Full Circle Sustainability: Quality, Ecology, Equity, Community
Activating the Transformative Power of Cacao
At Dagoba Organic Chocolate we seek to honor Full Circle Sustainability principles: blending attention to Quality, Ecology, Equity and Community into each step from cacao farms to our factory to you. This is rooted in our founder Frederick Schilling’s vision to create exceptional chocolate through high standards of ethics and social responsibility.
In crafting our products, we are guided by the Art of Chocolate Alchemy—transforming cacao into edible gold. Full Circle Sustainability activates this transformative process to impact people, the environment and business in a positive way.
While we celebrate what we’ve accomplished together and hope to inspire others, we realize there is much to learn and do. Please join us. All of us have something to learn and share, and together we will make a difference while sharing in the fulfilling rewards.
What does Full Circle Sustainability mean to us?
Full
~ Wide Influence: Internal guiding principles and what we ask of suppliers and partners
~ Comprehensive: Embracing quality, ecology, equity and community . Considering our full impact from farm to consumer.
~ Unifying: Engaging employees, suppliers, customers and consumers
~ Substantial: Growing deeper in meaning and implications as we learn and encounter change
~ Grounded upon a total commitment that brings deep rewards, joy and fulfillment
Circle
~ Seeking balance: Each principle, each person is interconnected, interdependent and essential
~ Inclusionary: Embracing everyone from farm to consumer, open-minded, valuing diversity
~ Self-reflection: Looking at our impact and our actions with a 360 degree view
~ Continuous: A ongoing cycle of assessing, learning, positive evolution and reevaluating
~ Like ripples in water, our actions reverberate past ourselves and the present, drawing forces beyond our own for positive change
Sustainability
~ Self-sustaining: Leadership, learning and growing that reinvests in and inspires itself
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Seamless: Designed to flow with work and lives and evolve with changing needs
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Timeless: Taking care of the present while learning from the past and looking to the future
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Positive: Believing we can enact change, celebrating accomplishments, viewing challenges as opportunities
~ A perennial species, grounded on solid roots that support new growth each year
How do we honor its elements: Quality, Ecology, Equity & Community? Learn More ...
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Dagoba is a member of the World Cocoa Foundation, a broad-based partnership dedicated to promoting a sustainable cocoa economy through economic and social development and environmental conservation in cocoa growing communities. Learn more at http://www.worldcocoafoundation.org |