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Bloom: Creating Jobs is our Secret Ingredient

Help us break barriers to employment through the art of exceptional handcrafted baking.

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Bloom: Creating Jobs is our Secret Ingredient

Bloom: Creating Jobs is our Secret Ingredient

Bloom: Creating Jobs is our Secret Ingredient

Bloom: Creating Jobs is our Secret Ingredient

Bloom: Creating Jobs is our Secret Ingredient

Help us break barriers to employment through the art of exceptional handcrafted baking.

Help us break barriers to employment through the art of exceptional handcrafted baking.

Help us break barriers to employment through the art of exceptional handcrafted baking.

Help us break barriers to employment through the art of exceptional handcrafted baking.

Logan Fahey
Logan Fahey
Logan Fahey
Logan Fahey
1 Campaign |
Cleveland, United States
$4,056 USD 42 backers
16% of $25,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Bloom Bakery is a business with a heart

We bake to provide jobs for low-income and disadvantaged adults in Greater Cleveland. We are a benefit corporation owned by Towards Employment, a non-profit organization founded in 1976 that has helped more than 122,000 people prepare for jobs, get jobs, keep jobs, and move up the career ladder.


11 years ago, Towards Employment added programming specifically designed to give people with involvement in the criminal justice system a second chance through gainful employment.

In Cuyahoga County, 4,000 people return from state prison each year. Bloom Bakery helps returning citizens find jobs by employing graduates from Towards Employment’s reentry job readiness training programs, allowing even more people to continue on the path to success.

IN BAKING, bloom is the golden brown color of the crust of well-baked bread. It also represents the ultimate goal we have for our employees—to blossom and to thrive. Our employees’ training and experience will provide the “bloom” on their resume—a recognizable symbol that they have met the exacting standards of production and customer service that the baking industry requires. At Bloom Bakery, we are not only passionate about providing jobs to people who most need them, but we are also passionate bakers serving the highest quality in handcrafted breads, pastries, and café meals

We don’t cut corners. With guidance from Maurice Chaplais, an internationally known artisan bakery specialist who teaches his art form across the world and now in Cleveland, we harness the unique science of slow baking, including a 3-day yeast fermentation process that produces unparalleled flavor. Our breakfast and lunch offerings are made with primarily locally sourced ingredients. Once you taste our food, you will be a customer for life. Profits earned from Bloom Bakery give graduates the opportunity to earn a wage, learn a new skill, transition into a full-time career, and hand over their oven mitts to the next job readiness graduate from Towards Employment. Together, we bloom.

We've recently launched our Campus District location at 1938 Euclid Ave and we need community support to help continue to expand and create more jobs. With your help we will make our Campus District location a full service location similar to our location on Clevelands Public Square.  

Your contribution to our campaign will help provide even more Towards Employment graduates (towardsemployment.org) opportunities to "learn and earn" within Bloom Bakery – together we will break down barriers to employment.


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+ Cup of Bloom's Freshly Brewed Coffee + (1) Bloom Decal Sticker
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+ Loaf of bread of your choice.
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+ Bloom Custom T-Shirt & Hat + Fresh Baked Bread for a Week (Includes a daily fresh baked loaf of bread each day for one week or every other day for two weeks)
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June 2016
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+ Private baking lesson with Bloom Bakers for you and 5 guests. In addition, Bloom will provide you and your guests a private catered three course dinner. + T-Shirt and Hats for all guests.
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