Our Mission

We are on a Mission to Bring Joy, Teach Skills, and Serve Community.

We use our business to advocate for inclusive workplaces and disability employment. We believe in celebrating all abilities and see the immense value in a diverse workforce. Our dessert bus doubles as a training kitchen offering hospitality work-based learning experiences to young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities helping them to gain confidence and skills leading to gainful employment in the hospitality field.

Participants celebrate completing a hands-on hospitality training session with Great Balls of Love's mobile training kitchen.
Sharing smiles and handcrafted ice cream balls while creating meaningful employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
One-on-one coaching helps participants build food service, teamwork, and customer service skills through hands-on learning.
Sharing smiles and handcrafted ice cream balls while creating meaningful employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Our mobile classroom provides inclusive job training and community experiences for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Confidence grows through real-world hospitality and food service training.
Participants receive individualized support while learning hospitality, food preparation, and workplace skills.
Every milestone is worth celebrating as participants develop confidence, independence, and employment skills.

Let’s Partner

Does Your School or Nonprofit Support People with Disabilities?

Let's Collaborate, Join Forces, and, Combine Expertise!

We deliver turnkey career exploration and pre-employment training customized to support your mission!

Hospitality Training People with Disabilities

Offerings Include:

  • pre-employment training

  • on-the-job hospitality training

  • career exploration workshops

  • self-advocacy in the workplace training

  • budgeting and financial literacy, soft skills for workplace success

  • micro-enterprise startup support for individuals with disabilities looking to start their own business.

When you partner with us, we use our bright yellow dessert bus to elevate and promote your organization's mission throughout the community. We believe collaboration creates greater impact, and working together is always sweeter.

Interested in partnership? Contact Us.

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More about the mission….

  • At Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Love, bringing joy is at belly of everything we do. We deliver delight through our signature creation—the ice cream ball: creamy, dreamy ice cream wrapped in crunchy, sweet cereal for the ultimate playful treat.

    But it’s more than dessert—it’s a moment. We live for the smiles that appear when someone bites into their very first ice cream ball. That wide-eyed surprise, the shared laughter, the happy pause—it’s why we do what we do.

    And the joy starts even before the first bite. When we drive around in our bright and cheerful ice cream bus, we see curiosity spark, heads turn, and smiles stretch across faces. It’s a rolling invitation to connect, to celebrate, and to enjoy something unexpectedly wonderful.

    Whether we’re parked curbside or catering your special event, we’re here to make people happy. Because food brings people together. And joy? Well, that’s our favorite ingredient.

  • Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Love empowers individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities through interactive hospitality training programs delivered on and off our bright yellow dessert bus. Our career readiness initiatives are designed to build real-world skills, boost confidence, and spark meaningful connections within the community.

    Participants gain hands-on experience in a dynamic food service environment while developing essential workplace competencies—like communication, teamwork, and customer service. We also incorporate life skills such as financial literacy, workplace self-advocacy, and microenterprise exploration for those interested in launching their own business.

    Programs are flexible and vary in length—from one-day career exploration pop-ups to multi-week on-the-job training experiences tailored to partner and participant goals. Beyond the skills, our training fosters social capital by connecting participants with community members, industry professionals, and potential employers.

    Our bus is a vehicle for competitive, integrated employment and a more inclusive future in hospitality.

  • Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Love strives to challenge and change societal perceptions of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by showcasing their incredible abilities. By actively participating in local events and creating space for inclusion, we help foster a community that values everyone’s unique contributions.

    But our commitment to community goes even further.

    We give back whenever we can—donating treats to shelters or community centers. We proudly offer discounted rates to our community impact partners, including nonprofits, churches, and schools who invite us to cater their events. And we invite local businesses and supporters to spread the love by sponsoring us to bring joy (aka Ice Cream Balls) to underserved communities.

    Goodness Gracious Great Balls is a social change agent disguised as a food bus!

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