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campaign to make Washington, DC
the most influential and supportive
city for women entrepreneurs in the
United States.

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Building Inclusive Ecosystems with Intentionality: A Strategy to Enhance Support for DC's Women Founders

What is BEACON?

BEACON is a community-led initiative to make D.C. the most influential and supportive city in the nation for women entrepreneurs. With partners across the public and private sectors, BEACON amplifies opportunities and connects women entrepreneurs to each other, and to the resources they need.

Entrepreneurs can:

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Submit an event that supports women entrepreneurs.

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Ecosystem Builders can:

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Help Us Build DC's Most Complete Directory of

Women-Owned Businesses

Just Rock Enterprises

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

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..

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

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.

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.

Janet Bandows Koster

Executive Director & CEO

Association for Women in Science

AWIS is a global network that inspires bold leadership, research, and solutions that advance women in STEM, spark innovation, promote organizational success, and drive systemic change.

Alexandra Suchman

Owner and Problem Solver

AIS Collaborations

I help people who do good work be able to work even better. I work with small businesses and small non-profits to overcome the day to day operating challenges that can eat up way too much time, money, and energy and interfere with focus on the mission. I help identify very simple, customized solutions that specifically address the challenged faces by leadership and their teams.

Events

For Women, By Women, We All Belong Here

"Food Sanity: 8 weeks to finding freedom and joy around food"

"Food Sanity: 8 weeks to finding freedom & joy around food" is an 8-week, virtual group coaching program for women who want to heal their relationship with food and their body, and know the answer isn't in willpower or portion control.

Food Sanity is also available in Spanish as "Volviendo al cuerpo, en paz con la comida".

Click to enroll https://linasalazar.teachable.com/

Complimentary Wealth Management Consultation

Virtual Consultation by Phone or Zoom

In honor of Veterans Day, Harris & Harris Wealth Management Group will be offering a complimentary wealth management consultation to Women Veterans, Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard, and women civilians who work for the military.

Register for Your Complimentary Wealth Consultation at: harrisandharris.eventbrite.com

Offer Expires June 1st.

Complimentary Wealth Management Consultation

Virtual Consultation by Phone or Zoom

In honor of Memorial Day, Harris & Harris Wealth Management Group will be offering 20-minute complimentary wealth management consultations to Women Veterans, Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard, and women civilians who work for the military. Register for Your Complimentary Wealth Consultation at: harrisandharris.eventbrite.com Offer Expires June 1st.

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