WBII March News Round Up
Keeping you up to date on the latest news and developments in women's entrepreneurship and empowerment. Glaring Gender Disparity in Access to Covid Grant Funding in Scotland In 2020 grant support was made available to SMEs in Scotland to help them during the pandemic....
Sometimes life takes an unexpected turn (This is not a goodbye!)
In March 2007 I registered as a business owner. My 'eenmanszaak' was then called: Dymphna Business Assistance, and I have been a personal assistant since then. I have worked for many different entrepreneurs and must confess that when I started, working with the...
From Growth and Action comes WORTH
Dymphna Elsink reflects on why having a theme for the year helps us gain insight and focus and introduces the WBII theme for 2022 - WORTH! It all started at the end of 2019 where I, as programme coordinator, had a thought: why don’t we introduce a theme for our...
Starters’ Seminar held by Women’s Business Initiative International and Webster Leiden Campus
The Women’s Business Initiative International* (WBII) and Webster Leiden campus again joined together to host the autumn 2021 ‘Start Your Own Business’ seminar. Held online on Thursday, 11 November 2021, this year’s seminar was also registered as an official...
Grassroots and Ethnic Entrepreneurship – Women Supporting Women
Looking around the EU, we can find numerous grassroots associations organized with the purpose of supporting women entrepreneurs. Many of these are registered on the WEgate platform. Through these organizations, and particularly in times of difficulties when the need...
Take Action: Start Your Own Business during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021
Global Entrepreneurship Week is a massive campaign to celebrate and empower entrepreneurs in every country and community around the world – especially those individuals who face structural barriers or may have never...
Is ‘Title IX’ for Inclusive Entrepreneurship coming to the Netherlands soon?
Many moons ago, when I was a student at a large public high school in suburban Chicago, I used to wonder about the sports programmes offered at my school. Why, I speculated, were all of the competitive sports programmes and some of the facilities and after-school...
What is Impactful Entrepreneurship and how can we embrace it?
It is my absolute honour and privilege to be part of the board of the Women’s Business Initiative International and address entrepreneurship. How would you like to create your moral manifesto for impactful change as an entrepreneur? As entrepreneurs we are all leaders...
Women’s Empowerment in Ireland – moving forward
When I think of Ireland, I am reminded among many things of the beautiful rolling green countryside, the renowned writers and musicians and the congenial pub vibe. Until the early 1990's and by Western European standards, Ireland was relatively poor, with high...