CESI Partnerships
The Women's Business Center, is a non-profit organization established in 1995, to support entrepreneurial women as they begin and grow their businesses. The WBC grew out of a series of seminars held in the 1990s that were designed to help women start their own businesses. The WBC is physically located in Portsmouth but offers programs and services across the region of New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts and southern Maine.
The Women's Business Center is the only women's organization in New Hampshire that is backed by the U.S. Small Business Administration. In 1997, the WBC became one of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Women’s Business Ownership-funded centers. The U.S. Small Business Administration renewed the WBC's funding in 2002. This partial funding, supplemented by grants and in-kind donations from the New Hampshire community, corporate sponsorships, individual donations, and programming fees ensures that the WBC has the ability to work with women at all economic levels.
The Women's Business Center's support comes via the auspices of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership (OWBO). OWBO is the only office in the federal government established to help women become full partners in economic development through small business ownership.
For more information, please visit some of our sister sites at:
http://www.onlinewbc.gov/
www.womenbiz.gov/
www.sba.gov/womeninbusiness/wnet.html
The WBC provides:
- Educational Programming
- Networking Opportunities
- Business Counseling
- Membership Directory/Business Listing
- Advocacy
- Mentorship
Participation in Women's Business Center activities is open to anyone regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical ability, or familial status. All U.S. Small Business Administration programs are extended to the public on a non-discriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made, if requested at least two weeks in advance. Contact info@WomenBiz.org to make arrangements.
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of NH-VT (CCCS of NH & VT) is a non-profit community service organization founded in 1972 by a group of NH community bankers seeking to help those having difficulty managing their personal finances.
Today, CCCS of NH & VT provides confidential, expert, unbiased individual budgeting, money management, credit, and debt counseling; bankruptcy counseling; housing counseling; and reverse mortgage counseling. With the exception of bankruptcy counseling, all counseling is offered free of charge. CCCS of NH & VT also provides free educational programming to groups covering these same subjects.
SNHU SIFE students are assisting the West H.S. Theatre Knights program. The SNHU SIFE group serves as mentors as well as offering assistance in the marketing and business operations for the Theatre Knights program at West H.S.