women impacting public policy

Atlanta (PRESS RELEASE – June 25, 2011) – Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading provider of IT and communications services to small businesses, announced its sponsorship of the second annual Womenetics’ symposium for women business owners, “Entrepreneurs 2011: Turning Vision into Value.” The symposium will be held on June 23, 2011, from 7:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.

ET at the Cobb Energy Centre.

Washington (PRESS RELEASE – September 29, 2010) – With access to capital among their biggest challenges, cash-strapped small businesses got some good news from AT&T.

Through its financing subsidiary, AT&T Capital Services, the company is now providing loans to small businesses looking to deploy new wireless solutions or upgrade existing ones.

Washington (PRESS RELEASE – February 7, 2010) — SCORE launches online resources to help small businesses secure government contracts at www.score.org.

New articles, tools and events will be featured in this resource center for small businesses. SCORE, American Express OPEN and Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) with Give Me 5: Education and Access for Women in Government Contracting will sponsor the section.

Washington (PRESS RELEASE – October 24, 2009) – Since the launch last year of “Give Me 5: Education and Access for Women in Federal Contracts,” Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), the nation’s largest bipartisan women’s business group, and American Express OPEN, the nation’s leading issuer of payment card products for small business owners, have helped more than 20,000 women business owners take the important first step in doing business with America’s biggest customer—the federal government—by registering their businesses on the Central Contractor Registration (CC

Financial software maker Intuit recently reached out to us to let us know about a completely cool new program they have launched to help small biz owners get through the economic mess we are in.

Personally, I’m hoping they thought I would be a shoe-in for the grand prize. But honestly, this is such a great program I really wanted to share it with everyone, as I think all of our businesses could use a little ’stimulation’ right about now!

(PRESS RELEASE - January 9, 2009) - Each year, the federal government spends more than $400 billion in goods and services, 23% of which is slated for small business owners and 5% for women business owners.

However, in recent years, the government has fallen short of this goal, awarding just 22% of contracts to small business owners and 3.4% to women business owners in the most recent fiscal year.