Everything For a Small Business Is Urgent: Where's the Funding For Women Business Owners?

Women's business centers are essential to ensuring women entrepreneurs can start, grow and sustain businesses that strengthen local economies. There are about 150 such centers nationwide.  Without women’s business centers, countless women entrepreneurs would lack a clear path to success. Federal investment is making a difference — and sustained support remains essential.

A preliminary proposal from the Trump administration called for a halt to federal funding for women's business centers nationwide.

The budget uncertainty in Washington, the federal funding situation for both Women Business Centers and SCORE, is concerning.

We salute the Association of Women's Business Centers for their five-city Media Spotlight Tour to showcase the impact of women-owned businesses and the Women's Business Centers (WBCs) that support them.

There's a reason women are defined as resilient and courageous.  If you strip them of funding, there are no alternatives but to become fearless, resilient and courageous to grow a business. We exist.  Show us support will you? 

Let the Grant Process Begin

The Small Business Administration plans to approve grants for older Women's Business Centers by mid-January, finally implementing a program signed into law four months ago.

In all, there are 98 Women's Business Centers across the country. Last year they provided training and counseling to nearly 130,000 small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.

A worthy cause that should never be an issue or in question.

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