(Philadelphia, PA—Oct. 10, 2012) National Small Business Expert, Melinda F. Emerson, known online as SmallBizLady, proudly announces the launch of The Melinda F. Emerson Foundation for Small Business Success (www.melindafemersonfoundation.org).
Melinda believes that through technical support and education, small business owners can overcome the challenges they face and play an important role in building the U.S. economy. The Melinda F. Emerson Foundation is dedicated to igniting a movement to end small business failure.
This foundation is being established to enable more people to fulfill their entrepreneurial dreams, by providing free tools, educational materials and executive education opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses.
The foundation will support entrepreneurship educators, host mentorship events and provide resources for existing small business owners to upgrade their management and leadership skills.
“I really wanted to create a way to affect more small business owners,” says Emerson. She adds, “This foundation will stand in the gap for minority and women owned business owners and provide access to executive education courses like the ones that helped me learn how to be a better business owner.”
Emerson, turning 40 this month, wanted to party with a purpose and will kick-off the foundation’s activities with a star-studded fundraiser at the Loews Hotel Philadelphia on October 13th for her birthday. Instead of gifts, guests were asked to contribute at least $50 to the Melinda F. Emerson Foundation. Contributions have exceeded expectations.
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About the Foundation: The Melinda F. Emerson Foundation for Small Business Success (www.melindafemersonfoundation.org), was founded in 2012 in response to Melinda Emerson’s mentoring needs of small business owners across the country.
About Melinda F. Emerson: Known as SmallBizLady, Melinda F. Emerson is America’s #1 small business expert. She is an author, speaker and small business coach whose areas of expertise include small business start-up, business development and social media marketing. As CEO of Quintessence Multimedia, Melinda develops audio, video and written content to help her Fortune 500 clients engage small business customers. She is a weekly columnist for the You’re The Boss blog for the New York Times. She publishes a resource blog, which is syndicated by the Huffington Post, entitled succeedasyourownboss.com and hosts a weekly talk show on Twitter called #SmallBizChat for today’s entrepreneurs. She reaches 1.5 million small business owners weekly on the internet. Forbes Magazine named Melinda Emerson #1 Woman for Entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter. She is also the author of the bestselling book “Become Your Own Boss in 12 months; A Month-by-Month Guide to a Business That Works.”
Thank you so much for doing this. It will help many women who need that extra assistance grow their business.
Congrats Melinda! This is a foundation that is truly needed. Let me know if there is anything I can do to support.
Excellent contribution. Wishing that your reach be far.
BTW, unless I’m missing it, do you realize that your twitter handle doesn’t appear anywhere?
The new foundation sounds great! How do I apply?
Congrats Melinda!! Thank you for starting the foundation!
Very cool Melinda, congratulations and happy birthday.
Happy to partner up for a crowdfunding event / fundraiser in NYC to benefit your foundation when you are ready.
This is wonderful! Congrats, and thanks for giving back!
I am interested in getting info for blogging for profit, driving clients to site… and target markets..
I have an online product.
Fabulous news, congrats!
Wow, you’re a visionary! This is awesome and inspiring. Congrats 🙂
Ms. Emerson you are such a inspiration. I feel priviledged to be able to follow your teachings.
Thanku! Hugs!
Thanks for being one of a few leaders in this space… 🙂
Congratulations and continued success!
It seems we can use some of the tools you are providing for a non profit operation as well. Do you recommend any other resource for a small non profit? Thank you.
Thank you Ms. Emerson for posting this information. After 20 yrs, business is struggling & I want to save it. Will contact organization.
This is what we need. Thanks. I look forward to getting support to grow my business.
Congratulations, Melinda. There’s always room for more to stand and sing for equality and access.
I need help to hold on to my business after 20 yrs. How would the foundation assist me?
This is fantastic – thank you!
How do I apply?
What wonderful news! I will definitely keep an eye out for information on how to apply and take advantage of your events. Best of luck!
Education is definitely the key to business success. Congrats on your foundation.
It’s great to know a trusted resource has created an even larger platform for small business, minority women like myself.
Melinda,
Congratulations!
Remember that I’m available to do technical training workshops for the entrepreneurs.
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Did you have a chance to see my panel from the Launch conference last week on Diversity in Tech? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poYruIi7m3M
Thanks,
Adria Richards
Developer Evangelist at SendGrid
http://butyoureagirl.com
Melinda,
Congratulations!
Remember that I’m available to do technical training workshops for the entrepreneurs.
Topics: Creating effective YouTube videos for your business, WordPress, online data backups and protection, CRM for business, ecommerce for small business, startups, hackathons, Intro to programming, SEO content strategy, navigating as a women in the tech world.
Did you have a chance to see my panel from the Launch conference last week on Diversity in Tech?
Thanks,
Adria Richards
Developer Evangelist at SendGrid
Thank you for putting this out. Any chance of hiring an asst with entrepreneurial skills of 17 years and looking for a change for your business