Sweet Beginnings

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the North Lawndale Employment Network (NLEN), Sweet Beginnings offers full-time transitional jobs to formerly incarcerated individuals and others with significant barriers to employment in a green industry. Sweet Beginnings produces and sells all-natural skin care products featuring its own urban honey. The workers at Sweet Beginnings deal with every step of the process from caring for the bees and hives, to harvesting the honey to packing the products, to selling them at retail outlets and special events.  In 2014, Sweet Beginnings created 18 full-time jobs for NLEN clients.