Daniel Hodges, founder of Meknology, Inc., is transforming industrial wastewater into clean water and profitable byproducts through a patented steam-based purification system, aiming to make Kalamazoo a hub for sustainable water innovation and equitable environmental progress.
In the summer of 2021, the Rev. Doreen Gardner began making her large batches of brittle in the commercial kitchen space at the small business incubator Can-Do Kalamazoo. Papa’s Brittle went on to win the national NAACP’s Black Entrepreneur Award, which came with a $25,000 award and mentorship from an investor on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank. Now they operate from a state-of-the-art commercial kitchen on Stadium Drive.
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