Bridge Bread on Main

About

HOPE IN THE BAKING! Bridge Bread is a social enterprise that provides supportive employment for people without safe and stable housing.

Story

When people think of homelessness, they typically think of folks with mental illness, disabilities, or addictions. Yet, only 20% of the homeless community falls into those “chronic homelessness” categories. The rest are economically homeless and can benefit greatly from learning a trade and experiencing meaningful work in a supportive environment.

Since 2011, Bridge Bread has proven to be a sustainable social enterprise with a simple business model: we employ people without homes, teach them a valuable trade with transferable skills, and sell the products they make.

Over time, our bakers regain hope as they experience pride in their work. They develop positive, trusting, and cooperative relationships with their staff peers and supervisors. Most are quickly housed.

In other words, hope is in the baking, and Bridge Bread is transforming lives.

Mission

Bridge Bread's mission is to create a work opportunity that teaches marketable skills of commercial bread making to homeless men and women, while simultaneously providing the living wage that is so necessary for financial empowerment, self-sufficiency, and dignity.

Products

BREAD
Apple Cinnamon
Bagels
Light Brioche
Light Brioche Dinner Rolls
Sourdough
Wheat

FAMOUS CINNAMON ROLLS
Apple Cinnamon
Cinnamon
Cranberry Orange
Cherry Pie
Classic Cinnamon (for the purists)

OTHER SWEETS
Brownies

COMMUNION LOAVES
Light Brioche
Sourdough