NLEN In the News
NLEN is frequently the topic of discussion in the news and other media. Below are clippings from various print media, audio clips from radio interviews and links to online articles.
2011:
O’Hare is World’s Buzziest Airport: Sweet Beginnings aviation apiaries raises bees and hope. Nonprofits get innovative to find financing AAAE, Chicago Aviation Department Host Conference Press Release: Gospel Great Vickie Winans To Grace 2011 WOW Women International Conference O'Hare World's Buzziest Airport: Sweet Beginnings aviation apiary raises bees and hope O'Hare World's Buzziest Airport: Sweet Beginnings aviation apiary raises bees and hope Sweet Beginnings Feature on Whole Foods National Website Creating a Buzz with Honey and Green Jobs On Good Beehaviour Bees have a home at Chicago airport At O'Hare Airport, Unused Land Is Going to the Bees Airport beekeeping project is a win-win-win O'Hare Airport buzzing over honey bees Tonya Francisco reports on NLEN and Sweet Beginnings U-Turn Permitted Program Manager Coretta Rivers and NLEN Client Success Story Saulman Brooks discussed unemployment on My50 Chicago’s “Perspectives”
ABC 7 Chicago featured the new Sweet Beginnings Apiary at O’Hare Airport
ABC 7 Interview with NLEN Executive Director Brenda Palms Barber, and Sixth Annual Sweet Beginnings Tea Keynote Speaker Majora Carter.
2010:
NLEN Selected as 2010 Count on COUNTRY Financial Grant Recipient
NLEN was chosen by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) as a Social Innovation Fund grant recipient.
Sweet Beginnings and NLEN were featured on The Promised Land, a syndicated radio show. Take a listen.
Sweet Beginnings and Brenda Palms-Barber featured in Majora Carter TED Talk local eco-entrepreneurship.
This article in Urban Farm magazine details the efforts of Sweet Beginnings to make a lasting impact on the community of North Lawndale.
NLEN Mentioned In the Latest Issue of Urban Influence Magazine!
Illinois Groups Win Grants to Promote Racial Healing
Project Examines Impact of Racial Inequity
Find Out Why BuzzFlash Supports Sweet Beginnings, Where Honeybees Create Second Chances for Economically Marginalized Chicagoans
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Interview of Brenda Palms Barber
CEO, North Lawndale Employment Network (Chicago, IL
40 People Who are Redefining Green: Brenda Palms Barber
Growing Urban Success Stories
2009:
Brenda Palms-Barber Receives Chicago Magazine's Green Award
Nonprofit Groups Spin Off Green Ventures
West Side Company Reaps Sweet Rewards
The Story with Dick Gordon on NPR, Episode 757 - Detroit Currency
“A New Beginning”, nextTV, Episode 3
The Beekeepers Video
2008:
North Lawndale Employment Network and Sweet Beginnings llc
The Secret Life of Bees
North Lawndale Employment Network Hosts 3rd Annual Sweet Beginnings Tea to Benefit Westside Employment Programs
"Street life pulls beekeepers away from sweet life"
2007:
"The Beekeepers"
"Sweet Beginnings: How Work Can Work"
"Bees Give Ex-Convicts A Second Chance"
"Four Faith Based Organizations Honored For Outstanding Community Development"
"Recipe for Success - Charity hopes new plan will improve its honey business"
2006:
"Burt's Bees Ain't Got Nothin' on This Operation"
"Honey helps employment program net $400K grant"
"Chicago program offers ex-convicts a sweet chance at a new life"
"Beyond geniuses, MacArthur awards small non-profits"
"MacArthur Foundation Announces First Winners Of New Creativity Award For Small Nonprofits"
More information is available on the Foundation's website
"Brenda Palms Barber, NLEN on MacArthur Award"
"MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, 2006"
"MacArthur Foundation targets small non-profits"
"Boeing-Sponsored Fund-Raiser Helps Nonprofit Expand Employment Program"
"Savings proposals provide incentive for improvement"
"City to hire ex-cons as collection agents"
2005:
"No Sure Thing"
2004:
"Ex-offenders make a beeline to a honey of a business"
"Bees swarm to city landscapes and build homes, sweet homes"
"Honey in the City"
Eight Forty-Eight
"The Second-Chance Apiary"
"County sets up program to give ex-convicts jobs"
"NLEN Resource Center up and Running"
"Job plan for ex-felons clears 2 county panels"
2003:
"Nowhere to go"
"No Turning Back"
"Cliff Kelley Show"
"848"
"Program gives ex-offenders a future"
2002:
"The Economics of Freedom"
848
"Illinois Going Home Program to support prisoner reentry initiatives"
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