The Best Coffee Served By The Best People
What We’re About
80% of individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities are unemployed nationwide.
At Rose Cat Coffee Company and Reading Society we are actively seeking to decrease that statistic one employment opportunity at a time, and designing a space where…
- Relationships are built.
- Employees feel seen, valued, included, and loved by their community.
- Employees can take pride and ownership in what they do and fully realize their own potential.
- Joy can seep into every cup of coffee served and out the doors into daily interactions with others.
- Kindness is spread and inclusion is not only talked about but felt and fully embraced.
Why we exist
Our Founder
Brenda is a wife, a mother of three girls, a licensed social worker, a home baker, a coffee enthusiast, and an unapologetic dreamer. She has been touched by individuals with Intellectual and Developmental disabilities throughout her life, particularly watching her nephew grow up, working as a PARA in an IDD high school classroom, coaching adaptive athletes, and most recently with friends in the Lincoln community.
Rose Cat Coffee Co and Reading Society is the culmination of years of dreaming, and an unrelenting hope that together we can create a connected community that will change the way that individuals with IDD are treated, valued, accepted, seen, and integrated into their own communities.
Life is better with Coffee, Cats, and Books!
Rose Cat Reading Society
Discover our large in-house library, curated with inclusivity in mind. Take or leave a book, find yourself a cozy spot, and immerse yourself in the enchanting world of literature.
Visit the shop often and be on the lookout for the launch of Rose Cat Reading Soiety, where you will have the opportunity to participate in fun reading challenges, be highlighted on our social media pages and be entered into drawings for awesome Rose Cat merch.
Empowered Employment
Our Team
Come hang out with some of the most amazing humans out there. Grab a carefully crafted coffee, munch on a variety of delicious baked goods, or grab a book and cozy up in our gigantic take-and-leave library. All crafted and created by our incredible team who is delighted to serve you.
