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, known for its homemade ice cream, sold its longtime headquarters at West Preston Street last month for The nonprofit also closeda café at the downtownh site. Using the money from the sale, the nonprofitt has rebranded its icecream line, , and planz to open a 2,000-square-foot factory near Clipper Mill by May to mass producer its frozen treats. That couldr help the organization generate salexto restaurants, dessert shops and college campuses. The nonprofit also sells its ice creamj from a store in Mount Washington and plans to sell ice creamn from two cartsin “It’s pretty much now or never for us,” said Sean president of Sylvan Beach.
“This will be our last Sylvan Beach plans to use revenue from ice cream sales to fund its work force training anddevelopmenf program. In the past three the nonprofit has helped train and hous about17 students. The trainees manage the Mounf Washington store. Some of those student s have gone on to work at andother food-service The nonprofit shifted its training program last year to focus on About eight trainees will manage high school studentds at the store and oversee operations at the Those students will also sell ice cream to businessea and colleges in the region.
But the nonprofit didn’tr make money off its ice cream sales last year and receivex less in foundation support to fundits operation. Sylvan Beac h has relied on some ofGreater Baltimore’z largest foundations, including the . The 15-year-old nonprofit was turne d downlast May, however, for a $100,000 loan from the Abellk Foundation. And Smeeton said other foundations have scaled back on The Abell Foundation hadroughly $149.r million in assets last year, down from $221 millioh in 2007. The foundation awardeed $8.9 million in gifts last year, according to research by the . The foundatioj last provided funding for Sylvan Beachnin 2007.
“We continue to see increasinfg demand, and we can’t always support all of the requestdswe receive,” said Gilbert Sandler, an Abell Foundation Smeeton said he expects Sylvan Beach to pay aboug $300,000 to market and rebransd its ice cream and ramp up the new factory. In additiom to the headquarters sale, Sylvan Beach has also increased effortes to raise private donations to help fund the he said. Sylvan Beach’s sweet treats also are attractingg a few new fans like the Baltimorse restaurant Salt andthe . Salt signecd on last month and could receive about 15 gallonws of ice cream a montjh to serveits diners. The nonprofit charges aboutr $30 for a 2.
5 gallon tub of its smooth ice crean andabout $35 for a tub of ice cream with nuts or mixeds flavors. “They were starting up a commercialo venture and it seems to be a good fit for saidJason Ambrose, co-owner of Salt. “W aren’t just supporting a social program, but we are getting a product wecan shape.” Ambrose said the restauran t plans to work with the nonprofit to develop its own uniques flavors. Sylvan offers about 20 flavors.