WOMEN’S BUSINESS ENTERPRISE NATIONAL COUNCIL
Founded in 1997, The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) is the nation's leading advocate of women-owned businesses as suppliers to America's corporations. WBCS partners with WBENC to administer the largest third-party certification of businesses owned and operated by women in the United States. In addition to WBCS, WBENC partners with 13 other women’s business organizations to provide its national standard of certification for women-owned businesses in their specific regions throughout the country. Click here for more on the other 13 women’s business organizations.
WBENC provides its corporate members and certified women's business enterprises (WBEs) with access to a range of B2B sourcing tools including, an Internet database – WBENCLink – that contains information on certified women's businesses for purchasing managers nationwide. WBENC is a resource for the more than 700 US companies and government agencies that rely on the WBENC certification as an integral part of their supplier diversity programs.
WBENC offers convenient e-mail list serves for use by certified WBEs and Corporate Members. WEBuy@wbenc.org is available to post an opportunity for WBEs. This free Internet-based sourcing tool combines with WBENCLink to meet all of a company’s WBE sourcing needs. To post an opportunity on WEBuy, send an email to B2B@wbenc.org.
WBENC-Discuss@wbenc.org is a listserve for WBE to WBE communication. Any WBE may post a message by sending an email to WBENC-Discuss@wbenc.org. Please send the email exactly as you would like it to be seen. If you have problems posting or would like your content reviewed before posting, send an email to B2B@wbenc.org.
Certified WBEs may register as many e-mail recipients as they wish on WEBuy and WBENC-Discuss. To be added to the listserves, send an email to B2B@wbenc.org.
WBENC has become the nation's leading source of information on trends in supplier diversity programs for WBEs at US companies and government agencies. WBENC also promotes best practices in supplier diversity through the annual selection of "America's Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises." WBENC's research projects and surveys, primarily of CEOs and corporate procurement decision-makers, help to identify impediments to doing business and suggest "best practices" to maximize WBE opportunities and expand and enhance supplier diversity programs.
At www.wbenc.org, you will find additional resources to help your business grow and prosper, such as scholarships for executive management programs, including the Tuck/WBENC Executive Management Program, and the nation’s largest conference and business fair for WBEs.
WBENC AFFILIATES
The Women's Business Council – Southwest (WBCS) is one of 14 regional affiliate organizations that administer the WBENC certification throughout the nation. Following is a list of all 14 WBENC affiliates:
- Women's Business Council - Southwest
- www.wbcsouthwest.org
- Women's Business Enterprise Council-West
- www.wbec-west.org
- Astra Women's Business Alliance
- www.astrawba.org
- Center for Women & Enterprise
- www.cweonline.org
- Greater Women's Business Council
- www.gwbc.biz
- Women's Business Enterprise Alliance
- www.wbea-texas.org
- Women's Business Enterprise Council - Great Lakes
- www.miceed.org/index.php
- Women's Business Enterprise Council - South
- www.wbecsouth.org
- Women Presidents' Educational Organization - DC
- http://www.wpeo.us/
- Women's Business Council Gulf Coast
- www.wbcGulfCoast.org
- Women's Business Development Cente - Chicago
- www.wbdc.org
- Women's Business Development Center - Florida
- www.womensbusiness.info
- Women's Business Development Center - Philadelphia
- www.womensbdc.org
- Ohio River Valley Women’s Business Council
- www.orvwbc.org/
