The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has announced the launch of Journey 6, an eLearning platform geared towards offering women-owned small companies resources to contend and be successful for federal government contracts.

SBA Launch of Journey 6 for Women Owners and Federal Contracts

Journey 6 is part of SBAs bid to help improve the competitiveness of women-owned small businesses by offering little services material and tools.

Journey 6 belongs to the SBAs Ascent e-learning which provides 6 courses to help females company owner, specifically:

Government As Your Customers: where users get an understanding of how to see the federal government as a client

Set-Aside Certifications: this guides the users on what is needed to prepare and pursue federal government contracting accreditations

Government Contracting Opportunities: assists users to assess contracting opportunities with regional, state, and federal governments

Federal Government Subcontracting Opportunities: assists users to determine federal subcontracting chances

Federal Solicitations: assists users examine the parts of the federal solicitation procedure

General Services Administration (GSA) Contracts: helps users examine opportunities for General Services Administration (GSA) agreements

Why Focus on Women Entrepreneurs?

” Access to digital and online training platforms stay important to support females entrepreneurs with recovery and knowledge share. Over the in 2015, almost 30,000 women entrepreneurs have actually leveraged the Ascent platform for its online education,” stated Natalie Madeira Cofield, SBA Assistant Administrator of the Office for Womens Business Ownership (OWBA).

In addition to using material and tools towards helping women entrepreneurs on how to prosper with federal contracts it likewise uses tools towards organization development and success; disaster and financial recovery; strategic marketing; access to capital; and more.

Women entrepreneurs own near half of all organizations in the United States utilizing 9.4 million employees and producing $1.9 trillion in income across all industries.

Most women-owned firms are little companies with the leading work industries being healthcare; accommodation and food services; and administrative and assistance. These 3 sectors represent 47% of total industry work by women-owned services.

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