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</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="ArialMT" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:17px"><div>Operation Come Home’s Jamie Hammond writes about a creative approach her organization took to work with a local partner and reach out to homeless youth:</div>
<div><br></div><div>“One of our newest initiatives and social enterprises, Buy Your Beau’s Online (B.Y.B.O.), is particularly unique. It all began in early 2011 when one of our long-time partners, Beau’s All Natural Brewery, approached us with the idea of a residential delivery service. We already had a commercial bottle pick-up service (BottleWorks), so this seemed like a natural next-step. In November 2011, after months of careful planning and deliberation, B.Y.B.O. was born…”</div>
<div><br></div><div>Click on the link to learn how this small program had a big impact:</div><div><br></div></span></font></div>
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