Coffee Inclusive opened three years ago, with the goal of serving a cup of joe and offering community to those with diverse abilities.<\/p>\n
PITTSTON, Pa. \u2014 The smell of coffee, the sweetness of a fresh cupcake, and the opportunity to be an active part of their community. At Coffee Inclusive in Pittston, it all started three years ago, with the hope for a more inclusive community for people with diverse abilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Something especially close to President & CEO Frank Bartoli’s heart.<\/p>\n
“Well, Elle is our inspiration of our entire network of companies. The reason I founded PA Inclusive and Coffee Inclusive.”<\/p>\n
Bartoli’s daughter, Elle, Coffee Inclusive’s Chief Ambassador, and the one who inspired it all, tells Newswatch 16 her favorite thing about the non-profit.<\/p>\n
“I’ll have to say the impact that we make here,” said Elle Bartoli. “We truly change lives with every cup that is made here.”<\/p>\n
Now Coffee Inclusive is celebrating three years, the bakery is celebrating one, and, as Elle says, they’re changing lives with every cup of joe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coffee Inclusive is expanding once again. The non-profit is opening a for-profit coffee roasting company, Inclusive Grounds, to include individuals with diverse abilities in the coffee shop’s process from start to finish.<\/p>\n
“I mean, Julius, as everyone knows, he’s a head baker here, but he wants to do more,” said Brendan Karolchyk, Inclusive Grounds Lead Director. “He wants to try new things, so getting the opportunity to roast coffee, be a brand ambassador for a new company is really exciting for a lot of our employees.”<\/p>\n
“I went to LCCC for Pastry Arts, so when I left LCCC, and I got my first job, it was at grocery stores, and I’m here like, eh, foot in the door, yeah, but for me to stay there, I said no,” said Julius Zuckerwar, Bakery Inclusive Head Baker, Inclusive Grounds Lead Roaster.<\/p>\n
Julius Zuckerwar wanted more for himself, and each cupcake he baked at Bakery Inclusive proved to be life-changing. Giving him and people like him the opportunity to live a life with hopes, dreams, and goals to accomplish as an integral part of their community.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coffee Inclusive opened three years ago, with the goal of serving a cup of joe and offering community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-137726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}