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Crowdpac’s Funding Engine is Powering Women Candidates
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth part in a series on women-founded and -led organizations working to expand female political representation in the U.S. by recruiting, training and funding women…
Women Firefighters Now Fighting for Their Reproductive Health
Women firefighters need help. Some are now coming to the rescue. (Credit: Spapa003, Wikimedia Commons) Training to be a firefighter is grueling. So is the work itself. Women are more…
The Independent Life – Katie Niemeyer
The idea for Handana, an absorbent wristband to wear during workouts, came to entrepreneur Katie Niemeyer while she was training for a marathon. Niemeyer is a survivor of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome…
Fathima Afrin & Fathima Sameera: Two Young Fashion Entrepreneurs Build Their Business
…starting? Afeera is a combination of our last names, Afrin and Sameera. We are two young girls without business training, but right after finishing 12th grade we wanted to do…
The Hussain Sisters: Veranda at Five– Combining Pakistani Tradition with Contemporary Design
…other challenge we face constantly is a lack of training among artisans here. They are brilliant, talented and very proficient, but are used to their own way of working and…
Jamille Jones: Prosperity Ventures– Helping Others Gain Financial Independence
…my life just a bit more flexible. So I struggled through my training courses even while in the hardest point of my life. Both my grandmother and father were in…
Weathering Sickness and Staff Issues While Building a Thriving Pilates Venture
…last year the operation offered roughly 650 private and group classes per month. Zang also has an active paid teacher-training program, and offers several scholarships to people who need financial…
How a Social Entrepreneur Won Millions of Dollars in Grants
…was training hundreds of volunteers to do the same in their communities. Rana Dajani of We Love Reading What’s particularly notable to me is how Dajani appears to have easily…
6 Tips on How to Think Like an Immigrant
…buildings, which allowed me to focus on my true mission: to help women flex their own entrepreneurial muscles by empowering, training and connecting them to one another and to the…
She’s Helping Vulnerable Expats Find Their Footing
…begin her own project, thus Global Expats Therapy was born. Darmenko utilizes her knowledge of the international world and her training as a psychologist to work with expats who are…
Remembering Those Who Served: 7 Companies Run By Female Veterans
…the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program. The Denver-based company uses military surplus material to make durable and fashion-forward bags. Sword & Plough may have been destined to start, as the…
‘Use Your Life Experience to Do Something Great’
…she says. “My marketing training was traditional — I’m 61.” She adds that the extent of her tech training came in the form of a coding class taken during her…
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Artists and Artisans
…where women can sell what they make. WPMarket also partners with similarly driven organizations to further its goal, and runs programs like the “Artisan Thrive Training Program,” which teaches them…
A Surprising Path Out of Domestic Abuse: Entrepreneurship
…personal finance skills and helping women get bank accounts and repair bad credit. Some partner with job-training groups or pursue money from abusers in court. But new programs are cropping…