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

Donate to support our business directory and flagship programs

Resource Providers, see what you can do to support DC's women founders:
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:

Sign-up for the BEACON Newsletter.

Register for the BEACON Directory as a woman-identifying business owner (it's free!).

Submit an event that supports women entrepreneurs.

Find a resource to support your needs

Identify and connect with women entrepreneurs

 

Ecosystem Builders can:

Sign-up for the BEACON Newsletter.

Add a resource to the BEACON Resource Index.

Submit an event that supports women entrepreneurs.

Help Us Build DC's Most Complete Directory of

Women-Owned Businesses

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Krystin Hargrove
Founder
Empowomant
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.
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Sarah Bayot
Founder, Owner, Designer
Kicheko Goods
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..
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Shelita White
President
Just Rock Enterprises
Just Rock offers music, dance and pe instruction via private, group and workshop experiences throughout the DMV.
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Find the support for your women-owned business

Resources

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Elaine Pinson
Advancement Strategist
Halycon
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.
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Aisha Saaka
Co-Founder
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.
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Hilary Longo
Principal
Marketing Habit
Marketing Habit offers strategic marketing services to B2B, high tech companies, with innovative programs for corporate marketing, product marketing, and ecosystem program development and management. We deliver high level marketing vision paired with tactical execution for real, measurable client results. Learn more at www.marketing-habit.com
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Events

For Women, By Women, We All Belong Here

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Thru
20
Oct 2019
NASA's Space Apps Challenge
George Washington University

Innovators in cities around the world compete over the course of a weekend to engage with NASA’s open data to address real-world problems on Earth and in space to create change for social impact. International Finalists are selected from over thousands of participants in over 200 events in 75 countries globally.

Tue
22
Oct
Techstars Startup Weekend D.C., Space
Walter E. Washington Convention Center

The next Startup Weekend is focusing on SPACE. That means you’ll be joining like-minded designers, techies and business people in creating an organization aimed at commercializing space/expanding the space economy. This is a broad topic that could include everything from fixing orbital debris (space traffic management) to outposts on the moon to asteroid mining.

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