Small batch. Craft-roasted.
Proudly made by refugees.
Small batch. Craft-roasted.
Proudly made by refugees.
Beautiful Day Granola is food for the body, nourishment for the soul, and fuel for a more hopeful world. Our granolas and coffees were hand-crafted for you by refugees from places like Burundi, Iraq, and DR Congo. With every single bite or sip, you contribute to a job-training program that helps our community thrive.
Your purchase directly supports our job-training and social integration programs. All our granola products are hand-made by refugee trainees from the freshest and mostly organic ingredients.
– J, Providence
Publishing these cards is a group effort with an undercurrent of chaos. Technically these stories aren’t anyone’s job. Usually Meggean, our Operations and Training director, conducts or arranges an interview and finds us a picture. Interns or others on our team might be sitting in and need help. A translator might not show. I usually compress a write-up of the interview from a page or two to 175-200 words. Rebecca, usually catches my spelling errors.
There has been a lot of news lately about the Cares Act and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) designed to help small businesses retain their employees during the pandemic. Like many other non-profits, we applied for these funds. And like many others, we were not funded in the first round.
We’re writing to share what the process has been like for us so far. This seems important since the PPP involves public funds. We’re a non-profit, partnering with and representing the public in our mission.
As we look back on a successful year, we also recognize that many things have changed. The questions we have asked ourselves in the past two months would have been unheard of in 2019. How do you rent a kitchen in the middle of a pandemic? An unthinkable question that suddenly became extremely relevant when we lost our kitchen due to covid concerns and had to find a new one quickly. With the help of supporters like you, we found one after three weeks.