On Monday November 16, 2015 and in collaboration with The Launch Ladies and The SpeakEasy, PitchFeast will hosts its first Small Business Administration (SBA) InnovateHER event, at The Speak Easy co-working space, located at 5255 N. Winthrop Ave.
The SBA is looking for innovative products and services that will help positively impact and empower the lives of women and their families! The InnovateHER challenge was launched by the SBA on March 16, 2015. Its goal is to identify products and services geared at addressing the challenges faced by women and their families, helping them overcome barriers of actively participating in the labor economy. According to the SBA,” women now make up nearly half the labor force and play a critical role in our nation’s economic prosperity.”
On Monday November 16, 2015 there will be a special #PitchFeast #InnovateHER Challenge event. This event is co-sponsored by the SBA and the purpose of the #InnovateHER challenge is to encourage increased entrepreneurial participation of women, around the United States. Together with our community partners at The Launch Ladies and The Speak Easy, PitchFeast will host this special event in order to hopefully send one lucky woman business owner, to compete in a national competition in Washington D.C., hosted by the SBA and Microsoft Corporation. The finalists who are invited to D.C., will compete for $40k, $20k and $10k in top prize start-up money!
This event is open to the public, admission cost will be $15.00 and the proceeds of the event will be provided to the night’s winner, to cover their travel expenses in case the winner is invited to Washington. D.C.; otherwise, the winner will be allowed to use the money won to assist them in moving their idea forward. Find out more about Pitchfeast by visiting pitchfeast.org.
