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XX Entrepreneurs: Women's Groups Advocate For Reforms
By Bizbox
Sharon McLoone over at (BizBox sister site) washingtonpost.com has a great post up about recent advocacy steps, some timed to coincide with the political calendar, that have been taken by and on behalf of female entrepreneurs: the women who together own 10.1 million privately-held U.S. businesses, and who are demanding an equal playing field.
McLoone lists several exciting recent developments:
WIPP equality into shape! Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) has introduced a draft economic blueprint The paper outlines several goals in fields such as "Health Care, Procurement, Tax Reform, Access to Capital, Energy, and Telecommunications/Technology," according to WIPP President Barbara Kasoff. "These Principles will form the basis which will provide the economic stimulus that we need to grow our businesses, provide jobs, to increase GDP and unleash the full potential of women-owned businesses as well as all small businesses." According to McLoone, WIPP presented the draft at forums held at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Download a copy! Or wait until Tuesday, when a final copy will be released to members of both parties at a WIPP meeting in D.C.
Happy Twentieth, Women's Business Ownership Act! This Wednesday, Sept. 10, the National Women's Business Council--the bipartisan, federally-mandated advisor to the president, Congress, and Small Business Administration--is holding a reception in the Capitol to cheer the twentieth anniversary of the landmark law's passage. The party will be followed by an open-to-all roundtable in San Francisco in November. More info here.
Onward to 2020 The National Association of Women Business Owners, the NWBC, and others have commissioned the consultants at Quantum Leaps to help come up with a "Roadmap to 2020" that will, in Quantum Leaps's words, "provide a roadmap for all of the major national women’s business organizations to commit to between 2009 and 2020, in order to strengthen the women entrepreneurial sector, and to accelerate the growth of women-owned businesses in the U.S." Basically, it will involve getting each individual advocacy group to focus on its particular area in a coordinated fashion, so that all bases are covered by those best suited to covering them. Expect to see the roadmap unveiled before the end of the year.
Comments (0)September 8, 2008 9:14 AM
