Helping women become business owners is the focus of anine-month series involving the $370 million People's CreditUnion.
|The Middletown, R.I.-based CU is collaborating with the Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center and the Center for Women& Enterprise to sponsor the 2011-2012 Strong Woman BusinessSeries.
|Starting on Sept. 13 at the King Center in Newport, nine monthlysessions will focus on women who want to start or grow a business.By the end of the series, each participant will have created abusiness plan.
|People's CU will lead seven of the nine sessions at theirMiddletown location where employees will discuss taking control ofpersonal finances, the market, marketing strategies and financialstatements. Each session will include dinner provided by People'sCU.
|“Helping women in our community become financially independentand financially successful is so important,” said Courtney Hunter,membership relationship manager at People's CU.
|In addition to the CU and both centers, the Strong WomanBusiness Series is funded by the Miss Swinburne Fund of the RhodeIsland Foundation, Newport Public Library, Newport Hospital andSalve Regina University.
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