A LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER
        Thank you for your interest in One Mom (formerly the Single Mothers Discount Card/SMDCard). One Mom is a grass-roots social enterprise created to  to advance women's equity. We do this by publishing an online Magazine (www.onemommag.com) and through the One Mom Discount Card (OMDCard) Simply put, One Mom is designed to help single moms connect with each other and with businesses partners so we can all help each other do better. 
         I had the idea to create a discount card for single moms soon after I became a single mother 17 years ago. Even before I had my daughter and quickly became a single mom, I had a growing concern for single mothers and their children. As a creative writing teacher in an inner-city public high school, I came to understand that the majority of my students were being raised by single mothers. Over 25 years of teaching, I have read thousands of written works from teenagers, many of which illustrate the personal struggles and risks that they, their siblings, and their single moms have faced. 
          All parents know how hard it is to raise children. Doing it alone adds in an additional set of challenges. And while there are certainly single fathers working hard to raise their children alone, the fact is that 80% of single-parent homes are headed by mothers. In addition, women are still working towards economic equality with men; the latest statistics show that women currently make approximately 18% less on average. These factors and more led me to start a business focused on giving single mothers and those who care about them a concrete way to achieve more financial equity.
         There is a lot of work to do to make our legal, economic, and healthcare systems work better for single moms and the children they are raising. Rather than waiting for legislation or someone in power to help create more equity, we can make this change together. I hope you will join One Mom and invite those in your networks to join as well. Together, we can do better.
     In solidarity,
     Mindi Rose Englart 

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THE ONE MOM MISSION
We are a growing coalition, designed to empower single mothers through community, news, and discounts. 

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WHAT IS THE ONE MOM DISCOUNT CARD?
Like a senior citizen or student discount, the single mothers discount was developed to support a subpopulation of society that is not at the height of its economic earning potential. The One Mom Discount Card (OMDCard) is also like the AAA card, because it gives membership discounts to participating businesses. Members join for $12 a year (no cost for those in need) and receive discounts offered by participating businesses. Participating businesses profit by drawing in more new and repeat business. See our FAQs here.

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ARTICLES OF INTEREST

• How companies can support single parents (Harvard Business Review)
• The enduring grip of the gender pay gap
• Child well-being in single-parent families
• Single Parenting and Today's Family American Psychological Association
• Men Fall Behind in College Enrollment. Women Still Play Catch-Up at Work
• Expert’s take: By undercounting single mothers, we underserve families
• The Advancing Equity Calculator
• How Many Women Worldwide Are Single Moms?
• Woman’s journey through homelessness, unemployment shows struggle single mothers face in pandemic
• U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
• Women are paid less than men—and that hits harder in an economic crisis
• Single Mother Parenting and Adolescent Psychopathology
• Gender Differences in the Consequences of Divorce: A Study of Multiple Outcomes

THE ONE MOM ADVISORY BOARD

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