The Mommies Network At a Glance
The Mommies Network currently operates
113 website communities across 33 states. We currently have 26,868 active members nationwide, including
66 who joined in the last 24 hours.
Jefferson and Shelby County
Phoenix and surrounding areas of Maricopa County
the greater Little Rock area
Benton and Washington Counties
San Joaquin and Stanislaus Counties
Fresno, Madera and Merced Counties
North Orange County including Fullerton, Anaheim, Yorba Linda, Placentia, Garden Grove, and Orange
Oceanside, Carlsbad and Vista, including Camp Pendleton
Sacramento
Santa Clarita Valley and surrounding areas
San Luis Obispo County
Kings County and Tulare County
Ventura County
Colorado Springs
all cities
Jacksonville
Key West and the Lower Keys
Orlando
Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties
Pinellas County
Lee and Collier Counties
Hillsborough and southern Pasco Counties
Athens and all bordering counties
Atlanta and surrounding areas (Fulton, DeKalb and East Cobb counties)
Augusta
Brantley, Glynn, and Wayne Counties
Forsyth County
Gwinnett, Barrow, Walton, and Hall Counties
Bartow, Cherokee, Paulding and Western Cobb Counties
Newton, Rockdale and Henry Counties
Camden and Charlton counties in Georgia and Nassau county in Florida.
Hawaii Island
Oahu Island
LaSalle, Putnam, Marshall, Eastern Bureau and Northern Livingston Counties
Scott County, Clark County, Floyd County, and portions of Washington County
Louisville and surrounding areas
Baltimore, Howard, Eastern Carroll and Northern Anne Arundel Counties
Harford and Cecil Counties
Frederick, Washington and Western Carroll Counties
Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties
Michiana, NW Indiana, and SW
Kansas City and surrounding areas
the greater St. Louis area
Lincoln, southern Logan, southern McPherson, southeastern Arthur, eastern Keith, northern Hayes and northwestern Frontier Counties
Omaha and surrounding areas
Las Vegas
Albuquerque
Buffalo and surrounding areas
Mid-Hudson Valley Area (Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia Counties)
Rochester and surrounding areas
Saratoga County
Suffolk County
Alamance, Caswell and Western Orange Counties
Randolph County
Buncombe County
McDowell, Rutherford, Polk, and Mitchell Counties
Alexander, Catawba, Burke and Caldwell Counties
Rowan, Cabarrus and Stanly Counties
Charlotte, Pineville, Matthews and Mint Hill
Carteret, Onslow, Jones and Craven Counties
Stokes and Rockingham counties
Cumberland, Hoke, and Southern Harnett Counties
the Greenville area including Pitt, Martin, Lenoir and Greene Counties
Ashe, Avery, and Watauga Counties
Johnston and Northeast Harnett Counties
Lake Norman Area
Davidson and Davie Counties
Person and Granville Counties
Charlotte, Pineville, Matthews and Mint Hill
Moore, Lee and Chatham Counties
Gaston, Cleveland and Lincoln Counties
Guilford and Forsyth Counties
Durham, Wake and Eastern Orange counties
Union and Anson Counties
Wilmington and surrounding areas
Cincinnati and surrounding areas
Cleveland
Franklin, Delaware, Licking, and Fairfield Counties
greater Monroe, Michigan and greater Toledo
Cleveland County
Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas Counties
Bucks and Montgomery Counties
Philadelphia
York and Adams counties
Providence, Kent, Washington, Bristol and Newport Counties
Camden and surrounding areas
Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester Counties
Union, Cherokee, and Spartanburg Counties
Greenville and Spartanburg Counties
York County
Hamilton County and north Catoosa County (GA)
Montgomery County
Knoxville and surrounding areas
Greater Austin Metropolitan Area
Bell, Coryell, Lampasas and Burnet Counties
Houston and surrounding areas
Midland, Odessa and surrounding areas
Collin and Denton Counties
Bexar, Comal, and Guadalupe Counties
Salt Lake, Davis, and Utah Counties
Tooele Valley and surrounding areas
Stafford, King George, Westmoreland, Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties
southside of Hampton Roads
Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Arlington Counties
Peninsula Area of Hampton Roads
Richmond and surrounding areas
Kitsap County
Whidbey Island, Fidalgo Island, and Skagit Bay
Pierce County
Raleigh, Fayette, and Summers Counties
North Central
Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties
Kenosha and Racine counties
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About The Mommies Network
The Mommies Network is a 501c(3) organization founded in April of 2005 by Heather Fortune along with a board of two additional members, Frances Bullock and Amanda Keys. Heather had founded CharlotteMommies (NC) three years earlier and knew that a need existed for mothers to connect with one another and support each other. The Mommies Network was created to help fill this need in cities across the United States. By the end of 2005, The Mommies Network parented eight communities in four states and had formed a partnership with Carolina Parenting, the publisher of three parenting magazines in North Carolina.
In January 2006, Amanda stepped down and Suzanne Johnston joined the board. The Mommies Network celebrated its first anniversary with a total of sixteen communities in seven states. 2006 brought changes to the organization, including a new partnerships with GoodSearch, a search engine powered by Yahoo!, and renewing the Carolina Parenting partnership. We also wrote a manual for new site administrators, added an Advisory Board to help with community management and moved to a new web server to better accommodate our growth. At the close of 2006 TMN had 27 communities.
In January of 2007, Frances stepped down and Rebecca Lange, founder of TriadMommies (NC), accepted the third position on the board. In March the first community for dads was opened, and The Dads Network was formed as a partner organization to support the unique needs of dads. By the end of the year we had over 60 communities with a combined membership of 12,741, a 193% increase over the prior year. In order to support this growth we added a team of Network Administrators (experienced site administrators who provides support and guidance to less experienced site administrators) and several Advisors (providing role-specific support to our communities). We also increased our Board of Directors to five people, adding Amy Sloan, founder of LakeNormanMommies (NC) and Amanda Anderson, Co-Site Administrator for RichmondMommies (VA), and hired our first employee, Rachelle Watkins, National Sponsorship Manager. We also moved to a new server, completed a major overhaul to the look and feel of our communities, and enhanced our security.
2008 was a big year. During the third quarter board member Amanda Anderson stepped down and was replaced by SLOCountyMommies (CA) Manager, Kristin Amundsen-Cubanski. We also added a 5-person Operations Board to handle the day-to-day needs of our Network. This board consists of Chelle Garrett, retired Site Administrator for UnionCountyMommies (NC),
Heath McCoy, retired Site Administrator for CharlotteAreaDads (NC), April Rink, Site Administrator for SWPiedmontMommies (NC), Amy Blalock, Site Administrator for TriadMommies (NC) and Margie Gilbert, retired Site Administrator for SouthValleyMommies (CA). At the close of 2008 we had over 100 communities.
2009 will continue to bring substantial growth and changes to our organization. Operations Board member Heath McCoy stepped down and was replaced by Karin Amundsen, founder of VegasMommies (NV). We have purchased a second server to accommodate our growth and have additional technical enhancements planned. We look forward to welcoming new communities to our Network in 2009!
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Executive Board
The Executive Board is responsible for the overall management of The Mommies Network. |
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Heather founded CharlotteMommies in 2002 and co-founded The Mommies Network in 2005. Heather has two beautiful daughters: Caroline Grace and Catherine Elizabeth. She has a B.A. in English Literature. She grew up in Ohio and Pennsylvania and moved to South Carolina when she was ten. Today she and her family live in Charlotte, NC. She also enjoys reading, writing and homeschooling Caroline. Heather is our visionary and serves on the Research & Development and Community Launch Committees. |
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Rebecca Lange
Becky was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1999 to attend Greensboro College. She graduated with a BA in Exceptional Child Studies. Becky has one daughter, Daniela, who was born in January 2005 and is due with her second daughter, Lorelei, in May 2010. Becky founded our TriadMommies (NC) community and served as the Site Administrator for two years. In her free time, Becky enjoys decorating cakes, photography, reading and music. Becky's primary responsibility is managing our various online promotional tools. She joined our Board of Directors in late 2006. Becky chairs our Promotions Committee and serves on our Accounting, New Community and Community Launch Committees. |
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Amy Sloan
Amy and her husband, Gregg, live in Columbus, GA - aka the boonies! They have three children: Alexa, Hunter and Carter. She worked full time as a Marketing Director before she became a stay-at-home mom in 2003. While living in Cornelius, NC, Amy founded LakeNormanMommies (NC) and served as the site administrator for 18 months. She joined our Board of Directors in 2007. She enjoys reading, decorating her house and being with her family. Amy oversees the Operations Board in the day to day management of our sites. |
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Kristin Amundsen-Cubanski
Kristin and her husband Tom live in San Luis Obispo, California with their three daughters: Autumn, Laura and Mae. She has Bachelors and Masters degress in Computer Science from California Polytechnic State University and worked full-time from home as a software engineer before becoming the CIO for The Mommies Network. She is a member of SLOCountyMommies (CA) and served on the community management team for one year and as an area and support group moderator since its opening in March 2006. She enjoys photography, quilting, reading, music, geocaching, camping, learning new things, and hopes to get back to cycling sometime soon. Kristin chairs our Tech Support, Research & Development and Community Launch Committees. Her sister Karin is on our Operations Board. |
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Chelle is a newlywed! She married her British husband, Andy, in October 2009. She is the mom of twins: Jenna and Nathan. Chelle works part-time at the American Red Cross. She was a long time member and moderator on our CharlotteMommies (NC) community before joining the management team of UnionCountyMommies (NC) and later becoming the Site Administrator, a role she held for over a year. In 2007 she became a Network Administrator, and took on the responsibility of managing our NA team in 2008. Chelle supervises our Fundraising, Grant Writing, and Sponsorship teams in addition to handling the daily bookkeeping functions of the Network. |
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Operating Board
The Operations Board is responsible for the day-to-day operations of our sites.
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Amy Blalock
Amy co-manages, along with Amber White, the administration of teams for all Network Level TMN Sites. This includes hiring and training staff, handling day to day operations at the site level, and overseeing the Librarians and Peer Panel. She is a native of Durham, North Carolina and moved to Greensboro, NC in 2001. She has a degree in psychology from Elon University and a Masters in Clinical Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She practiced psychotherapy, focusing on children and adolescents, until her second child was born. She joined TriadMommies in 2006 and held a variety of leadership positions including area group mod, user group manage,r and SA from 2007-2009. She is currently a stay-at-home mom and helps her husband Tommy at his law practice. Amy and Tommy have three beautiful sons: Cameron, Caleb and Coltyn. In her "spare" time she enjoys reading, watching TV, spending time with friends, and volunteering at her church. Amy joined our Operations Board in 2008. |
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Margie Gilbert
Margie is responsible for assisting the Network Administrators and Site Administrators with conflict resolution, as necessary, and assisting in Site Administrator training. She founded SouthValleyMommies (CA) and was the site administrator for 18 months. She lives in Hanford, CA with her husband Joseph, founder and site administrator for CentralValleyDads (CA) and their son Caleb. Margie enjoys cooking, crafts, fishing, traveling, spending days with friends, the coast, the great outdoors, and much more. |
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Karin Amundsen
Karin manages our New Community Committee, interviewing potential Site Administrators and training them prior to site launch. She also oversees the training of all new Site and Assistant Site Administrators for the network. She founded VegasMommies.com (NV) and was the Site Administrator for two years, retiring in 2009 to join the Operations Board. She has a Master's Degree in British History and lives in Las Vegas with her son, Danny. Her sister Kristin serves on our Executive Board. |
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Amber, along with co-Director Amy Blalock, is responsible for the administration teams for all Network Level TMN Sites. This includes hiring replacement and Co-Site Administrators and Assistants, along with providing site-level management training, handling member concerns, and assisting sites in becoming successful out of training. Amber and her husband Shane have 3 sons; Joshua, Justin, and Jeremy. She grew up in Aberdeen, MD but moved to Knoxville, TN a few years ago, and she loves the area! She is currently a WAHM hoping to go back to school soon. Amber has been a part of the TMN family since 2007, as a member of both BaltimoreMommies.com and ChesapeakeMommies.com . In 2008, She founded KnoxvilleMommies.com, and has also previously been a Network Level 2 Admin. Amber joined our Operations Board in late 2009 and also helps oversee our Peer Panel and TMN level librarians. |
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Directors
Our Directors are responsible for the day-to-day management of our other business departments. |
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Christi Haynes
Christi is responsible for Network Program Management, oversight of the Technical Team, training site and network staff on the technical aspects of site administration, and assisting the CIO in setting policy and selection of software and technical tools. Christi and her husband Glenn have three children. Christi grew up in Dallas, Texas and has a BBA from Baylor University. She was a manager at an IT corporation before putting her career on hiatus to start a family. Christi and her growing family lived in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before arriving in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was a long time moderator and manager for our LakeNormanMommies (NC) community and was a Network Administrator. Christi joined our Operations Board in 2009. |
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Jamie Rippy
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Christine Byrd
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National Managers
The Mommies Network's National Managers work with the Executive Board, Directors, and our sites to oversee site leadership and national-level projects. |
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Jaala Jensen
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Robin Yount
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Andrea Bates
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Schell Hammel
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Jennifer Pocock
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Stacey Kirk
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Amanda Moran
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Amanda Perryman
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Theresa Jenkins
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Karli Brown
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