Financial Resources for Women

Expanding Business Opportunities for Women
The Interagency Committee for Women's Business Enterprise and National Business Women's Enterprise Council

American City Business Journals Grass roots business news and analysis for small and mid-size companies at the local level, often before it's reported nationally, with 28 separate editions for cities from Austin to Seattte, San Francisco to Orlando. A real must for identifying opportunities and trends.
American City Business Journals Tools to Grow uses its considerable resources-- American City is a unit of Advance Publications, Inc, owners of Conde Nast magazines , Randome House Book publishers, 25 daily newspapers and cable interests-- to gather expert advice for small business on technology, business financing, sales and marketing and money saving tips.
Bidcast searches government procurement databases and forwards info and contact person to your office.
Bizweb, a top rated site, searches the Web and catagorizes companies by products and services so you can find the business site you're looking for more easily.
Best Cities for Business, Fortune database
Business Link Marketplace, business to business link on the Internet; marketing, web sites
business library, direct email to 200,000+sites for $59
Entrepreneurial Edge Online, this top rated site provides valuable info and service, offers 10 proprietary databases and industry specific links to business and government.
Inc.Magazine includes "a primer on how to do a business unit contribution-margin analysis," like having your own Lexis-Nexis service free online, with an extensive archive of relevant and very useful articles for the entrepreneur.
Money Hunter , a highly rated site run by Capital Express LLC, a venture capital firm, gives sound advice about seeking capital , the need for a business plan and even a business plan template you can use to organize and outline your goals and specific methods of achieving them. Also offers advice about mission statements (and why you need one), lawyers, patents and trademarks, hiring salespeople, and dealing with national chain operations.
Netmarquee Family Business Network Center focused on the unique management and planning issues of family businesses
Netpreneur News, news summaries related to online commerce and entrepreneuring
Small Business and Effective Web Marketing, basics, turn-key Web solutions
Small Business Association Online
The SBA's Online Women's Business Center- a complete guide to everything financial, from insurance to leasing, financial statements to lending and consulting experts
SBA Library of Shareware Software to Run Your Businss
Trade Zone, a comprehensive index and link to every imaginable trade reference, organization, embassy or contact on the Web.
Western Economic Diversification helps small and mid-size business by providing information, capital and investment funds, support services, including services for trade, and Women's Enterprise Initiative which seeks to remove barriers for women entrepreneurs and give them access to funds.
Women's Business Ownership
Among a wide array of resources, provides The Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Mentoring, a badly needed resource for women who simply are not mentored by men.
Women's Network for Entrepreneurial Training a mentoring and support group, sponsored by the Women's Business Office of the SBA, linking seasoned women business owners with women ready to grow their Business .