Category: Business Owner Stories

JW Equine Services Wins Nav’s $10,000 Small Business Grant

JW Equine Services Wins Nav’s $10,000 Small Business Grant

A passion for her business and a clear plan to put her grant money to good use to grow it has vaulted Jonna Wisher Ibañez, founder of JW Equine Services in Rosenberg Texas, to first place in the Nav’s quarterly $10,000 Small Business Grant.  Jonna has turned her lifelong passion for horses into a full service equine business that includes lessons, boarding and training horses. She plans to use the funds from the grant to help build a covered arena… Read More
Our Loving Village: Nav Jan 2021 $5000 Grant Winner

Our Loving Village: Nav Jan 2021 $5000 Grant Winner

This isn’t the first time this Stamford, Texas small business has applied for the Nav grant, and we’re glad they applied again. We’re really excited for them to receive the $5,000 grant. BriTanya Bays, CEO and owner of Our Loving Village, started her business because there was a lack of high-quality childcare and education services in her community. “As first-time parents of twins, my husband and I wanted to cultivate a community of like-minded parents who wanted more than just… Read More
Prince Abou’s Butchery: Nav Jan 2021 $10000 Grant Winner

Prince Abou’s Butchery: Nav Jan 2021 $10000 Grant Winner

Abou Sow started Prince Abou’s Butchery to ensure that the people of New York are rescued from eating meat that isn’t fresh. “It’s a tragedy that New Yorkers (as well as people all across the country) don’t have access to fresh meat and are instead eating meat that was slaughtered months ago,” he says. “That’s why we work with local farmers, slaughter, butcher, and deliver halal meat to New Yorkers all within the same week.” This unique business model helps… Read More
Building a Small Business Village: The Boho Market is Nav’s Small Business Grant Runner Up

Building a Small Business Village: The Boho Market is Nav’s Small Business Grant Runner Up

When Taylor Milbauer started looking for a solution to help grow her own business, she had no idea that just a few years later she’d be helping hundreds of small business owners do the same. As a maker, she found herself struggling to find a consistent outlet for her unique products (among them, screen printed t-shirts and woven art. “Outside of the once- or twice-a-year larger expos, there just wasn’t a place for a vendor like me to interact with… Read More
How a 20-Year-Old B&B Plans to Persevere Through COVID: Meet the Nav Grant Runner-Up

How a 20-Year-Old B&B Plans to Persevere Through COVID: Meet the Nav Grant Runner-Up

Like so many businesses in the hospitality industry, The Inn at Horn Point in Annapolis Maryland has been hard hit by COVID-19. Cory and Carol Bonney, owners and resident operators of the Inn at Horn Point, and their daughter Josalyn who works in the family business, are working quickly to adapt. Nav is proud to award them $2,000 — second place in Nav’s Quarterly Small Business Grant — to provide crucial funds as they pivot their business. Their grant winnings… Read More
This Candle Company Is on Fire: Nav Small Business Grant Runner-Up

This Candle Company Is on Fire: Nav Small Business Grant Runner-Up

Starting with $200 in homemade candle supplies, Brittany Whitenack, founder & owner of Antique Candle Co. has built a company that six years later employs 34 people in Lafayette Ind. Each soy candle her company sells is still hand-poured. Nav is proud to award Antique Candle Co. with the third place prize in the Nav Quarterly Small Business Grant. The Antique Candle Co. grant application stood out among hundreds in part because it clearly and specifically explained how each level… Read More