The Acceleration Project (TAP) was featured in a Fast Company article, “It’s Time to Invest in Women Who Hold Up Half the Sky.” The piece looks at the funding gap facing women entrepreneurs and makes the case that women do not experience the barriers to starting and growing a business in the same ways.

The article draws on a conversation with TAP CEO Jane Veron about the distinct challenges faced by single mother entrepreneurs. These business owners must balance running a company with caregiving, sole or primary responsibility for household income, time scarcity, and limited access to flexible work. As Jane noted, “standard small business programs are largely designed for entrepreneurs who don’t carry all of the additional pressures facing this population.”

That gap between how programs are designed and how single mothers actually live and work is what TAP is working to close. To better understand these barriers and how to address them, the Ares Charitable Foundation supports TAP to test solutions tailored specifically to women business owners who are raising children on their own. TAP is working to learn what single mother entrepreneurs need most and to build support that fits the realities of their lives.

Read the full Fast Company article here.

To hear more from TAP CEO Jane Veron, read her latest Substack article.