Enterprising Women

2006 Enterprising Women of the Year Awards — Advocacy Awardees

Issue: Vol. 7, No. 3

SANDRA YANCEY is the founder and CEO of eWomenNetwork.com, the fastest growing membership-based women’s business network in North America. The organization has a database of over 400,000 women business owners and executives, more than 15,000 members, and conducts 90 trademarked accelerated networking chapter events in cities across North America. The organization’s Web site receives over 200,000 hits daily. Sandra also hosts the eWomenNetwork Radio Show, broadcasting weekly out of Dallas on the largest ABC affiliate in the United States. She established the eWomenNetwork Foundation to address the physical and financial health of underprivileged women and girls.

The mother of two and a first-generation Hispanic-American, she credits her mother, who was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, for giving her the strength to follow her dreams.

Enterprising Women presented Sandra with the 2006 Advocacy Award to recognize her strong advocacy on behalf of women entrepreneurs, her leadership, and her pioneering spirit.

Sandra Yancey
Founder and CEO
eWomenNetwork
Dallas, TX

AMY MILLMAN has built an organization that has assisted hundreds of women-led, high-growth enterprises in raising $1 billion in investment capital in less than three years. As one of the founders and the current president of Springboard Enterprises, the organization has helped match women entrepreneurs with venture capitalists to fuel the growth of their businesses. Springboard has an amazing track record that has made the women business owner community proud. Prior to Amy’s involvement with Springboard, she served as executive director of the National Women’s Business Council, a commission which provides advice and counsel to the President and Congress on issues of importance to women business owners.

Amy is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a master’s degree from The George Washington University, where she serves as an adjunct professor.

She received the 2006 Enterprising Women Advocacy Award to acknowledge the important role that Springboard has played and her personal advocacy on behalf of entrepreneurial women.

Amy Millman
President
Springboard Enterprises
Washington, DC

(This article is reprinted from the 2006 Enterprising Women of the Year edition (Vol. 7, No. 3) of Enterprising Women magazine. Copyright 2006, Enterprising Women Inc. Reproduction in whole or part is prohibited, except by express permission of the publisher.)

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