Gary Lee, Not Sara Lee
The new bakery will train the homeless and the disabled to prepare the bakery's scrumptious treats.
Meghan Edwards -- Interior Design, 3/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
This rendering shows the oak paneling and secondhand blackboards at Sweet Miss Givings.
Gary Lee Partners knows a thing or two about treats—and treating people right. Designed pro bono, the firm’s Sweet Miss Givings, a bakery with a green design and a higher purpose, opens in this fall in a 1,500-square-foot Chicago storefront outfitted with secondhand classroom blackboards, vintage pendant fixtures, and paneling and benches made from local fallen oak trees. The bakery will train the homeless and the disabled to chop, mix, and bake scrumptious scones, cupcakes, and the like to be sold on the premises and wholesaled at sweetmissgivings.com. Half the proceeds will go to Chicago House, a nonprofit provider of housing and support for people with HIV and AIDS.
The new bakery will train the homeless and the disabled to prepare the bakery's scrumptious treats.
Renderings courtesy of Gary Lee Partners.
Well done and thank you to those who have made themselves available to creative, innovative and compassionate thinking and more importantly putting it into action. This is a powerful gift which we will follow, because we can, and hopefully millions of others will also. Again thank you.
Steve Hayden - 2009-04-14 04:12:00 EDT
If only more corporations were this socially concious and less focused on making money and more of it, what a way to create a solid yet well balanced society. Well done, keep it up, and spread the word.
Nuhad Sheikh - 2009-04-14 00:22:00 EDT
I THINK THIS IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.......WHAT A GREAT WAY TO GET THE LESS FORTUNATE INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY AND DOING SOMETHING FOR THEMSELVES ......WONDERFUL..JUST WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!
KAREN BALLARD - 2009-03-30 16:22:00 EDT
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