The links below have been collected as great online resources for you.

A Working Woman's Guide to Financial Security
A Working Woman's Guide to Financial Security" is an online tool developed by the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service. Use this site to assess your financial I.Q., organize family and financial records, learn about savings and investment options, and forecast retirement income and expenses.

Ann Bancroft Foundation
The Ann Bancroft Foundation supports girls and women to realize their highest dreams and potential. The Foundation endeavors to live this mission by recognizing individual achievement and by promoting initiatives that inspire courage, risk-taking, integrity and individuality in girls and women.

Automotive Technical Schools
For a listing of technical schools that offer automotive service technician and auto body technician training programs

Bizwomen.com
The Business Journal of Minneapolis/St. Paul has created a Web site for women's groups in the Twin Cities. Bizwomen.com is a free resource for businesswomen to find information on women's groups, news, and a calendar of local events, which you can list your events on. Bizwomen.com provides countless opportunities to connect, support, learn, and grow.

College of St. Catherine
The Leadership Institute and Center for Continuing Education at the College of St. Catherine offers opportunities for you to improve your skills, knowledge and experience for your life, work and your community.

FAIM Web site
State of Minnesota's Family Assets for Independence Minnesota (FAIM) Program. Highlights special savings program available to low-income individuals who want to start a business, buy a home, or pursue post-secondary education. The program helps people build assets by matching every $1 they save (up to $480 a year) with $3, over a three-year period.

FIELD/Aspen Institute
FIELD'S mission is to identify, develop and disseminate best practices, and to broadly educate policymakers, funders and others about microenterprise as an anti-poverty intervention.

GoodSearch
Every Penny Counts

GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. It works like any search engine and because it's powered by Yahoo!, you get great search results.

Greater Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
A business association serving member businesses and organizations throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan region.

Greater Minneapolis Daycare Association
Committed to the healthy development of all children. Resources for providers and parents. Serving Hennepin, Scott, Carver and Dakota counties.

Hispanic Chamber of Comerce of Minnesota
A Hispanic/ Latino business association that serves the entrepreneurial needs of Latinos and Hispanics across Minnesota.

International Institute for Women Entrepreneurs
The College of St. Catherine, one of Minnesota's largest women-owned organizations, created the International Institute for Women Entrepreneurs to meet two vitally important needs - to help women entrepreneurs grow their businesses, and to address their professional and personal development. In partnership with experienced women entrepreneurs, the Institute provides top-of-the-line programs and services.

James J. Hill Reference Library
WomenVenture, together with the James J. Hill Reference Library, is offering you America's greatest online business resource at an incredibly low price.

For one low price you will be able to access more than 7,000 full text newspapers, magazines, trade journals, lists and more. And because you are a friend of WomenVenture, you'll save $100 on the cost of an annual HillSearch membership-regularly $595 per year.

League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters is a multi-issue, grassroots volunteer organization of concerned women and men working together to better understand and influence the issues that affect us, our families, and our future.

Media Relations, Inc.
Media Relations, Inc is the largest performance-based PR firm in the nation. They have helped businesses around the world get the media coverage they need to sell their products and services.

Metropolitan Economic Development Association
Founded in 1971, MEDA provides assistance to businesses owned and managed by ethnic minorities. Unique among economic development organizations, MEDA's services are directed toward new and existing businesses whose owners are committed to making an impact through job creation their firms' growth and profitability community involvement MEDA provides an effective foundation for minority business growth and development as well stabilizing force for families and the community at large.

Minnesota Women's Consortium
A statewide collaboration of 170 member organizations, the Consortium serves as a resource center to enhance equality and justice for women and children.

Minority Business Development and Retention
The goal of MBDR is to increase minority and female participation in business opportunities generated by the Department of Planning and Economic Development's Housing and Economic Development activities. MBDR also attempts to connect minorities, females and people with disabilities to employment opportunities generated by our economic and housing development projects. MBDR is a program of the City of St. Paul, MN.

MN Women's Press
The Minnesota Women's Press offers a fresh perspective on women's ideas and issues.

National Association of Women Business Owners
An organization of professional women who bring together the voice and vision of women business owners in Minnesota. Our Vision - Creating Connectivity, Making Women Businesses more successful!

Small Business Administration
WomenVenture is fundded in part through a cooperative agreement with U.S. Small Business Administration.

Small Business Environmental Assistance Program
Offers free, non-regulatory, confidential environmental assistance to small businesses. Assists with compliance issues and offers pollution prevention opportunities to reduce regulatory burdens.

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