by Kyle Dyer | May 9, 2023 | business, Colorado, community, community based business, employment, empowering, News, non-profit, renewed hope, second chances, social enterprise, Stories, storytelling, support, supporting women, women, Women's Bean Project
At the end of 2022, Women’s Bean Project moved into a new home that is eight times the size of the organization’s previous home in Denver’s Curtis Park neighborhood. More space means new larger automated equipment can move in and that means more bean...
by Kyle Dyer | Dec 1, 2022 | Catholic, Catholic Charities, Colorado, community, families, fundraiser, home, homeless, homeless families, homeless shelter, homeless women, housing for families, News, non-profit, REFUGEE, Stories, storytelling, support, supporting women
Jamilla came to the United States when she was only 3 years old. The day she was born, a war broke out in her home county of Ethiopia. It wasn’t even safe for the newborn and her mother to stay in the hospital.. they fled. Jamilla’s mom left everything and...
by Kyle Dyer | Oct 3, 2022 | Catholic, Colorado, community, fundraising, Heart of Jesus, Mother Cabrini Shrine, News, non-profit, Stories, storytelling
Golden’s Mother Cabrini Shrine is starting the last phase of its renovation project… and this is the biggest phase for sure. The Shrine’s chapel will be renovated over the next year, It will be more open, brighter, there will be moveable walls that...
by Kyle Dyer | Jun 23, 2022 | advocacy, air pollution, air toxics, climate change, Colorado, community, Conservation Colorado, Health, News, non-profit, pro conservation, Stories, storytelling
Every time Jessica Goad looks at her 18-month-old daughter Ada, or even with tthe thought of her, she is renewed in her purpose as an environmentalist in Colorado. “I grew up in Golden and I really want Ada to grow up in the same kind of environment I did but I...
by Kyle Dyer | Jun 23, 2022 | Catholic, Catholic Charities, Colorado, community, families, fundraising, homeless, homeless families, homeless shelter, homeless women, News, non-profit, Samaritan House, Stories, storytelling, support, women
Over the last 5 years, Ashley and Jordan have been together and together, they have struggled with addition and were homeless.They look back on that time with no regrets because they say they have learned who they want to be going forward. They are sober, employed,...
by Kyle Dyer | Apr 19, 2022 | Colorado, community, community based business, education, employment, empowering, leading women, News, non-profit, social enterprise, Stories, storytelling, supporting women, women, Women's Bean Project
For 33 years, Denver’s Women’s Bean Project has helped thousands of women redirect their lives, and it all started with a job. WBP hires chronically unemployed women who have struggled with homelessness, addition, domestic abuse and incarceration. WBP...
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