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Reports from the Small Business Resource Center, including instructions on how to start businesses from a catering service to a mobile locksmithing business.

Women's Business Center
White Earth Reservation Tribal Council
North Main Street, P.O. Box 478
Mahnomen, MN 56557
(218) 935-2827
This center is located on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, and offers mentoring services and several training seminars to Native American women who live on the reservation.

Women¹s Business Development Center
8 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60603
(312) 853-3477

Women¹s Business Institute
320 N 5th St. Suite 203, P.O. Box 2043
Fargo, ND 58107-2043
(701) 235-6488
This organization, which serves North Dakota, Minnesota and the surrounding areas, offers mentoring services at a reduced fee for institute members through its Business Success Teams.

Women¹s Business Owners Corporation
18 Encanto Drive
Palos Verdes, CA 90274-4215
(310) 530-7500

Women¹s Enterprise Development Corporation
100 West Broadway, Suite 500
Long Beach, CA 90802
(562) 983-3747
This center offers assistance, training and mentoring to women business owners in California.

Women Entrepreneurs for Economic Development
1683 N. Claiborne Ave., Suite 100
New Orleans, LA 70016
(504) 947-8522

Women Entrepreneurs Inc.
Bartlett Building, 36 East 4th Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 684-0700

Women's Information Network
1800 R Street NW, Unit C-4
Washington DC 20009
(202) 347-2827
Young women in the Greater Washington DC area can join the Women's Information Network (WIN), which offers one of the best mentoring activities available in the region. The annual Women Opening Doors for Women dinner offers women entrepreneurs an opportunity to spread the word about their business and ask prominent women in the Washington DC business community to serve as mentors to them. The evening begins with a large reception for all attendees and speakers, and then the women break off into small groups for dinner at a private home and additional speakers in their focus area. The June 2000 dinner focus areas included Women Entrepreneurs: The Color of Money (B. Smith, chef and cookbook author, was one of the invited speakers.), Women in Management Consulting, SHE-Commerce: Netting Success Online, Dot-Com Queens: Women Making Waves in the Internet Start-up Craze, and One P.R. Life To Live, Women in Communications. WIN also sponsors events all year long that allow women to mix and mingle with others who could serve as their mentors.

Women's Initiative for Self-Employment
450 Mission Street, Suite 402
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 247-9473
This bilingual organization offers one-on-one counseling and mentoring services and other support to women business owners in English and Spanish. Courses offered include a business assessment workshop, a business skills workshop and a workshop on writing a business plan.

Women in New Development-Bi-County Community Action Programs Inc.
P.O. Box 579
Bemidji, MN 56601
(218) 751-4631
This organization provides technical assistance and mentoring to new and young businesses in certain counties in Minnesota.

Women's Opportunity & Resource Development Inc.
127 N. Higgins
Missoula, MT 59802
(406) 543-3550
This organization provides development opportunities for small businesses through group trainings. The training are provided by local business experts who mentor the participants.

In addition to these resources, check out the resources on networking for women listed in the last section. By networking with members of those organizations, you may be able to find someone who would want to be a mentor to you as you get your business started.