A proclamation recognizing Women’s Bean Project for its invaluable service to our community for 30 years.
Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. That brings us to our second proclamation, which is mine. So I'm going to read Proclamation 20 Dash zero two for three, recognizing the Women's Being project for its invaluable service to our community for 30 years. Whereas employment and workforce development are key factors to strengthening communities and helping individuals break the cycle of poverty. And. WHEREAS, Women's Being Projects is a nonprofit social enterprise providing employment and job readiness training to women who are chronically unemployed within the Denver metro community. And. WHEREAS, The Women's Being Project was founded in 1989 with the mission to provide stepping stones to self-sufficiency through social enterprise, offering employment to women in its food manufacturing business. And. Whereas, in the last 30 years, women have been projects has served over 1000 women, with 95% of its graduates maintaining full time employment one year after exiting the program. And. Whereas, Women's Been Project is committed to providing its services to women in our community as long as there is a need by expanding its business and program offerings. And. WHEREAS, Women's Being Project believes all women have the power to transform their lives through employment, allowing them to strengthen their families and build new futures for themselves within the community. And. Whereas, Women's Mean Project has worked for 30 years to provide jobs, build a workforce, and increase the skills and abilities of our community members, providing a national example of operating business within our mission. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver, Section one, that the Denver City Council extends a sincere thank you to the Women's Bean Project for its dedication and perseverance to provide services to women in need and develop the workplace of the Denver Metro Area. Section two that the Clerk of the City and County of Denver attest and affixed the CEO of the city and County of Denver to this proclamation and that a copy be transmitted to Tamara Ryan, CEO of the Women's Bean Project. And I will move that proclamation to 43 be adopted. Looks like it has a second. And so I will just make a few comments here. This is such a great nonprofit. In fact, when I was a student up at Colorado State University, we organized an alternative spring break trip one year to do service. And we came down to Denver, which is the city where I grew up. And there were a bunch of people up there who had not spent much time in summer. And so I got to help plan and organize this week of Giving Back. And one of the nonprofits that we partnered with, and this was not quite 30 years ago, but a while back, was the Women's Bean Project, and that was really where I first got to know them and their mission and really just fell in love with the work that they do for our community and served so many people from across the metro area from Denver, my constituents and do such awesome work. So, you know months ago when I found out that this was 30 years and that is an accomplishment worth celebrating, I was excited to be able to bring a proclamation and just say thank you for everything that you've done for our community for 30 long years. All the people that you've served is such an amazing organization and so thank you. And that is my proclamation. Catherine Black. Just a quick comment. Yesterday was International Women's Day, which is all about empowering women. And we did hear from the Athena project what is empowering female artists? And this organization for so many years has helped over a thousand women and really change their lives in incredibly meaningful ways. And these are women who are on the hardest, hardest of times, and you have thrown them. A lifeline and pulled them out and really saved their lives. And for that, we all thank you so much for all of your work and look forward to helping you move forward into the future. Thank you, Councilmember Zarate. Madam Secretary, roll call on the proclamation. CdeBaca. Black I. Flynn. High. Gilmer, i. Herndon. High. High. High. Cashman. High. Kenny Ortega. I. Sandoval, I swear I Torres. I Council President. I am secretary. Please close the voting announce the results. 1313 EIS Proclamation 243 has been adopted and I would like to invite Tamra Ryan, who's the CEO, up to say a couple of words in this 5 minutes that we have set aside. Thank you. Council members. In 1989, when Jesse Ayre founded Women's Team Project, she couldn't have imagined that it went for 30 years. She told me once that the first time someone ordered a case of ten bean soup, which what used to be 12 units. She couldn't believe anyone wanted that many. And today we ship across the country pallets of of soup. Today we brought for you each one of our original products, ten bean soup, to commemorate women's bean project in our history. And I just want to thank you for the recognition. We are proud to serve this community and and hope that someday we won't be necessary. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. We have one more proclamation this evening. Councilmember Torres, will you please read Proclamation 244?