Last year, I posted 365 female founder profiles on LinkedIn. One every single day.
When March came around this year (Women's History Month, 31 days), I didn't want to just recycle my idea and post 31 profiles… I wanted something more tangible.
Something you could hold in your hands, flip through, leave on your coffee table, give to your daughter, pass to a colleague.
So I made a magazine!
Bracket's first ever Women's History Month edition.
31 female founders. From every industry and every era.
A 14-year-old scientist who invented a lead detection device.
A laundress who started with $1.25 and became America's first self-made female millionaire.
A Disney star nobody expected to launch a space company.
A girl from the Smoky Mountains who'd be a billionaire by now if she didn't keep giving it all away.
A woman who lost her sense of smell to cancer and came back with an entirely new company.
And I wanted this magazine to do more than celebrate.
I chose Room to Read as this issue’s cause: a nonprofit working to get girls in low-income communities around the world into school and keep them there.
Because what's the point of celebrating these women if we're not actively opening the same doors for the girls coming after them?
Right now, 122M girls are still out of school.
This month, Room to Read's goal is to raise $150,000, which is enough to support 600 girls for a full year of secondary school.
Here's how to get your digital copy of the magazine:
Donate a minimum of $5 to Room to Read: https://secure.roomtoread.org/page/185998/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=Header_Donate_Button&en_og_source=Web
Email your receipt to [email protected]
I'll send you the full PDF immediately!
Physical printed copies are also coming soon :)
And if you repost this on LinkedIn, I'll donate $1 for every repost, personally, capped at $2,000. I'll post my own donation receipt at the end of March!
Happy Women's History Month!
- Justine
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