WE ARE communitea

COMMUNITEA IS GROWN TOGETHER.

OUR STORY

A teahouse, a community center, a place where community is grown together. Communitea House blends community enterprise and social action by providing quality, affordable food and beverage along with space for galvanizing and supporting local community development projects.
Our mission: Grow community like you grow tea; cultivate (the soil), plant (the seed), tend (the plant), harvest (the leaf), and transplant (successful cultivars to new areas). Communitea Houses help cultivate, empower, and connect neighborhoods located at the corners of served and underserved .

Founded by educators that believe in cultivating agency from within communities. Communitea doesn’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions to social issues and we don't come with answers. We provide access to space, connections, opportunities, and resources for finding local solutions to local problems. Community projects are proposed, discussed, voted on, resources allocated, and implemented - by community for community.

Because Communitea is grown together and served one cup at a time.

OUR MODEL

To realize this mission effectively, Communitea is grown through ethically and fiscally responsible business practices. Our Public-Private Partnerships and local co-op ownership models ensure local agency and economic viability.

Each Communitea House generates revenue through services and products produced in partnerships with local for and non-profit businesses and family-owned tea farms, ensuring transparent, affordable pricing and diverse revenue streams that feed into communities across our operational roots. In this way, we will continue to grow together as long as we are needed…and only at scales required to support local action.