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Understanding Diversity Among Hispanic Women Entrepreneurs

According to Susana Martinez-Restrepo, PhD., CoreWoman and Geri Stengel, Ventureneer, authors of “Hispanic Women Entrepreneurship: Understanding Diversity Among Hispanic Women Entrepreneurs,” the number of Hispanic women-owned businesses is growing at a higher rate than businesses owned by other groups, including non-Hispanic White women and men.

However, businesses owned by women, especially Hispanic women, are underrepresented and dramatically lag behind men-owned businesses in several key business productivity measurements: amount of revenue, having employees and number of employees.

To help Hispanic women-owned businesses prosper, the authors propose the following.

Increase Funding to Women’s Business Centers
Elevate Awareness of Training and Support Hispanic Women Need
Enlarge and Make Permanent the New Markets Tax Credit
Lift or Raise Cap on SBA-backed Loans
Invest Federal Agency Pension Funds in Emerging Managers

To read the entire report, visit here.

Registration is open and free for our 12/5 talk with Andrew Molinsky, Ph.D. He will talk about how, “if you are not outside your comfort zone, you won’t learn anything.” Register here.

Make Your Global Online Shoppers Feel at Home Wherever They Are

Published October 15, 2018 Announcement , Business Development , e-commerce , Economic growth , Email marketing , Enlighten Me! , Exporting , Foreign office setup , global branding , Global trade , global women entrepreneurs , How-to , Importing , Innovation , Inspiration , International business , Logistics/transportation , Management , Manufacturing , Mobile , Networking , Outsourcing , Risks , Sales & Distribution , Scaling a business , Social Media and Network , Strategy , Technology , Training (entrepreneurial) , Transportation , Trends , Web globalization , wegg event , wegginar , World entrepreneurship , World Travel Leave a Comment
Tags: Cristina Bandal, Education, free, free education, free event, free resources, global online presence, go global, online shopping, shopping, small business online community, Technology, trade resources, UPS, WEGG, wegginar, women around the world, women business owners, women entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurship, women in business, women's empowerment, women-owned businesses

Registration is still open for our FREE November 7th, 2018 wegginar®, with presenter Cristina Bandal, Industry Segment Manager of Retail and Consumer Goods for UPS.

Cristina has an extensive career with UPS, working within the marketing functions. She has worked with merchants in the retail and high tech industries. Cristina makes customer experiences valuable, by improving the shopper’s experiences. Her most recent assignment helps enable merchants to sell outside the US through UPS technology.

If 95% of the worlds population lives outside the US, why are some merchants still only selling to the domestic market? Complex rules, costly risks and high transportation costs make it difficult for small businesses to merge into new markets. UPS i-parcel not only offers a solution to these merchants, but provides a frictionless experience to international consumers.

wegginar® participants can expect to learn how to…

Offer international consumers the same shopping experience on your website that you offer to shoppers in the US.
Avoid complicated and costly international shipping that will ultimately improve your conversion rate.
Enable new international markets with just a click and reach a world of consumers.
Make your online shoppers feel at home anywhere

wegg® aims to make resources for going global accessible to all women entrepreneurs, and our wegginars® are free thanks to our sponsors. To register for the event, visit this link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8810009934736118275

Yes to India on Supporting Women-Owned Businesses

Published July 15, 2017 Country specific , Economic growth , Education , Finance , Training (entrepreneurial) Leave a Comment
Tags: Economic growth, job creation, OPIC, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Wells Fargo, women entrepreneurs, Yes Bank, yes to India

India-based Yes Bank (private sector) has received $150 million funding from the US government and Wells Fargo to increase lending to support women entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises in India.

This is the third round of funding to the bank as part of arrangement with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) – the US government development finance institution – and Wells Fargo.

An estimated three million women-owned businesses in India employ over eight million people. However, only about a quarter of them are able to get the finance they need to grow and create jobs.

Hopefully, this will drive future economic growth and job creation in India for women entrepreneurs.

Diversity is Correlated with Business Performance

Published June 3, 2017 Culture , Equality , Sustainability practices , Training (entrepreneurial) Leave a Comment
Tags: business performance, diversity, global diversity, inclusion, McKinsey, wegginar

Many people think that if you can build a case on global diversity, things will shift and improve. That’s not necessarily true. The reality is that a lot more work needs to be done.

In the interview below with McKinsey’s Rik Kirkland, Harvard Kennedy School professor of public policy Iris Bohnet talks about what is working—and what is not—when it comes to building a more equitable workplace. An edited version of her remarks follows.

Here’s a snippet on one of Kirkland’s remarks relative to diversity and inclusion:

Based on that evidence, maybe we shouldn’t be quite as shocked that diversity training doesn’t have the impact that we were hoping it could have. Because even though you and I might agree now that we will be inclusive tomorrow, it is hard to follow through on those virtuous intentions.

Are Women Willing to Wait As Long As 170 Years to Establish Parity with Men?

Published February 4, 2017 Gender challenges , Training (entrepreneurial) Leave a Comment
Tags: Enterprise Nation, Facebook, gender gap, online training, power of parity, WEF, World Economic Forum

According to the latest report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), women may have to wait as long as 170 years to establish parity with men when it comes to pay and employment opportunities. Who needs that? It is a fact that no country in the world has closed its gender gap. The only way around this barrier is for women to start more businesses, and here at WEGG, we hope with our help they take them global.

Take the UK, for example, where in an effort to ramp up women starting businesses, they are working with Facebook and Enterprise Nation, a network of small businesses, to deliver training to 10,000 women business owners across the country. Facebook claims that only 20 percent of the country’s 5.4 million small businesses are currently started by women.

What the ultimate goal here? To give women access to new online and offline training resources to provide them with the digital skills and mobile tools necessary to grow their business.

It is a well-quoted figure that equality for women in the labour force would add $28 trillion to the global economy by 2025.

Women Account for 48 Percent of all SMEs in Kenya

Published July 17, 2016 Exporting , Global trade , global women entrepreneurs , Training (entrepreneurial) Leave a Comment
Tags: Barclays, export markets, International Trade Centre, ITC, Kenya, SheTrade Initiative, women-owned businesses

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In Kenya, women-owned businesses account for over 48% of all SMEs, contributing about 20% of the Kenyan gross domestic product (GDP). Hence, the reason for a partnership between SheTrades Initiative (launched by the International Trade Centre) and Barclays Kenya for the purpose of offering local women entrepreneurs support in critical areas, including financial management, in order to help them create and maintain links to international markets.

“This partnership comes at an opportune time when SMEs are being globally recognised as vital economic growth and employment drivers. SheTradesKe presents us with a great opportunity to empower women in business and certainly draws us a step closer towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which seek to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, while curbing social and economic inequalities,” Mr Awori [Managing Director, Barclays Bank of Kenya] said.

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Note: Don’t miss our next WEGG webinar 8/24 on “Reach Multilingual Markets: Creating Content, Developing Effective Partnerships, and Utilizing Translation Technology,” and presented by expert Jennifer Murphy, Director of Marketing, Eriksen Translations, Inc. Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8702241284561995012. Event is no charge but you must register in advance to attend.

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Investing In Women Is Fair and Right and Makes Sense (and Here’s Why)

Published September 6, 2014 Economic growth , Education , Gender challenges , Inspiration , Training (entrepreneurial) Leave a Comment
Tags: Anita Roddick, Arancha Gonzalez, Body Shop, International Trade Centre, ITC, Laurel Delaney, Samoa, women invest in communities

Samoa

According to Samoa International Trade Centre (ITC) executive director Arancha Gonzalez, women put back 90 per cent of their earnings into the community compared to 40 per cent with men. “It’s a statistic that shows why investing in women is not just fair or right but actually makes sense,” says Gonzalez.

Further, “because women re-invest in the communities so heavily they are a powerful instrument to achieve development.”

According to Gonzalez, only one per cent of the global procurement market goes to women. The Samoa program will help women’s groups produce enough quantities, with the necessary quality standards, packaging and labeling.

I just love the quote that is mentioned in the article:

“The Body Shop founder, the late Anita Roddick, said many years ago: “If you can’t see the face of the farmer in what you are doing, then what you are doing is wrong.”

Photo courtesy: NeilsPhotography

Posted by: Laurel Delaney

Women Help Solve Big Challenges in Our World

Published May 25, 2014 Education , Technology , Training (entrepreneurial) Leave a Comment
Tags: International women's Hackathon, Laurel Delaney, leaders in computer science, Microsoft

The International Women’s Hackathon (second one took place April 25-27th) is a crowdsourcing event to empower young women leaders in computer science.

By providing a fun and safe environment in which to explore computing, the hackathon encourages and supports university women around the world to become producers of future innovations in technology and help solve challenges in the world today.

The goal is to have hundreds of events around the world as the future women innovators help solve big challenges in our world.

Feel free to explore below:

International Women’s Hackathon Kit (PDF, 964 KB)
Customizable poster and email (DOCX, 433 KB)
Rules and Regulations (PDF, 270 KB)

Read the entire article: International Women’s Hackathon 2014

Photo courtesy: Flickr

Posted by: Laurel Delaney

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Archive for the 'Training (entrepreneurial)' Category

Understanding Diversity Among Hispanic Women Entrepreneurs

Yes to India on Supporting Women-Owned Businesses

Diversity is Correlated with Business Performance

Are Women Willing to Wait As Long As 170 Years to Establish Parity with Men?

It is a well-quoted figure that equality for women in the labour force would add $28 trillion to the global economy by 2025.

Women Account for 48 Percent of all SMEs in Kenya

Investing In Women Is Fair and Right and Makes Sense (and Here’s Why)

Women Help Solve Big Challenges in Our World

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