Directory of Women Resources Organizations

Resources Empowering Women Entrepreneurs:

ACE Women’s Business Center

The mission of ACE Women’s Business Center is to empower women, minorities, and low-to-moderate-income entrepreneurs through financial education and training. We assist businesses at various stages of development: Planning, Implementation & Growth.

American Business Women’s Association

The mission of the American Business Women’s Association is to bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, networking support and national recognition.

Association of Women’s Business Centers

The AWBC works to secure economic justice and entrepreneurial opportunities for women by supporting and sustaining a national network of nearly 150 Women’s Business Centers (WBC). WBCs help women succeed in business by providing training, mentoring, business development, and financing opportunities to over 150,000 women entrepreneurs each year.

Atlanta Black Chambers’ Women’s League

The Women’s League of the Atlanta Black Chambers is the premier organization focusing strictly on the needs and development of black women-owned businesses in metro Atlanta. The vision is to build legacies of generational wealth by transitioning black women entrepreneurs from micro-businesses to small enterprises.

Atlanta Women’s Foundation

The Atlanta Women’s Foundation plays an essential role in helping more women and girls to live safe, economically self-sufficient, and vibrant lives. When you invest through AWF, your impact for women and girls goes further—creating stronger, more stable families and communities for everyone.

Ellevest 

Helps women build their wealth and reach their financial goals with our digital plan (which includes access to our gender-aware, automated investing platform, our all-women team of financial planners, and tools and resources), as well as Private Wealth Management for high and ultra-high net worth individuals and institutions.

E-Women Network

Helps with the creation of a complete success system for women entrepreneurs, connecting their resources and buying power to accelerate growth, abundance, and unlimited opportunities.

Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce – EME

A women’s business group whose mission is to empower Latinas to be their best selves in business, career, and everyday life. EME’s vision is to build a community of Latina Entrepreneurs and Professionals who actively participate and benefit from their mutual success.

Greater Women’s Business Council (GWBC)

The Greater Women’s Business Council (GWBC®) is a non-profit organization for certified women business enterprises (WBEs) in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina interested in promoting, developing and maintaining business relationships with major corporations, governmental agencies and other women business enterprises.

Gwinnett Women’s Small Business Collective Meetup

Meet like-minded women who want to network in a relaxed and social environment. This group is designed to offer networking and learning opportunities to women small business owners and employees in Gwinnett County and surrounding areas. 

The Jump Fund

The Jump Fund invests in early-stage, women-led, high-growth ventures. They seek strong females business leaders who are starting or growing scalable companies which have a business plan and the market opportunity to grow revenue to at least $20 million over 3-5 years.

Ladies Who Launch

Ladies Who Launch’s (LWL) mission is to celebrate, elevate and empower a global community of women and non-binary small business owners and entrepreneurs to grow and sustain the businesses of their dreams. Whether based in a small town or a big city, we provide access to free, high-quality educational resources, capital opportunities, networking with peers and experts, and a close-knit community.

Latin American Association – Avanzando Juntas

This program offers a space where Latina women can develop their interests, skills, and talents to undertake in the development of micro-businesses or acquire new skills to secure better employment. The goal is to support and educate Latina women to establish their businesses, obtain financial resources, and acquire new tools to move forward.

Latinas Rise

Latina Rise is dedicated to fostering economic growth, business development, and enhancing quality of life in Georgia for Latina-owned established businesses. The mission is to serve as a catalyst for advancement through tailored programs and events offered to both existing and prospective businesses that meet our established criteria.

The National Association of Women Business Owners

NAWBO is the only dues-based organization representing the interests of all women entrepreneurs across all industries; with chapters across the country. With far-reaching clout and impact, NAWBO is a one-stop resource that propels women business owners into greater economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide.

National Coalition of 100 Black Women

NCBW advocates on behalf of Black women and girls, promoting sisterhood, striving for maximum community impact, and preparing our youth for a bright future.

National Women’s Business Council (NWBC)

 The NWBC is a nonpartisan federal advisory committee serving as an independent source of advice and policy recommendations to the President, the U.S. Congress (to the Committees on Small Business of the Senate and House of Representatives), and to the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (through the Assistant Administrator of the Office of Women’s Business Ownership) on issues of importance to women business owners and entrepreneurs.

Southern Crescent Women In Business Inc.

Southern Crescent Women in Business Inc. is a conglomerate of women-owned businesses and women in business that have come together to change the economic landscape in the South Metro Area.

Start-Up Chicks

A community of female tech startup founders, led by female tech startup founders.  community of like-minded female tech founders, co-founders and early stage startup executives for mentoring, networking and educational events that help you grow your business to the next level. Helping female tech founders succeed!

Women’s Chamber of Commerce

The WCC is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, membership-based nonprofit organization.  Our mission is to promote the advancement and equality of women in entrepreneurship, leadership and the workplace.

The Women’s Employment Opportunity Project (WEOP) 

WEOP is an organization founded and led by women of color, that develops and promotes program initiatives that foster the economic advancement of women through education, resources, and professional networks.

Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI)

Through a competitive selection process, a group of women entrepreneurs are selected to “incubate” their business at the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI), in a technologically advanced environment, designed to foster business growth and sustainability. Through an ecosystem of educational resources, access to funding assistance, and mentorship, the women entrepreneurs will grow their businesses over the course of 15 months, and then transition the business back into Atlanta at the end of that period.

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Digital publications

These publications cover a wide range of business topics featuring women.

• Women’s Business Daily
• BUSINESSWoman magazine
• HER Magazine
• Woman Entrepreneur Magazine   
• ForbesWomen
• YFS Magazine
• Women on Business