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Help Women-Owned Small Businesses
The Village for Women will provide an immersive online community that supports and empowers businesswomen, giving them a “real world” platform to network, build referral relationships, post and accept projects, swap business knowledge, find support & empathy from like-minded women, & more.
" I love that you have thought of multiple angles- both professional and the more home-based and personal needs. To be honest, I am not sure what else is out there in this realm but it seems you have addressed all angles. The balance of time between home-family needs and work hours, having access to professionals that can support growth for women in business. I don’t know what I don’t know and oftentimes cannot afford to hire a professional in each area of expertise to launch my own business and am only starting." Kristen E. - Sevi's smile. "
Angelle's Story:
“It was January 25th and I was at a birthday party. As I walked to the door to leave the party I saw my grandmother at the door. She didn’t say a word but her eyes told the story. I knew my sweet sister was gone. The weight of my body became too much for my legs to bare and I fell to the ground weeping uncontrollably. I can’t recall any other parts of the day except what happened next. My girlfriends running to me and picking me up off of the ground. It was just the first of many times a community of women would lift me up in a time of need.
My younger sister, Crissy, suffered from a rare terminal illness. When Crissy was 5 my family was granted one of the very first wishes by the Children’s Wish Endowment, a local non-profit wish-granting organization. The wish gave our family some time to focus on happy memories made together and forget, for a bit, the limited time left ahead. Four years later, Crissy passed away at the age of 9.”
After Crissy’s passing Angelle wanted to give back. She became heavily involved with the Wish Foundation. First, as a volunteer at the age of 12, alongside her mother and eventually becoming the President of the organization after over 20 years of service. Of that board, 10 of the 12 members were women. Once again lifting up others in a time of need.
Angelle is now a mother of 4 whose husband has a demanding job. He is gone for upwards of 12 hours a day, leaving her with the responsibility of the children’s activities, school, carpool, volunteerism and caring for her 2-year-old, while maintaining her full-time remote job.
“Being heavily involved in my children’s schools, the community at large, and managing my career in travel became a seemingly endless to-do list. There had to be a solution to managing home responsibilities, career goals, and give back to the community, something I felt strongly about and was not willing to give up due to my other responsibilities.”
How often do you feel like there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish your goals? How often do you find yourself saying, there has to be a better way? How often do you feel like you could get ahead if you just knew where to turn? Empathy is a characteristic common to all and while most display empathy in times of strife, women immobilize and put that emotion into action. This platform will highlight the inherent traits of women helping women and empower them to succeed.
Cindy's Story:
“I come from a family of entrepreneurs and watched the rollercoaster of success and failures they experienced as business owners. I learned to stand up after a fall and work hard to achieve success. The successes I’ve witnessed my father as well as my grandmother achieve with pride.
In February of 1996, I bought a one-way ticket to the United States with the dream to follow in my dad’s steps at Berkeley University. I was determined to create my own path of success in corporate America.
I worked 3 jobs while going to school full time and while I couldn’t afford Berkeley I was proud to have landed my first job at a Fortune 300 company shortly after graduating. I started as executive assistance, and within 6 months I was promoted to marketing coordinator, followed by marketing director and finally the marketing and communications director. "
Cindy was on the fast-track to success. All of the pieces of her career were seamlessly falling into place. That also happened to be the time when Cindy and her husband expanded their family. The typical conversation around how they would tackle two careers while taking care of their new baby concluded, as many do, with the decision for Cindy to stay home.
Cindy loved her time at home and cherished being present through the milestones and the moments in-between, but she also yearned for personal career growth. To fill that need, Cindy decided to start her own business.
The demands of Cindy's business continue to grow, but she finds the majority of the day-to-day family responsibilities still fall onto her plate. This puts her at a crossroads. How can Cindy find the balance to successfully perform her work duties, research ways to grow her business, and still be present for her family?
As two female business owners currently struggling with keeping our businesses afloat in this economy, maintaining the everyday demands of our jobs, being the main homemaker of our households, while also supporting our children during virtual learning, we are living and breathing the challenges facing many women in our same position.
We both saw so many things broken about the support women in business get.
Exploring options for support, we realized that there are very few platforms available that truly meet women where they are and provide the help and collaboration that positively contributes to these unique challenges we currently face… at least outside of a winery.
As we shared our stories and recognized the commonality of the major challenges facing businesswomen, our vision for The Village for Women grew. We recognized the urgent need for a business platform that focuses on real, actionable, sustainable solutions unique to this segment. Living and breathing the challenges that face so many women in business today, Cindy and Angelle decided to team up to create a platform that could change the way women balance work and life—for good.
WOMEN NEED THIS
We know the power of women. We’ve seen the endless color-coded to-do lists meshing business and family like it’s no big deal. We’ve witnessed the unrivaled management of stressors that would make any weaker person crumble, and we’ve experienced the problem-solving prowess that creates change and growth in transformative ways.
We know that the current status quo is unsustainable. Whether a woman is an entrepreneur or a sidepreneur, women’s household responsibilities still overwhelmingly eclipse men’s. This means many of us are out there working later, rising earlier, and going to bed with seemingly endless to-do lists—often while our spouse sleeps peacefully (and snoring like a steamboat) by our sides. As these to-do lists grow to the point of being insurmountable, the path to burnout seems inevitable as many women try to find a balance between career and home.
We believe that WE—the collective “WE” of working women everywhere—have the unique ability to find a solution to this pattern of burnout.
Women need a platform that allows them to fast-track their success, achieve peak performance, and find support in key areas of business growth such as sales and operations, marketing and communications, and financial planning. We also need a safe place for humor and to destress (no Karens allowed).
They also need to be cheered on and supported by a group of women who truly “get it.” In addition to business support, The Village for Women will provide real-life support with resources such as sounding boards and “daily life” forums to parenting tips and the occasional perfect recipe for a skinny margarita.
We are asking your help in taking The Village for Women from a simple vision to a national movement!
WHAT IS THE VILLAGE FOR WOMEN?
The Village for Women will be a collaborative network and freelance workforce platform where we work together to connect each other with a diverse set of female entrepreneurs. The platform will be used to share expertise, empower business growth, and, most importantly, support the unique challenges that female entrepreneurs face.
This platform will include:
Referral Network. We believe in the power of women lifting women, and that’s what this referral network is all about. Get to know the businesses of fellow womenpreneurs and share your story while giving—and receiving—referrals.
Business Collaboration. Women working together are a force to be reckoned with. In The Village For Women, you’ll find an entire national network of like-minded women to collaborate with on ideas, projects, and business partnerships.
Contract Jobs Platform. Are you a project-based freelancer or do you have a project you need help with? Explore our contract jobs platform to view projects that need a filling or post your own project—all while supporting women-led businesses.
Marketing & Growth Strategies. This is our Village thinktank. Here, we share our expertise, ideas, and collective knowledge with other women-led businesses to help accelerate growth and propel success. Join in—your business will thank you for it.
Work/Life Balance Support. This is the part of The Village that truly stands out from other networking opportunities. This is because you’re (finally) in a community that understands and celebrates the unique challenge that businesswomen face.
Events & Workshops. The events and workshops at The Village will help bring our community to life. From meet and greets to lunch-and-learn, book clubs to wine nights, you’ll enjoy opportunities that fuel your business, mind, and spirit.
HOW THE FUNDS WILL BE USED
We sincerely believe in the impact that The Village For Women will have in providing support, growth opportunities, learning experiences, collaboration, and more within the female business community. However, we know that a platform that does everything we’ve dreamed up and more will take a team of experts to design and deploy. All of the funds through this campaign will go directly toward building and marketing The Village.
Legal and Business Fees
Platform Development, Design, & Programming
Marketing and Communications Expenses
National Affiliations
Growing our Network
FAST FACTS ABOUT WOMEN IN BUSINESS
53% more women than men quit jobs to care for children. It is estimated that 43% of women quit their jobs upon having children due to the pull of family responsibilities, compared to an estimated 28% of men.
We’re doing it on our own. Typically, women-owned businesses employ 0.7 workers, compared to 1.8 in all privately held businesses and 3.8 for all firms (including publicly traded companies).
Women-owned businesses made $0.30 for every $1 that privately-held companies made in 2019—and the disparity is increasing, not decreasing. The revenue disparity between women-owned businesses and all privately held businesses has increased since 1997. For every dollar that a privately held company generated, women-owned businesses generated 37 cents in 1997 and 30 cents in 2019. In 2019, women-owned businesses averaged earnings of $142,900 compared to $474,900 for all privately held businesses and $1.4 million for all firms (including publicly traded companies).
Does either of these entrepreneurships apply to you? Necessity entrepreneurs cannot find quality employment or are unemployed. Their only viable employment option is to start a business. This definition also includes women who, though employed, need to supplement their income. During good economic times, necessity entrepreneurship declines. Flexibility entrepreneurs start their own businesses because workforce policies do not accommodate their caregiving responsibilities, or they desire more control over when and where they work. Opportunity entrepreneurs see possibilities in the market that they want to exploit. They are more likely to enter the market in good economic times than in bad. These businesses tend to have a higher rate of survival and better growth prospects than their necessity and flexibility counterparts.”
Women are scarce at the top and overrepresented at the bottom. Women make up 63% of workers earning the federal minimum wage. By contrast, women represent only 5% of CEOs at Fortune 500 firms. In the United States, only 17% of the top 1% income group are women.
Women CEOs are Paid Less. In 2009, only 24 percent of CEOs in the U.S. were women, and they earned 74.5% as much as male CEOs.
The wage gap still exists. Among full-tie workers, women earned less than 81 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2016. If part-time workers were included, the gap would be even wider since women are more likely to work reduced schedules to manage childrearing and other caregiving work.
SOURCES:
https://s1.q4cdn.com/692158879/files/doc_library/file/2019-state-of-women-owned-businesses-report.pdf
https://givingcompass.org/article/why-covid-19-is-hitting-women-entrepreneurs-harder-than-men/
https://inequality.org/facts/gender-inequality/
https://www.ilo.org/washington/areas/gender-equality-in-the-workplace/WCMS_159496/lang--en/index.htm
Help Women-Owned Small Businesses
The Village for Women will provide an immersive online community that supports and empowers businesswomen, giving them a “real world” platform to network, build referral relationships, post and accept projects, swap business knowledge, find support & empathy from like-minded women, & more.
" I love that you have thought of multiple angles- both professional and the more home-based and personal needs. To be honest, I am not sure what else is out there in this realm but it seems you have addressed all angles. The balance of time between home-family needs and work hours, having access to professionals that can support growth for women in business. I don’t know what I don’t know and oftentimes cannot afford to hire a professional in each area of expertise to launch my own business and am only starting." Kristen E. - Sevi's smile. "
Angelle's Story:
“It was January 25th and I was at a birthday party. As I walked to the door to leave the party I saw my grandmother at the door. She didn’t say a word but her eyes told the story. I knew my sweet sister was gone. The weight of my body became too much for my legs to bare and I fell to the ground weeping uncontrollably. I can’t recall any other parts of the day except what happened next. My girlfriends running to me and picking me up off of the ground. It was just the first of many times a community of women would lift me up in a time of need.
My younger sister, Crissy, suffered from a rare terminal illness. When Crissy was 5 my family was granted one of the very first wishes by the Children’s Wish Endowment, a local non-profit wish-granting organization. The wish gave our family some time to focus on happy memories made together and forget, for a bit, the limited time left ahead. Four years later, Crissy passed away at the age of 9.”
After Crissy’s passing Angelle wanted to give back. She became heavily involved with the Wish Foundation. First, as a volunteer at the age of 12, alongside her mother and eventually becoming the President of the organization after over 20 years of service. Of that board, 10 of the 12 members were women. Once again lifting up others in a time of need.
Angelle is now a mother of 4 whose husband has a demanding job. He is gone for upwards of 12 hours a day, leaving her with the responsibility of the children’s activities, school, carpool, volunteerism and caring for her 2-year-old, while maintaining her full-time remote job.
“Being heavily involved in my children’s schools, the community at large, and managing my career in travel became a seemingly endless to-do list. There had to be a solution to managing home responsibilities, career goals, and give back to the community, something I felt strongly about and was not willing to give up due to my other responsibilities.”
How often do you feel like there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish your goals? How often do you find yourself saying, there has to be a better way? How often do you feel like you could get ahead if you just knew where to turn? Empathy is a characteristic common to all and while most display empathy in times of strife, women immobilize and put that emotion into action. This platform will highlight the inherent traits of women helping women and empower them to succeed.
Cindy's Story:
“I come from a family of entrepreneurs and watched the rollercoaster of success and failures they experienced as business owners. I learned to stand up after a fall and work hard to achieve success. The successes I’ve witnessed my father as well as my grandmother achieve with pride.
In February of 1996, I bought a one-way ticket to the United States with the dream to follow in my dad’s steps at Berkeley University. I was determined to create my own path of success in corporate America.
I worked 3 jobs while going to school full time and while I couldn’t afford Berkeley I was proud to have landed my first job at a Fortune 300 company shortly after graduating. I started as executive assistance, and within 6 months I was promoted to marketing coordinator, followed by marketing director and finally the marketing and communications director. "
Cindy was on the fast-track to success. All of the pieces of her career were seamlessly falling into place. That also happened to be the time when Cindy and her husband expanded their family. The typical conversation around how they would tackle two careers while taking care of their new baby concluded, as many do, with the decision for Cindy to stay home.
Cindy loved her time at home and cherished being present through the milestones and the moments in-between, but she also yearned for personal career growth. To fill that need, Cindy decided to start her own business.
The demands of Cindy's business continue to grow, but she finds the majority of the day-to-day family responsibilities still fall onto her plate. This puts her at a crossroads. How can Cindy find the balance to successfully perform her work duties, research ways to grow her business, and still be present for her family?
As two female business owners currently struggling with keeping our businesses afloat in this economy, maintaining the everyday demands of our jobs, being the main homemaker of our households, while also supporting our children during virtual learning, we are living and breathing the challenges facing many women in our same position.
We both saw so many things broken about the support women in business get.
Exploring options for support, we realized that there are very few platforms available that truly meet women where they are and provide the help and collaboration that positively contributes to these unique challenges we currently face… at least outside of a winery.
As we shared our stories and recognized the commonality of the major challenges facing businesswomen, our vision for The Village for Women grew. We recognized the urgent need for a business platform that focuses on real, actionable, sustainable solutions unique to this segment. Living and breathing the challenges that face so many women in business today, Cindy and Angelle decided to team up to create a platform that could change the way women balance work and life—for good.
WOMEN NEED THIS
We know the power of women. We’ve seen the endless color-coded to-do lists meshing business and family like it’s no big deal. We’ve witnessed the unrivaled management of stressors that would make any weaker person crumble, and we’ve experienced the problem-solving prowess that creates change and growth in transformative ways.
We know that the current status quo is unsustainable. Whether a woman is an entrepreneur or a sidepreneur, women’s household responsibilities still overwhelmingly eclipse men’s. This means many of us are out there working later, rising earlier, and going to bed with seemingly endless to-do lists—often while our spouse sleeps peacefully (and snoring like a steamboat) by our sides. As these to-do lists grow to the point of being insurmountable, the path to burnout seems inevitable as many women try to find a balance between career and home.
We believe that WE—the collective “WE” of working women everywhere—have the unique ability to find a solution to this pattern of burnout.
Women need a platform that allows them to fast-track their success, achieve peak performance, and find support in key areas of business growth such as sales and operations, marketing and communications, and financial planning. We also need a safe place for humor and to destress (no Karens allowed).
They also need to be cheered on and supported by a group of women who truly “get it.” In addition to business support, The Village for Women will provide real-life support with resources such as sounding boards and “daily life” forums to parenting tips and the occasional perfect recipe for a skinny margarita.
We are asking your help in taking The Village for Women from a simple vision to a national movement!
WHAT IS THE VILLAGE FOR WOMEN?
The Village for Women will be a collaborative network and freelance workforce platform where we work together to connect each other with a diverse set of female entrepreneurs. The platform will be used to share expertise, empower business growth, and, most importantly, support the unique challenges that female entrepreneurs face.
This platform will include:
Referral Network. We believe in the power of women lifting women, and that’s what this referral network is all about. Get to know the businesses of fellow womenpreneurs and share your story while giving—and receiving—referrals.
Business Collaboration. Women working together are a force to be reckoned with. In The Village For Women, you’ll find an entire national network of like-minded women to collaborate with on ideas, projects, and business partnerships.
Contract Jobs Platform. Are you a project-based freelancer or do you have a project you need help with? Explore our contract jobs platform to view projects that need a filling or post your own project—all while supporting women-led businesses.
Marketing & Growth Strategies. This is our Village thinktank. Here, we share our expertise, ideas, and collective knowledge with other women-led businesses to help accelerate growth and propel success. Join in—your business will thank you for it.
Work/Life Balance Support. This is the part of The Village that truly stands out from other networking opportunities. This is because you’re (finally) in a community that understands and celebrates the unique challenge that businesswomen face.
Events & Workshops. The events and workshops at The Village will help bring our community to life. From meet and greets to lunch-and-learn, book clubs to wine nights, you’ll enjoy opportunities that fuel your business, mind, and spirit.
HOW THE FUNDS WILL BE USED
We sincerely believe in the impact that The Village For Women will have in providing support, growth opportunities, learning experiences, collaboration, and more within the female business community. However, we know that a platform that does everything we’ve dreamed up and more will take a team of experts to design and deploy. All of the funds through this campaign will go directly toward building and marketing The Village.
Legal and Business Fees
Platform Development, Design, & Programming
Marketing and Communications Expenses
National Affiliations
Growing our Network
FAST FACTS ABOUT WOMEN IN BUSINESS
53% more women than men quit jobs to care for children. It is estimated that 43% of women quit their jobs upon having children due to the pull of family responsibilities, compared to an estimated 28% of men.
We’re doing it on our own. Typically, women-owned businesses employ 0.7 workers, compared to 1.8 in all privately held businesses and 3.8 for all firms (including publicly traded companies).
Women-owned businesses made $0.30 for every $1 that privately-held companies made in 2019—and the disparity is increasing, not decreasing. The revenue disparity between women-owned businesses and all privately held businesses has increased since 1997. For every dollar that a privately held company generated, women-owned businesses generated 37 cents in 1997 and 30 cents in 2019. In 2019, women-owned businesses averaged earnings of $142,900 compared to $474,900 for all privately held businesses and $1.4 million for all firms (including publicly traded companies).
Does either of these entrepreneurships apply to you? Necessity entrepreneurs cannot find quality employment or are unemployed. Their only viable employment option is to start a business. This definition also includes women who, though employed, need to supplement their income. During good economic times, necessity entrepreneurship declines. Flexibility entrepreneurs start their own businesses because workforce policies do not accommodate their caregiving responsibilities, or they desire more control over when and where they work. Opportunity entrepreneurs see possibilities in the market that they want to exploit. They are more likely to enter the market in good economic times than in bad. These businesses tend to have a higher rate of survival and better growth prospects than their necessity and flexibility counterparts.”
Women are scarce at the top and overrepresented at the bottom. Women make up 63% of workers earning the federal minimum wage. By contrast, women represent only 5% of CEOs at Fortune 500 firms. In the United States, only 17% of the top 1% income group are women.
Women CEOs are Paid Less. In 2009, only 24 percent of CEOs in the U.S. were women, and they earned 74.5% as much as male CEOs.
The wage gap still exists. Among full-tie workers, women earned less than 81 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2016. If part-time workers were included, the gap would be even wider since women are more likely to work reduced schedules to manage childrearing and other caregiving work.
SOURCES:
https://s1.q4cdn.com/692158879/files/doc_library/file/2019-state-of-women-owned-businesses-report.pdf
https://givingcompass.org/article/why-covid-19-is-hitting-women-entrepreneurs-harder-than-men/
https://inequality.org/facts/gender-inequality/
https://www.ilo.org/washington/areas/gender-equality-in-the-workplace/WCMS_159496/lang--en/index.htm
Organizer
Angelle Cindy
Organizer
Murrieta, CA
