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In eight years, has grown from a small nonprofit organization run by three Boulder women to an organization with $5.4 million in sales of beaded jewelry and shea butter products last year (and a 2012 nomination for More magazine’s Job Genius Awards for innovators who have found ways to create jobs for women). Sixty percent of that money was returned to Ugandan women who made the products and farmers who grow shea nuts, as well as to support programs to eradicate poverty and benefit African communities. The products are sold online and at bead parties such as the one the group’s board of directors is hosting Wednesday in Boulder. It’s free to host a party — there were 3,000 held last year — and it’s a great way to earn money for a good cause, says spokeswoman Amy Yanda Lee. New to the product line for fall are earrings, a long necklace and shea butter products with African lemongrass and lavender fragrance, including Shea Soap, $4; Shea Sugar Scrub, $21; and Shea Body Crème, $19. BeadforLife party, 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, 3014 W. Jefferson St., Boulder. Questions? E-mail amy@beadforlife.org.