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Women's Business Center focused on rural collaboration
The South Carolina Women’s Business Center has been chosen to participate in a three-year initiative focused on bringing together leaders in the micro-enterprise and rural economic development fields to promote collaboration.
South Carolina micro-enterprises, defined as companies with five or fewer employees, number more than 270,000 statewide and represent more than 16% of all state employment.
“The vast majority of South Carolinians who seek entrepreneurial assistance fall into the micro-enterprise category. We plan to call attention to and establish a priority for serving the working poor and ‘micropreneurs,’ a market that currently isn’t being served at all,” said Haidee Stith, executive director of the South Carolina Women’s Business Center.
Since its inception in 2002, the SCWBC has provided about 13,500 hours of counseling to almost 2,900 aspiring and established women entrepreneurs in various parts of South Carolina.
It was formed by the South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership to assist the 128,000 existing women-owned businesses in South Carolina, as well as new female-owned ventures. It is a grant-funded program awarded to SCMEP by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SCWBC is online at .
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