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We are pleased to share the Council’s Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2018, “Journey to 30”

The National Women’s Business Council’s (NWBC) 2018 Annual Report commemorates its 30th anniversary year, provides the findings, conclusions, and policy recommendations of the Council, and expresses NWBC Chair Liz Sara’s vision for 2019.

This year there are an estimated 12.3 million women-owned firms accounting for 40% of all businesses. In its 2018 Annual Report, NWBC reaffirms its commitment to providing a platform to expand and improve opportunities for women business owners and their enterprises.

In this Annual Report, we:

• Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of The Women’s Business Ownership Act establishing the National Women’s Business Council;
• Present policy recommendations that will foster the continued economic growth for women owned small businesses;
• Express NWBC Chair Liz Sara’s vision for guiding the Council into a new era where it will build on past and current achievements, ensuring its advocacy loses neither momentum nor impact.

We are pleased to share  the Council’s Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2019, “Advancing Women Entrepreneurs. Growing America’s Economy.”

The National Women’s Business Council’s (NWBC) 2019 Annual Report identifies three important initiatives that represent the Council’s focus: improving access to capital for female founders, encouraging more women to start companies in STEM-related fields, and removing obstacles for women business owners in rural areas

In this Annual Report, we:

  • Express NWBC Chair Liz Sara’s vision for guiding the Council to exponentially increase outreach and engagement to federal, legislative, and external stakeholders;
  • Provide the findings, conclusions, and policy recommendations of the Council. This year, NWBC has concentrated its mission to strengthen women in business on three major areas: improving access to capital for female founders, encouraging more women to start and grow companies in STEM-related fields, and removing obstacles for women business owners in rural areas;
  • Highlight the effectiveness of NWBC’s Women in Small Business Roundtable series, which convened over 300 women business owners and stakeholders to gain a deeper insight into the problems, challenges and overall landscape in which women founders and small business owners currently operate.

We are pleased to share  the Council’s Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2020, #NWBCPivot2020.

This report features a recap of the Council’s critical engagement amidst a global pandemic, a landscape of the state of women’s business enterprise, and an actionable body of policy recommendations on the Council’s three areas of focus: access to capital, rural women’s entrepreneurship, and women in STEM.

We are pleased to share the Council’s Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2021.

This year, Council Members deliberated issues within a framework of ensuring greater diversity, equity, and inclusion across federal programs as well as identifying opportunities to positively impact more women-owned businesses. The report features the result of those discussions—a recap of the Council’s actionable body of policy recommendations working within NWBC’s three policy subcommittees: Access to Capital, Rural Women’s Entrepreneurship, and Women in STEM. In addition to NWBC’s 2021 policy recommendations, the report also features custom tabulations on women-owned employer and nonemployer firms utilizing 2017 Annual Business Survey (ABS) and the Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D) series data, a collaborative effort undertaken with the U.S. Census Bureau.

We are pleased to present the National Women’s Business Council’s (NWBC) 2022 Annual Report featuring this year’s body of policy recommendations to the President, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), which addresses those issues of greatest importance to U.S. women-owned small businesses (WOSBs). This year, NWBC remained focused on the following priority topics: access to capital and opportunity, rural women’s entrepreneurship, and women in STEM. This year’s report also introduces our new Council Members who joined NWBC during fiscal year 2022, covers the Council’s digital and social media engagement activities, as well as new research on how women invest and how they may be leveraged as a force for good and prospective investors in women-owned startups.