National Women Business Owner Corporation (NWBOC)
This organization provides certification for women business owners, called WBE Certification (women business enterprise). We work closely with them in that KC-CWBO's Executive Director, Nancy Zurbuchen, serves on their national board, and several of our members (Loretta Nichols and Jeanne Johnson) have been trained and provide on-site reviews for NWBOC certification process.
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
The KC-CWBO has routinely worked cooperatively with this organization, both locally and nationally. NAWBO is a 35-year old organization, with 80 chapters nationwide. NAWBO has a different agenda and format than we do, with their focus on leadership training and business management training. While our membership criteria focuses on larger companies, theirs is broadly based. They have been very influential over the years and still provide great education and leadership experience for women business owners. It was NWBOC that first put women business owners on the radar screen of lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the 1990s.
www.nawbo.org for the NAWBO national website;
www.nawbo-kc.org for the local Kansas City Chapter of NAWBO.
Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP)
This organization is has
some great people in it. . . rely on it for consistently good review and
advocacy from the middle to left-of-center viewpoint.
This organization has really stepped up advocating for small business owners in the public policy arena over the past several years. Rely on NFIB for consistent issues review on policies and proposed legislation that affects all small business. Generally, their perspective is from the middle to right-of-center.
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