Womens Business Enterprise National Council

Certification: the foundation of wbenc's mission is to provide women-owned business certification services to women's business enterprises (wbes). Certification audits vet whether wbes meet the standards of being at least 51% owned, operated, and controlled by a woman or women. In addition to the performance of certification services, wbenc provides educational and networking opportunities to certified wbes.

Engagement outreach: encompasses wbenc's targeted outreach programs that aim to engage specific populations of entrepreneurs. The programs included here are women of color, collegiate accelerator, and futuregen.

Financial center of excellence: the wbenc arm that aims to address financial matters relevant to women business owners. The financial center of excellence uses the lift framework (learn, interconnect, fuel, thrive) to guide its programming. Lift in the community, for example, is one of the program offerings housed here.

Membership: wbenc's corporate membership base consists of large companies that seek to diversify their supply chains through inclusion of certified businesses. Corporate members receive access to wbenc's database of 21,000+ certified businesses and they may use this database to search for potential suppliers. In addition, wbenc facilitates networking opportunities to connect corporate members to certified wbes and provides educational opportunities aimed at assisting corporate members with the development and growth of their supplier initiatives.

Executive education: encompasses wbenc's business education programs and wbenc's executive education scholarship funds. Wbenc's business education programs include the wbenc-tuck executive education, wethrive, weignite, and energy executive programs. Wbenc's executive education scholarship funds include the dorothy b. Brothers scholarship fund and the cheryl w. Snead scholarship fund. The purpose of these programs and funds is to provide access to business education for certified businesses to aid them in better managing their businesses.

Other programs: include recognition programs, industry-specific programming, certification grant programs funded by specific donors, and other programs that are still developing. The recognition programs include top corporations awards and wbe stars awards. The programs that are still developing include nextgen, women + pride, and wbencpitch.