• Recommendation 1
  • Creatively allocate additional public support and construct foundational structures for widely accessible, affordable childcare.
    • Analysis shows access to safe, affordable childcare is an economic imperative, and the incremental steps recommended acknowledge that importance and set the table for transformational change.
• Recommendation 2
  • Support SBA grantee resource partners by regularly analyzing and promoting their accomplishments and considering whether reporting can be streamlined or automated.
    • SBA could request Census Bureau data collection about business owners’ interactions with its resource partners and funding for a full-time employee in the Office of Women’s Business Ownership to manage both evaluation of WBCs’ strengths and ongoing technical assistance to these partners.
• Recommendation 3
  • Make entrepreneurial education a standard part of elementary, secondary, and college-level instruction and workforce training programs.
    • The Department of Education and other federal agencies could adopt and promote core curricular requirements. SBA could adapt its business training materials to various educational levels and train general education teachers to encourage and cultivate entrepreneurial skills. It could also recommend its training resources to owners and managers of certified WOSBs.
• Recommendation 4
  • Form an interagency working group to explore standardizing data collection about WOSBs using methods that capture community and social gains from women’s entrepreneurship.
    • The White House, via OMB, could lead the working group. Economic development data collection could include indicators that improve understanding of techniques that build trust between underrepresented constituents and the government.