Incubator and accelerator programs now open to Black entrepreneurs within the spirits industry ATLANTA, GA – February 22, 2022 – Enrollment is now open for Pronghorn’s incubator and accelerator programs. Pronghorn is an independent company dedicated to expanding diversity within the alcohol industry by cultivating and investing in the next generation of Black founders, executives, and entrepreneurs in a sustainable and scalable way. The initiativ...

Chicago – February 23, 2022: Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® (wegg®) – a Chicago-based nonprofit organization with a mission to educate, inspire and nurture women business owners and entrepreneurs worldwide—announced today that Lifeway Foods CEO Julie Smolyansky is the first recipient of the Gail Adinamis wegg® Award for Exemplary Global Leadership™.The award honors a wegg stakeholder who has gone out of her way to connect, create, contribute an...

Why are we celebrating? We're now B Corp Certified! We are ecstatic to announce that EcoPlum® is now a B Corporation, certified by nonprofit B Lab. We are so proud to add this credential to our sustainable promotional products business. Certified B Corporations are leaders in the global movement for an inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy. What is a B Corporation...And Why Should You Care?A B Corp certified company meets the highest sta...

RALEIGH, N.C., December 27 – Monica Smiley, CEO and publisher of Enterprising Women magazine, has appointed Laura Chiesman,Rebecca Contreras and Renee Pepys Lowe to the Enterprising Women Advisory Board. “Laura Chiesman, Rebecca Contreras and Renee Pepys Lowe are each dynamic business leaders who have achieved phenomenal business success but also are tremendous role models for service to their communities and the advancement of other women. As su...

RALEIGH, N.C., November 3 – Monica Smiley, CEO and publisher of Enterprising Women magazine, has appointed Carolyn Covington, Seema Chawla and Shital Daftari to the Enterprising Women Advisory Board. “Carolyn Covington, Seema Chawla and Shital Daftari each exemplify extraordinary inspiration, perseverance and talent. Enterprising Women is proud to welcome them to lend their leadership to our organization as members of our Advisory Board,” said Sm...

HOUSTON, Texas (Oct. 22, 2021) – Lemonade Day, a national non-profit committed to preparing youth for life through a unique entrepreneurial and experiential program, announced its 2021 National Youth Entrepreneur of the Year: Nine-year-old Brianna Garcia of Harbor City, Calif., who participated in the Lemonade Day Lomita program this summer. “As our founder Michael Holthouse often says, ‘Attributes of a successful entrepreneur correlate to those ...

Stephanie Thompson, STEMpreneur Extraordinaire.“Spiders are cool,” thought seven-year-old Stephanie Thompson who was encouraged by her father to inspect and appreciate the arachnids. That same curiosity has led Stephanie throughout her career. Today, this successful STEMpreneur, Engineering Leader at General Motors, First Robotics Mentor and Founder of STEMwithSTEPH, a popular lay-women social gathering, uses curiosity as a contagion to inspire t...

Percentage of Women on Boards of Wisconsin Top 50 Public Companies Reaches All-Time High;Report Includes First Research on Women of Color on Wisconsin Public Company Boards MILWAUKEE – October 11, 2021…..Milwaukee Women inc (MWi), a nonprofit organization that works to achieve balanced representation of women on boards of directors to maximize the performance of Wisconsin businesses, today released its 18th annual research report, “Making an Impa...

(Elgin, Illinois)— Sept. 22, 2021 –Rieke Office Interiors (ROI) of Elgin, Illinois announced today that The Globee® Awards, organizers of world’s premier business awards programs and business ranking lists, has named Rieke Office Interiors, a winner in the 9th Annual 2021 CEO World Awards. These prestigious global awards recognize disruptive technologies and innovative solutions that are transforming consumer experiences everywhere. ROI won a Sil...

(Chicago, Illinois & Miami, Florida) Aug. 23, 2021—Latinas Rising Up In HR, a book by Leadership Catalyst Priscilla Guasso presenting inspirational stories of aspiring human resources professionals who overcame obstacles and defied statistics to achieve their dreams in corporate America and in the nonprofit sector and as entrepreneurs announced its six inaugural scholarship winners. The book awarded three college or post-grad student scholars...

LATINA Style Inc., the premier company addressing the needs of Latina professionals and business owners in the United States, proudly announces the LATINA Style 50 Report for 2016. Now in its 19th year, the annual report sets the standard for identifying corporations that are providing the best career opportunities for Latinas in the country. The LATINA Style 50 Report is the most respected evaluation of corporate America's career advancement opp...

Community & Economic Development Leader Vonesha Mitchell Joins as Executive Director; Non-Profit Operations Expert Lamisa Hasan Joins as Program ManagerNEW ORLEANS – July 8, 2021 – The Women’s Business Enterprise Council South (WBEC South), a regional partner organization of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), announces that it has launched the Women’s Business Center South in Memphis, Tenn. The U.S. Small Business Admin...