Greyston Mandala

The Greyston Story of Successful Urban Community Development

Greyston Bakery founded in 1982 by Roshi Bernie Glassman in Yonkers NY.
Greyston Bakery produces high end pastries for the best restaurants in Manhattan providing jobs for poorest members of Yonkers Community.
Greyston Bakery grows into 6 million dollar business with more than 75 employees.
Success of Greyston Bakery gives rise to the Greyston Foundation, a 13 million dollar integrated network of for-profit and not-for-profit entities providing jobs, workforce development, low income housing, supportive services, child care, after school programs, comprehensive HIV health care, housing, a gourmet bakery business and community gardens.
Since 1991, Greyston Foundation, has developed over 200 units of affordable housing and $48,597,735 in real estate projects in Westchester County, N.Y. with another $25,000,000 in projects underway.
The Greyston Foundation is recognized as a national model of community economic development and successful "social enterprise" and is lauded by The Wall Street Journal , The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and featured on CBS 60 minutes.
Greyston Model becomes a "Best practice" example of social enterprise and is studied in major U.S. business schools including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford University and New York University.

Greyston Economic Development Programs