NAWBO Renews Relationship with Wells Fargo
Together: Rising – NAWBO and Wells Fargo Working for Women Business Owners
(McLean, Va., March 1, 2008)—The National Association of Women Business Owners® (NAWBO®) is pleased to announce that Wells Fargo has chosen to continue its support of the organization. Through this alliance, NAWBO and Wells Fargo offer women entrepreneurs the resources and information they need to strategically advance their businesses.
NAWBO and Wells Fargo will recognize three innovative women business owners with the sixth annual NAWBO/Wells Fargo Trailblazer Award. Each winner will receive a cash grant of $5,000 and be recognized at NAWBO's 2008 Women’s Business Conference, June 12-14 in Phoenix, Ariz. The NAWBO chapters of each winner will also receive $1,000 to use for new educational programming, networking events, and more.
New this year, Wells Fargo will serve as NAWBO’s Home Mortgage Partner. The NAWBO Home Financing Program provided by Wells Fargo offers home financing solutions tailored to meet the needs of women business owners, their employees, and family members including purchase and refinance programs, second home and investment property financing, programs for less-than-perfect credit, and more.
“NAWBO is delighted to continue and expand its alliance with Wells Fargo in support of women entrepreneurs,” said Lisa K. Hickey, NAWBO’s president and CEO of Douglass Screen Printers. “As our new Home Mortgage Partner, Wells Fargo is expanding their support of women business owners, their employees and family members.”
The NAWBO corporate partner program offers corporations the opportunity to cultivate a relationship with the fastest growing segment of the business community—women entrepreneurs. In addition, alliances, such as the one with Wells Fargo, help NAWBO fund important initiatives that allow the association to deliver greater benefits to its members, including resources to help them grow their businesses.
”Over the last twelve years, NAWBO and Wells Fargo have worked together to recognize the amazing success of women business owners and we are excited to continue this association,” said Joy Ott, regional president for Wells Fargo Bank in Montana and national spokesperson for its Women’s Business Services program. “We share a common vision to support women entrepreneurs and provide them with resources and opportunities that will help them succeed financially- in business and personally.”
About NAWBO: Founded in 1975, NAWBO propels women entrepreneurs into economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide. Thirty years later, NAWBO is still the only organization that solely represents the interest of women entrepreneurs in all industries. The organization’s mission is to strengthen the wealth-creating capacity of its members and promote economic development; to create innovative and effective change in the business culture; to build strategic alliances, coalitions and affiliations; and to transform public policy and influence opinion makers. Visit www.nawbo.org for more information.
About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $575 billion in assets, providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance through almost 6,000 stores and the internet (wellsfargo.com) across North America and internationally. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is the only bank in the U.S., and one of only two banks worldwide, to have the highest credit rating from both Moody’s Investors Service, “Aaa,” and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, “AAA.”
Wells Fargo is America’s #1 small business lender in total dollar volume according to the most recent Community Reinvestment Act data (2006) and the #1 SBA 7a bank lender in total dollar volume. Wells Fargo has loaned close to $35 billion to women, African American, Latino and Asian business owners since 1995. For more information, speak with a Wells Fargo banker, visit wellsfargo.com/biz or call the National Business Banking Center at 1-800-CALL-WELLS.
Contact:
Shawn Taylor Zelman, szelman@nawbo.org
Brynn Slate, bslate@nawbo.org
703-506-3268
800-55-NAWBO
www.nawbo.org
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