Beelovebuzz

11/24/2025

🍯✨ What a night!

Our Honey & Beer Tasting Event was an incredible success and we’re still buzzing from the energy! 🐝🍻

We exceeded our fundraising goal, offered some amazing auction items, and celebrated with a packed room full of lively company, good vibes, and supporters who believe in the mission of NLEN and Sweet Beginnings, LLC.

Thank you to everyone who came out, bid, donated, tasted, laughed, and overall helped us continue creating opportunities and second chances across Chicago. 💛

Until next year.. keep buzzing with us. 🐝✨

11/06/2025

🍯 THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!

We’re officially ONLY 1 WEEK away from Buzzing for NLEN — our Honey & Beer Tasting Event at Goose Island Barrel House! 🍻✨

Join us for an evening of good vibes, great flavors, and even greater impact — all in support of North Lawndale Employment Network and our Sweet Beginnings, LLC social enterprise. 💛

Your ticket helps us continue using the power of beekeeping, honey, and fair-chance hiring to create jobs and change lives across Chicago. Make sure to purchase tickets on our website
NLEN.org

10/30/2025

🍯 The countdown is ON!

We’re officially 2 weeks away from Buzzing for NLEN — our Honey & Beer Tasting Event at Goose Island Barrel House! 🍻✨

Join us for an evening of good vibes, great flavors, and even greater impact — all in support of North Lawndale Employment Network and our Sweet Beginnings, LLC social enterprise. 💛

Your ticket helps us continue using the power of beekeeping, honey, and fair-chance hiring to create jobs and change lives across Chicago. Make sure to purchase tickets on our website
NLEN.org

10/23/2025

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We're counting down the weeks until our Honey & Beer Tasting Fundraiser!

We're celebrating all things honey, beer and North Lawndale in just under 4 weeks!
Here's the details:

📅Thursday, November 13th
⏰6-9PM
📍Goose Island Barrel House 603 N Sacramento
🎟️Purchase your tickets at bit.ly/buzzfornlen25

Enjoy free food, beer, honey sampling and socializing for an un-bee-lieve-able cause. We'll see you there!

10/18/2025

Tune in tomorrow to hear NLEN President and CEO Brenda Palms on iHeartMedia Chicago!

Here’s the details:

6am Sunday, 10/19 WGCI 107.5 FM
www.wgci.com

6am Sunday 10/19 WVAZ 102.7 FM
www.v103.com

107.5 WGCI FM The Chi's #1 for Hip-Hop & R&B.

09/30/2025

🍻SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT: We once again thank our partners at Haymarket Pub & Brewery for generously sponsoring Buzzing for NLEN! Haymarket Brewery has generously donated their Harold's '83 Honey Ale for the event! Purchase your tickets today at bit.ly/buzzfornlen25

Harold's '83 is more than just a delicious amber ale; it is a celebration of a historic movement and moment in Chicago history and continued efforts to break barriers to employment across a wide variety of industries.

The beer is a tribute to Chicago's first Black mayor Harold Washington, co-created by The Black Beer Baron Jay Westbrook and The Real Brewer Sam Ross, and features our signature beelove® honey right in the recipe!

Harold's '83 Honey invites you to join us in honoring the past, savoring the present, and building a future inspired by the spirit of progress and unity. After all “If you can’t find a seat at the table, create your own”.

Savor this ale, and enjoy a tour of the Goose Island Barrel House with Sam Ross on Thursday, November 13th! Purchase your tickets today at the link in our bio!

09/22/2025

Rosh Hashanah starts this evening and is celebrated through the end of the day on September 24th!

NLEN and our Sweet Beginnings social impact send our sweetest wishes for 5786 to everyone in Chicago's Jewish community and beyond.

Shanah Tovah u'Metukah!

🍏🍯 Apples dipped in honey are a popular Rosh Hashanah treat, symbolizing sweetness for the year ahead. Learn more at this link: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/rosh-hashanah-foods/

09/21/2025

It’s the final day of ! Our beelove®️ team is selling our signature honey and honey-infused skincare products through 5PM in the community area! Stop by, say hi, buy some goodies and visit other local organizations, including Lawndale Pop-Up Spot Field Museum Open Books and Boxing Out Negativity!

09/19/2025

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We’re at Riot Fest !

We’re selling our signature beelove®️ products at Riot Fest every day through 5PM! Attending the fest? Stop by our booth around the corner from the information kiosk and across from the Artist Merch tent!

Every purchase supports the mission of North Lawndale Employment Network !

09/18/2025

Riot Fest is this weekend in Douglass Park! Attending the fest? Stop by our Beelovebuzz booth and purchase one of our signature beelove® products every day of Riot Fest through 5PM!

🍯 Our honey is a delicious local souvenir and our honey-infused skincare products are the perfect way to refresh and relax after a long day at the fest!

☕ Need a break from the fest or looking to fuel up beforehand? The Beelove Cafe is open 7AM to 4PM on Friday and from 8AM-2PM on Saturday!

♥ Every purchase empowers North Lawndale and creates sweet beginnings and pathways to opportunity for residents facing barriers to employment! Learn more at nlen.org and beelovebuzz.com!

09/18/2025

SAVE THE DATE! Our Associate Board is once again inviting you to join us at Buzzing for NLEN, our fall honey & beer tasting fundraiser!

We’re celebrating all things fall with food, beer, music, and socializing for a good cause at the Goose Island Barrel House ! This is your opportunity to purchase your favorite beelove® products, savor incredible beer, connect with your friends and colleagues, and raise critical funds for North Lawndale Employment Network social impact businesses!

Here’s the details:

🐝 Thursday, November 13th
🐝 6-9 PM
🐝 Goose Island Barrel House 603 N. Sacramento Blvd
🐝 Purchase tickets at bit.ly/buzzfornlen25 or at the link in our bio!

📩 Interested in sponsoring the event or contributing a silent auction item? Contact our Development team at [email protected]