Markey Culver and Natalie Hornsby of The Women's Bakery
Talk With the Top: St. Louis
English - February 05, 2017 21:57 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A BIT ABOUT WOMAN’S BAKERY
The Women’s Bakery offers women access—access to business education, life skills, and applied baking and nutrition skills. From this, social and economic empowerment are born. That’s conscious capitalism.
Through education and vocational training, women learn to source local, nutritious ingredients to produce and sell affordable bread in their communities. Groups of women invest in our training fee and the appropriate bakery start-up costs. Once their bakery is in business, all profits are the women’s own.
Today, we’re working with women in Rwanda and Tanzania.
A BIT ABOUT MARKEY
Markey Culver founded The Women’s Bakery after serving in the Peace Corps in Rwanda from 2010-2012, specializing in rural secondary education and public healthcare. Culver witnessed many plights in her rural Rwandan village, the most poignant of which were social inequality, malnutrition, and stunted opportunity. Culver views business as a medium: a solution-providing agency that consciously works for people, not exploitatively against them. Building bakeries have become her means of creating access to opportunity, namely financial independence and social empowerment, for women globally.
A BIT ABOUT NATALIE
Hornsby brings a wealth of hands-on, practical global management and marketing experience to TWB. She launched her career in the private sector with the global toy phenomenon, Zhu Zhu Pets. Hornsby spearheads development and strategy for TWB, allowing for greater capacity for program scalability. Hornsby strives to recalibrate the traditional view of nonprofits, endeavoring to bridge the heart of the non-profit sector with the strategy of the for-profit sector.
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A BIT ABOUT WOMAN’S BAKERY
The Women’s Bakery offers women access—access to business education, life skills, and applied baking and nutrition skills. From this, social and economic empowerment are born. That’s conscious capitalism.
Through education and vocational training, women learn to source local, nutritious ingredients to produce and sell affordable bread in their communities. Groups of women invest in our training fee and the appropriate bakery start-up costs. Once their bakery is in business, all profits are the women’s own.
Today, we’re working with women in Rwanda and Tanzania.
Markey Culver founded The Women’s Bakery after serving in the Peace Corps in Rwanda from 2010-2012, specializing in rural secondary education and public healthcare. Culver witnessed many plights in her rural Rwandan village, the most poignant of which were social inequality, malnutrition, and stunted opportunity. Culver views business as a medium: a solution-providing agency that consciously works for people, not exploitatively against them. Building bakeries have become her means of creating access to opportunity, namely financial independence and social empowerment, for women globally.
Hornsby brings a wealth of hands-on, practical global management and marketing experience to TWB. She launched her career in the private sector with the global toy phenomenon, Zhu Zhu Pets. Hornsby spearheads development and strategy for TWB, allowing for greater capacity for program scalability. Hornsby strives to recalibrate the traditional view of nonprofits, endeavoring to bridge the heart of the non-profit sector with the strategy of the for-profit sector.
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Connect with Natalie
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