The Story Exchange invites women entrepreneurs from around the world to submit their stories

and see them published on our site. Share your story now!

Our nonprofit media project has been collecting the stories of women business owners since in
2012, when we launched the “1,000 Stories” project in partnership with Babson College in an
effort to better understand the needs of women entrepreneurs and give them more media
exposure. We issued a global call to women with businesses, social enterprises, and nonprofits to
share their experiences with us through a questionnaire, and have those experiences documented
and shared.

In November 2015, we reached our goal of collecting 1,000 stories. Women from 50 countries
and all sorts of industries crisscrossing the global economy have told us why they started
companies or organizations — and what they hoped to achieve. Each woman’s submission was
published on our site in a profile page. And we tap these stories regularly for women to profile
in articles, videos and our podcast.

We also analyzed the entries as a group when we reached the 1,000-stories mark and published a
package of articles detailing our findings. The result is a uniquely deep look at why
women start companies, how they view success, their top challenges and their most inspiring role
models. We also created an online interactive map to help readers explore the stories.

The results of our 1,000 Stories journey were so rich — and the women’s voices and
contributions so powerful and important — that we decided to extend the project out into the
future. In January 2016, we relaunched the project as 1,000+ Stories with an improved
questionnaire and reissued our call to women to tell us their stories — so we can tell them to the
world.

What you can do

We invite you to submit your story today and share this call for stories with family, friends,
colleagues and your extended social networks.

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