{"id":7350,"date":"2023-01-26T01:06:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T01:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2023-01-26T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T01:08:09","slug":"womens-business-council-launches-entrepreneurial-awards-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/womens-business-council-launches-entrepreneurial-awards-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Business Council Launches Entrepreneurial Awards Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Women of Toledo (WOT) recently established the Northwest Ohio Women\u2019s Business Council (WBC) that was inspired by the #HERStory campaign honoring women entrepreneurs. Last week, the WBC announced the first Women\u2019s Entrepreneurial Distinction Ovation Award (WEDO Award) program that will be held on May 4, from 4 to 7:30 p.m., at the Huntington Center.<\/p>\n<p>The awards will help to achieve three goals for the WBC: 10 recognize excellence, 2) provide a better narrative on the identity and storytelling of diverse women-owned businesses and 3) increase the visibility and opportunity to close the area\u2019s economic inequality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to highlight the stories and celebrate the role of women entrepreneurs in our community, particularly the impact on\u00a0 job growth and economic growth,\u201d said Sena Friedman, a co-founder of the WBC. \u201cWhen we start to celebrate and honor their roles and places in our economic development, we inspire other generations as well; it encourages them to follow their dreams and the community benefits \u2026 everybody wins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WBC is now taking nominations for the five categories in which women will be honored. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Rising Star<\/u>: A woman, age 25 years or younger, who has founded a successful business with promise for the future;<\/li>\n<li><u>Legend<\/u>: A woman we celebrate for a lifetime of entrepreneurial achievement, community impact, and support of the success of others;<\/li>\n<li><u>Second Act<\/u>: A woman who draws from a previous life and work experiences to find success as an entrepreneur;<\/li>\n<li><u>Trailblazer<\/u>: An innovator, creator and leader, who has broken new ground as a woman entrepreneur;<\/li>\n<li><u>Thriver<\/u>: A woman whose entrepreneurial leadership has grown and sustained a business, meeting increasingly higher levels of achievement in revenue, job creation and market share.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In observance of 2022 Women\u2019s History Month and the #HerStory campaign honoring local women entrepreneurs, Women of Toledo (WOT) established the Northwest Ohio Women&#8217;s Business Council (WBC). WBC consists of a diverse group of women that are committed to promoting, supporting, and celebrating women\u2019s entrepreneurship in our community.\u00a0We celebrate their accomplishments and are excited to share their encouraging stories<\/p>\n<p>With a vision that every Entrepreneur has an equitable opportunity and access to develop, launch, and grow a business that creates wealth for themselves, their families, and\/or their community; one of the ways for improvement is to develop an award and\/or recognition of excellence for diverse entrepreneurs and ecosystem leaders. For our Media Partner, we welcome your support with media coverage to create awareness of the WEDO Award program and a call for applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Staff The Women of Toledo (WOT) recently established the Northwest Ohio Women\u2019s Business Council (WBC) that was inspired by the #HERStory campaign honoring women entrepreneurs. Last week, the WBC announced the first Women\u2019s Entrepreneurial Distinction Ovation Award (WEDO Award) program that will be held on May 4, from 4 to 7:30 p.m., at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[159],"class_list":["post-7350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7351,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}