Women’s Bean Project

History, On the Road, Traditions, Trivia
on May 3, 2009

Seeing a need to help impoverished women find jobs, Jossy Eyre founded Denver’s Women’s Bean Project in 1989 with $500 worth of beans. Today, the nonprofit group hires women to prepare packaged gourmet soups, chili mixes, dips and other foods that are sold to grocery stores and online.

Birthdays are easy to remember in the Nash household in Colorado Springs. The father and mother, Tyler Nash, 34, and Erika Cherry, 26, were both born on Dec. 23. Last Dec. 23, their daughter, Faith, was born.