Meet the Finalists
Summer 2015
Annie Magny
One Dish Wonder, LLC
One Dish Wonders is a casserole baking business that provides families and working parents nutritious, home-cooked meals. In this fast-paced world we now live in, it is imperative that parents spend more time with their children. What better way to connect than at the dinner table as a family?
Cynthia McCrea
SalonRx
Salon Rx is a post-surgical boutique that specializes in fashionable medical hair-loss wigs, breast forms, lingerie and compression garments for maternity needs, athletes, diabetics and those who travel, stand or sit a lot. Salon Rx customizes each personal fit and will visit you in the comforts of your home.
Justin Serugo
Emerald Cleaning Company, LLC
Emerald Cleaning Company is a full service residential and commercial cleaning operation that employs refugees. It began one year ago with just one commercial building and has since steadily grown. As refugee teams, we together go to cleaning sites to train and learn the business. As a result, these refugees will be able to form their own teams and train others, expanding the business and creating employment opportunities for many more people.
Kathy Leiva Rosario
Pour Favor
Pour Favor, a tax-exempt non-profit international organization, seeks to educate and empower Central American women by selling their handcrafted goods. We represent these families in the global market to bring their unique, artisan goods to world. Pour Favor is utilizing each unique woman’s human capital as a sustainable mechanism to support her education and financial independence.
Kevin Stock
TIOSA, Inc. (formerly NED, LLC)
The NED Device (Nasal EPAP Dilator) is a simple silicone device that dilates the nasal passages allowing for an increase in inhalation volume to facilitate nasal breathing combined with EPAP (Expiratory Positive Air Pressure) technology to prevent the collapsibility of the airway. Through this design OSA (Obstructive Sleep Apnea) can be treated simply, comfortably, and cost effectively.
Lisette Dennis
Avoir (Formerly Get This, Make that)
Get This, Make That (GTMT), a digital resource, will assist home improvement, do-it-yourself neophytes and enthusiasts in learning what they need, what it looks like and why they need it to shop for and execute home improvement projects. Get This, Make That will also feature Remnants Rehab, where visitors can post, and therefore part with, leftover home improvement supplies.
Mia Ranard
Gift Me Some
Gift Me Some is a wedding registry app that allows couples to create a curated registry of unique items from local businesses. It solves the problem of having multiple registries, traditionally through large chain stores, and helps focus more of the $19 billion spent annually on wedding gifts back into the local economy and small businesses.
Rachel L. Hankerson, MBA
International PROOF Systems, LLC
International PROOF Systems (IPS), LLC was founded in January 2010 with a mission to improve current processes through advanced technology. IPS is currently improving the process of validating auto insurance, vehicle registration, and response time during an emergency, through the world’s first computerized license plate, known as PROOF Smart Tags.
Shawntelle Fisher
The SoulFisher Ministries
The ENAL Summer Initiative is a free summer tutoring program. Participants will receive nutritious meals they might not otherwise have access to, remain engaged in their learning during the summer months, and gain exposure to enrichment opportunities. Exposure includes: Speech and Debate, Robotics, The Magic House Science program, Library enrichment, and outings to the Zoo, Science Center, bowling, and much, much more.
Suyash Raj
QuickTech LLC
QuickTech is a company that strives to bring technology help for a much more affordable rate through an uber business model. By allowing younger, tech savvy people to sign up as techs, QuickTech will allow those proficient in different areas of technology to assist those in need of technical help while assuring quality through certification programs and ratings.
Yvette Thomas
The State of the Art Adult Health Care Centre
The State of the Art Adult Health Care Centre provides day services to the elderly, disabled, and special needs adults by providing the opportunity to leave their home and participate in enriching activities on a daily basis. We are qualified to work with a variety of diagnostic categories including brain injuries and physical deficits.
