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Lickity Split Chocolate: Luscious Chocolate & Noble Cause
Lickity Split Chocolate is a Native owned and operated business in San Juan County, Utah. It is managed by thirty-five Navajo and Ute children, between the ages of 9 and 14, in one of the poorest counties in the United States.
This small—but thriving—business began when a group of children were looking for a way to make money to go to the local movie house. A local leader suggested they start a business so they could afford to go to the movies, whenever they wished. The kids liked the idea and after a lot of discussion and brain-storming, decided they would start a chocolate business where they would make Native design chocolates.
The best part of Lickity Split is impact it has on the development the involved youth. These young people have shown that they are highly motivated to make this business succeed and in the process they have become competent business professionals. They create new products, make customer contacts, conduct staff meetings, attend trade shows and even balance the company books. Ask any one of them what goes into pricing a product and they will calculate the cost of labor, materials and overhead for you. The company owners are being taught to fully operate the business after a yearlong mentoring process.
These youth from San Juan County live where poverty rates reach upwards of 40 percent. Their home is located in a beautiful but vast, remote, area where good jobs are scarce. Native owned businesses within the county consist of less than 1 percent of the established commercial industry inventory, yet the Native population is greater than 50 percent.
Lickity Split Chocolate offers hope that the prosperity of San Juan County and success of its youth will be matched the continuing success of this unusual chocolate factory.
Contact Lickity Split at lickitysplitchocolate@yahoo.com or Nationsof the Four Corners, 707 West 500 South, Blanding, UT 84511, (435) 678-4058.
www.GoodSearch.com
GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50% of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. You use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine. Because it’s powered by Yahoo!, you get the same reliable results. The money GoodSearch donates to your cause comes from its advertisers—free for users and profitable for organizations. Plus, GoodSearch recently expanded to include GoodShop, an online shopping site. Each purchase made via the GoodShop mall results in a donation to the user’s designated charity or school (averaging ~ 3% of the sale, but going up to 20% or more).
Here’s How to Access GoodSearch:
- Go to www.goodsearch.org
- Under Who Do You Good Search For, enter the organization or school of your choice and select Verify
- Enter your search in the top box and a donation will be given to your organization just for using their site to search and/or shop!
