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    Brenda's Secret Sauce: Our Premier Episode

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    Brenda Palms Barber started the North Lawndale Employment Network 15 years ago to help formerly incarcerated individuals in Chicago transition back into society through employment. Under her leadership, the organization has grown and now provides job training and financial literacy to over 2,000 people. She also launched a social enterprise called Sweet Beginnings that produces honey and skincare products, employing 383 returning citizens since 2007. The first episode of the podcast Nonprofit U will feature Brenda and explore the secret to her success in helping formerly incarcerated individuals find employment and stability at a much lower recidivism rate than the state average.

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    Brenda Palms Barber started the North Lawndale Employment Network 15 years ago to help formerly incarcerated individuals in Chicago transition back into society through employment. Under her leadership, the organization has grown and now provides job training and financial literacy to over 2,000 people. She also launched a social enterprise called Sweet Beginnings that produces honey and skincare products, employing 383 returning citizens since 2007. The first episode of the podcast Nonprofit U will feature Brenda and explore the secret to her success in helping formerly incarcerated individuals find employment and stability at a much lower recidivism rate than the state average.

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    Brenda Palms Barber started the North Lawndale Employment Network 15 years ago to help formerly incarcerated individuals in Chicago transition back into society through employment. Under her leadership, the organization has grown and now provides job training and financial literacy to over 2,000 people. She also launched a social enterprise called Sweet Beginnings that produces honey and skincare products, employing 383 returning citizens since 2007. The first episode of the podcast Nonprofit U will feature Brenda and explore the secret to her success in helping formerly incarcerated individuals find employment and stability at a much lower recidivism rate than the state average.

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    Brenda's Secret Sauce: Our Premier Episode

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    Valerie F. Leonard
    Brenda Palms Barber started the North Lawndale Employment Network 15 years ago to help formerly incarcerated individuals in Chicago transition back into society through employment. Under her leadership, the organization has grown and now provides job training and financial literacy to over 2,000 people. She also launched a social enterprise called Sweet Beginnings that produces honey and skincare products, employing 383 returning citizens since 2007. The first episode of the podcast Nonprofit U will feature Brenda and explore the secret to her success in helping formerly incarcerated individuals find employment and stability at a much lower recidivism rate than the state average.

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    Starting Monday

    June 22, 2015, 2:00 PM-2:30 PM

    Streaming live from


    www.blogtalkradio.com/nonprofit_u

    Our Premier Episode:

    Brendas
    Secret Sauce
    Brenda Palms Barber moved to Chicago 15 years ago and started the North Lawndale
    Employment Network to assist returning citizens transition back to society through
    employment and other resources. She found a community that ranked in the top 6 in the state
    with respect to prisoners returning home. Today, her clients as a group have a recidivism
    rate of 6% compared to 43% for the state. Under her leadership, NLEN has grown from 2 to
    21 employees, and provides job training and financial literacy to over 2,000 men and
    women. She launched the Sweet Beginnings social enterprise, which produces local honey
    and skincare products under the beelove brand, where 383 returning citizens have been
    employed, since 2007.

    Whats Brendas secret sauce? Call the show and see!


    (347) 884-8121
    Valerie F. Leonard is the host. For further information, email consulting@valeriefleonard.com. Visit
    www.valeriefleonard.com/nonprofitu. Follow the show on Twitter @nonprofitu and on Facebook

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