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• AB Tech Small Business Program and Incubator - www.abtech.edu/sbc/
     The Small Business Center provides free one-to-one counseling for business owners or prospective owners to assist them in getting started or with a specific area of concern. Counseling can cover a variety of topics ranging from licensing and marketing to patents and trademarks. We also offer a variety of resources and services to help businesses start and grow, including business incubation. The Business Incubator program at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College is designed to provide companies maximum flexibility while working closely with them to identify areas of improvement and to assist in locating needed resources. The Business Incubator program is for a term of two years for most companies to grow in the incubator and then relocate into the surrounding community.


• Asheville Chamber of Commerce - www.ashevillechamber.org
     Relocations packets, maps etc. Find out about our excellent quality of life and thriving business environment.


• bizwomen.com - www.bizwomen.com/
     Bizwomen.com, America's premier online resource for women business executives and entrepreneurs, is a new service from bizjournals.com


• Blue Ridge Food Ventures - www.advantagewest.com/content.cfm/content_id/144/section/food
     Blue Ridge Food Ventures (BRFV), an initiative of AdvantageWest Economic Development Group and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, is a shared-use, value-added food processing center centrally located in Asheville to serve food entrepreneurs throughout western North Carolina. It provides services to those wishing to start or grow small businesses in the food industry, to local farmers who wish to add value to their products through processing, and to caterers and bakers needing a certified kitchen. This regional “kitchen incubator,” a first for North Carolina, joins others throughout the U.S. in spurring the development of small businesses, promoting local agriculture and creating jobs.


• FCC urged to use unused TV airwaves for Internet service - www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880819089
     Wally Bowen, executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network, is helping Google in a national campaign to “Free the Airwaves.”


• FINCA International - www.villagebanking.org/
     FINCA's mission is to provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living.


• National Association for Female Executives - www.nafe.com/
     NAFE is one of the nation’s largest women’s professional associations and the largest women business owner’s association, providing resources and services—through education, networking, and public advocacy—to empower its members to achieve career success and financial security.


• Office of Women's Business Ownership - www.sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/onlinewbc/index.html
     The Office of Women's Business Ownership (OWBO) assists women achieve their dreams and improve their communities by helping them start and run successful businesses, regardless of social or financial disadvantage, race, ethnicity or business background. OWBO and the Online Women's Business Center are integral components of Entrepreneurial Development's network of training and counseling services.


• Small Business Administration - www.sba.gov/index.html
     US government agency to help small businesses.


• The Dogwood Alliance - www.dogwoodalliance.org
     Dogwood Alliance is the only organization in the South holding corporations accountable for the impact of their industrial forestry practices on our forests and our communities. Through a combination of persistent grassroots pressure and skillful negotiation, we achieve the results necessary to create real and lasting protection for Southern forests.


• The Urban News and Observer - www.theurbannews.com
     Gateway to the Multicultural Community


• WomanOwned.com - www.womanowned.com/
     WomanOwned.com was founded in 1997 by Christina Blenk as a resource for other women business owners online. As a new business owner, Christina shared with her visitors the wisdom that she was learning through her own experiences. She still owns and operates her own web development studio in Columbus, Ohio.


• Women and Business: American Library Association - www.csulb.edu/~sbsluss/Women_and_Business.html
     Women and Business is a part of WSSLinks, developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.


• Women Impacting Public Policy, Inc. - www.wipp.org/
     Women Impacting Public Policy, Inc. is a national bipartisan public policy organization that advocates for and on behalf of women and minorities in business, strengthening their sphere of influence in the legislative process of our nation, creating economic opportunities and building bridges and alliances to other small business organizations. Through WIPP, our collective voice makes a powerful impact on Capitol Hill and with the Administration.