Verdant Tea Donating 100% of Weekend Sales to Cancer Research

Hi Everyone,

This weekend we are working to give back to the community by funding Project Stealth, a revolutionary cancer research lab on the brink of incredible treatment breakthroughs. As part of that initiative, we’re donating 100% of our sales this weekend to Project Stealth – dollar-for-dollar, everything you spend with us this weekend will go to funding the Project’s cancer research, up to $7,500.

To celebrate this initiative, we have launched a whole line of gifts for you to shop, including tea-infused honey truffles, gift tins for every tea and more.

http://verdanttea.com/shop/gifts/

Here are the details:
http://verdanttea.com/project-stealth-donation-weekend/
For every dollar you spend between Friday December 6th and Sunday December 8th, Verdant Tea is donating one dollar to a revolutionary cancer research lab called Project Stealth. This new treatment for cancer is being developed just blocks away from Verdant Tea at the University of Minnesota, with proven results. That means if you spend $50, we’ll donate $50 to Project Stealth. If you spend $100 this weekend, we’ll donate $100, too! We’re matching purchases in donations – dollar for dollar – up to $7500 over the weekend.

Why are we doing this? The news is always full of stories about tea and its potential preventative cancer-fighting effects. It’s true that, throughout its history, tea has been treated as a health tonic. We are honoring this tradition and truly putting our money to work in the name of tea in contributing to a cure for cancer.

Project Stealth is a lab run by Dr. Daniel Saltzman at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Saltzman takes absolutely no pay for his cancer research work, earning a living through his medical practice. Every dollar spent on Project Stealth goes directly to funding the lab with equipment and research assistants. If we can help close the funding gap for Project Stealth, the University of Minnesota has pledged to fund the final phase of human trials. The opportunity to contribute directly to a lab without any overhead whatsoever is incredible.

You can also watch a short video on Project Stealth and learn why it is the most revolutionary research being done in decades: http://verdanttea.com/project-stealth-donation-weekend/

If you see the value in this incredible work being done, help us raise money to donate through your holiday tea shopping on our site.

All our most sincere gratitude,
Lily and David Duckler
Founders, Verdant Tea

17 Replies
Frolic select said

This is a wonderful project, just the wrong time of year for me :(

Has the option to buy samples gone away? I can’t find them on the tea pages anymore. I was planning on getting a number of samples in my next order. There are many teas I’d like to try but not commit to a whole oz of yet.

Sil select said

samples are there but they are sampler packs now Under shop teas – samplers

Frolic select said

I’m a bit disappointed we can’t buy them separately anymore. Some of the ones I’m interested in are bundled with ones I already have and some aren’t in any of the sets.

Maybe it was just too labor intensive?

Sil select said

I suspect lily will be around lurking and may be able to answer. I picked up a bunch of samples over black friday so i didn’t look too closely at the bundles as i don’t have a need….yet. heh

I just noticed that myself. I hope they’ll become available again since I’m in the same boat as Frolic. The sample packs are nice and all for someone who hasn’t tried any of the samples in the pack. But I don’t really want to order a 3 sample pack just to try the one out of them that I never had before. Lol.

Hi all! Sorry for the delay here: our water main pipes exploded(!) yesterday at the tea house (yay winter!) which commandeered our attention for the rest of the day. Luckily, we had just boiled up great huge pots water to make our chai concentrate when it happened, so we weren’t completely out of luck. We also brought in all of our water boilers and gallons + gallons of spring water (which means we got to boil all of our water on the stove top at home) – all in all, we were very lucky, and apart from brief flooding in the kitchen and no restrooms for the day, we didn’t have to interrupt service at all!

Good question, Frolic. We aren’t doing away with samples for good – do not worry! Samples are more labor intensive, but it’s an excellent way to let people sample and try a wider selection in order to zero in on your favorites. Plus, they make great stocking stuffers! In order to introduce Gift Tins in time for the weekend’s fundraising initiative with Project Stealth and to give folks time to order Gift Tins and receive them in time for the holidays, we had to work within the current cart-purchase-area structure. Adding the extra Gift Tin option pushed the samples, which is why we’re highlighting the sample packs in the meantime.

We’re aiming to rework the whole product page purchase area throughout this week to get samples back again: there’s just some more intense coding to be done in the meantime so that we can make sure the whole process becomes easier for everyone’s shopping needs :) If there were any samples you were really craving and wanted to purchase before that is finished, please don’t hesitate to write to us – we can always send a custom Paypal invoice for the additions or for everything on your list. Plus, we always love hearing from you!

Thank you again for your questions and your support!
All the best – Lily

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Katiek said

What a wonderful thing for Verdant to do. Tea, chocolates and supporting a good cause – I’m in!

Thank you very much, Katiek! A big thanks from Real Deal Chocolate, too – they’ve been very excited to see such a warm response to their truffles. Both chocolate makers do everything by hand in our kitchen, and it’s a huge success for them to see their labor of love selling so quickly.

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My cupboard is full right now, but I am placing an order anyway because I want to support this. Thank you Verdant for giving back to the community in such an amazing way!

Thank you very much for your generosity, Nightshifter! It’s been very exciting to see so many people come out in support of this incredible research – it’s not everyday you can know your donation goes directly to fund the research making a difference, rather than larger charity organization overhead.

On behalf of everyone involved in the project, thank you!

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Thank you everyone for your kind support over the weekend so far. We are half-way through the weekend and half-way through our fundraising initiative – on behalf of Project Stealth and everyone working on this cure for cancer, thank you! We know the holidays can be a tough time for giving – every small piece of generosity helps the whole project move forward, so thank you for all of your giving.

http://verdanttea.com/project-stealth-donation-weekend/

We are donating 100% of our sales all the way through midnight tonight, so there’s still time to contribute OR to share with friends or family.

With sincere gratitude,
Lily and David Duckler

Kaylee said

Midnight in which time zone?

Central Standard Time (CST), here in our headquarters in Minnesota, just about 6 and a half hours from now.

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Just wanted to bump this back up so people can see it without having to dig. :)

Thank you, Nightshifter!

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Reki275 said

I placed my order a couple of hours ago. I was debating right down to the wire. I absolutely don’t need to spend anymore after Black Friday, but for a cause like this? Let’s do it.

Thank you so much, Reki275! Every little bit has helped, especially since everything goes directly to funding the research (from paying research assistants to mice/food/equipment to keeping the lights on in the lab: everything in between, and no huge overhead or marketing arm). So thank you for support!!

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