by Kyle Dyer | Apr 24, 2025 | business, Colorado, community, community based business, employment, empowering, fundraiser, networking, News, non-profit, social enterprise, Stories, storytelling, supporting women, Uncategorized, women
Investing in the future! That is the theme for the 2025 graduates of Denver’s Women’s Bean Project. All of the women finishing this transitional employment program offered to women who for whatever reason are chronically unemployed. As Christine told...
by Kyle Dyer | Apr 24, 2024 | business, Colorado, community, employment, empowering, News, non-profit, second chances, social enterprise, Stories, storytelling, support, supporting women, women, Women's Bean Project
Before women start working at Denver’s Women’s Bean Project, their lives are not centered or sustainable. They don’t seek or tackle responsibility. Once they step through the WBP doors, that begins to change. “Before starting at Women’s...
by Kyle Dyer | Mar 18, 2024 | advocacy, Colorado, community, fundraising, JDRF, leading women, News, non-profit, research, Stories, storytelling, T1D, women
JDRF is the world’s largest non profit funder of type one diabetes research, and it was founded by two women. Over 50 years ago, Lee Ducat and Carol Curie joined forces when their children were diagnosed with T1D, and brought others into a community committed...
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 | 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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