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American Small Business Coalition (The ASBC)
The American Small Business Coalition (The ASBC) provides members with access to information and relationships essential to doing business with the United States Government and Government Prime Contractors. As a private membership organization, members benefit from advisory and technical support, matchmaking activities and education targeted to the federal sector. ASBC’s value is demonstrated by relevant and qualified collaborations with Government Officials and Industry Professionals, with the intent of enhancing the ability of members to capture and exploit business intelligence and key business relationships.
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American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT)
AWRT is the national, non-profit organization that extends membership to qualified professionals in the electronic media and allied fields. AWRTs mission is to advance the impact of women in the electronic media and allied fields by educating, advocating and acting as a resource to its members and the industry. Founded in 1951, AWRT has worked to improve the quality of broadcast programming and the image of women as depicted in radio, television and cable.
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Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)
AEO supports the development of strong and effective U.S. microenterprise programs to assist underserved entrepreneurs in starting, stabilizing, and expanding businesses.
AEO is the only national member-based association in the microenterprise development industry, and is committed to organizations serving microentrepreneurs. Its membership has grown to include not only practitioners, but also advocates, public agencies, funders, individuals, and others who share in AEOs mission. AEO provides its members with a forum, information, and a voice to promote enterprise opportunity for people and communities with limited access to economic resources.
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Association for Women in Communications (AWC)
AWC is a professional organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications discilplines by recognizing excellence, promoting leadership and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era. AWC is the one organization that recognizes the complex relationships that exist across communications disciplines. Modern communicators must demonstrate competence in varied disciplines and be able to network and make career moves across the broad spectrum of communications fields.
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Association of Womens Business Centers (AWBC)
The Association of Women’s Business Centers (AWBC) is a national not for profit (501c3) organization representing women’s business centers and women business owners.
Founded in 1998, the AWBC supports entrepreneurial development among women as a way to achieve economic self-sufficiency, create wealth and participate in economic development through education, training, mentoring, business development and financing opportunities.
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Black Women Enterprises (BWE)
The mission of BWE is to identify and remove the barriers that impede the success of black women business owners from participating in government and private sector procurement, promote equal access to capital, educate, advocate, reverse industry trends that foster business failure among black women business owners, serve as a referral resource, and serve as a clearing house for all information related to businesses owned by black women. Although BWEs core mission is to serve Black Women Business Owners, we do not discriminate. All are welcome to join.
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Boardroom Bound
Boardroom Bound® is a 501(c)(3) public service that supports the nation’s interest by working to restore public trust in Corporate America by pre-qualifying a new generation of director candidates and by creating the pipeline network that delivers them to the corporate boardroom.
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CARE USA
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. CARE places special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CAREs community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives.
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CATALINA Magazine
In 2001, Cathy Areu founded CATALINA magazine, a national Hispanic lifestyle publication, to portray Hispanic woman as they are: smart, strong, sophisticated, savvy, and proud! By 2005, CATALINAs readership was well over 1.5 million -- a first for an independent Hispanic magazine owned by a Latina.
Today, CATALINA continues to reach Latinas in a variety of mediums and platforms - online, on TV, on the radio, and through signature events. Plus, CATALINA has been able to raise more than $75,000 for non-profit Hispanic organizations throughout the country -- all supporting the effort to empower the Latina community.
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Center for Womens Business Research
The Center for Women’s Business Research is the premier source of knowledge about women business owners and their enterprises worldwide. For nearly three decades, the Center has documented the economic and social contributions of women business owners and highlighted the barriers and challenges for women starting and growing their firms. The Center fulfills its mission to unleash the economic potential of women entrepreneurs by disseminating new knowledge to women business owners and their advocates, public policy makers, corporate executives, and the media through research reports, press releases, publications, annual Executive Roundtable, speaking engagements, and the Center’s website. The Center’s work reinforces the case for women business owners when seeking public and private sector support, commercial financing, and lucrative corporate and government contracts; provides the rationale for new programs and outreach strategies; and generates visibility for women business owners and the organizations and corporations that support them.
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Consumers for Competitive Choice (C4CC)
Consumers for Competitive Choice (C4CC) is an alliance of consumer advocacy groups, small business organizations, and individuals with members throughout the United States who are committed to the development of a competitive, vibrant cable communications market. Our goal is the creation of an open, diverse, pro-consumer market for cable subscribers that will stimulate price, choice and service options.
Our efforts to achieve our goal of competition in the cable television industry have been supported by telecommunications companies, including SBC (now AT&T) and Verizon, which seek to offer competitive video communications service. Our group members provide invaluable counsel and support as well. Because success will require vigorous and multi-faceted efforts, we are seeking additional funding from those who share our goal -- including would-be competitors, technology suppliers and individuals.
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Count Me In
Count Me In champions the cause for womens economic independence by providing access to business loans, consultation and education.
The first online microlender, Count Me In uses a unique women-friendly credit scoring system to make loans of $500 to $10,000 available to women across the United States who have nowhere to turn for that all-important first business loan. The organization provides access to networks that expand contacts, markets, skills and confidence.
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Enterprising Women
Tap into a powerful, emerging market! As drivers of the new economy, women business owners create more jobs for U.S. workers than all the Fortune 500 combined. They are taking risks, beating the odds, shattering glass ceilings, and redefining the meaning of success. And now they have a magazine devoted just to them!
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Euro-American Womens Council (EAWC)
EAWCs mission is to strengthen the status of women in the global marketplace by building strategic alliances between women in business and prominent leaders across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Latin America and other places of the world. Through EAWC, women of diverse backgrounds and accomplishments work together to advance womens access to positions of leadership and to pave the way for the next generations of women business leaders.
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Every Woman Counts 2008
Lifetime Networks launched its fifth, award-winning, nonpartisan, multiplatform Every Woman Counts campaign to engage women in the political process as voters and future candidates. As a centerpiece of the initiative, Lifetime has formed the first-ever Every Woman Counts Coalition of women's media and advocacy groups, in partnership with Hearst magazines Redbook, CosmoGIRL! and Marie Claire, and leading national nonprofit organizations representing more athan 10 million women. The unprecedented Coalition will reach and connect millions of women nationwide in efforts to get a record number of women to register and vote, to ensure that issues important to women are central to the national dialogue, and to encourage women to run for elected office at all levels.
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Executive Women In Government (EWG)
Executive Women In Government’s (EWG) mission is to promote, support and mentor women for senior leadership positions in the Federal government.
EWG seeks to:
• Advocate the advancement of women in senior leadership positions in the Federal government, including taking a public position on issues related to the purposes and goals of the organization.
• Be mutually supportive in members professional pursuits.
• Provide an opportunity to become better acquainted with other professional women in an atmosphere conducive to the constructive exchange of professional ideas.
• Encourage, by collective example and action, interest and participation in public service by other women.
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Filipina Womens Network (FWN)
The Filipina Womens Network (FWN) is a non-profit association for women of Philippine ancestry. FWN provides educational resources through publications, lectures, activities, and programs to further the professional and personal development of its members.
FWN enhances public perceptions of Filipina womens capacities to lead, changes biases against Filipina womens leadership abilities and promotes the entry of Filipina women into positions of leadership in corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors.
FWN achieves these goals through public education forums to heighten Filipina womens visibility, research on Filipina womens issues, leadership and skill building/career development programs for Filipina women, and influencing popular culture.
FWN members are Filipina women from corporations, government and nonprofit sectors including organizations who support FWNs mission.
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Financial Women International (FWI)
FWI is a professional association of women working together to achieve success in the financial services industry. We provide a supportive environment for life-long learning and professional growth to help members be successful throughout their careers. We believe that women in financial services make significant contributions to the industry by reaching their full potential as balanced and focused professionals; FWI exists to make this happen.
FWIs mission is to help women in the financial services industry be successful in their careers.
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Florida Women Impacting Public Policy
For more information, contact Wanda Gozdz at (954) 452-9651 or wicked-wanda@att.net.
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Hispanics Impacting Public Policy (HIPP)
Hispanics Impacting Public Policy (HIPP) is a national bi-partisan public policy organization dedicated to the promotion and betterment of the Hispanic community. By unifying the power of thirty five million Americans, we dramatically increase their influence on important issues at the National, State and Local levels. We focus on the critical issues that impact the Hispanic community and develop action plans that yield positive results—benefiting the entire Hispanic population.
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Kansas City Council of Women Business Owners (KC-CWBO)
The purpose of the KC-CWBO is to create a forum specifically for seasoned women business owners in Kansas City:
• The opportunity to better the business climate for women business owners by capitalizing on members collective influence, contacts, and knowledge in a braintrust that focuses on making changes to the system;
• The opportunity to be part of an identifiable entity so that business leaders, the media, and politicians know where to go when issues arise that affect women business owners, or when they are looking to do business with WBOs;
• The opportunity to meet, get to know, and do business with other women who also own larger businesses.
The current goals of the KC-CWBO are:
• To improve the procurement and certification processes of city, state, and corporations so that all women business owners have better access.
• To become more politically aware and informed about how public policy issues directly affect our businesses.
• To positively influence the representation of women serving on paid corporate boards and boards of influence.
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LATINA Style
LATINA Style Magazine has become the most influential publication reaching the contemporary Hispanic woman. LATINA Style broke new ground in 1994 by launching the first national magazine dedicated to the needs and concerns of the contemporary Latina professional workingwoman and the Latina business owner in the United States. With a national circulation of 150,000 and a readership of nearly 600,000, LATINA Style is unique in its ability to reach both the seasoned professional and the young Latina entering the workforce for the first time. The culturally sensitive editorial environment provided showcases Latina achievements in all areas, including business, science, civic affairs, education, entertainment, sports, and the arts.
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Moms In Business Network (MIBN)
The Moms In Business NetworkTM (MIBN) along with its sister association the International Association of Working MothersTM is the national association dedicated to supporting and actively promoting working mothers and their businesses.
The association’s mission is to help women achieve balance, enjoyment and success in their personal and professional lives.
MIBN Members are entrepreneurial and employed mothers, grandmothers, foster and step mothers, single dads, stay at home moms as well as companies that want to show their support for working mothers by providing membership benefits to their employees.
IAWM Members are working moms that want to do their best in their careers and with their families. They enjoy the valuable resources that IAWM has to offer.
The Moms In Business Network is striving to give opportunities, benefits and freedom for working mothers that were previously unavailable, and to give women the tools to create a more satisfying life.
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National Assciation for Female Executives (NAFE)
NAFE is one of the nation’s largest women’s professional associations and the largest women business owner’s association, providing resources and services—through education, networking, and public advocacy—to empower its members to achieve career success and financial security.
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National Association of Certified Government Business Enterprise (NACGBE)
National Association of Certified Government Business Enterprise (NACGBE) is a chartered business association of certified U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 8(a) and Service Disable Veteran (SDVOB)firms as recognized under the Small Business Act and with a mission to improve the environment for the 8(a) and SDVOB contracting community.
NACGBEs focus includes creating opportunities for the 8(a) contracting community, small disadvantages businesses (SDB), many who are also certified Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) firms, Women-Owned Business Enterprises, Service-Disabled Veterans, and Veteran-Owned firms. NACGBE is a business organization with a clear agenda to support SBA and OSDBU departments accomplish its goals of assisting the challenges given with procurement dollars and small business needs.
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National Association of Small Disadvantaged Businesses (NASDB)
NASDB, is a Trade Association, consisting of over 300 minority and women-owned businesses, located throughout the United States. NASDB is devoted to the enhancement of opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses to fully and freely participate in the business of America. NASDB does this primarily by educating minorities and women as to what theyre entitled to under the law, and how to best achieve it.
NASDB also helps educate the Governmental agencies, and the major prime contractors who serve them, as to their responsibilities under the Constitution and the laws enacted by the United States Congress. And, NASDB seeks to create an environment conducive to potential supplier interacting successfully with potential customer.
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National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) is the only dues-based national organization representing the interests of all women entrepreneurs in all industries. The association currently has over 8,000 members in nearly 80 chapters nationwide, and is affiliated with Les Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises Mondiales (World Association of Women Entrepreneurs) in 35 countries. NAWBO’s strength comes from the diversity of its membership - all sizes from sole proprietorship to hundreds of employees, every industry from construction, importers, and retailers to service providers, and in all areas of the country. Membership is open to sole proprietors, partners and corporate owners with day-to-day management responsibility. Active members who live in a chapter area automatically join both their local chapter and national. There is also an At-Large Chapter for the women business owners outside the chapter areas.
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National Business Association (NBA)
The National Business Association (NBA) is a not for profit association, specifically designed and actively managed to assist the Self-Employed and Small Business Community in achieving their professional goals. The NBA uses its group buying power to provide our members with support programs, cost and time saving products, services and valuable small business resource materials. The NBA is committed to the success of the Self-Employed and Small Business Community and the free enterprise system.
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National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) provides individuals from academia, government, the military services, small businesses, prime contractors, and the international community, the opportunity to network effectively with the government - industry team, keep abreast of the latest in technology developments, and address and influence issues as well as government policies critical to the health of the defense industry and the preservation of our national security.
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National Indian Business Association (NIBA)
The National Indian Business Association (NIBA) is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization established in 1992 to assist in the advancement of Native business development by providing information, programs, and services specifically designed to address the unique needs of American Indian and Alaskan Native business owners, entrepreneurs and governments. The NIBA headquarters is located in Washington, DC and operates under the auspices of an eighteen member Board of Directors, representing tribally and individually owned enterprises nation-wide, from small retail operations to large corporations.
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National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC)
The National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC), a national 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, was established to increase competition for corporate and government contracts through implementation of a pioneering economic development strategy for women business owners. NWBOC is a sister organization to the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and the Center for Womens Business Research (CWBR). NWBOC provides a national certification program for women owned and controlled business as an alternative to the multiple state and local certifications required by many public and private sector agencies. Over 100 private and public agencies now accept NWBOC certification.
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Native American Women's Business Council (NAWBC)
The Native American Women’s Business Council (NAWBC) is formed within the National Indian Business Association (NIBA). This Council was formed in response to Indian women voicing the need to have a forum specifically for Indian and Alaskan businesswomen issues. The NAWBC’s vision of Indian and Alaskan communities of the 21st century is communities that have successfully integrated new social and economic paradigms to flow into the cultural foundation of indigenous beliefs.
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New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO)
NJAWBO is the largest statewide women business owners organization in the United States. Its primary objective is to support and encourage business ownership by women. For 26 years, NJAWBO has helped women achieve their business visions by providing them with the tools to develop and grow their enterprises. Networking, partnering, leadership, education and political advocacy are the hallmarks of the NJAWBO experience. As of today, NJAWBO has grown to almost a thousand members, organized in twelve chapters, and three regional groupings, with members serving as officers at the chapter, regional and state levels. Together, we are a diverse, dynamic, and powerful group of women business owners.
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Oklahoma State Chamber
The State Chamber’s mission is to make Oklahoma "The State of Choice for Business."
The State Chamber, Oklahomas Association of Business and Industry is the states most effective lobbying organization representing all types and sizes of business.
We are a private, nonprofit, business-membership organization designed to advocate business needs at the state and federal levels. While The State Chambers primary mission is to represent business interests at the capitol, we also provide services and programs designed to address the specific needs of small business, manufacturing, community development and education.
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Pennsylvania WIPP
PA WIPP advocates for its members and the members of its alliance partners in Washington and in Harrisburg. Talking with one collective voice PA WIPP is able to advocate for positive change for women business owners and women professionals.
We also work with Federal, State and City agencies such as the Small Business Administration, the Department of General Services, the PA Womens Commission, the Office of Governor Rendell, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services, to ensure that the needs of women in business are taken into consideration.
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San Francisco Small Business Network (SFSBN)
The San Francisco Small Business Network (SBN) serves as a strong, clear, and unified voice of the small business community in San Francisco. Our mission is to strengthen and unify the voice of the Small Business Community in San Francisco. With a growing membership of 20 business organizations, we represent more than 19,000 small businesses in San Francisco currently.
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Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council)
The Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) works to influence legislation and policies that help to create a favorable and productive environment for small businesses and entrepreneurship. By educating policymakers, legislators, the media and the public about the critical role that small businesses play in our economy--and how government actions can positively or negatively affect the small business community--SBEC strives to establish a solid public policy foundation upon which entrepreneurial activity and small businesses can survive and flourish.
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Small Business Television Network (SBTV)
SBTV is the first television network on the web devoted 100 percent to the small business market - from business start-ups to established enterprises. We believe that being an entrepreneur is a way of living - not just a way to make a living. Founded in 2000, SBTV is becoming the number one choice for small business information on the net. The average viewer stays on our site for more than 30 minutes at a time. Business owners rely on SBTV because it provides expertly produced content by professional journalists and industry experts that is informational, practical and compelling.
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UNIFEM/USA
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is the womens fund at the United Nations that provides financial support and technical assistance to innovative programs promoting womens human rights, their economic and political empowerment, and gender equality. UNIFEM advocates within the UN system to link womens interests and concerns to all critical issues on the national, regional, and global agenda.
Created in 1976 as an innovative and catalytic fund, UNIFEM has 11 Regional Programme Advisors, and a growing network of affiliated gender advisors and specialists in Asia and the Pacific, Western Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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US Chamber of Commerce
Representing your ideas—and interests—in Washington for nearly a century.
Whether you own a business, represent one, lead a corporate office, or manage an association, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America® provides you with a voice of experience and influence in Washington, D.C., and around the globe.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerces mission is "To advance human progress through an economic, political and social system based on individual freedom, incentive, initiative, opportunity, and responsibility."
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Women Construction Owners & Executives, USA (WCOE)
WCOE was conceived in 1983 by 11 construction women who envisioned a national association to custom fit their unique business needs. They formed Women Construction Owners & Executives, USA to promote opportunities and business for women-owned firms and policy-making executives in the construction industry.
Today, the association continues to grow, adding members and establishing chapters across the country. WCOEs member-businesses include general contractors, top-level policy-making executives, architects, engineers, construction project managers, subcontractors and other business women and professionals related to the construction industry.
Many women join WCOE for legislative clout and the strength that comes from one unified voice. The associations legislative network provides a vehicle to impact legislation favorable to business women in the industry. And as a Coalition Partner of Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), WCOE continues to advocate and influence the national agenda affecting women owned businesses.
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Women Entrepreneurs, Inc. (WE Inc.)
WE Inc. is a nonprofit business association that works to improve and enhance the economic climate for women entrepreneurship. By advocating for policy solutions that encourage business ownership by women, and providing information and resources to entrepreneurs at all stages of their business development, WE Inc. aims to increase economic opportunity and financial security for those seeking the risky but rewarding path of entrepreneurship.
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Women in Technology International (WITI)
Women in Technology International (WITI) Carolyn Leighton founded WITI in 1989 to help women advance by providing access to - and support from - other professional women working in all sectors of technology. Today, WITI is the premiere global organization empowering women in business and technology to achieve unimagined possibilities.
With a global network of smart, talented women and a market reach exceeding 2 million, WITI has powerful programs and partnerships that provide connections, resources, opportunities and a supportive environment of women committed to helping each other. Along with its professional association of Networks throughout the U.S. and worldwide, including Hong Kong, Great Britain, Australia, and Mexico, WITI delivers value for individuals that work for a company, the government or academia, as well as small business owners.
WITI products and services include: Networking, WITI Marketplace, Career Services/Search, National Conferences and Regional Events, Publications and Resources, Small Business Programs, Research, Bulletin Boards and more.
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Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO)
Mission: To improve business conditions for women entrepreneurs and to promote the acceptance and advancement of women entrepreneurs in all industries.
The Women Presidents’ Organization is a nonprofit membership organization for a diverse group of women presidents who have guided their businesses to at least $2 million in gross annual sales (or $1 million for a service-based business).
Local chapters are coordinated by a professional facilitator who organizes meetings of the peer advisory group to focus on important business issues and cutting-edge business trends.
Women presidents encounter unique challenges in business and deserve and desire a creative and supportive resource that provides them with the knowledge and skills to excel as business leaders.
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Women's Business Council Gulf Coast (WBCGC)
The Women's Business Council Gulf Coast is an organization for women business owners interested in promoting, developing and maintaining business relationships with other women business owners, major corporations and governmental agencies. We are a non-profit organization with a mission to certify bona fide women-owned businesses and to promote the activities directed at the development, establishment, expansion and encouragement of businesses owned by women. The WBCGC is a certifying partner organization in the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Through our affiliation with WBENC, our WBE certification process is a nationally recognized and accepted certification. WBE certification is required by numerous private sector companies and governmental agencies.
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Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)
The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), founded in 1997, is the nations leading advocate of women-owned businesses as suppliers to America’s corporations. It also is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the United States. Dedicated to enhancing opportunities for women’s business enterprises, WBENC works in partnership with women’s business organizations located throughout the country to provide a national standard of certification for women-owned businesses. The organization also provides its corporate members and certified women’s business enterprises (WBEs) with access to a range of B2B sourcing tools including, an Internet database – WBENCLink – that contains information on certified women’s businesses for purchasing managers nationwide. WBENC is a resource for the more than 700 US companies and government agencies that rely on the WBENC certification as an integral part of their supplier diversity programs.
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Womens Leadership Exchange (WLE)
Womens Leadership Exchange® (WLE) is a multi-media company founded by and for female entrepreneurs. Featuring educational conferences around the U.S. for already established businesses, the WLE offers women entrepreneurs access to the tools and connections that drive business growth. The WLE mission is to help develop more women leaders in business and other areas of human endeavor by connecting women with top business experts, corporate leaders, and with each other. In addition to interactive all-day conferences held in NYC, Dallas, Chicago, Long Beach/Los Angeles and Atlanta, the WLE offers an e-newsletter, The Exchange, an online New Womens Network Directory, a womens business spa retreat, and topic-specific seminars and programs on such issues as finances. WLE is a certified Womens Business Enterprise.
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