In 2013, Bloomberg Philanthropies engaged Sustainable Growers to bring innovative training to the coffee business and had a commitment to bring smallholder farmers up the value chain. In seeking out women farmers with minimal awareness of coffee processing as part of the greater value chain, our mission became 3-part, with land from the government, infrastructure from the cooperatives, and training from Sustainable Growers. Our coffee program, designed to train women farmers from seed to sip, began with only two cooperatives, Nyampinga and Twongere Umusaruro wa Kawa. With transformative efforts reaching over 40,000 women coffee farmers with a secondary impact to over 200,000 family members in Rwanda, Sustainable Growers leveraged this demonstrated impact to expand to the Democratic Republic of Congo to over 4,500 women coffee farmers with a secondary impact to over 185,000.family members.