Our Mission
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Through Global Opportunities
The mission of the IWEC Foundation is to build and continuously expand a global network that strengthens and supports women’s entrepreneurial empowerment. Since its founding in 2007, the IWEC Foundation has focused on helping successful mid-sized, women-owned businesses grow by:
- expanding access to international markets
- increasing their visibility
- strengthening their global brands
Our Key Focus Areas
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Donate NowRecognize successful women business owners on a global scale. Each year our chambers of commerce and women’s business affiliates choose successful women business owners from their network to honor them and present them awards at our annual conference. IWEC also follows all of our past awardees on social media and helps them to gain more visibility through postings and re-postings to the broad international IWEC network. Past awardees are featured in IWEC’s monthly newsletter and also are invited to participate in local events globally focused on successful women business owners.
Provide education to support and further advance women-owned business growth through shared business opinions and intel on economics, country focus and industries. IWEC gathers information and provides it to our network as well as imparts face-to-face education at our annual themed-conferences.
Create a global network and enable female entrepreneurs to connect locally, nationally, and internationally. Our connections with global chambers of commerce, women’s business organizations and their networks enables IWEC to expand connectivity for all of our past awardees. Our internal communications platform (in development) provides a tool for our network to connect as well as our website and social media platforms.
Provide data and insights to drive global economic growth. Chambers of Commerce and local government economics reports are available and circulated to provide our CEOs to determine what markets are good for their services and products. In addition, the chamber leaders are available 24/7 to connect our CEOs to other local agencies and business owners to also provide intel and local links to businesses and industries.