Continuing the Vision and Legacy

In 1975, there were no business organizations with membership open to women entrepreneurs, so a dozen trailblazing women business owners in Washington, D.C. got together and created one. Their vision and legacy led to today’s NAWBO, which recently celebrated its...

Rooted in Advocacy

  There’s a time and place for everything, and for our #NAWBOVoice that speaks out for not only the thousands of NAWBO members across the country, but also for America’s millions of women and small business owners, the pandemic presented a once in a lifetime...

Our Most Important Asset: Our People

At NAWBO, we know our most important asset is our people—the amazingly talented and diverse women business owners who lead this organization and its chapters and who are part of our membership experience, voice and impact. It’s the same in our businesses. The people...

Think Inclusive from the Start

The positive impacts of diversity and inclusion (D&I) are clear and run deep. In fact, we’ve experienced them first-hand here at NAWBO within our membership and leadership, and as a result, have set the strategic goal nationally of being broadly recognized as the...

Here’s to Fresh Starts!

“I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.”  ―Oprah Winfrey   There’s nothing like a new year to signal a fresh start—something all of us can use after 2020 tested our grit, adaptability, creativity and bravery in ways we never imagined...

Driven By Purpose

Several months into this year’s pandemic in the U.S., a Forbes article reported that a lot of businesses were still thriving. A common thread between those weathering the storm most successfully was this: They had an authentic and integrated commitment to a purpose...

Positively In the Flow

  Quite simply, cash flow—the money flowing in and out of our businesses each month—is important because our businesses can’t run without it. In fact, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA), a lack of it is a main reason why small businesses fail, and...

Not Fearless, Just Tremendously Brave

  It’s not what you learn from an experience, but how it changes you. And I know I speak for so many of my NAWBO sisters when I say we’re all so much better off as women and business owners for having recently experienced the virtual National Women’s Business...

In the Right Place, at the Right Time

  The world feels like it literally changed overnight. Now a few months into the COVID-19 pandemic—a scenario that was truly unimaginable as we came off the holiday season and into 2020 with such momentum—we’re addressing another kind of crisis in the U.S.: systematic...