We want to thank everyone for being so patient this month and waiting for us to announce October’s finalists. So without further a do here are our finalists for October’s Qualification Grant!

October’s Qualification Grant Finalists

Asbury Farms Cider
Betsy Harris

Betsy has always enjoyed hard cider but would became frustrated that the mass market was offering cider as an autumnal and very sweet beverage. So she began home brewing to better suit her tastes. She enjoyed it so much, that she started Asbury Farms Cider. Asbury Farms Cider is a small, farm-to-glass brewery, which exclusively produces hard cider from apples on their farm.

Bikes ORO
Chelsea Koglmeier
http://www.bikesoro.com

Chelsea’s company, Bikes ORO is working to build a world of linked prosperity, where every individual has the ability to access educational opportunities, professional opportunities, and adequate healthcare facilities. For every bike purchased. They provide wheels for a bike going to someone in need.

Center for Creative Arts Therapy
Azizi Marshall
Website

After a few years of soul searching, Azizi stumbled upon an opportunity to do theatre with inner city youth. Through theatre she saw these kids grow, and learn about a world outside of their existence. They were able to give voice to their struggles and begin to form bonds with not only one another but also with the community.

From there she quickly began studying and obtained her license as a licensed clinical professional counselor, a board certified trainer in drama therapy and a registered expressive arts therapist within 4 years. Azizi wanted to make sure that children and families were able to have access to programs that would not only allow individuals a place to explore and grow, but also the community at large which is how The Center for Creative Arts Therapy was born. The Center for Creative Arts Therapy is an Arts-Based, Psychotherapy Practice and Training Center.

MOR & Co.
Sarah White
Website

MOR & Co. is the outdoor store for city living. Their mission is to help individuals in America’s fastest-growing cities reconnect with the outdoors through fun, high-quality products and empowering experiences (workshops, field trips and events) to inspire more outdoor play in our increasingly urban lives.

Foreign Languages for Kids by Kids
Kit Strauss
Website

Foreign Language for Kids by Kids started when Kit started creating her own games to play at home with her son in French. To her surprise, they were very fun and her son learned rather quickly. He even asked to learn Spanish and then a year later, Chinese. Kit found herself hiring native speakers and training them to play with her son using HER games. More than a decade later, all of her children share a love of foreign language and are proficient, if not fluent, in Spanish and Mandarin, despite two of them having speech-related disabilities.

After her youngest son went to school Kit decided to create her business Foreign Language for Kids by Kids. Her program gives children three and up — and adults — the opportunity to speak and understand spanish in a short time. The words and sentences taught are practical and used in everyday life.

Overcup Press
Rachel Bell
Website

Rachel has worked on and off in the publishing and book sales fields throughout her career. However, print has always been one of her passions – quality content, exceptional paper quality, well thought out and executed book and magazine design are all things that she considers important. As the world moves to a more digital space, she thought it’s important to continue to publish books that are meant to be physical objects which is how the idea of Overcup Press came to be.

Overcup Press is an independent book publisher based in Portland, Oregon. Committed to making books that will thrive in the 21st Century. They specialize in producing unique titles that have a strong design element and illuminate the niches.

As always, thank you for reading! Remember we award a grant every month – if interested, here’s the link to apply!

Stay tuned: We will be announcing the winner next week!

It’s been another crazy month here at WomensNet! A big thank you to everyone who applied this month- You made our decision very difficult!

So without further ado here are our finalists for Septembers Qualification Grant!

Septembers Qualification Grant Finalists

Batter Up! Cakes
Mary Carlson
Website

Batter Up! Cakes is a retail & special order bakery serving the Ligonier, PA and surrounding areas. Products are baked fresh to the customer’s need and all posted menus are general as many more items are able to be made to suit any event or any day treat.

Think Substance, LLC
Linda Montellano Werner
Website

Substance is a luxury hemp clothing line that creates the softest tee. It was created to fill the niche of hemp fashion in the U.S. Hemp requires no herbicides or pesticides, requires less water, is drought resistant and is the perfect rotational crop as it puts minerals back into the soil as it is harvested. Replacing cotton with hemp would be a major step towards a more sustainable future. Lindas super soft, eco friendly fabric, is a winning combination to put a product on the market that aims to heal the planet at all levels.

Mad Science of Greater Salt Lake
Laurie Larsen
Website

Mad Science is a leading science enrichment provider. Their innovative programs help kids learn about science through our fun after-school programs, preschool programs, in-class workshops, camps, birthday parties and special events.

50/50 Projects
Valarie B. Ross
Website

50/50 Projects is a company that offers products with a purpose. From their specialty t-shirts, children’s books, to bottled water. Each product is partnered with a certain giving partner and each giving partner is focused on one of 5 Projects; Clean Water, Early Education, Homeless Rehabilitation, Medical Care, and Global Missions.

Ivalieu
Cathy P. Kellon
Website

Cathy wanted to modernize the bloomers of old with new performance fabrics and thoughtful design details. So she designed Ivalieu with a wide yoke of a waistband that smooths but doesn’t try to squeeze you like you’re a sausage. You know, a waistband that respects you.

As always, thank you for reading! Remember we award a grant every month – if interested, here’s the link to apply!

Stay tuned: We’ll announcing the winner in the next few days!

Good afternoon and happy Monday!

We want to thank everyone for being so patient this month and waiting for us to announce August’s finalists. It’s been a busy last few weeks with labor day festivities, school starting back up, and of course reading through all the inspiring applications!

So without further ado here are our finalists for August’s Qualification Grant!

August Qualification Grant Finalists

Babyation
Samantha Rudolph
Website

Babyation has a re-imagined patent-pending breast pump that far exceeds any currently on the market. Their pump is quiet and our re-imagined form-factor allows a woman to keep her shirt on while pumping. The goal is to allow a woman to be able to pump inconspicuously – wherever she is. The experience is integrated with the user’s cell phone, allowing seamless control as well as an opportunity for “smart” data logging.

Honey Bear Paddle Co.
Kayla Farthing
Website

Kayla has launched a recreational equipment rental company that will specialize in canoe, kayak, and paddleboard rentals. Providing members of her community the opportunity to share her my passion of the outdoors, while offering a fun, healthy way to spend time with friends and family.

ShipRiot
Ginny Townsend
http://www.shipriot.com

ShipRiot is currently working ot become “the Expedia of shipping.” They’re designing a beautiful, easy-to-use site where consumers and small business owners can view all their shipping options on one screen and know that they’re making the best decision for their needs–generally based on either budget or speed.

HoneyMoon Brewery
Ayla Bystrom-Williams
Website

HoneyMoon is my female founded, Santa Fe based, brewery which utilizes both traditional styles of beer brewing and the kombucha style of brewing. HoneyMoon Brewing fits right into the growing Craft Beer Movement by offering traditional beers while also filling a gap in the market with kombucha style beers.

Responsiblr, Inc
Hsin-Ju Chuang

Hsin-Ju started Responsiblr, a bias-free hiring funnel platform because of a problem she constantly ran into at work – a lack of salary transparency & workplace diversity. He companies software anonymizes all resumes that are submitted before passing them over to an employer (and removes names and any indicators of age, gender, or race), then it provides an interface where job seekers can filter & view other anonymized resumes w/ salary figures so that they’ll know how their salary stacks up against real people in their city, w/ similar backgrounds.

As always, thank you for reading! Remember we award a grant every month – if interested, here’s the link to apply!

Stay tuned: We’ll announcing the winner in the next few days!

Hope everyone’s is having a great summer so far!

As always, you ladies have made this a tough month for us, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Without further ado, here are
Julys five finalists.

Check them out and stay tuned! We’ll announcing the winner shortly!

July Qualification Grant Finalists

Women’s Center for Creative Work
Sarah Williams
Website

The Women’s Center for Creative Work is a Los Angeles-based network of women engaged in conversations about contemporary feminisms & creative practices. This passionate group is an enabling architecture providing professional, emotional and artistic nourishment for female driven creative projects.

Sporkables
Christine Lash
Website

Sporkables provides dried, easy-to-reconstitute meals that taste homemade, targeted to hikers and campers. These homemade meals are ordered by campers as needed and are shipped directly to their location on the trail. All you have to do is let them know where you’ll be in 7-10 days and they’ll make sure your home-cooked meals are waiting for you when you get there.

LAARC LLC
Kathrine M. Hak, Ph.D., NCSP, BCBA-D
http://www.laarccottage.com

LAARC (Longmont Autism and Asperger’s Resource Center) began in 2011 as a volunteer support group for parents raising children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disabilities. Over the years, Kathrine, a licensed psychologist, a nationally certified school psychologist and a doctoral level board certified behavior analyst, has worked to meet the needs of her community through individual counseling, behavioral support (ABA), social skills/play skills groups, advocacy and parent support.

My Kid’s Threads
Lisa Batra
Website

Carrying premium brands like Burberry, Catimini, Jottum, and Ralph Lauren, My Kid’s Threads is an online children’s consignment service featuring new and like-new clothing for newborns to age 14. They make it easy and affordable to keep your kids dressed in quality clothes, while their consignment process makes it easy to clean out your kid’s closet and earn some quick cash.

Whistle Tree Books
Dawn Davies
http://www.whistletreebooks.com/

Whistle Tree Books is an online bookshop that provides high-quality children’s books for all stages of reading and pre-reading. They deliver beloved children’s classic and time-tested books of right to your door, taking the guesswork out of it for parents.

As always, thank you for reading! Remember we award a grant every month – if interested, here’s the link to apply!

After another busy month of combing through applications for the WomensNet Amber Grant, we’re excited to announce our 5 finalists for June.

As always, you’ll find each of them listed below with a brief description. Be on the lookout later this week when we announce the winner.

Addicaid
Website
Sam Frons

Addicaid personalizes addiction recovery, connects like-minded people, and helps treatment centers provide a continuum of patient care.

Sample Labs
Website
Emma Polster

Sample Labs helps consumer packaged goods companies — both big and small — launch new products and capture customer feedback.

Eko Haiti
Website
Amanda Bickel

Eko Haiti’s mission is to develop week-long guided tours of Haiti and promote advocacy of responsible tourism instead voluntourism and/or mission trips.

Chef Koochooloo
Website
Layla Sabourian

Chef Koochooloo is an educational platform that teaches science, math and geography through cooking.

Eco-Trendly
Website
Grace Shockey

Eco-Trendly is a social-entrepreneurship boutique that will plant a tree for every purchase made, while they plan to sell fair-trade jewelry and accessories as well.

As always, thank you for reading! Remember we award a grant every month – if interested, here’s the link to apply!

After another great month of applications we’re excited to announce our five finalists for May. They’re all great women doing extraordinary things.

Continue on to learn about all 5 women in business.

RMD Biotech, LLC
Website
Katherine Desy
RMD Biotech, LLC is a start-up company founded by a Syracuse University alumna, Katherine Desy. Her company has created a silver hydrogel wound dressing which helps wounds maintain a moist environment and keeps bad bacteria away, preventing people from getting sick.

Kid-Smart Spaces
Website
Magalie René-Hayes

Foundations Design Group helps independent, charter, and public schools create “Kid-Smart” environments that foster creativity and academic excellence using Professional Organization, Interior Design and Visual Branding. Magalie is changing the way schools look and feel.

Disfunkshion Magazine
Website
Suanny Garcia

Disfunkshion Magazine is a multi-genre national publication with a bohemian-chic aesthetic that produces online content and publishes it in print three times a year. The magazine is committed to redefining the standards of beauty and challenge pop culture by proposing provocative platforms of conversation, educating with substantial research, creating unconventionally copious editorial content and highlighting different ways of life around the world.

Scout Film Festival
Website
Anna Colavito

Scout Film Festival (Scout) is a nonprofit, annual film festival launching in 2016, featuring original short films written, produced and directed by high-school-aged students worldwide. The film festival is to remind teenagers they are individually unique and talented while collectively responsible for the legacy of their generation; through their lens.

Made For | Made By
Website
Katy Stanton

Made For Made By returns purpose to consumerism, giving artists, makers, and design-minded customers a curated platform to give back through the purchase and sale of handcrafted essentials

As always, thank you for reading! Remember we award a grant every month – if interested, here’s the link to apply!

It’s hard to believe that we’re already 4 months into the year. But it’s time to announce our Amber Grant finalists for April!

Best of luck to these 5 women-owned businesses:

Crumb Cap
Website
Sue Yellowtail

Sue was surprised to see a lack of hair bibs for babies and toddlers on the market. So she looked to solve the problem of messy, food filled hair herself, one that she came to know all too well with her 3 young kids.

Max on Snax

Lori Osiecki

Max on Snax® is a children’s edutainment brand that marks an innovative, multi-platform solution to establishing lifelong healthy habits for children. Harnessing the power of character branding, Max aims to make kids active participants in their health from an early age.

Sassy Bambino
http://www.sassybambino.com/
Amanda Holdsworth

In July 2013, Amanda started the Heal-A-Boo-Boo Project, providing free “peek-a-boo-boo” hospital shirts and matching legwarmers to babies and toddlers facing surgery or other medical procedures.

Bleu Harvest
Website
Kari Kramer

Bleu Harvest is a personal chef service, customizing meals for families and individuals. Free time is continuously decreasing for families and individuals, and Bleu Harvest aims to fulfill the need for these people to continue (or begin) eating healthy, delicious, and locally sourced meals.

Fashion Refine
Website
Hazel Andrews

Hazel started a mobile shoe store that allows clients to shop in the comfort of their own home. Shoes are brought to the clients’ home with boutique furnishing, mobile shoe racks and simple classy decor; over finger food, champagne, wine or soft drink they transform clients’ homes into a boutique shoe store.

After another busy month of combing through applications for the WomensNet Amber Grant, we’re excited to announce our 5 finalists for March.

As always, you’ll find each of them listed below with a brief description. Be on the lookout next week when we announce the winner!

Camp Fort Greene
Website
Eisa Ulen Richardson

Camp Fort Greene was founded to provide a quality, low-cost summer experience for children in Brooklyn, NY. In Camp Fort Greene, counselors help young people reach their fullest potential in a warm, nurturing environment where children grow, learn, and play.

Camp Fort Greene
http://www.peoplespaste.com
Kristin Brown

Peoples Paste first began in a Sustainable Business class in 2010. Inspired by the class, Kristin aimed to create a toothpaste without harmful additives — and with recyclable packaging.

Party In-Kindness
Website
Melissa Smith & Shani Hall

Party In-kindness is a charitable organization that wants to change the way people see giving by having them include a giving component to any celebration in a easy, fun and meaningful way. No matter the size of a function, they help bring the individual, their private gathering and a charitable purpose together.

Coolidge Family Farm
Website
Misty L Coolidge

The Coolidge Family Farm has been renovated to host couples and their loved ones for a long weekend wedding getaway. They focus on being a one-stop venue that comes at an affordable price. And if you’re curious, yes: there is a connection to former President Calvin Coolidge.

Daycare Discover
Website
Mo Zhou

The Daycare Discover vision is to create a nationwide database that allows parents to search for available spots and essential information such as prices, reviews, room layouts, teacher and administration backgrounds, diversity, safety, and other information that only can be gained by on-site tours. Their mission is to find viable, quality daycare options for all parents and advocate early childhood education.

The door has closed on February, and hopefully, March can provide much of us relief from the harsh winter weather.

Either way, we’re here to ring in the new month by announcing our newest Amber Grant Finalists. Continue on to learn about all 5 women in business.

Hammerstone School
www.HammerstoneSchool.com
Maria Klemperer-Johnson

Hammerstone School teaches carpentry classes to women. Students in their courses run the gamut from young homesteaders looking for more self sufficiency in their homebuilding projects, to women considering a career in the trades, to retirees hoping to do some satisfying home improvement projects on their own.

Misadventures Magazine
www.MisadventuresMag.com
Zoe Balaconis

Misadventures is a magazine “by and for adventurous women.” They fill their digital and print pages with valuable and unique content ranging from interviews, essays and travel photography, to do-it-yourself guides, gear reviews, and music, book and film recommendations that appeal specifically to female adventurers.

Hopeful Health
www.MyHopefulHealth.com
Hope Mangiafico

Hopeful Health specializes in personalized training sessions for people living with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Sessions are designed to meet each individual’s needs and physical abilities through proper exercise, nutrition, education and guidance.

Stories in Time
www.Stories-In-Time.com
Amy Peirce

Stories in Time is an avenue for the documentation of stories, memories and reflections for current and future generations. Amy’s driven by her desire to help others tell their stories, ones that are all too often lost.

Westbrook Innovation
Amy Elizabeth Westbrook

Amy is starting a “creative house” for launching original concepts and solutions for business, branding and individuals. Her first signature trademarked solution will be dubbed, “BRANDOVERS” whereby clients (small to medium sized businesses) receive a customized approach to telling their story, to rework or completely “do over” their brand.

It’s hard to believe, but we’re already one month into 2015.

What we can believe is just how many amazing grant applications have flown our way. We’ve narrowed it down to 5 finalists, and they’re all listed below (as always, in no particular order) with a mini bio.

We’ll soon announce the January Amber Grant Award winner, so stay tuned!

January Qualification Grant Finalists:

Neqtr
www.Neqtr.com
Sonya Davis

Neqtr is a socially conscious mobile app. They connect people through cause preferences and lifestyle interests and help them meet through planned dates at local volunteer opportunities and charity events. Thus, they help individuals find quality partners with shared passions.

PinkThink
www.Pinkthink.org
Makeda Ricketts

PinkThink creates interest-oriented and peer-supported web and mobile games that make (S)cience, (T)echnology, (E)ngineering, and (M)ath education powerful, relevant, and engaging for girls ages 8-14. The whole premise of PinkThink is to connect the social and fun activities that girls typically enjoy to education and learning.

iMustHavit
www.Imusthavit.com
Rachelle Amar

iMustHavit is a multilingual product and service navigation app. It connects users with the products and services around them that aren’t easily found otherwise. The app is not just limited to consumer products and services, but also will inform the user about other services, such as civil, government and human rights, which can be unnavigable due to language barriers.

braGGs Reconstruction Bras
www.braGGsonline.com
Kara Gorski

braGGs Reconstruction Bras helps breast cancer survivors and previvors nurture their sense of beauty, comfort and confidence with a patent-pending bra solution that meets their unique needs. The inspiration was borne out of necessity and from a desire to have something positive come from a disease that has ultimately defined their lives since childhood.