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October 2018
Distribution:
All Active & Provisional Volunteers
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National Women in Small Business Month
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Women are starting businesses five times faster than the national average, and they're making strides in leading industries like healthcare and educational services. Women of color lead the way, starting nearly eight in 10 new woman-owned businesses since 2007.
We encourage you to take time to celebrate the success of your women entrepreneurial clients, colleagues, and maybe even your own! You can always check out the
SCORE Field Marketing Calendar for a few ideas. We would like to recognize a few of our women mentors leading the way as well...
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SCORE National Women's Committee
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SCORE is very focused on providing a diverse and inclusive volunteer membership. You may already know that 58% of our small business clients are women owned businesses, a number that keeps rising. We feel strongly that we need to be available to assist, mentor and educate this client base.
SCORE volunteer Beth Shapiro leads our National Women's Committee comprised of female SCORE members from all over the US. The Committee's purpose is to help chapters recruit women, mentor women volunteers and assist in creating and executing more women focused client events.
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SCORE Chapter Women's Events
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SCORE Chapters around the country host fantastic events year round, and our women's events are growing in popularity. Congratulations to
SCORE Southern Maryland for hosting a very successful Women in Business: Paths to Success event on September 15.
Want to hold a women's conference in your area? Get advice from Beth Shapiro, volunteer VP of Diversity & Inclusion, and four chapters who have had tremendous success in delivering impactful events for women owned businesses.
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SCORE Onboarding Program Now Available
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Attention chapter leaders
and your membership/volunteer engagement/volunteer services chairs:
At SCORE, we know we need more volunteers to do our chapters' work in our communities. After several years of research and work with chapters across the country as contributors and beta testers, the SCORE Onboarding Program is available beginning in FY19.
Want to hear more details on SCORE's Onboarding Program
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On Wednesday, October 17 from 1-2pm ET, join the Onboarding Team at HQ on a live webinar. We will share:
- The Why
- Critical Success Factors as defined through the Beta Test Process in FY18
- Recommended First Steps for Implementation
- Share Ongoing Development of Resources to Support You and Updates
- Time for Chapter Sharing & Questions
If you have questions, contact Susan Fort, Director of Learning at
[email protected]
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SCORE Awards Outstanding Women Owned Business
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Congratulations to the 2018 SCORE Award recipients, who were chosen based on their business success, positive community impact and strong relationship with their SCORE mentor.
The SCORE Award for Outstanding Women Owned Business went to Creative Behavior Solutions. In 2013, Brit and Adrianne Smith founded Creative Behavior Solutions, an Applied Behavior Analysis clinic that improves the social, academic and life skills of toddlers, adolescents and teens with developmental disabilities. Working with SCORE has helped them double their business each year, expand from two to 25 employees and move into a 5,000 square-foot clinic.
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SCORE Austin held its 2nd annual
Celia Bell Entrepreneur Awards event on September 24. The event, named after outstanding mentor and leader Celia Bell, recognizes nine
Austin entrepreneurial heroes who form the backbone of the Austin economy.
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Last month CEO Ken Yancey had the pleasure of attending the SCORE Manasota Awards event. Among the outstanding client and mentor awards presented was
District 480 Mentor of the Year Jon Stuart. Jon is the mentor of the women owned businesses and award winners Maker's Market & Workshops (Jennifer Gunter & Jennifer Bade) and Pip & Grow (
Lauren Hughey).
Read more about each client below.
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