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.
2008:
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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