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NAWBO-LA Online Newsletter
April 2008 Issue
New NAWBO-LA Corporate Partners Offer Added Value
Partnerships enable NAWBO-LA to better serve its members in the effort to empower and enable women-owned businesses
NAWBO-LA’s corporate partner roster continues to grow – with new companies bringing new resources and benefits to members, while those companies receive the opportunity to tap into an established community of women entrepreneurs.
New NAWBO-LA corporate partners (listed in alphabetical order) include:
About Hewlett-Packard (HP)
HP aims to help women entrepreneurs leverage its personal computing, printing, software and services portfolio to be a competitive asset for their businesses. Through a website specially designed for women entrepreneurs, located at www.hp.com/go/women, they can access free online classes, read firsthand about successful HP female leaders and customers, shop for technology products, explore grant opportunities and more.
As a national sponsor of NAWBO for two years, the company desired to take the engagement to a more personal level by investing locally in select chapters. “We are pleased to sponsor NAWBO-LA to support women business owners in California and take our engagement to a local level,” said Michael Nordstrom, HP business marketing manager. “We intend to connect Los Angeles members with women-owned certified HP resellers to foster greater growth and networking for local businesswomen.”
 About Wachovia Corporation
Wachovia is one of the nation's largest diversified financial services companies, providing 13.4 million household and business relationships with a broad range of banking products and services, including private banking, financial planning and employee perks business owners can use to attract employees. Wachovia ensures that a significant percent of its business is directed to women-owned businesses and is proud to be a national corporate partner of NAWBO. At Wachovia, understanding and addressing challenges women-owned businesses face when accessing capital is a priority. And Wachovia can focus resources on problems small to large business owners encounter, like planning for a business transition, deciding whether or not to transfer wealth to children, or dealing with a spouse who never expected the couple's wealth would come from the wife's business. Wachovia’s goal is to deliver what clients want from a financial advisor – advice for their business or for them personally and simple access to financial services and solutions. Visit www.wachovia.com/women for more information.
“Wachovia's commitment to women directly supports the mission of NAWBO-LA,” said Joni Topper, senior vice president and government banking executive for Wachovia's Western Banking Group. “We're a great business bank, but I'm finding an amazing number of hard-driving, successful women who don't yet have the advisory team they need to address the outcomes of a successful business, like transferring wealth or planning their exit. I'm really excited about Wachovia partnering with NAWBO-LA to bring this additional focus.”
Make sure to check out this year’s NAWBO-LA Women of Influence speaker series, sponsored by Wachovia. To see the calendar of upcoming events, visit www.nawbola.org/events/register.php.
Stay tuned to future issues of the NAWBO-LA Online Newsletter for more updates on how NAWBO-LA’s corporate partners can benefit members. In the meantime, for more information, visit www.nawbola.org/partners.
Annual NAWBO-LA Luncheon Reaches New Heights
The 22nd annual NAWBO-LA and Enterprise Institute of NAWBO-LA Leadership & Legacy Awards Luncheon, held March 14 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, drew a sellout crowd of more than 1,200 business owners, community leaders, media and dignitaries to recognize the rising power of women entrepreneurs. At the event, NAWBO-LA recognized six award honorees and inducted three women business owners into its Hall of Fame.
As NAWBO-LA President-Elect Jane Skeeter said at the event, “Each of our distinguished honorees epitomizes in her own way this year's theme, ‘NAWBO–LA: Rising.’ As role models and mentors, these women raise the bar for women's achievements in business. But through their vision and leadership, they also create opportunities for all women, throughout the community, to rise to their true potential.”
Congratulations again to the honorees, and thank you to the outstanding corporate sponsors and the greater Los Angeles business community for your commitment to this year’s event, and for further propelling women business owners into spheres of influence.
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