Small Business, Big Difference: Spotlight on Hayes Valley Bakeworks
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Small Business, Big Difference: Spotlight on Hayes Valley Bakeworks

Hayes Valley Bakeworks knows how to make a damn good cup of coffee-but it's what goes on behind the scenes that makes the place so special. The cafe and bakery - sleekly designed and situated in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood - operates as a nonprofit that offers training and employment to people at risk for homelessness. Working alongside the nonprofit employment agency Toolworks, Bakeworks hires people who would typically have deep struggles securing jobs - many of them previously incarcerated and suffering from mental illnesses or disabilities. One hundred percent of Bakeworks' profits go towards operating their business this way.

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