About Hives for Lives

Hives for Lives, a honey company, was started six years ago by Molly and Carly when they lost their grandfather to cancer. He was 63 -- they were 9 and 11. The kids raise honeybees and sell the honey at local events, fairs, and retail stores like bakeries, kitchen stores, and grocery stores. The company is entirely kid-run. The VP of Marketing, COO, CFO, and VP of Sales are all under eighteen.

We believe that B Corps will very soon be a recognized indication to customers of not only a good product but also of a good company doing well in the world, and we want to be a part of that. Hives for Lives and B Corporations represent a world in which business is conducted as if people mattered.

Hives for Lives donates 100% of its profits to cancer research centers all over the country to help find a cure. Hives for Lives is both a local and national company, selling honey from the kids' own beehives locally and the honey of their partner beekeepers in Whole Foods nationwide. Profits made through Whole Foods sales in regions other than their own are donated to other regional cancer centers with a program called "Local Honey / Local Money," which focuses on building local communities.

The Change We Seek®

Their motto is very similar to B Corps': "Bee the Cure We Seek," and they try to live this every day. The mission of Hives for Lives has been to beat cancer with our business -- one jar of honey at a time.

Almost all of the work in the Hives for Lives company is done by student volunteers who receive no compensation for their time. These volunteers are primarily middle school and high school kids they call Helper Bees who donate their time and expertise in any number of ways: painting and building hives, tending bees, bottling honey, selling honey, managing the books and marketing, and attending presentations and meetings. .

With our Local Money/Local Honey program, profits from the sales of honey in each region stay in the region and go to regional but nationally renowned cancer research centers and hospitals. Places like St. Jude's, the Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson, Stanford Hospital, and the Abramson Center at University of Pennsylvania, among many others have all received profits from the sale of Hives for Lives honey in their region.

Hives for Lives

• Industry: Food & Beverage
• Location: Devon, PA
• http://www.hivesforlives.com