2018 Grant Program

BEACON is a community-led
campaign to make Washington, DC
the most influential and supportive
city for women entrepreneurs in the
United States.

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Check out BEACON's latest report:
Building Inclusive Ecosystems with Intentionality: A Strategy to Enhance Support for DC's Women Founders

Becoming Beacon

Our goal is to make Washington, DC a model city to demonstrate how investors, companies, mentors and government can work together to ensure women entrepreneurs have an equal opportunity to succeed.

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Help Us Build DC's Most Complete Directory of

Women-Owned Businesses

Founder, Owner, Designer

Meaning “smile/laughter” in Swahili, Kicheko Goods is a socially conscious company that designs distinctive pieces which invest in education. Founded in 2014, Kicheko is an emerging brand made in DC. Concepts for the brand’s small batch collections are inspired by geometry, nature, and travel. Kicheko's aesthetic shares an unrefined boldness, sophisticated earthiness and playful simplicity..

Just Rock Enterprises

Just Rock offers music, dance and pe instruction via private, group and workshop experiences throughout the DMV.

Vanessa Ferragut

Greenease is a mobile app that connects consumers with restaurants, cafes and grocers that buy from local and/or sustainable farms.

Krystin Hargrove

Empowomant is a for-profit social impact organization, empowering women to live with intention. We explore 3 core areas: self, family, and career applying our 3 step method of vision, work, and follow through to support women seeking personal and professional alignment. Through collaboration, we work to empower women around the world.

Find the support for your women-owned business

Resources

Young African Professionals Network (YAP)

The Young African Professionals (YAP DC) Network is the premier conveners of events and opportunities for young African diaspora professionals ages 21-40. We provide timely and relevant resources, we facilitate innovative professional development experiences, we foster inspirational networking, and we encourage impactful community building.

Advancement Strategist

Halcyon is a creativity incubator for both social entrepreneurs and socially-conscious artists. Halcyon Incubator, our flagship program, is a competitive, 13-month fellowship program, which includes a 5-month residency, to support the most promising early-stage social entrepreneurs in the world. Incubator accepts 2 cohorts of 8 social enterprises each year and has worked more than 60 ventures.

WOE (Women Own Excellence ) Magazin

WOE( Women Own Excellence) is the go-to guide designed to create a culture and lifestyle of excellence for women. Our focus is inspiration, style, self-empowerment and all around empowerment.

We are committed to delivering insightful and thought-provoking articles about women sharing failures, celebrating successes, and embracing moments of growth across the globe.

BigSpool is an e-commerce company creating consumer products with rapid production tools to fulfill niche market demands. We're creating goods people want, but cannot find.

Events

For Women, By Women, We All Belong Here

1 Million Cups Washington, D.C. Feb 20, 2019

WeWork Metropolitan Square

We are proud to bring 1 Million Cups to Washington, D.C. bi-weekly. Be part of a global movement to caffeinate our ecosystem and make a profound impact on a monthly basis, on the second and last Wednesday morning 8:30am-10:00am at WeWork Metropolitan Square D.C.

Please register to ensure proper beverage count.

Doing Business in China

Global Policy Institute

Are you looking at becoming an Exporter? Do you already do business abroad and looking for support to grow your business across the Asian region? Hear from out panel of International Experts on how to accelerate success and become a world class business.

Event is FREE, but requires registration to insure proper food/beverage quantity.

Featured event of National Entrepreneurship Week.

Paint, Sip & Support Healing and Empowering Women!

third space wellness

Join us for a fun Paint & Sip fundraising to help HEW support our ongoing and upcoming programs.

HEW, is a nonprofit that provides a safe space and holistic care and support for adult women in the DMV who are survivors or of victims domestic violence.

To learn more visit- www.dchew.org

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