DENVER — Women’s Bean Project, a Denver nonprofit that blends social services with food manufacturing, is looking to grow so it can hire and train more women facing chronic barriers to employment.

Since selling its first package of soup in 1989, the program has hired thousands of women into a transitional employment course that combines paid production work with classroom time and comprehensive support. The program runs between six and nine months. Shelby Mattingly, CEO of Women's Bean Project, is looking to expand operations to help more women in need of employment assistance.

“We hire women who have chronic barriers to employment,” Shelby Mattingly, CEO of the nonprofit, said. “That can include a wide variety of things like poverty, addiction, recovery, incarceration, domestic violenc

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