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COTY Award Presented at 2025 Convention

NCA Origin Charity of the Year Award 


Part of the Coffee Gives Back program, the NCA Origin Charity of the Year Award recognizes charitable organizations that directly benefit and impact coffee-growing communities and have demonstrated strategic, innovative, and implementation excellence. The award is presented at the NCA Annual Convention.   

NCA membership is not required to apply. Eligibility requirements, award criteria, and application details for the 2026 award cycle will be available in September 2025.

2025 Winner: Root Capital 

The NCA named Root Capital as the 2025 NCA Origin Charity of the Year in recognition of their work to grow rural prosperity and build the resilience of farming families around the world. Root Capital helps coffee cooperatives succeed and scale by combining financing and capacity-building advisory services. To date, Root Capital has loaned over $2 billion to over 800 agricultural enterprises, and trained twice as many, helping more than 2.3 million farming families across Latin America, Africa, and Indonesia. 

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The NCA also announced TechnoServe as the 2025 NCA Origin Charity of the Year Finalist.

Past Winners

2024 Winner Food For Farmers
  Finalist Solidaridad Network
     
2023 Winner Days for Girls International
  Finalist Food for Farmers
  Finalist Mercy Corps.
     
2022 Winner Seeds for Progress Foundation
     
2021 Winner Root Capital
  Finalist Enveritas Inc.
  Finalist Strategies for International Development
     
2020 Winner TechnoServe
  Finalist Lutheran World Relief
  Finalist Strategies for International Development
     
2019 Winner The Coffee Trust
  Finalist Pueblo a Pueblo, Inc.
  Finalist Strategies for International Development
     
2018 Winner Grounds for Health
  Finalist The Coffee Trust
  Finalist Coffeelands Trust, a project of the Polus Center for Social & Economic Development, Inc.