BREAKING NEWS!
HOW WE FUND CHANGE
Women Making Waves exists to bring together a community of women and women supporters to leverage Web3 technology, to fund experts who have proven success in tactically transforming women’s rights laws across the USA and Australia
We use a digital art collection and a smart community membership to raise the capital needed to create a recurring and sustainable revenue stream to expedite and scale the work of proven law reform experts specialising in outdated women rights laws and educate global communities on the importance of creating safe work places for all women.
By minting into the Women Making Waves Community, you are using your wallet, raising your hand and your voice to create a more equitable world in which we are stronger together.
50% goes directly to fund women’s rights law reform initiatives across Australia and the USA.
40% of funds the access to our smart digital platform with exclusive access to legal, business for good and wellness education.
10% is straight back into the hands of our artist and advisors who have helped our team bring our mission to life.
Your purchase also unlocks:
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Exclusive ownership of your digital art asset.
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24/7 access to the WMW education platform with curated content to educate and support members on legal reform, advocacy, business for good and mental wellbeing.
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Giveaway and competitions
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A second NFT air dropped as a unique art attribute every time a new legislation or bill is introduced or law.
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Front row seats to season 2.
See below for our incredible corporate offer #SwellClub
Jess’ Story
Jess Wilson is a repeat tech founder, her first business Stashd scaled to 130 countries, won numerous awards, saw her as a grand finalist on China’s version of Shark Tank x The Apprentice airing to 15M p/episode and was pinned by Forbes as one of 1,000 entrepreneurs under 30 to change the world in the next 50 years. When raising money for her startup, Jess was sexually assaulted by a prospect investor. She turned to an advisor to ask for guidance in which she was met with “Jess, put your head down, focus on the business, and when you’re ‘more successful’ you can do something about it then.” (Horrific advice). Jess decided to go against that advice and was determined to seek justice for what happened to her.
She met with dozens of lawyers and law firms and quickly learnt that the options available to her were not in favour of the survivor. The most common feedback being “We believe what you’re saying – but it’s not about the truth, it’s about the law and how the law is structured”. Given that this answer was not acceptable to her or for any survivor, Jess started a lawsuit, which took 18 months working along side Lawyers, Barristers, Psychologists, Queens Counsel and ultimately – Won.
Warning: The following images and/ or content may be disturbing to some viewers. Viewer discretion is strongly advised. If you or someone you know is experiencing sexual abuse or violence contact:
National Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence Counselling Service 24-hour helpline 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732 , 24-hour Emergency Accommodation helpline on 1800 800 588, Safe At Home helpline on 1800 633 937, SHE (free and confidential counselling and support) on 6278 9090, Sexual Assault Support Services on 6231 1811, or after hours 6231 1817, Family Violence Crisis and Support Service on 1800 608 122, Bravehearts – Sexual Assault Support for Children on 1800 BRAVE 1, Kids Helpline is for young people aged 5 to 25 on 1800 551 800 Don’t go it alone. Please reach out for help by contacting Lifeline on 13 11 14
AS SEEN:
SWELL CLUB
#WMWSWELLCLUB
WMW Swell Club is a corporate community membership program focused on connecting women and women supporting organisations in support of a zero tolerance culture for sexual harassment in the workplace.
Our mission is to bring together a community of businesses that are committed to creating safe and equitable workplaces for women and need tangible resources to share organisation wide.
MEMBER PERKS
WMW Swell Club is your organisations opportunity to connect with A community of game changers for gender equality leveraging tech for good and:
- Access to our WMW Impact Summit
- Employee access to WMW digital platform and in-person events
- Brand recognition on WMW website, digital platform and custom community hub
- The opportunity to submit a expression of interest to host network events and become expert panelists
- Another customised NFT airdropped to your organisation with every law that the WMW funds reform
Investment – $10K annual subscription
Contact [email protected] to secure your Membership TODAY!
THE PLEDGE
#ITookThePledge is a campaign which asks companies, venture capital investors, media organisations and leading global brands to voice their support for all women’s’ fundamental right to feel safe in any workplace.
By purchasing into the WMW community and sharing your public pledge, you are acknowledging your organisations support of women’s rights law reform and of actioning systemic change to create a more equitable world.
OUR SUPPORTERS
THE LAW
By supporting the Women Making Waves community you are using your wallet, raising your hand and your voice to create a more equitable world.
THE ART
WMW is centered around the core characters Jess encountered in her lawsuit as key roles within a sexual assault lawsuit.
Plus we threw in an entrepreneur for good measure! There are 650+ unique traits in the collection, creating 10,000 unique NFT’s.
THE JUDGE
THE PSYCHOLOGIST
THE ENTREPRENEUR
THE BARRISTER
THE LAWYER
HOW WE INNOVATE
We know this is so much bigger than us and need community voices and wallets to ensure that maximum funds can be deployed to our impact contributors.
We will not stop until our impact partners are issued over USD1M from this collection
How we are doing things differently:
- Introducing Paper.xyz as a partner, we are removing the barriers to onboarding into the NFT and web3 space
- Private pre sale VIP and Swell Club Corporate packages which turns our influencers, supporters and aligned corporate partners in brand advocates in which they can publicly support the initiative and stand with the WMW Community
- A rewards based allow list in which supporters engagement, endorsement and collaboration with WMW unlocks early access to be foundational members of the community.
- Public mint Where we invite global supporters to mint into the WMW community.
- Education Exclusive access to a digital education platform featuring content across the areas of Business for good, demystifying the legal system and mental health and wellbeing
- Second NFT For every law or piece of legislation that we change a new NFT is airdropped to all members
- Corporate resources and educational toolkit A plug and play model that can be deployed against any ESG or People and Culture initiative.
MEET OUR IMPACT PARTNERS
FOUNDER STORY
Women Making Waves (WMW) is the first NFT project under Waves Tech Ventures – a female led and gender empowering venture business focusing on utilising Web3 technologies for impact. Co founded by Hayley Evans and Jessica Wilson in 2021, the pair met as neighbours throughout the Sydney Covid-19 lockdowns, quickly establishing a friendship grounded in shared values and a desire to harness technology for impact. With restaurants shut, offices closed – the two had time to brainstorm and stretch each others thinking as to what was possible, they quickly realised their skill-sets, connections and background crossover was perfectly complimentary.
Jessica, a successful tech entrepreneur with an innate ability to market to and wrap a vision towards millennial and Gen Z women, a stash of growth awards and pinned by Forbes as one of 1,000 entrepreneurs to change the world in the next 50 years and; Hayley, an investor and hyper-growth driven advisor whose portfolio includes the creation and scale of a $14B company’s tech investment portfolio, Global Board roles for YPO, Impact initiatives, and a training organisation in the safety and mining industry. The co-founders work with their startup team of Blockchain development specialists, NFT advisors who have built bluechip NFT projects and marketers to execute on the vision of the company and collection.
And so the story begins. TWO girls, ONE mission and a world ready for CHANGE.
SOME OF THE TEAM
Jess Wilson
CEO and Co Founder
Hayley Evans
Co Founder
Nina Funnell
Let Us Speak
Lindsay Dawson
Impact Board
Poonacha Machaiah
CEO The Chopra Foundation
Tim Birch
Thorney Tech Board
FAQ’s
What is an NFT?
How many NFT's are there in the collection?
There are 10,000 NFT’s in the Women Making Waves collection. We will be allowing our community to mint (purchase) on our website, with payment via Ethereum using either Metamask or to pay via credit card using paper.xyz
Why is WMW different from any other NFT projects?
Our collection is based on a multi-layer value proposition:
- Empowering a community to contribute to the way underfunded impact organizations fund their work.
- Creating new, reoccuring and sustainable revenue streams through the use of a NFT collection for our impact partners.
- Providing our community exclusive access to experts, tools and education in order to tactically change outdated legislation.
- Each time one of our impact contributors overturns a law, we will create a digital copy of that law and turn it into a NFT and airdrop to all holders.
How do you buy into the WMW community?
WMW is committed to providing equal access to the WMW collection and the digital community to any one who believes in our mission, which means we are removing all barriers to purchase.
The Web3 Native
Minting into the WMW communities via your own established digital wallet (MetaMask) and communication through our discord channel
The Web3 Newbie
WMW has partnered with Paper.xyz which makes it accessible to the full audience with a fast, simple and frictionless checkout solution. Whether they want to buy by credit card and link to an established wallet, or even simpler buy by credit card and Paper.xyz creates and stores a wallet for them, there are no barriers for communities members to buy into WMW.
The ‘Upswell”
WMW understands that the world is not an equal playing field and even though people may want to support the cause, may not have the financial means to do so.
That is why WMW created an Upswell wallet holding 100 NFT’s, in which passionate individuals or organisations can apply to the WMW and share their story and why they would like to be part of the community.
How to mint into the community
Individual purchasing
WMW understands that there are Web3 Natives and Web3 newbies, but that doesn’t mean our community is only available for one or the other.
That’s why WMW offers two ways to buy into the community.
By minting directly from the WMW website and through to their existing Metamask wallet or by purchasing directly from the WMW website through their incredible partner paper.xyz, allowing anyone anywhere the ability to buy using a credit card and connecting to their own established wallet, or if they don’t have a wallet paper.xyz will create one for them and store on their secure site.
SWELL CLUB Members
Our corporate smart membership enables organisations to buy larger quantities into our community.
If you would like your organisation to join the Swell Club email [email protected]
Use of funds
We operate under the values of honesty and transparency. So here are all the numbers and breakdown from our project so you can know exactly where your money goes.
Primary sales from mint:
50% goes to fund law reform projects
40% goes to fund the operations of WMW
10% goes to team, contributors, advisors, and artist
Royalties from Secondary Sales: 10%
5% goes to fund the WMW Impact wallet
1% goes to our artist
4% goes to the business (operation, founders and team)
Do you have an Allow List? How do I get listed
Yes, you can win an allow list spot via a an exclusive invitation. from the WMW team or giveaways by fellow NFT founders and projects we collaborate with.
When you win an allow list spot our team will walk you through how we gather relevant details for mint and send your your very own personal link to mint.
When does the collection launch?
From this we will be inviting our corporate supporters and early access partners to join the pre launch members list.
Post this we will open our Allow List and public mint. Dates for these will be published on our discord and twitter sites.
How can we take the pledge?
Why does #ITookThePledge exist?
The #ITookThePledge campaign is inspired by the personal story of entrepreneur Jess Wilson who was sexually assaulted by a prospect investor in a boardroom. Against advice, and not accepting that winning was not in her favour, Jess started a lawsuit against the investor and won. From this experience, its learnings and Jess’s personal mission to demystify the legal system, Women Making Waves was launched alongside co- founder and global impact leader Hayley Evans as a platform for systematic change at scale.
What is the #ITookThePledge Campaign?
#ITookThePledge is a campaign which asks companies, venture capital firms, media organisations and leading global brands to voice their support for all women’s’ fundamental right to feel safe in any workplace.
By purchasing into the WMW community and sharing your public pledge, you are acknowledging your organisations support of women’s rights law reform and of actioning systemic change to create a more equitable world.
Who is applicable to get involved?
Corporate organisations, Venture Capital firms, media organisations, law firms and global brands who align with the mission of creating a more equitable world for women in a work environment.
1. Purchase a package selection of NFT’s in 5, 10, 20 or 50 allocations packs. This can be simply done through a custom www.paper.xyz link which enables buyers to purchase seamlessly by credit card in a few clicks or with crypto currency.
“#ITookThePledge for women’s rights law reform in support of all women in our organisation and female founders of our fund, and their right to feel safe in a boardroom. We pledge to do our part to create a more equitable world” and tag 2 x companies minimum you would like to nominate to take the pledge and @womenmakingwaves. Some companies are also making a short statement but not mandatory.
This is to be accompanied by one of the below images:
– Share the creative of the early access ticket created by WMW in your branding
– Share a pic of your team and hashtag of #ITookThePledge in your work environment
TECH PARTNERS
