Like A Mother

The Kickass Single Mom Grant is a $1,000 gift awarded monthly to a single mom doing something incredible — whether large or small, in her career, business, family, community. The goal is to support women doing amazing things, and share their stories to inspire others.  June's Kickass Single Mom grant winner Sheri Hopkins, a 35-year-old mom of three daughters, who saw the potential for the black-owned business community in her hometown of San Diego.  "Even though San Diego is such a diverse city, I felt like there wasn’t a community that my daughters could say looked like them," Hopkins wrote in her grant application. "Speaking to business owners, they stated no one supported them and eventually their business failed or they were struggling to hold on." Last year, she founded the business association, Black San Diego. With a friend, Hopkins started compiling a list of local businesses owned by African Americans, and hosting networking events that attract more than 200 people, and a Facebook community, that tod