As CEO and cofounder of Dancing Deer Baking Co. Trish Karter marries her creative, artistic, environmental, community and business interests. Situated in Boston's inner city, Dancing Deer has received the food industry's equivalent of the "Oscars" many times over, Inc. Magazine's listing in the top 100 Inner City companies, FleetBoston's 2002 Small Business Leadership Award for Innovation, 2001 and 2005 Chamber of Commerce Award for Excellence, Fortune Small Busniess Best Bosses Award 2005, 2000 SBANE New Englander Award for Innovation, 1999 Brand Design Award from the American Institute of Graphic Artists and many other honors. All Dancing Deer employees are shareholders and its philosophy is that when people are happy it shows in the food. The company partners in a philanthropic venture called the Sweet Home Project, with the Paul and Phyllis Fireman Foundation. Dancing Deer donates 35% of the retail price from the Sweet Home product line to programs to end family homelessness. In 2002 Karter was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Wheaton College in Norton, MA for her accomplishments. She also holds a master's degree in public and private management from Yale University.
I tend to lecture, prod, beg, you know, people not to allow there to be an upstairs, downstairs mentality and you know, there are huge cultural differences between people that pack cookies all day long and folks that are designing packaging or talking to ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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