Greyston Bakery
Organizational Issues-Responsibility Project
The Responsibility Project is a project that Liberty Mutual has created to help people in the communities surrounding them a chance to better themselves and their lives. Greyston Bakery is a company specifically that has gone above and beyond to help those who live within their own community try to achieve a better life for themselves and their families.
Greyston Bakery is a for-profit organization and believes that using business for good instead of evil is the ethical choice. The bakery hires people that are hard to employ trying to give everyone a chance to better themselves. Greyston Bakery supports two missions, social mission and profit mission. Greyston Bakery follows their vision for personal transformation and community economic renewal. The social mission includes hiring people from the community using an open hire policy that gives everyone a fair chance at employment and teaching them valuable skills and transferable skills to promote a productive life. The profit mission consists of the Greyston Bakery Foundation. The Greyston Bakery Foundation puts the profits back into the community for community housing development, …show more content…
The group opened a small bakery storefront in the Bronx by borrowing $300,00. In 1988, Greyston ventured into bakery goods in ice cream producing over 20,000 pounds per day of product to mix in ice cream and has become the producer for brownies for the Vermont based Ben & Jerry’s. In 2004 in their state-of-the-art location the bakery still works for self-transformation and community renewal by providing on-site training programs, fair and equal wages and benefits to over 65 local residents regardless of their work
The Responsibility Project is a project that Liberty Mutual has created to help people in the communities surrounding them a chance to better themselves and their lives. Greyston Bakery is a company specifically that has gone above and beyond to help those who live within their own community try to achieve a better life for themselves and their families.
Greyston Bakery is a for-profit organization and believes that using business for good instead of evil is the ethical choice. The bakery hires people that are hard to employ trying to give everyone a chance to better themselves. Greyston Bakery supports two missions, social mission and profit mission. Greyston Bakery follows their vision for personal transformation and community economic renewal. The social mission includes hiring people from the community using an open hire policy that gives everyone a fair chance at employment and teaching them valuable skills and transferable skills to promote a productive life. The profit mission consists of the Greyston Bakery Foundation. The Greyston Bakery Foundation puts the profits back into the community for community housing development, …show more content…
The group opened a small bakery storefront in the Bronx by borrowing $300,00. In 1988, Greyston ventured into bakery goods in ice cream producing over 20,000 pounds per day of product to mix in ice cream and has become the producer for brownies for the Vermont based Ben & Jerry’s. In 2004 in their state-of-the-art location the bakery still works for self-transformation and community renewal by providing on-site training programs, fair and equal wages and benefits to over 65 local residents regardless of their work