(Gallery) Women’s Business Center introduced in Delaware

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Delaware’s new Women’s Business Center – The Women’s Business Center at First State Community Loan Fund – last week marked  its Small Business Administration certified launch phase  with an event at  a woman—owned business.

The event  celebrated  the centers’s  anticipated  economic impact through its small business training, consulting and financing programs.

“Since starting in 1992, First State Community Loan Fund (“First State CLF”) has provided technical assistance, business consulting, and financing to women-owned businesses,” said Jessica Carmona Gibson, program director of the Women’s Business Center. “In fact, First State CLF helped the business hosting our January 21 WBC launch celebration – Primo Hoagies on Kirkwood Highway as Primo Hoagies’ first woman-owned franchise. Now, that technical assistance and consulting work with the female entrepreneurial community can expand through the WBC at First State CLF.”

“First State Community Loan Fund’s work is a tremendous fit with SBA’s mission to deliver quality technical assistance and financing options to our nation’s small businesses,” said SBA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Natalia Olson-Urtecho. “We, at SBA, are proud to support extending the reach of this community-changing organization by certifying its WBC.”

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The center  provides support targeted at but not exclusively limited to female entrepreneurs.  The WBC program provides training, counseling, business plan development, savings accounts, retail services, mentoring and opportunities to empower women to succeed in business.

The center operates  Monday  through Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. The WBC at First State CLF’s headquarters is: The Community Services Building, 100 West 10th Street, Wilmington Del.  By appointment only, the WBC at First State CLF will hold meetings at First State CLF’s Georgetown, Del., office at  20151 Office Circle,

Primo Hoagies is a chain of  Italian sandwich shops featuring sliced fresh deli products and fresh-baked breads.

Denai Wolfe was the first woman and the youngest person to own a Primo Hoagies location. First State CLF was instrumental in Wolfe’s purchase of the Primo franchise and opening of her store, providing start-up and working capital financing, site selection and lease negotiation, and ongoing business management consultation.

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