News Release
12/13/2006
For Immediate Release
For more information contact:
Kathryn Cariglino, Executive Director
(251) 660-2725
wbac@ceebic.org
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s
Office of Women’s Business Ownership
recently announced that they have awarded contracts
to nineteen new women’s business centers
around the country for the 2006-2007 fiscal
year. The Women’s Business Center, Inc.
located in Mobile was awarded one of these
contracts valued at $195,000 for the first
year and $150,000 a year for the following
four years.
Under this new contract, the Women’s
Business Center which has been serving women
in Mobile and Baldwin Counties since 1993,
will expand its services to five rural counties
to the north. These counties are: Washington,
Clarke, Monroe, Conecuh and Escambia. The unique
feature of this new project is the use of a “Bizmobile” vehicle
specifically designed to take small business
services on the road and out into the community.
Community partnerships will be established
in each county. A business counselor will drive
the Bizmobile out on a regular schedule to
conduct training and business counseling at
these partner locations. Follow up and project
management will take place at the corporate
office located in Mobile.
Sylvia Browder, a
former business owner and experienced counselor
with the local
Chapter of SCORE (Service Corp of Retired
Executives), has been chosen to be the project
director. She will work under the direction
of Kathryn Cariglino, founder and executive
director of the Women’s Business Center,
Inc.
Besides the Mobile center, which holds
the distinction of being the first and the
oldest
women’s business center in the state
of Alabama, this year the SBA has also funded
the Central Alabama Women’s Business
Center in Birmingham and the North Alabama
Women’s Business Center in Huntsville.
The Women’s Business Center is funded
in part through a Cooperative Agreement with
the U.S. Small Business Administration. Reasonable
accommodations for persons with disabilities
will be made if requested at least two weeks
in advance. Contact LaToya Brooks at 251-660-2725,
1301 Azalea Rd, #201A , Mobile , AL 36693
. womensbusinesscenter@ceebic.org.
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