A SUPPORTIVE NETWORK
The Maryland Women’s Business Center supports pre-venture, start-up, and existing women-owned businesses. We scale business growth with specialized seminars and workshops, one-on-one and group business counseling, and access to resources. Explore our services to take your business to the next level.
We offer a variety of educational events featuring expert advice that help strategically grow businesses - from start-up to expansion.
No matter the stage, our highly experienced counselors stand ready to personally help you navigate through the business process.
It takes a supportive network and useful resources to build a business. Before you start a new project, check our trusted list.
Women now create businesses at more than twice the rate of men. Unfortunately, the path to starting and sustaining a successful enterprise that leads to a stable and substantial income for the owner is rocky and fraught with obstacles. As a result, too many women-owned businesses start without an adequate plan, fail to make the transition to CEO, or stay too small and end up operating below the margins of success or fail prematurely. We help women think strategically from the beginning about building a business that allows them to succeed over the long-term.
We encourage women to take the steps that will lead to their success by helping them to figure out:
Through training, individual counseling, facilitated peer group support, specialized resources, and access to capital, we help more than 1,500 women per year gain the skills, connections and confidence needed to successfully navigate the challenging path leading to sustainable business ownership as a career.
Hearing another entrepreneur’s journey can inspire you to push forward with your own. Listen to stories from our 2018 MWBC Awardees who represent promising businesses in a variety of fields.
Teri Olivier won MWBC’s 2018 StartRight! Business Plan Competition. Her company, Celebrate Work from Home, LLC will support the growing number of remote workers seeking a connection with similarly working peers.
2018 Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Mercedita Roxas-Murray talks about her company, Montage Marketing, and the pivotal role MWBC played in helping her to get started and grow.
Makeba Clay, founder, and president of Innovative Global Solutions Consulting, LLC talks about how MWBC helped her shape her business idea and offered ongoing support as she moved forward.
Mina Izadjoo, Ph.D., president and chief science officer at Integrated Pharma Services and Integrated MicroSciences talks about how MWBC’s guidance helped her take the plunge into business ownership and the goal of her science work.
Renee Y. Watson, president and CEO of PROARC, Inc, MWBC’s 2018 Minority Woman Business Owner of the Year talks about her experience as an entrepreneur and how MWBC contributed to her start.
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