Women Entrepreneurs Across America

About Women Entrepreneurs Across America

Women Entrepreneurs Across America is a nonprofit initiative that empowers women’s entrepreneurship advocates in cities nationwide to join forces with their local mayors to make their entrepreneurial communities more equitable. We provide a library of tools and processes that local civic leaders and their mayors can use to generate city-specific solutions to level their community’s entrepreneurial playing field. In July 2023, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson named Carla McDonald, an Austin-based investor and advocate for women entrepreneurs, chair of the Mayor’s Task Force for Austin Women Entrepreneurs. Eight months later, the Task Force sent the mayor a report outlining 12 pragmatic and actionable steps that Austin must take to become the best city in the country for women to start and build businesses. A call to action for all Austin residents, the report highlights the need for community engagement to break down systemic barriers to entrepreneurial inclusion. In April 2024, McDonald founded Women Entrepreneurs Across America to make the tools, processes, and learnings of the Austin Task Force available to women’s entrepreneurship advocates seeking to level the entrepreneurial playing field in other cities.

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