Our Programs
Women Palante’s programs are unique because they are specifically designed to address the needs of Latina women and mothers. The programming is available in Spanish and English, open to applicants with any immigration status, and include wellness, and personal development components for a comprehensive holistic approach.
Our Business Incubators
Mompreneurs
This is Women Palante’s flagship program, a business incubator to teach Latina mothers how to implement business and management tools for the development, consolidation,sustainability and/or growth of their business, while also learning how to take care of themselves and their families. This program is offered exclusively to Latina moms in English or Spanish. The next cohort will begin on January 8, 2025.
The Mompreneurs program is conducted through several modules of business education training, which includes weekly virtual live sessions. Each module is combined with educational workshops on wellness, addressing a variety of topics related to women’s motherhood and most importantly, the ways in which working mothers can manage their wellness while still taking care of their families and their businesses.The program offers childcare for our Science- based Wellbeing in person classes.
In addition, students will have 6 hours of individual and group support to further refine and develop key components of their project, such as: business costs; design and creation of a business plan and pitch, marketing, and business habits.
Our curriculum is based on a coherent sequence of business, wellness and personal development concepts. Through Women Palante’s Mompreneurs participating women will gain education, mentorship, guidance, and access to a growing and supportive community. The women will be accompanied through the process of establishing their own businesses and also finding capital to support them as they reach for their dreams and for those of their children.
Special edition incubators
Gourmetpreneurs
a business incubator for women who have a business idea in food or drink products. A holistic curriculum where the participants not only learn how to create a business but also how to establish healthy eating habits and wellness for themselves and their families with live nutrition and cooking classes helpful for preparing healthy meals at home as well as placing their very best products in the hands of consumers. This program runs in English and Spanish.
Our Wellness and Personal Development Series
This segment focuses on diverse topics within the wellness and personal development space and is catered to relevant needs and interests of the community. Classes and webinars are offered in a variety of topics, such as: nutrition, healthy habit building, self-care, self-awareness, mental health, emotional intelligence and relationship and time management.
Each of the business incubators incorporate elements of wellness into their programming, but we also offer standing webinar series that are open to all community members in tracks such as:
- Nutrition and taking care of your body
- Self-care, mental health and healthy habit building
- Emotional intelligence and relationship management
- Personal finance - Series of workshops that examine personal habits, strengths, money management and development of strategies for good financial decision making and goal setting as a mompreneur. It involves understanding and building a picture of how financially stable you are and how to increase that stability for the future as entrepreneurs. It's more than just how to save money it includes a personal development process and self-awareness.
This is a way to introduce the members into the Women Palante holistic way of thinking, introducing them to the wider community, and also providing an opportunity for a deeper dive into one of the topics above, even for those women participating in the business incubators.
The webinars are open to all community members and participants in English
and Spanish.
Our Women Palante Community
At Women Palante, we understand that Latina women can often feel isolated in their struggles. Throughout the year, we organize events that bring together women and mothers, both current members and previous participants, to foster and encourage an inclusive and supportive environment. This space is conducive to a shared pursuit of passions through career advancement, community service, or personal development. Annual events include:
- Women Palante events: Events can be virtual or in-person, depending on the current environment. Special days that are observed include: International Women’s Day (March 8), Dance-a-Thon (May – coincides with most Mother’s Day celebrations in theAmericas); Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (November 19).
- Events by moms for moms: The organization is also supportive of self-organized events by the participants, if they want to get together and organize an event.
Through our virtual formats and with improvements in technology, the Women Palante community has become a global one - connecting Latina women and moms from across the Washington D.C. metro area as well as across the Americas. Women Palante will have its own online community platform, where members will be able to network with one another, chat and communicate, create groups and posts, and access the online courses and content. This platform will facilitate the online community building and help to build bridges across the Americas for women and mothers to learn from one another. Through its online programs, the organization has the possibility to even expand globally.
Goals and Objectives
The main objective is to support the economic development and businesses of Latina women and their families, while simultaneously educating them on emotional and mental well-being. Women Palante helps women:
- To develop entrepreneurial skills so as to implement business and management tools in decision-making for the development, consolidation, sustainability and/or growth of their business
- To improve their knowledge regarding physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being, and combatting known health risk factors
- To obtain resources and tools for a comprehensive wellness approach for women to succeed in their personal and professional spheres
- To establish a personal base for self-care and care of their family while balancing with running a successful company
- To gain effective management in their personal and businesses finances, including learning how to use finance skills and tools
- To find a supportive, bilingual community of women helping one another to succeed and be the best versions of themselves
Mompreneurs Fellowship Program
After the culmination of the business incubator, moms will have the opportunity to participate in a six-month fellowship program to continue their well-being and business journey with coaching and mentoring support for life and professional development. Through this program, moms continue to have access to the community and events, fostering an inclusive and supportive community that connects current and previous participants. The goal of this program is to continue to support and monitor the progress of the incubator participants, helping them to continue to improve their business metrics and indicators, and potentially accelerate and grow their business. Additionally, grants for outsourced childcare can be applied for while they are continuing to develop their goals and their business. Each fellow will work with staff to develop a specific and individualized action plan with goals specific to their scenario to be worked on in the medium term.
The Fellowship Program allows Women Palante to continue to support our moms for six months after their graduation. This gives moms more time and support to work towards specific goals and the fees help to cover current and future educational programs and contribute to the sustainability of the foundation’s programs.
The main objectives of the fellowship are:
- Monitors and accelerates the mother’s business or business idea
- Coaching and mentoring
- Digitalization of the business
- Develop their website
- Increase sales
- Improve well-being with yoga classes, coaching and counseling.
This fellowship program is crucial to guarantee the long-term success of our members, and also encourages the moms to share, connect, encourage and inspire one another in a growing community.