Dunkin' Donuts donates $75,000 to Coffee Kids

Philanthropic Gift to Support Health and Education Programs in Coffee
Producing Regions in Central and South America

CANTON, Mass.,/PRNewswire/ -- For the third consecutive year,
Dunkin' Donuts, America's number one retailer of coffee-by-the-cup, will
provide a $75,000 cash donation to Coffee Kids, an international, non-profit
organization established to improve the quality of life for children and
families who live in coffee-producing regions in Central and South America.
This donation for FY2006, is part of the Dunkin' Donuts' ongoing commitment to
helping Coffee Kids in their mission to create education, healthcare,
training, and microenterprise programs for coffee farmers and their families
and increase awareness about the quality of life issues these families are
facing.

Coffee Kids will designate $41,000 of the Dunkin' Donuts donation to fully
fund Economic Empowerment and Community Health Education, a community-based
healthcare project in San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala. More than 250 indigenous
women and their families are benefiting from this community healthcare
project, which educates and trains indigenous people to identify and treat
common illnesses such as colds and flu, practice pre- and post-natal care, and
prevent routine ailments. In the next year, the program will expand to more
coffee-growing communities including Paraxaj, where women will attend training
sessions to learn about traditional medicine for themselves. The program will
also provide pre- and post-natal care trainings in six communities around Lake
Atitilan.

"Coffee Kids marks its success by how much we can support and foster
stable, long-term, local programs that will serve coffee-growing communities
for years to come," said Bill Fishbein, founder of Coffee Kids. "With the
ongoing support we receive from Dunkin' Donuts, we are able to deliver on our
overall mission and meet our long term goal -- helping families in these
regions take control of their own lives and help to provide community
development in as many coffee-growing communities as possible."

"Dunkin' Donuts has and continues to be a supporter of health and social
programs that benefit the people of coffee-producing regions," said John
Gilbert, vice president of marketing, Dunkin' Donuts. "In Guatemala, where
there is only one doctor for every 85,000 people, our donation to Coffee Kids
will help make a successful healthcare project a reality."

The remaining funds of Dunkin' Donuts' contribution will be evenly
distributed to education and literacy programs, economic empowerment training
and community programs in different regions in Central America, including
Nicaragua and Costa Rica. These programs all help to improve the quality of
life for coffee farmers and their families and build more sustainable
communities.

Last year's donation from Dunkin' Donuts was used to build an Education
and Training Center in Vera Cruz, Mexico and was recently inaugurated in
August. The center will allow participants in the project to attend classes,
learn about alternative incomes, healthcare, organizational development, loan
management, bank management and other issues related to diversification. The
center will also serve Coffee Kids' partners and participants in Oaxaca,
Mexico as well as new and emerging partnerships in Chiapas and Coffee Kids
partners and project participants in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The
remaining funds of Dunkin' Donuts' donation for 2005 were divided according to
need in various regions in Guatemala, Vera Cruz in Mexico, Nicaragua, and
Costa Rica.

About Dunkin' Donuts

Founded in 1950, today Dunkin' Donuts is the number one retailer of
coffee-by-the-cup in America, selling 2.7 million cups a day, nearly one
billion cups a year. Dunkin' Donuts is also the largest coffee and baked goods
chain in the world and sells more donuts, coffee, and bagels than any other
quick service restaurant in America. Dunkin' Donuts has more than 6,100 shops
in 30 countries worldwide. Based in Canton, Massachusetts, Dunkin' Donuts is a
subsidiary of Dunkin' Brands, Inc. For more information, visit
http://www.DunkinDonuts.com.

About Coffee Kids

Coffee Kids is an international nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that has
helped thousands of children, women, and men in coffee-producing regions in
South and Central America to improve the quality of their lives and build more
sustainable communities. For more information on Coffee Kids and how to make a
donation, please visit http://www.coffeekids.org/donate/.



SOURCE: Dunkin' Donuts
Web Site: http://www.DunkinDonuts.com
http://www.coffeekids.org/donate