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Angel City Football Club’s Player 22 Small Business Grant Program provides funding and resources to current and retired soccer players interested in establishing or expanding their businesses. The objective is to equip players with the funds, resources, and coaching necessary to further develop opportunities for women in the workforce and to foster women-owned and -led businesses. Each player participating in this 12-month program will receive funding for their business, one-on-one coaching, and access to over 200 hours of video-based business learning, plus startup tools and resources via IFundWomen's workshop library.

Funded through Angel City’s 10% sponsorship model, where 10% of all sponsorships are reallocated to impact, Angel City’s supporting partners HubSpot, Justworks, PNC Bank, Johnnie Walker, and Payscale make this program possible.

Angel City Football Club, in partnership with IFundWomen, has announced ten new recipients of its Player 22 (P22) Small Business Grants Program.

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Meet the 2024 ACFC Player 22 Grant Recipients!

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Jasmyne Spencer

Founder of Jas It Up
  • Location: Bay Shore, NY
  • Soccer Experience: NWSL, Australian W-League, Gjensidige Kvindeligaen (Denmark)
  • About: JAS IT UP is a Black-woman-owned business. Its mission is to educate and inspire people to lead an eco-conscious and socially aware lifestyle in an effort to uplift communities, empower youth, and protect the future on this planet.
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Leah Gallegos

Founder of People's Yoga
  • Location: Los Angeles, CA
  • Soccer Experience: WPSL, NCAA
  • About: People's Yoga is a woman of color-owned yoga studio offering group classes at their flagship location, school programming for TK–6th grade, community events, and an annual certified teacher training program. 
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Courtney Jones Louks

Founder of Hustle Beauty
  • Location: Colleyville, TX
  • Soccer Experience: NWSL, NCAA
  • About: Founded by female professional athletes, Hustle Beauty is the only athleisure-focused beauty brand creating long-lasting, protective, multi-functional products at an accessible price point. Made for all types of active lifestyles, Hustle keeps beauty routines simple, so women can focus on their daily hustle.
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Melissa Ortiz

Founder of Kickoff Coffee Co
  • Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
  • Soccer Experience: Colombia WNT, NCAA
  • About: Kickoff Coffee Co, bridges the two passions of soccer and top-quality specialty coffee, while giving back to foundations around the world that use soccer as a tool for social justice and development.
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Amy Schweizer

Founder of Tiny Troops Soccer
  • Location: Danville, IL
  • Soccer Experience: WUSL, NCAA
  • About: Tiny Troops Soccer offers soccer classes that build a global community of active, healthy kids who are equipped to deal with the stressors of military life and make friends along the way.
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Jillian Loyden

Founder of The Keeper Institute
  • Location: Sewell, NJ
  • Soccer Experience: USWNT, NWSL, WPS, W-League (Australia)
  • About: The Keeper Institute is an all-encompassing training school that aims to educate young aspiring goalkeepers in every component of the game. The mission is to develop great goalkeepers and better people.
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Izzy Hunter

Founder of Sensi Fit
  • Location: Pittsburgh, PA
  • Soccer Experience: Women’s Premier League (England)
  • About: Sensi is a smart cone that tracks the movement of athletes during drills that are drawn in an app.
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Yael Averbuch West

Founder of Techne Futbol
  • Location: Montclair, NJ
  • Soccer Experience: USWNT, NWSL
  • About: Techne Futbol is a soccer training app that guides players in training on their own and lets them compete with friends, teammates, and the broader Techne community on leaderboards.
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Donna-Kay Henry

Founder of Dkay Henry Soccer Training
  • Location: Brooklyn, NY
  • Soccer Experience: Jamaica WNT, Women’s Premiership (Northern Ireland), Úrvalsdeild kvenna (Iceland), WPSL, Nationalliga A (Switzerland), NCAA
  • About: Dkay Henry Soccer Training provides technical training for beginning to advanced players, focusing on building confidence, mental strength, and technical skills in a fun, positive, and encouraging environment. 
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Sabrina Flores

Founder of FLO2.0
  • Location: Branchburg, NJ
  • Soccer Experience: NWSL, Liga F (Spain)
  • About: FLO2.0 is a coaching and mentoring brand catered to the athlete who embraces the day-to-day journey. The business is more than the time spent on the field learning soccer skills: it’s about building character and learning lifelong lessons to impact the person as a whole.

For more information on The Player 22 Program:

Ways to Contribute:

  • Send a check payable to the California Community Foundation, specifying Angel City FC Player 22 Program in the memo, to 221 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90012.

  • Shop ACFC's Player 22 merchandise. 10 percent of proceeds go to the fund.

  • To make a secure, tax-deductible donation online, click here.

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Retiring Number 22

 The Player 22 Program is named in homage to ACFC's spring 2022 kickoff and the 22 players on the pitch in every match.

With every purchase of a #22 jersey, ACFC will allocate 10% of the revenue to create pathways for former NWSL players to build careers in the sports industry.

Angel City FC officially retired the jersey before their July 30, 2022 game against OL Reign.

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