Sherry Turner, Founder of OneKC for Women Alliance, to Receive Legacy Award (Press Release)

Sherry Turner, founder of OneKC for Women, has been selected as the 2015 Legacy Award recipient by Thinking Bigger Business Media.  Each year, Thinking Bigger Business Media presents the Entrepreneurial Legacy Award to a leader in Kansas City's small business sector. The recipient is a leader who has made outstanding contributions to impact the entrepreneurial community.

This year, Sherry Turner, founder of OneKC for Women is deserving of this prestigious recognition for her dedication to helping women achieve their career goals. She is known for providing a voice for women seeking to reach their full personal and professional potential.

OneKC for Women is an alliance of organizations-the Women's Employment Network, the Women's Business Center and the Women's Capital Connection-that help women pursue their professional and financial goals. By working together as OneKC for Women, these partner organizations are able to better accomplish a common goal: empowering women to achieve financial independence.

As founder, Sherry’s vision was to establish OneKC for Women with the resources, opportunities and connections needed to advance employment opportunities, start a business, grow a business or receive guidance and support in overcoming barriers to success. Whatever resources a woman needs, the alliance is helping support each individual on her journey.

This initiative of collective organizations working together is advancing women in Kansas City by leveraging and elevating each other. Sherry believed this could be accomplished while reducing the overlap of women services. Many organizations aspire to develop collective impact, OneKC for Women has achieved it.

Turner has a long history of working on behalf of Kansas City small businesses through previous service with the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Kansas City Area Development Council.

Past winners of the Legacy Award include Bert Berkley, William H. Dunn Sr., Donald J. Hall, Patricia Brown-Dixon, Danny O'Neill, Barnett Helzberg, the late Ewing Marion Kauffman and many more.

Turner and the winners of this year's 25 Under 25® Awards will be featured during a gala event on Feb. 28 at the Downtown Marriott's Muehlebach Tower.

We hope that you will join us in congratulating Sherry Turner on this prestigious and well-deserved honor!