Proactive year-end planning can help business owners reduce their tax bill, maximize deductions and set their businesses up for a profitable new year.
Here are a couple of other ideas to get your creative juices flowing for 2026.
Go, go, go! Best wishes for a merry, bright and prosperous 2026!
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Picture this: a world where gifts aren’t just things you give but celebrations of her unwavering hustle, creativity, and drive. Yeah, that’s the vibe I’m going for today. Whether she’s rocking the boardroom, slaying at running an online business, or just generally being a business badass, this list of amazing gifts will be just what she wants and needs.
Explore a gift guide that’s anything but ordinary, just like the female entrepreneurs we’re celebrating this year. One of our favs can be found here.
GrantWatch offers the structure, clarity, and direction to help you move from ideas to action with confidence.
When women thrive, families, communities, and nations flourish. Say YES and be part of a powerful movement creating a world where every woman becomes a force for equality and unstoppable impact!
Go here to visit and join the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO), which was founded in 2013 by Wendy Diamond, an entrepreneur and humanitarian, with the aim of celebrating, supporting, and empowering women entrepreneurs worldwide
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Oh what a party and oh what a turnout! Thank you to everyone who celebrated with us. The pictures say it all.
More here. Happy 10 Years wegg!
All photos courtesy: Lisa Miller Photography
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More about Success On Her Terms (SoHT)
Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global unveils its newest and most exciting program yet! "Success On Her Terms," a dynamic four-part series presented by Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global® in collaboration with Merrill’s Baldwin Marcovici Group and moderated by Alex Didac.
More about Shelly Sun Berkowitz
Shelly now serves as CEO of her advisory firm, Founder 2 Founder, where she is helping other founders scale, sell, and secure their business legacies. Through her family office, Next Phase Capital (NPC), Shelly offers patient, values-aligned capital to franchise businesses.
To register
Again, to learn more and to register (free of charge) for the first session that Shelly is kicking off, visit: https://womenentrepreneursgrowglobal.org/programs/success-on-her-terms/
I [Laurel Delaney] hope to see you there!
During October DCEO is celebrating National Women's Business Month throughout October by recognizing the significant contributions of women-owned businesses across the state.
“I’m proud to celebrate the wealth of women-owned businesses across our state – and the thousands of talented women who’ve helped establish Illinois’ vibrant business community as the best in the nation,” said Gov. JB Pritzker.
Read on to learn of additional resources that are available to women-owned IL businesses.
How has he done it?
Before jumping into reading the entire article, I'll give you a spoiler alert: Raider’s advice to aspiring [women] entrepreneurs is to, “Create a product that is unique, different, and better in some way, and make it easy to explain.”
Alicia Sheares’ research on Black tech entrepreneurship in Atlanta and Silicon Valley identifies additional barriers faced by Black women in the field due to negative assumptions about their abilities, signals that they do not belong, sexual advances, and distractions relating to their appearance and attractiveness.
These challenges for Black women are distinct from those reported by Black men and by white women.
For her presentation to the Clayman Institute, Sheares dug into her research on Black women.
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Enjoy exceptional food, signature cocktails, lively conversation, and a soundtrack curated entirely by women artists—plus gift bags filled with products made by women. And to top it all off, the evening will be emceed by the sensational Whitney Reynolds!
To learn more and to buy your tickets, visit: https://womenentrepreneursgrowglobal.org/about/10yr-anniversary/
One influential voice pushing against the “anti-woke” tide is Cherie Blair, a leading British barrister and, most famously, wife of former UK Prime Minister (1997-2007) Tony Blair.
As a feminist, the 71-year-old international trade and human rights specialist is focused on what she sees as business’s systemic bias against women. “Business was built by men, for men, on the assumption that a lot of other things were being done by somebody else; (i.e.) women,” she says.
Blair compares female economic exclusion to an airplane flying with one engine; companies will eventually get to their destination, she says, but they would get there much quicker with two.
She concedes that philanthropic approaches can only go so far: Companies need to think harder about how women’s lived experience can be designed into their digital products and services. Her goal is to empower one million women entrepreneurs by 2030.
Learn more about Cherie Blair, her program and how she encourages women to back themselves.
Female entrepreneurs are on equal footing with their male counterparts in creating businesses with a societal impact. But there is still a colossal gap in startup funding between women and men who prioritize social issues alongside corporate profit. That is in danger of growing even larger as DEI policies are increasingly removed.
For many women entrepreneurs, the old saying rings true: When one door closes, another opens. Tariffs, changing corporate priorities, and economic uncertainty may shut down opportunities, but resilience and adaptability often lead to new paths forward.
Geri spoke with two CEOs—Karla Trotman of Electro Soft and Dee C. Marshall of Diverse & Engaged—who shared how their companies evolved in response to challenges. She also spoke with Carolyn Rodz, CEO and cofounder of Hello Alice, whose platform serves thousands of small businesses nationwide. Her observations, based on working directly with women entrepreneurs, add another layer to understanding how business owners can turn challenges into opportunities for growth.
As Geri concludes, "For women entrepreneurs, setbacks are not just obstacles. They are the turning points that fuel reinvention and drive future growth."
Read the entire article here.
This dashboard dives into US investment trends for women startup founders over the last 16 years with data on deal counts and capital raised by state, industry and stage, and featuring select female-founded startups and firms. The data is sourced from the PitchBook Platform and will be updated monthly.
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?
Enjoy exceptional food, signature cocktails, lively conversation, and a soundtrack curated entirely by women artists—plus gift bags filled with products made by women. And to top it all off, the evening will be emceed by the sensational Whitney Reynolds!
To learn more and to attend, visit: https://womenentrepreneursgrowglobal.org/about/10yr-anniversary/
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