NAWBO-SF hosts a wide variety of useful and supportive programs and events for women business owners in the Bay Area. Some are for NAWBO members only, but most are open to all.
Come to any NAWBO event and you'll find smart, engaging women ready to discuss everything—from business ideas and strategies to public policy issues impacting women; from getting the right legal or accounting advice, to where to get the best dinner in town.
Thursday, March 8, 2011
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Galleria Park Hotel, a Joie de Vivre Hotel
191 Sutter Street between Kearrny & Montgomery, San Francisco
Easy to get to from BART/Montgomery Street Station.
Ample and easy parking is available at the Union Square and
Sutter/Stockton Garages.
Mark Your Calendar for Thursday, March 8th
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NAWBO Dinner Networking Event 5:30 - 8 PM
Access to Capital for Women Business Owners
Women-owned businesses generate $3 trillion in revenue each year in the U.S., yet gaining access to capital is still one of the major challenges facing female entrepreneurs. We want to change that.
- Would you like to secure financial resources you need to start a new business or grow an existing one?
- Understanding the lifecycle of capital enables you to create a strategy that works.
- The major sources of funding that women business owners continue to rely on are personal savings, reinvested business earnings, lines of credit, loans, equity financing, and venture capital, in that order.
- Our panel will speak about the importance of developing better business models, business plans, and resources in order to secure larger pools of capital and credit.
Join Judith Goldkrand, Senior Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank, as she moderates this interactive panel discussion of top women executives who will share how and where women business owners can get the capital they need to start or expand their business.MODERATOR:
Judith Goldkrand, is a Senior Vice President with Wells Fargo Bank and manages the business banking team in Palo Alto. Judith has nearly 20 years experience in banking including Corporate Finance, Private Banking, and Business Banking. Her banking team provides a full array of financial services to small- and medium-sized private businesses and non-profits. Using a relationship management approach, her team and partners secure debt financing, optimize cash flow, manage risk, and create efficient business solutions.
FEATURED PANELISTS:
Emily Gasner, is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Working Solutions. Working Solutions is a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) in San Francisco that provides microloans up to $50,000 combined with business coaching, mentoring, and advising to underserved micro-entrepreneurs in the San Francisco Bay Area that want to start or grow a business but have limited or no access to traditional financing.
Barbara Morrison, is the Founder and President of TMC, a Certified Development Company based in San Francisco, that has provided real estate financing for over 28 years. TMC specifically offers commercial real estate financing for owner-user buyers utilizing the U.S. Small Business Administration 504-loan program. Clients are successful, growing small and medium-sized businesses located in California
and Nevada.
Beth Sirull has been Executive Director of Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) since 2009. PCV is dedicated to creating jobs and economic opportunities in lower income communities through the support of small business and entrepreneurship. Beth also has
an extensive private sector career in financial services and real estate.
Take a look at our Calendar of Events for the upcoming year for information on all of our events, including our monthly networking breakfasts, mixers and dinner meetings—an excellent way to get acquainted with us and all that we have to offer.
Our events are a wonderful opportunity to network with some of the Bay Area's most influential businesswomen while celebrating our successes. Networking Breakfasts provide a forum to meet one another, make friends, present as a Spotlight Speaker and increase business contacts. Our Leader's Circle was started in 2005 as a peer-to-peer advisory group for women business owners of a business in the $2 milllion range and above.
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with our secure online system.
For more information please contact:
Chapter Administrator
Phone: 415.333.2130
Email: info@nawbo-sfba.org