ChemoBeanies receives $250K from grant program

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The business that two North Shore sisters who survived cancer created received another financing boost today.

Angelle Albright and Danielle Fournier, who started ChemoBeanies as a home business, received $250,000 from Mission Main Street Grants. It was one 12 small businesses to receive grant money from the endeavor involving Chase and Google.

In addition to the money, Google will host the selected businesses for a marketing workshop at its headquarters in California.

Chemo Beanies makes stylish head covers for women battling cancer. The company was featured in an online reality series Walmart created for the contest to showcase the products of entrepreneurs.

“This grant will surely help us transform Chemo Beanies from a start-up dream to a full-fledged, made-in-the-USA corporation that can reach every woman who needs this problem solved,” Albright said.

The grant award was announced this morning at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at St. Tammany Parish Hospital in, where Albright and Fournier were successfully treated for breast cancer. The hospital also was one of Chemo Beanies’ first customers.

Chemo Beanies was among nearly 35,000 small businesses that applied for Mission Main Street grants. More than 1.7 million voted on the participating businesses, and applications that received at least 250 votes were eligible to continue onto the judging phase.

A panel of experts selected the winners based on their superiority in demonstrating a solid business plan, feasible growth plan, overall passion for their business, the potential to make a positive impact within their local community and their likelihood to succeed with a two-year time frame.

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