Women Entrepreneurs

There is a vast array of resources for women entrepreneurs. Heres a good starting place:

Association for Enterprise Opportunities (AEO)
AEO provides seed money small businesses under five employees requiring $35,000 or less.

Athena International
Athena Foundation links experienced businesswomen with emerging businesswomen.

SBA: Women's Business Centers
The United States Small Business Association offers a directory specifically for women business owners. Locate your local Women's Business Center

Business Women's Network
Business Women's Network (BWN) provides advice for its members through a variety of resources, including events, books, articles, newsletters and online tools

Center for Women and Enterprise
Since its founding in 1995, the Center for Women and Enterprise has served over 13,000 entrepreneurs. At offices in Boston, Worcester, and Providence, RI, CWE provides education, training, technical assistance and access to capital to ensure that all women, regardless of their economic status, will have the opportunity to start and run their own businesses.

Center for Women's Business Research
The Center for Women's Business Research's mission is to provide data-driven knowledge to advance the economic, social and political impact of women business owners and their enterprises worldwide. They do this by: setting the national agenda; creating insight on the status and achievements of women business owners; altering perceptions about the economic viability and progress of women-owned enterprises; and driving awareness of the economic and social impact of this vital business sector

Count Me In
Count Me In uses a 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.

Digital WOmen
DigitalWomen provides an International online community for women in business, business women around the world. DigitalWomen offers free business resources and tools including information about grants, women loans, payday loans, cash advance loans, free business tips, work at home business ideas, free marketing and sales tips, how to write a mission statement, free daily planner, how to business articles and an opportunity to join and promote your woman-owned-business.

The Direct Selling Women's Alliance
The Direct Selling Women's Alliance (DSWA) is a global organization dedicated to uniting direct sellers throughout the world who share a common desire of achieving personal and financial success. The DSWA is the direct sellers source for the latest information, resources, networking and support.

eWomenNetwork.com
A simple, yet expansive networking resource for businesswomen.

Franchise Solutions for Women
Franchise Solutions for Women is a mix of information and resources that help women find the right business to own. Franchise Solutions for Women promotes real investments in real businesses, in particular those franchises and business opportunities that are proven to help their owners succeed.

Key4Women
Key4Women is dedicated to helping women take advantage of every business opportunity that can be discovered, as well as creating new ones along the way. Key4Women offers capital, customized services, ongoing education and networking opportunities.

Ladies Who Launch
Ladies Who Launch provides content and community to help women start and expand their businesses and creative ventures. Through their events, e-mail newsletter, website and in-person Incubator programs Ladies Who Launch provides a venue for motivated women to exchange products and services, ideas, and strategic relationships.

Make Mine a $Million
The Make Mine A $Million Businessâ„¢ program is designed to help women entrepreneurs surpass the million dollar revenue mark. Count Me In provided women entrepreneurs with the first opportunity for online microloan financing. Relying on a wider set of criteria than traditional lenders who focus primarily on credit history, Count Me In has provided microloans of up to $10,000 to many women entrepreneurs.

Score: Resrouces for Women Business Owners
SCORE offers a great list of online resources for women business owners.

The National Women's Business Council
The National Women's Business Council is a bi-partisan federal advisory council created to serve as an independent source of advice and policy recommendations to the President, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration on economic issues of importance to women business owners. The Council's mission is to promote bold initiatives, policies and programs designed to support women's business enterprises at all stages of development in the public and private sector marketplaces -- from start-up to success to significance.

Springboard Enterprises
Springboard is a national non-profit organization accelerating women's access to the equity markets. Our programs educate, showcase and support women entrepreneurs as they seek equity capital and grow their companies.

Women 21
The Department of Labor and the Small Business Administration, along with many partners, are eager to assist the women who are the driving force in the economy. This website offers key resources, targeted information, registration for online programs, and networking opportunities

Womens Business Enterprise National Council
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.

WomanOwned
WomanOwned provides online business information and networking assistance as well as a number of resources for setting up / running / growing businesses. WomanOwned's most notable feature is an online search engine of women business owners from every type of industry and from almost every country around the world.

Woman Presidents' Organization
Women Presidents' Organization (WPO) is for women whose businesses annually gross over two million dollars. The organization has forty-nine chapters in thirty-six cities.

re:invention
An online blog for women entrepreneurs. Updated daily with news, resources, articles and online tools.

Principal Financial Group Free Teleclasses for Women Entrepreneurs
Principal offers free teleclasses for women entrepreneurs by women entrepreneurs.