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Sweet Beginnings

Brenda Palms Barber
CEO

Sweet Beginnings, Chicago, IL

Sweet Beginnings is a project of the North Lawndale Employment Network (NLEN), a community-based nonprofit helping ex-offenders fully reenter society by providing assistance in securing and retaining employment and developing a career path. Under the Beeline label, Sweet Beginnings produces natural honey and honey-based products, thereby promoting environmentally sustainable business practices while helping to create green collar jobs for people at all income levels, but especially for people of color.

Click below to see SVN Innovation Award winner Brenda Palms Barber talking about the Awards on QuantumShift TV:


CONTEST WINNERS
Design That
Matters
Nau New Resource
Bank
No Sweat
Apparel
RecycleBank
Tim Prestero
Tim Prestero
Chris Van Dyke
Chris Van Dyke
Peter Liu
Peter Liu
Adam Neiman
Adam Neiman
Ron Gonen
Ron Gonen

Responsible
Endowments
Coalition
Sweet
Beginnings
Taproot
Foundation
TerraCycle World of Good
Morgan Simon
Morgan Simon
Brenda Palms Barber
Brenda Palms Barber
Aaron Hurst
Aaron Hurst
Tom Szaky
Tom Szaky
Priya Haji
Priya Haji

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Bee Well Khaya Cookie Company Lotus Foods Profits for People Verdant Power
Bentley Hall
Bentley Hall
Alicia Polak
Alicia Polak
Ken Lee
Ken Lee
Anupreet Sethi
Anupreet Sethi
Trey Taylor
Trey Taylor