Genesys Works Wins Deubener Award

NOVEMBER 8, 2013 - Last evening, Genesys Works won the 2013 Deubener Award for Nonprofit Service Business at the Fifth Annual Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Honors Gala. The Saint Paul Area Chamber annually presents Deubener Awards to five organizations that exemplify growth, excellence, risk, diversity and innovation.


Three hundred members of the local business community attended the Honors Gala at the Landmark Center including recently re-elected mayor Chris Coleman. Coleman praised Genesys Works for the impact its had on the city with the Right Track Initiative.

About the Deubener Awards: In honor of Walter & Lydia Deubener, the Saint Paul Area Chamber annually presents Deubener Awards to five organizations that exemplify growth, excellence, risk, diversity and innovation. The Deubeners were the proprietors of a grocery store in downtown Saint Paul and invented the first shopping bag with handles, which increased the store's business overnight. The couple eventually sold their store and established manufacturing facilities in Saint Paul, with sales in 1919 totaling one million bags.

About Genesys Works: At Genesys Works, we’re helping students break out of the poverty cycle and into the corporate world – shedding light on a path few students from economically disadvantaged households even know exists. In the process, we’re not only changing the course of their lives, we’re training the next generation of our workforce – one that increasingly needs a college degree to be competitive in the evolving global market.