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Grants
- Skandalaris Family Foundation becomes founding sponsor of The Blessing Basket Project (Jan 05)
- Southern Illinois University Challenge Grant (April 06)
- Skandalaris Family Foundation Grant (Jan 06)
- Skandalaris Family Foundation Grant (May 07)
- Washington University Grant (Dec 07)
- Private Family Foundation Grant (May 08)
- Sony BMG and Country Artist Sara Evans grant The Blessing Basket Project usage rights for "To Be Happy" (May 08)
- Monsanto Fund Grant (Aug 08)
- Spoke Marketing Grant (June 09)
Awards
- Olin Cup Washington University in St. Louis (Dec 04)
- Developing Innovative Solutions Award from Focus St. Louis (May 05)
- Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award by SSDN in St. Louis, MO (Jan 06)
- The Global Growth Award by St. Louis, MO World Trade Center (Sept 07)
- Women Influencing Now Award (April 08)
- St. Louis Award (Dec 08)
- Woman on the Rise Award 2009 by the Illinois State Treasurer's Office (May 09)
In the News
- St. Louis Post Dispatch (Aug 04)
- KSDK-TV Channel 5 Interviewed by Jennifer Bloom (May 05)
- Woman's Day Magazine (Oct 05)
- National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences TELESPHERE (Jul 06)
- St. Louis At Home Magazine article "Counting Her Blessings" (Nov 06)
- KPLR-TV Interview (Feb 07)
- KFTK Interview Allman in the Morning (Oct 07)
- St. Louis Magazine article "Dream Weavers" (Sept 08)
- KMOV-TV Great Day St. Louis TV appearance (Nov 08)
- KFTK Interview Allman in the Morning (Nov 08)
- Theresa Wilson profiled "Breakdown, Breakthrough" by Kathy Caprino (Barrett Koehler) (Nov 08)
- KSDK Show Me St. Louis Interview (Nov 08)
- KSDK-TV News Channel 5 at noon (Dec 08)
- Featured in hundreds of news articles and electronic media reports (Aug 04-Present)
Other
- Blessing Basket is born (April 04)
- Enters first Whole Foods Market (Nov 04)
- Built and opened Doone Girls' School in Nyariga, Ghana with Whole Foods Market (Nov 05)
- Chosen as an official gift for presenters at the 2006 Daytime Emmy Awards in Hollywood, California (April 06)
- Partners with the Missouri Botanical Garden to reduce poverty in Madagascar and end the destruction of the forest (Jul 06)
- Enters 100th store nationwide (Dec 06)
- Weavers worldwide begin graduating out of poverty into independent entrepreneurship due to Blessing Baskets Prosperity Wages model (April 2006)
- Partners with Washington University to study results of poverty reduction work in Madagascar (Mar 2007)
- Launches Seeds of Blessing - a direct marketing company designed to help American women help impoverished women and impoverished women help American women.
- Releases music video "To Be Happy" made possible by Sara Evans and Sony BMG (Nov 2008)
- Sells it's 65,000th artisan product (Dec 08)
- Prosperity Wages paid to directly artisans tops U.S. equivalent of $2,000,000 (May 09)
- Partners with Energizer to conduct third world lighting research (June 09)
- Built and opened community center in Nyariga, Ghana with Whole Foods Market (July 09)
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