Corporate Partner & Community
Member News & Events
 NAWBO Home Financing Program Provided by Wells Fargo Wells Fargo will be NAWBO's Home Mortgage Partner. This home financing program offers home-financing solutions that suit the specific needs of women business owners, their employees, and family members, including purchase and refinance programs, second-home and investment property financing, and more. Call 1-888-568-1906 or click here to learn more.
 Henry Walker, CEO of Farmers & Merchants Bank which is the Marquis Sponsor of the NAWBO-OC Chapter, was featured in a Sunday Profile in the LA Times on March 30, as well as features in the Long Beach Press Telegram and Long Beach Business Journal. Congrats again Henry for the new appointment.
Orange County Business Journal Women In Business Awards
The annual Women In Business awards luncheon and special edition honors
women who have distinguished themselves with their outstanding professional
accomplishments. Self nominations are encouraged and past nominees are
eligible for consideration. Nominations can be made online at www.ocbj.com.
Henry
Walker Now CEO of Farmers & Merchants Bank
Henry Walker has been named CEO of Farmers & Merchants Bank, the Marquis
Sponsor of NAWBO-OC. Henry, a fourth-generation Walker, assumes the CEO position
from his father, Kenneth Walker, 80, who continues as President of the Long Beach
main office. Effective March 11, Henry assumes management of the 22-branch bank,
as well as continues as Chief Credit Officer, overseeing the bank's loan portfolio.
Congratulations Henry!
 "I
Know Henry" Offer from Farmers & Merchant's Bank A
wonderful financial gifting opportunity has been presented
to NAWBO-OC from our Corporate Partner, Farmers & Merchants
Bank. They have generously offered to provide a monetary gift
to the NAWBO-OC’s Women Business Institute Education Center
when you choose to use open an account at one of their many branch
locations. F&M anticipates running this program for years
to come as they work with us to build our education endowment.
Many of our members have accounts with F&M, and they consistently
give high marks for service and products. details
 SBA
Offers Free Online Course & Assessment for
budding entrepreneurs to provide the fundamentals of starting
a small business. The Small Business Primer Strategies for
Success online training is a free course designed to assist
individuals who are thinking about starting a small business
or who are in the early stages of running a business. The
Primer is available through the SBA’s
Small Business Training Network (see "new courses").
 Corporate Patron Offers Free Online Training At
Hewlett-Packard we are proud to be a corporate patron for
NAWBO and the sole technology partner. We want to help you
leverage our portfolio of personal computing, printing, software,
and services to be a competitive asset to your business.
Visit www.hp.com/go/women to
access FREE online classes, learn how to become an official
HP supplier, shop for technology products, find out how to
take advantage of our grants for your child’s school,
and much more. We understand small business. After all, HP
was founded in a garage in Palo Alto, CA in 1939 with just
two employees—Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard!
 Principal
Financial Educational Series for Women Business Owners
Growth Strategies For Your Business: Free Teleclasses
For Women, From Leading Experts... How easy is it? Just pick
up the phone and listen as subject experts share valuable advice
on how to build and grow your business. And if you're unable
to attend the day of a class, all classes are recorded and archived
so you can listen and learn any time, anywhere. The best part?
It's absolutely free. There's no obligation. Just create a profile,
sign up for your teleclasses and start learning today. Teleclasses
are scheduled at 10am Pacific Time. Space
is limited. CLICK
HERE to pre-register or hear audio transcripts of past classes.
2/26/2008 The Five Secrets of Millionaire
Women Business Owners
3/25/2008 One Company's Award-Winning Equation: Employee Financial
Fitness + Physical Fitness = Fiscal Fitness
4/29/2008 A Woman Business Owner's Multi-Million Dollar Success
Story: Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow
5/27/2008 A Discussion with the Author of The Girls' Guide
to Building a Million-Dollar Business
6/24/2008 Why It's So Hard to Find Good Employees - But Easy
to Keep Them Once They Are Happy
7/29/2008 Blogging to Boost Your Bottom Line: Four Approaches
to Make Money through Blogs
8/26/2008 Five Things Every Business Owner Should Ask Her Financial
Advisor Today
9/30/2008 Why Every Business Owner Should Plan for the Unexpected
10/28/2008 Make Your Brand a Household Name: Seven Buzz Tactics
Money Can't Buy
12/2/2008 Get Wired into Social Networking: How to Use Sources
from Linked to MySpace to Grow Your Business
 Women's
Opportunities Center, Career/Life Planning Programs,
UCI Extension, offers its clients one-on-one, one hour job
coaching sessions with certified, trained job coaches. We
also offer workshops; interviewing, resume development and
negotiating skills to help you find that ideal job. To find
out more about our membership programs call the center at
949-824-7128.
 The
Orange County Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
provides
no-cost confidential business consulting as well as low-cost
quality training for Orange County small business owners
and future entrepreneurs on topics such as access to capital,
employment and payroll tax issues, writing a business plan
and more. CLICK
HERE to see SBDC's Winter Training Calendar.
 Energy
Efficiency Program Contracting Opportunities at SCE
For
companies or individuals in energy efficiency-related
business, Edison invites you to visit our web site at www.sce.com,
click "Doing Business" on the green bar, then
select "EE Contracting Opportunities." You
will be able to view various energy efficiency contracting
opportunities available. To register to receive Requests
for Proposals (RFPs) click the "sign up now" button.
 Online
instructor-taught classes for small business owners
Online business classes are
available for small businesses throughout the nation
through a co-sponsorship
between
the U.S.
Small Business Administration and the Thomson Corp (Ed2Go).
Ed2Go is a
national provider of online instructor-taught training
classes, offering
courses through more than 1,000 community colleges and
other partners
around the country. Small businesses and entrepreneurs will
have the opportunity to enroll
in three of Ed2Go's most popular online educational courses
at no cost. Each online course
will be six weeks in length, and will be facilitated
by an instructor. Registration
for each
class will be taken at the SBA's Small Business Training
Network site at
www.sba.gov/training.
Go to the free online courses section and click
on the "Instructor-Facilitated Courses" button
to complete your
registration.
SBA
offers free and low-cost management training
Did you know that the Santa Ana
district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration
offers
many free and low-cost classes
for business owners? Topics include most anything you wanted
to know about starting and running a small business...
ABC’s
of Starting Your Own Business, Doing Business with the
Government, Human Resources
For The Small Employer, Marketing Your Small Business,
SBA 8(a) Certification, E-Commerce for Small Business,
Legal Issues For The Start-up Business, IRS / EDD Payroll
Tax Workshop, Cash Flow and LOTS more. For the schedule
visit http://www.sba.gov/ca/santa/ and
click on "Training Calendar."
 Union
Bank of California Does Business With Women
Union Bank of California (UBOC) is a small bank with diverse
procurement needs. Approximately 25 percent of UBOC's procurement
contracts go to women and minority-owned businesses. UBOC's
approach to procurement is to build a database that includes
all qualified suppliers, women-owned businesses as well as
non women-owned businesses. "We are interested in attracting
WBEs because they are a good fit for us and because they
can
stand on their own two feet as a supplier for UBOC, not simply
because they are a woman-owned business," says Richard
Chacon, Manager of Supplier Diversity for UBOC. UBOC's
procurement needs include information technology (IT)
services, human resources, audit services,
architectural services, building maintenance services, computer
peripherals and software, management consulting, landscaping,
courier services, commercial art and graphic designers, and
security and control services. UBOC
has a three-step process for building their supplier
database. "First, we ask that you
make sure your product or service is a fit for the bank.
This is the most important step for WBOs," says
Chacon. Second,
request a UBOC vendor information form, fill it out and return
it to Chacon. Chacon can be reached by phone at 800-821-8351,
or via e-mail at Richard.Chacon@uboc.com.
It is helpful to note on the form if you are certified as
a WBE, but UBOC does not require certification. Third,
update your contact information as frequently as necessary.
Before Chacon puts a UBOC department in touch with a potential
supplier, he verifies the contact information on the supplier.
Keeping your contact information current in his database will
accelerate the bidding process for both you and UBOC.
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