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This Year’s Red Letter Grant Awarded Four Women-led Start-Ups

Four Western Wisconsin businesses were awarded a total of $8,000 in grants.

Sawyer Hoff |

EMPOWERING WOMEN. The Red Letter Grant was awarded to
EMPOWERING WOMEN. The Red Letter Grant was awarded to four local women-led businesses. (Submitted Photos)

The Red Letter Grant has helped over 31 women-owned businesses through their grant program and has announced the recipients of these awards.

The awardees were selected by a five-person committee based on their viability, the need for grant dollars, the need in the community, and their passion.

The recipients of the awards were The Good Wives, Rhythmic Renewal, an at-home child care facility by Tayler Mattingly, and Two Ovens Bakery.

The Good Wives is a locally sourced, farm-to-table restaurant owned by local Chef Ella Wesenberg and her wife Emily Rieck expected to open in August. Rhythmic Renewal is an educational center based around women’s menstrual cycles, using yoga and hormone cycle awareness. Tayler Mattingly will be opening an at-home childcare facility in Elmwood. Two Ovens Bakery creates healthy loaves of bread, scones, granolas, hand pies, and more from grains grown in the Midwest.

“I’m proud of the impact we’ve made reinvesting in main street businesses and rural communities that are often overlooked. We provide women with financial options that are not 
otherwise available to open businesses from mental health clinics to flower shops to senior living facilities. It’s healthy for our overall economy when we’re bolstering support for folks in the start-up phase – even if it’s not a high-growth tech start-up or big job creator, these businesses are important to increasing the quality of life in small-town Wisconsin,” said Rebecca Cooke, Founder and Executive Director of the Red Letter Grant. 


To learn more about these businesses and the Red Letter Grant, go to redlettergrant.org.