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Oakland Magazine »  July-August 2010 »  Changing Lives, One Roll at a Time
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Changing Lives, One Roll at a Time

by Kathleen Malloy

     Give a person a roll and you feed him for a day. Teach a person to bake a roll and you feed him for
a lifetime.
     Although not the official motto of the Bread Project, a Berkeley nonprofit started in 2000, it could be. During the last era of widespread unemployment, local community activists Susan Phillips and Lucie Buchbinder were approached to start a job-training program. After looking into possible career paths, it was decided that baking was a fast-growing industry and a skill that could be learned quickly. Determined to help low-income people improve their lives, they turned on the ovens and set to work.
     A decade later, the Bread Project has a bakery café and a catering business. Its mission has been to promote economic self-sufficiency by providing culinary training and job referral assistance to low-income people, and it’s doing that well.
Check out the Bread Project online (www.breadproject.org) and consider ordering a party platter or dessert cake by calling (510) 644-4575.

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