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1,500 miles in 15 days

Wheaton alumna and Dancing Deer company CEO and co-founder, Trish Karter ‘77, is raising money for the homeless with a 15 day, 1,500 mile bike ride from Atlanta, GA to Boston, MA. 

Her award-winning Boston-based company donates 35 percent of the retail price of the Sweet Home product line to programs aimed at ending homelessness.

Trish plans to stay at homeless shelters in 15 cities and is hoping to connect with Wheaton alumnae/i on her philanthropic journey .  Want to connect with Trish and help her cause?  Find out where she is now via her GPS tracker and read her blog at www.dancingdeer.com/ride.

Mom to Bike 1,500 Miles with Stop in Philly

Trish Karter hopped on her bike recently in Atlanta to garner awareness for the homeless. During her 1,500 mile trip to Boston, where she will celebrate Mother’s Day, the 52 year-old single
mom will stop in Philadelphia to stay with families in transitional living at H.E.L.P Philadelphia. While the event will serve as a forum to engage in a public conversation about homelessness,
the CEO of Dancing Deer Baking plans to build her signature gingerbread houses along with H.E.L.P families.

H.E.L.P Philadelphia is a Public Health Management Corporation program under the umbrella of the national H.E.L.P USA organization. H.E.L.P. serves families previously in shelters and provides
critical on-site support to help them move from homelessness to permanent housing and selfsufficiency. Families can live at HELP for up to two years while developing their vocational, daily
living, parenting and money management skills.

Read the full article at CourierPostOnline.com

For Immediate Release: Dancing Deer Chief Executive Trish Karter is on a 1,500-mile bike ride

Dancing Deer Chief Executive Trish Karter is on a 1,500-mile bike ride to draw attention to the growing problem of homelessness. Dubbed the “Mother’s Day Ride”, her 15-day fundraising journey is slated to end May 6 in Boston. Throughout the trip, Karter is staying at 15 homeless shelters.

Home Work

In Boston, long before you walk into the Dancing Deer Baking Company and long after you leave, you smell it. The chocolate. The cinnamon. The unidentifiable yumminess.

Goodness lingers. Company CEO and co-founder Trish Karter, a Wheaton alumna, has made sure that that is also true of her business mission by practicing corporate social responsibility. Her award-winning Boston-based company donates 35 percent of the retail price from the Sweet Home product line to programs aimed at ending homelessness.

She has taken the mission on the road with the Dancing Deer Mother’s Day Ride to help end homelessness. To mark company’s 15th anniversary, Karter got on her bike on April 22 for a 15-day, 1,500-mile ride from Atlanta to Boston. The ride will end around Mother’s Day on May 6. Along the way she plans to stay at homeless shelters in 15 cities and talk about ways to end homelessness. She’s also trying to raise money for a scholarship fund that helps homeless mothers.

Before she left for the trip, NECN interviewed her about her efforts. See photos, find out where she is now via her GPS tracker and read her blog at www.dancingdeer.com/ride.

Former Atlantan undertaking bike trek to benefit homeless

Trish Karter bakes cookies and cakes for a living. She’s also an avid cyclist and an advocate for the homeless.

For 15 days, Karter will pursue all three passions in a 1,500-mile bicycle trek from Atlanta to Boston. The former Atlantan and current CEO of Dancing Deer Baking Co. in Boston will spend the night in homeless shelters along the way.  There, she’ll bake gingerbread houses with other single mothers and their children.

Karter, 52, launched her 100-miles-a-day journey Wednesday morning, planning stops in Athens; Augusta; Columbia; Charlotte; Raleigh; Richmond; Washington; Baltimore; Lancaster, Pa.; Trenton, N.J.; New York City; and Hartford, Conn.

“My interest in business is deeply tied to my need to have some kind of positive impact on the world,” said Karter, who worked for the Coca-Cola Co. nearly three decades ago.  “As I constructed my business over the years, it became more important to me to use it to make social change and push forward some of the principles I believe in,” she said.

Karter says she donates 30 percent of the revenue from one of her product lines to fund scholarships for homeless mothers in Massachusetts. Proceeds from sponsors and donations for her trek will go to programs to end homelessness.

Read the full article at ajc.com