WomenO 360: Journaling the Women's Ownership Movement

The Women's Ownership Movement™ goes on the road!

We're taking our rightful place as the most powerful economic force in America.

We're leveraging the strength of our market and the capabilities and influence of the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce and our partner organizations to create business and career growth, community leadership, and financial clout. This great movement started last year with the launch of the USWCC National Congress on the Economic Advancement of Women - and is now coming to regional locations all across America.

• Empowering
• Embracing womanhood in Influence Awareness of strategic ability to make change
• Can do
• Challenging
• Changing the way we think
• Unifying
• Strength in numbers
• Crosses over in a variety of areas
• Strengthens group (women) and subgroups (minority classifications)
• About time!
• We set benchmarks for other countries
• Power in working together
  

These are just some of the WomenO qualities described by participants in our first regional meeting….

We have since held four USWCC Regional Meetings: Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA; Sacramento, CA; Redmond, OR. Each had different outcomes for next steps – some individuals described a need to go inward, and identify their priorities while others were ready to actively engage in their communities, businesses and careers.

All agreed that it is time to connect, acknowledge that we have reached critical mass and take our rightful position as THE body of influence in the marketplace. It is time that we stop advocating from across the table, and take our seat behind the table to implement change to the benefit or women’s lives at home, at work and in the community.

We invite you to join us as we build our million women strike force team across the country. USWCC Regional Meetings and let us know where you would like to take the lead. It is through our unified collective strength and influence of our community that we will take our rightful place as the most powerful economic force in America.

Join us and leave a legacy for generations to come!

U.S. Army Day Women-Owned Small Business Conference

I am honored to use my first post at the new USWCC Blog to thank Tracy Pinson, Director of the U.S. Army Office of Small Business Programs and Nancy Small, Women-Owned Small Business Program Manager for their incredible support of women-owned businesses.

I also want to thank Congresswoman Velazquez for her continued support of all small businesses – she is included in this picture as one of the speakers for the event.

[Photo from left: Tracy Pinson, Director of the U.S. Army Office of Small Business Programs; Margot Dorfman, CEO of the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce; Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (D - NY); Nancy Small, U.S. Army Women-Owned Small Business Program Manager.]

On March 20, 2007, we held our first featured agency day with the US Army Office of Small Business Programs. We had a sell out crowd at 350 and the feedback was incredible. We will continue to work with Ms. Pinson’s office to assist women-owned firms access contracts within the agency. Please respond, and let me know what you need next so that we can grow your business.

This event was the first day of the National Small Business Federal Contracting Week – a program presented by both the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce and the National Procurement Council. This event featured education, legislative update and meeting your Congress men and women, industry breakout segments that included one-on-one meetings with agencies and prime contractors. Look for our next National Small Business Federal Contracting Week to be held in August.

Please let me know if you have any other needs – we rely on your feedback to provide you and your business with programs and advocacy that support the growth of your business. Again, we are 100% biased towards your success. We are here in service to the economic growth of the millions of women nationwide. Please let me know how I can assist.