Brit + Co Launches Selfmade Season Four in Collaboration with Office Depot
June 11 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Virtual Startup School That Has Helped Female
Entrepreneurs Launch Hundreds of Mission-Driven Companies Kicks Off
Summer Session on Monday, June 28
Brit + Co and Office Depot today announced that Office Depot
will continue to provide opportunities for female entrepreneurs
with the company’s sponsorship of the fourth cohort of Selfmade,
Brit + Co’s 10-week virtual startup school for women. The course is
hosted by Brit + Co founder Brit Morin, with over a dozen other
notable female founders, experts and investors signed on to help
teach, including Katrina Lake (founder and CEO of Stich Fix), Toni
Ko (founder of NYX), and Arlan Hamilton (founder and managing
partner of Backstage Capital) and includes highly personalized
skill development to enable each student to start or grow her own
business.
To help drive educational change, Office Depot's sponsorship
will enable the course to be made free for up to 200 women,
focusing on women of color, women from underserved and
underrepresented communities, and women in need of support to help
them trailblaze.
The spring Selfmade session saw a number of mission-driven
companies, with 17.7% of the students’ brands dedicated to women’s
empowerment, 10.2% focused on mental health-related issues, and 5%
addressing environmental issues.
“We’re happy to continue our collaboration with Brit + Co to
help provide women an opportunity to turn their passion projects
into businesses and take their existing businesses to new heights,”
said Wesley Brinkhurst, vice president of marketing for Office
Depot. “We’re so inspired by the participants’ desires to change
their own lives, as well as the lives of others, and encourage
female entrepreneurs to register for the next Selfmade program
session to help make their dreams a reality.”
“The women of the last cohort were incredibly dedicated to
facilitating positive change, founding and growing companies that
are both improving the world and improving their lives--from
helping to treat mental health, to making the world safer for
women, to supporting working moms,” said Morin. “After the
difficulty of the past year and a half, they still took a leap of
faith and signed up for Selfmade, and with the support of our group
and one-on-one coaching, inspiration and advice from our guest
teachers, they have hustled their way to finding their passions,
launching companies, and earning revenue. I have been so impressed
by the drive and ambition of our alumni.”
Office Depot-sponsored student Jhanelle Elissa founded Jiive, a
new type of events platform for real-life community & live
experiences born out of the isolation she felt during the pandemic
as someone living on her own. She recognized that others were also
struggling with their mental health during this challenging time,
and Jiive was born out of this, as a way to connect people through
live events.
"My hope in signing up for this course was to gain a sense of
community with fellow entrepreneurs who were also in the early
stages of founding their companies and also to learn about new
funding resources to explore,” said Elissa. “The ladies running
Selfmade were not only so generous with their time and supportive,
but also transparent and provided a realistic view of the
entrepreneurship journey. I'm excited to continue building my
company and bringing these newfound connections and relationships
into this next phase of getting my ‘big vision venture’ off the
ground."
Features and benefits of Selfmade include:
- 15+ hours of live instruction in all facets of how to start a
company
- 1:1 coaching and group chats with like-minded
entrepreneurs
- Customizable templates for financial statement presentations,
proposal decks, marketing assets and more
- Access to world class experts in tech, finance, marketing,
sales, and investing
Selfmade registration is currently open and class will kick off
on Monday, June 28. For more information on Selfmade visit,
TrySelfmade.com and click here to hear from past program
participants.
About Brit + Co
Founded by Brit Morin, Brit + Co is on a mission to give women
the courage and creativity to live life at their fullest potential.
Through our inspirational content, educational online classes and
useful products, she is enabled to shape her future. Over the past
nine years, Brit + Co has become one of the largest digital brands
for women, now reaching an engaged community of over 115 million
monthly users across its website and platforms. It is a top 5
global publisher on Pinterest, has garnered over a billion video
views and has produced more than 60,000 pieces of content. The
brand extends offline as well, with permanent retail experiences,
classes, events, and physical products sold at mass retail stores
nationwide. Visit Brit.co for more information.
About Office Depot
Office Depot, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of The ODP
Corporation (NASDAQ:ODP), a leading provider of business services
and supplies, products and digital workplace technology solutions
to small, medium and enterprise businesses, through an integrated
business-to-business (B2B) distribution platform, which includes
world-class supply chain and distribution operations, dedicated
sales professionals and technicians, online presence, and
approximately 1,100 stores. Through its banner brands Office Depot®
and OfficeMax®, as well as others, the company offers its customers
the tools and resources they need to focus on their passion of
starting, growing and running their business. For more information,
visit news.theodpcorp.com and follow @officedepot on Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram.
The ODP Corporation and Office Depot are trademarks of The
Office Club, Inc. OfficeMax is a trademark of OMX, Inc. CompuCom is
a trademark of CompuCom Systems, Inc. Grand&Toy is a trademark
of Grand & Toy, LLC in Canada. ©2021 Office Depot, LLC. All
rights reserved. Any other product or company names mentioned
herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.
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