Entrepreneurial Woman

While other programs come and go, the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) is one of the granddaddies of government assistance to small business. Now SCORE is increasing the number of services designed for women.

Besides offering networking groups and workshops for women, SCORE does for them what it does best: one-on-one mentoring. "Women entrepreneurs are more eager to talk with other women," says Florence Alberts (below, right), national director of women's business ownership for SCORE. "They have unique problems that may be difficult for male counselors to understand."

SCORE is exploring new ways to reach women entrepreneurs, including the Women's Business Ownership Program, which provides individual counseling, networking groups and informative workshops. For more information, call (800) 634-0245.

This article was originally published in the February 1996 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Entrepreneurial Woman.