The National Women’s Business Council Details Policy Recommendations for Female Entrepreneurs.

Summary:  The National Women’s Business Council issued a brief detailing the value of education and workforce development within women-owned business enterprises.  The brief also contains policy recommendations for female entrepreneurs to consider and refer to when making business planning decisions.

Topic:  Should the new administration offer incentives for investing in women-owned businesses?

Category:  Institutional

What is it?  An education and workforce development report issued by the National Women’s Business Council in October, 2008.

Title:  Education and Workforce Development

Publication Information:  The National Women’s Business Council. Document located online under  Research and publications, Issues in brief.  “Backgrounder: Education and Workforce Development.” Published October, 2008

Author:  No author is acknowledged.

Location:  http://www.nwbc.gov/ResearchPublications/documents/Education&WorkforceDevelopment.pdf

Accessed:  February 5, 2009.  12:05 PST

Support:  The Small Business Administration (SBA) manages a program called the Office of Small Business Development Centers (SBDC).  The SBDC is a cooperative effort of the private sector, the educational community and federal, state and local governments.  The SBA provides statistics involving businesses that have received entrepaneurial development resource assistance from the SBA.  The article includes two anonymous quotes from Portland, Oregon area woman business owners.

Audience and Agenda:

The National Women’s Business Council is committed to conducting research on issues of importance to women business owners. In fact, federal mandate dictates that 55 percent of the Council’s annual budget should be spent on research activities.  NWBC publishes short, concise reports on specific topics of interest to women in business.  The council’s research reports aim to enlighten, inform and provide policy guidance to policymakers, women business owners, the media and others on critical issues.  The NWBA is funded by the federal government.

Usefulness:  This brief outlines the correlation between education and specific workforce training programs and the difficulties women business owners are currently reporting.  The article is an attempt to expose the flaws that are surfacing within the women-owned business world.  One of the goals of the institution is to increase the outreach and marketing by programs designed to assist woman business owners.  The article repeats that women have a need for tax incentives and workforce compensation policy to support apprentice programs which use older workers to train younger workers.  This brief is intended to influence government policy makers and be a referance for business entrepaneurs.  The SBA and the SBDC are both government funded programs which the NWBA has a close affiliation with and uses their statistics as a basis for their claims.

Works Cited:

http://www.nwbc.gov/ResearchPublications/issuesBrief.html

http://www.nwbc.gov/ResearchPublications/documents/Education&WorkforceDevelopment.pdf

http://www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/sbdc/index.html

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