and CrimeStoppers officials praised both for helping the nonprofit organization.
The CrimeStoppers coffee — a Sarmation Knight roast — was launched at the cafe last Thursday.
The organization has been successful since its founding in 1982 in solving crimes by offering reward money for tips, said Paul E. Hawkins, chairman of the local organization.
That should continue because, well, everyone drinks coffee, Hawkins said.
“We look forward to partnering with this company,” Hawkins said.
CrimeStoppers also will be helped during a community phonathon, which will be held Sept. 23 at the cafe, said Joyce Palumbo, a board member. She, too, appreciates what Wolfanger and is doing.
“We’re grateful he thinks the so highly of the volunteer work the board does at CrimeStoppers,” Palumbo said.
Besides CrimeStoppers, the Teresa House Comfort Care Home, Lollypop Farm and the Human Society of Greater Rochester, Katie Shirley’s Closet, and Daystar, which helps medically fragile infants, are the other coffee charities.
