MillHouse Foundation founder and CEO, Dr. Beth Beck, is passionate about empowering creative entrepreneurial women to flourish. After three decades in federal service working for NASA, Beth retired in 2018. While Beth envisioned a retirement of gardening and engaging artistic pursuits, she quickly discovered that she was called to something different.
Beth spent the last few years of her NASA career researching and compiling data on the factors and conditions that motivate women to innovate. The key finding: women seek out, and thrive in, a supportive, collaborative environment. Beth leveraged these findings as she began meeting with the owner of the Cotton Mill and City leaders to devise strategies to enhance the innovative culture in McKinney in order to attract new start-ups and businesses to the area. The idea to design resources that uniquely support female entrepreneurs in creative fields began to take hold of her imagination. The historic McKinney Cotton Mill offered the perfect canvas to create a social, creative hub for women to blossom and prosper.
MillHouse Foundation is a non-profit foundation designed to equip and empower women to connect and flourish. It is a membership-based social and cowork space for women with studios, programs, activities, and experiences to promote and support emotional well-being and entrepreneurial experimentation that may result in emerging business opportunities.
MillHouse boasts 6000 sq. ft. of creative space that includes private studios, a kitchen, a coffee bar, well-equipped photography, and wellness studio, an art gallery, client meeting space, and two outdoor patios. Members lead and participate in daily programming designed to foster connections and collaborations, resource sharing, skills development for small business women in creative, entrepreneurial fields.
Visit MillHouse to discover a welcoming, collaborative community eager to help grow your dream. Located at 610 Elm Street, Suite 100, McKinney, MillHouse is open Monday-Friday: 9 am – 5 pm. Learn more at www.millhousefoundation.org.