SBA Funds New Women's Business Centers The Small Business Administration announced it will fund eleven new Women’s Business Centers in seven states. The centers provide training, counseling, and mentoring services to women entrepreneurs, including those who want to start a business. The new ones bring the total number to 91. SBA also offers an online Women’s Business Center that can be accessed 24 hours a day at http://www.onlinewbc.gov/. The new centers were funded under SBA’s 2003 budget. They will share $1.65 million and must partially match their federal money with private donations. SBA provides funding for the first five years of a center’s operation, but the Bush administration has proposed ending federal support after that. The Senate passed legislation that would continue funding beyond five years; a similar provision is in the pending House version of the SBA reauthorization bill. New Centers Mountain Microenterprise Fund Inc. 29 ½ Page Avenue Asheville, NC 28801 Contact: Greg Walker-Wilson Phone: 828-253-2834 New Visions, New Ventures Inc. 801 East Main Street, Suite 1102 Richmond, VA 23219 Contact: Dr. Ann Parker Maust Phone: 804-643-1081 Canisius College 2001 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14208 Contact: Maureen B. McMahon Phone: 716-888-2103 CHARO Community Development Corp. 4301 East Valley Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90032 Contact: Cynthia Amador Phone: 323-269-0751 Nevada Micro-Enterprise Development Corp. 113 West Plumb Lane Reno, NV 89509 Contact: Anna Siefert Phone: 702-734-3555 Inland Empire Women’s Business Center California State University, San Bernardino 5500 University Parkway San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397 Contact: Albert K. Karnig Phone: 909-880-5002 Women’s Enterprise Development Center Inc. 707 Westchester Avenue, Suite 213 White Plains, NY 10604 Contact: Anne M. Janiak Phone: 914-948-6098 National University 11255 N. Torrey Pines Road La Jolla, CA 92037-1011 Contact: Sydney Blake Phone: 858-642-8429 Women’s Economic Ventures of Santa Barbara 1136 Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 Contact: Marsha Bailey Phone: (805) 962-4288 Community First Fund 44 North Queen Street P.O. Box 524 Lancaster, PA 17608-0524 Contact: Daniel Betancourt Phone: 717-393-2351 Alex Community Development Corp. 12200 Fairhill Road, Suite B-405 Cleveland, OH 44120 Contact: Alexis E. Afzal Phone: 216-707-0777