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.

First off, WomensNet would like to personally thank everyone for another great year, none of which would be possible without you. We’re so excited to see what 2015 brings us. But, before we get too carried away we still have business to take care of from 2014.

This December we had so many inspiring and well thought out applications making it extremely hard to narrow it down to five finalists- so we changed it Six!

The finalists are listed below. Take a look at their businesses, congratulate them and stay tuned, we’re announcing the winner early next week!

ESL Basics
www.ESLbasics.com
Andrea Giordano

ESL Basics is centered on teaching English through video lessons. So far Andrea has had over 1,000,000 views of her English lessons. With every video lesson she creates, she seek to connects with each learner, giving them an authentic experience with a native English speaking ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher.

Electric Ink
www.myelectricink.com
Corianne Powell

Electric Ink sells gold temporary tattoos that symbolize the power and independence that defines young women. The Electric Ink Company chooses ambitious, young woman at each of its schools to represent their brand, teaching them how to run a small business and empowering them to become entrepreneurs. For each temporary tattoo sold, Electric Ink donates a portion of the proceeds to a philanthropy chosen by the young women buyers themselves.

HUSH Experience
www.hushexperience.com
Frances Tang

Hush Experience designs pop up date night, dinner party experiences for couples who are looking for something different than the same old night out- or who just do not have the time and energy to plan. An exclusive prix fixe menu by a local chef, live entertainment, crafted cocktails, great company and a secret location is provided while only the time, day and theme of the event is revealed to guests. Attendees meet at a central location that is disclosed two days before the event and are whisked away to a once-in-a-lifetime, unforgettable evening.

Hammerstone School
www.hammerstoneschool.com
Maria Klemperer-Johnson

Hammerstone School aims to empower women and non-women alike to use their bodies and minds for creative and useful ends by teaching carpentry classes. By increasing the skills of individual women, Hammerstone hopes to increase the number of women in the trades, and ultimately change workplaces for women in and outside of the trades.

Functional Pelvis
www.functionalpelvis.com
Lindsey Vestal

The Functional Pelvis, Inc. is a private physical and occupational therapy practice dedicated to improving the lives of women and men who suffer from pelvic floor dysfunction and complications.

Though an embarrassing dinner topic for some, pelvic floor dysfunction affects millions of people (33% of women alone) who often don’t know that proven therapeutic exercises and non-surgical treatments are available which can drastically improve their quality of life when suffering from urinary and fecal incontinence, urge incontinence, chronic constipation, pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic pain.

The Functional pelvis empowers all people to regain control of the most basic human functions.

Hazel Lane
Hazel Lane
Samantha Strom & Ashley Dekellis

Hazel Lane, (founded by Sam and Ash) is a previous grant winner of ours from April, 2014. Their goal is to help everyone explore the world without the hassle of tourist traps, expensive flights and currency exchange rates.

Every month Hazel Lane send’s you a carefully curated box of surprise goodies from a selected city that represents it’s spirit. They feature innovative, organic, vegan and sustainable items.

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

It’s been another crazy month here at WomensNet! This month, along with some small site changes, there was a record number of applicant’s -with some truly inspiring stories. You ladies keep impressing us – and making it harder and harder to narrow things down each month. It wasn’t easy, but somehow we managed. Without further ado, here are November’s five finalists for our new qualification grants.

Check them out and stay tuned! We’ll announce the winner next week!

November Qualification Grant Finalists:

Élevé Activewear
365startupgirl Website
Amy Jo Miller

Élevé Activewear was born out of frustration over the lack of functional underwear for women to wear while exercising. After searching the market for proper undies to wear under yoga pants Amy decided she might as well put her ideas and expertise to good use!

Stretch Recipes
www.stretchrecipes.com
Lauren Foster

Stretch Recipes is on a mission to help people eat better and save more. They’re in the process of creating an app that will help allow shoppers to enter their budget, choose their meals, and automatically receive their shopping list with coupons. Stretch also hosts cooking class experiences to teach people how to cook on a tight budget.

Pole Pressure
www.polepressure.com
Jessalynn Medairy

Pole Pressure is a Pole fitness brand that focuses on gymnastics and dance technique on Pole. Jessalyn has created a License Program to allow her brand to grow in a more feasible way than franchising. With the new licensing program she can use the name ‘Pole Pressure’ to people to start teaching their own Pole Pressure classes in any type of facility; a concept similar to Zumba.

The Serene Bean
www.serenebeanespresso.com
Nicole M.Neal

The Serene Bean Espresso Catering is a portable full service coffee and brunch company. They bring the coffeehouse to you, (indoors & outdoors!) Serene Bean can compliment your current catering service or work as your solo choice of vendor. It’s like having a charming Italian Café at your event.

Spicy Guys
www.spicyguyspretzels.com
Tammy Ogren

Tammy and her friend Mary are the founders of Spicy Guys Pretzels. Spicy Guys makes seasoned, flavored pretzels in three flavors: Original Spicy, Extra Spicy, and Smoky Sweet BBQ. Their Pretzels transforms boring, old pretzels into a gourmet snack.

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