The Wyoming Women’s Business Center (WWBC) is proud to serve as a Spoke for the Community Navigator Pilot Program.
As a Spoke, WWBC will offer Wyoming business clients the opportunity to qualify for our B2B Creative Services Program. This program will allow qualified WWBC clients to:
- Work with Wyoming-based professional photographers to create images they can use for their business marketing. $450 maximum value per client.
- Work with Wyoming-based professional videographers to create videos they can use for their business marketing. $1,200 maximum value per client.
- Obtain a 1-year newsletter marketing subscription. $120 value per client.
WWBC will also offer online business education tracks on marketing and finance topics, one-on-one business counseling services, and access to capital through our microloan program.
2021 Results from Enabling & Empowering Wyoming Entrepreneurs
In 2021, the WWBC supported Wyoming’s women-owned micro-enterprises with access to free business education and counseling, microloans, artist development, and creative service grants.
The free Business Education Program expanded, offering new webinars every month and hosting two inaugural cohorts for the DreamBuilder business planning curriculum. WWBC Business Counselors completed 3,337 counseling sessions with entrepreneurs from across the state.
The Microloan Program loaned over $175,000 to Wyoming small businesses, while the Artist Development Program supported 65+ artists with professional development for artists from 7 Wyoming counties through the Works of Wyoming store.
The COVID-19 Support Program, which launched in 2020, came to completion after serving 392 new clients with free creative services, website design, counseling, and accounting software. This one-year program kept $300,000 within the state with the flagship B2B Creative Services Program.
The Wyoming Women’s Business Center empowers entrepreneurs, especially women, through our counseling, training, and micro-finance programs to start, expand, and sustain small businesses in the state of Wyoming. We strive to advance self-sufficiency and equality.
WWBC specializes in women-owned micro-enterprises that employee less than six people and are able to launch for under $35,000.
WWBC is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. As a stand-alone 501(c)(3) non-profit we are also supported through partnerships and grants from the Wyoming Business Council, Wyoming Arts Council, USDA Daniels Fund, John P. Ellbogen Foundation, and private donations.
“I feel more confident in myself as a business owner. It’s been life-changing to have [the support of the Wyoming Women’s Business Center]. Otherwise, it would have been a much harder road to get where we are at now. I feel like if I do hit bumps in the road, there are options. I have people who know what they’re doing in my corner if I need it.”
— Rhianna Handschu, Owner of The Nest Toy Library, Laramie, Wyoming
“We learned so much. It is amazing what it takes to get a business off the ground and off a sheet of paper and onto the web. And this is what the whole group at WWBC did.”
— Judith Bartman, Co-Owner of Bear Creek Rubs, La Grange, Wyoming
“I struggled with confidence and whether my business was worth putting the energy into. Having somebody come to me and say ‘This is worth it,’ gave me the confidence to take those steps forward.”
— Alyssa Lenell-White, Owner Aly L’s Custom Boots and Shoes, Cheyenne, Wyoming