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Culinary Queens with Blue Diamonds Training and Consulting, Inc.

2026 Social Enterprise Cohort

Mar 11

Written By Laurie Morse-Dell

Grand Rapids, MI

Culinary Queens with Blue Diamonds is a social enterprise that teaches girls and young women ages 14–24 essential life and leadership skills through cooking, planting, harvesting, storing, and growing food.
We also prepare youth for employment and help connect them to opportunities within the culinary arts industry, particularly with food trucks, mobile food businesses, and local restaurants.
We empower young women with practical food literacy, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurial skills that promote long-term sustainability.
We welcome connections to commercial kitchen space, community garden partnerships, food storage resources, and culinary industry mentors—especially those connected to food trucks, mobile businesses, and restaurants.

Laurie Morse-Dell

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Sec. 1004. Funds appropriated in part 1 for center for social enterprise development must be allocated to a statewide foundation supporting small businesses in this state to partner with an association of comprehensive human service providers that support individuals with disabilities, for the purpose of creating a center for social enterprise development. The center for social enterprise development must administer direct grants to small businesses and nonprofit organizations that seek to establish or expand a social enterprise with an emphasis on employing individuals who are marginalized or economically disadvantaged.