Featured Non-Profits

At each of our luncheons, we feature a guest speaker representing a local non-profit organization. The founder shares information about the important work she is doing, and it is our pleasure to then donate to her group a portion of the profit we generated from the day’s event.

Our Featured Non-Profit: Jewish Social Service Agency (JSSA)

JSSA has been helping people across the Washington metropolitan area meet emotional, social, and physical challenges for more than 119 years. A nonsectarian provider, JSSA serves people of all religious backgrounds, races and ethnicities, helping the youngest child to the most fragile senior, from individuals to entire families. JSSA provides services and support to more than 29,500 individuals a year through their wide range of counseling, educational, employment, in-home support, hospice and nursing care, and social services.

Previous featured non-profits:

Manna Food Center, a nonprofit organization, strives to eliminate hunger in Montgomery County through food distribution, education, and advocacy. Manna Food Center is the main food bank in Montgomery County, and nearly every county nonprofit organization relies on Manna to provide essential food to their clients. Manna is that rare organization that actually achieves synergy by bringing together government, corporations, nonprofit organizations, schools, faith-based organizations, community groups, and individuals with the common cause of fighting hunger in Montgomery County.

The Path Forward Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping women gain power and expand economic opportunity through entrepreneurship. Home of the internationally-acclaimed ACTiVATE(R) program, the Path Forward Center provides programs, resources, access to technologies, tools and support to help women realize their untapped business potential to start and grow their own businesses. Check Impact to see why that potential counts—for the world and Results to learn about our success stories!

America’s 911 Foundation, Inc.’s mission statement is to support those who answer the 911 call Everyday and to never forget September 11, 2001. They fund a College Scholarship program for children of EMS, FIRE, POLICE who each day place their lives on the line for all of US. The foundation assists Emergency Organizations with funds, materials, equipment and/or Volunteers when needed.

Glories Happy HATS (GHH) is a non-profit organization aimed at strengthening social, human and economic capital in youth while, at the same time, increasing levels of peer- support for hospitalized children.

Sunflower Bakery is a bakery and nonprofit vocational training program for individuals with developmental disabilities with a goal to teach participants the specialized skills necessary to become assistant bakers. That entails learning to make kosher cakes, cookies and other pareve goodies from scratch, which is then sold to the public. For more information about our training program or products, email thesunflowerbakery@gmail.com.

Habitat for Humanity for Montgomery County is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International that seeks to reduce substandard housing by providing a hand-up rather than a handout to help families realize the dream of homeownership. Working in partnership with families, Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, MD (HFH-MC) volunteers build affordable housing in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Vis Arts at Rockville is an “artists only” organization with classrooms, galleries and eight artist’s studios. Over the next nine years, the organization added 4,000 sq ft. offering fiber and ceramics studio, a darkroom, and four new artists’ studios located in the New Town Center. Take a class or shop for lovely arts at Vis Arts today!

Becoming a featured non-profit

Women Ambassadors for Business provides an exclusive mentoring and networking opportunity for businesswomen. Our events cultivate a unique opportunity for successful women ambassadors in business to maximize their potential by networking with other female executives and entrepreneurs. We invite a successful businesswoman located in the greater Washington Metropolitan Area to speak to our audience about her accomplishments, which provides a unique mentoring opportunity for all in attendance. Our luncheons and the networking opportunities before and after the event facilitate our goal of connecting and inspiring accomplished businesswomen throughout the area by sharing advice, expertise and inspiration. Ultimately, we will all benefit from this collaboration and kinship.

Supporting local non-profit organizations

Near the conclusion of each of our luncheons, we feature a guest speaker representing a local non-profit organization. The founder or representative of the organization shares information about the important work she is doing, and it is our pleasure to then donate to her organization a portion of the revenue generated from the day’s event. Grants of up to $1,000 or more will be awarded to nonprofits in the Washington Metropolitan Area who share a vision of supporting ill or underprivileged women, men and children, those with developmental and other disabilities, those filling a gap in the needs of people, animals and the environment and those seeking to educate members of our community in the arts, sciences, business and career training. We also offer participants the opportunity to add donations at the luncheon as well as online.

We invite any U.S. 501(c)(3) organizations in the Washington Metropolitan Area to apply to be the featured non-profit at our luncheons. Please note that Women Ambassadors does not fund:

Thank you for your interest in Women Ambassadors for Business and being highlighted as a featured nonprofit at one of our future luncheons.

Where to send Applications for Women Ambassadors’ Featured Non-Profit

How to Apply. Women Ambassadors for Business meets every other month permitting us to showcase six (6) non-profit organizations per year. We receive a significant number of requests to support various organizations and thus we have prepared a formal process and procedure to ensure that our method of selection is fair and in line with the charitable purposes of our organization, which is also a non-profit organization.

Please note that we are a “Green” organization and thus we encourage electronic submission for all requests to our email address: womenambassadorsgrants@comcast.net. Please send an email authorization from either your Executive Director or Board Officer using your organization’s official email in lieu of an original signature. If sending electronically, please send only one copy of your submission. If electronic submission is not possible, please mail your submission to Women Ambassadors for Business, Inc., 11906 Reynolds Avenue, Potomac, MD 20854.

We welcome your interest in Women Ambassadors for Business, and we encourage you to read carefully our mission and operating principles.

Application Process for Featured Non-Profit (as of November 1, 2010)

Women Ambassadors for Business (“Women Ambassadors”) is a nonprofit institution that provides an exclusive mentoring and networking opportunity for businesswomen. Women Ambassadors serves as a funding partner to area nonprofits that engage in charitable efforts in a broad array of services in the greater Washington Metropolitan Area. Women Ambassadors has developed the following procedures to help streamline the application process. Please review the following instructions to prepare an application. The completed application should contain:

1. A cover page, which must contain the statement, “I confirm that the information provided in this application is accurate to the best of my knowledge and ability, and that this submission and all information contained herein is hereby submitted to the Women Ambassadors Grants and Program Committee.”

2. A Letter of Interest (“LOI”) which includes a brief description of your organization, including its vision and mission, describe the people who use your organization’s services and for what purposes, details of the project or proposal for which you are seeking funding, a brief description of how the organization’s services will further Women Ambassadors’ grant criteria, how your organization gets funds, describe your organization’s innovative approach to provide the programs or services, describe the impact of your organization’s programs and please briefly describe how you plan to use the award funds.

3. A copy, fax or pdf file of the organization’s IRS 501(c)(3) Letter of Determination.

Applications will be reviewed by the Women Ambassadors Grants and Program Committee on a rolling basis. Applicants will be notified about whether they have been selected to advance to a final round, which includes additional administrative steps. Applicants will be notified whether they have been selected for further review and scheduled for interviews or site visits as soon as possible.

Note: Please refer to Women Ambassadors’ Grant Policies and Principles before applying for the Featured Non-Profit award.