NextChapter CEO & Founder, Janine Sickmeyer recognized in Women Who Lead campaign by Pledge 1%.

The Pledge 1% Women Who Lead series celebrates women in the Pledge 1% community who are creating change within their workplace and communities.

NextChapter was inspired from Janine’s personal experience as a paralegal in the bankruptcy field. She started a virtual paralegal firm, preparing bankruptcy documents for attorneys all over the U.S. While doing this, Janine was using competitor software and found it to be time-consuming, unreliable and inefficient. She knew there was a need for cloud-based bankruptcy software so Janine learned how to code, built a team of skilled developers and two years later NextChapter was born. NextChapter launched in January 2016 and has seen enormous growth month over month.

Since the founding, NextChapter has been passionate about giving back to the community and helping those in underserved markets. Inspired by Salesforce, the Pledge 1% model allows NextChapter to achieve this goal through integrated philanthropy. NextChapter donates its product for free to attorneys providing pro bono bankruptcy services to support low-income families in disadvantaged communities. In addition to the product donation, the NextChapter team works with deserving non-profits in the local community using employee Volunteer Time Off.

NextChapter is also a proud partner of the Lean In movement and through this partnership, Janine encourages and supports young women who are ready to make the leap as an entrepreneur or become a leader in their industry.  

Read more about Janine's journey and the challenges she faced when building NextChapter in this article by Pledge 1%: Women Who Lead: Janine Sickmeyer, CEO of NextChapter.