Mississippi Women's Business Centers 

SBA’s Women’s Business Centers (WBC) provide individual business counseling assistance, workshops, seminars, training services, and access to SBA’s programs and services to help entrepreneurs operate a new or existing business.

Mississippi encompasses two Women’s Business Centers, each tailoring its programs to the needs of its constituency.  A brief description and contact information for each WBC appears below:

Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc. (MACE)

The MACE Women’s Business Center offers the Mid-Delta the Women's Entrepreneurial Training and Technical Assistance Program.  The program provides hands-on training and counseling services to emerging entrepreneurs in rural Mississippi.  Through workshops and seminars, the center provides entrepreneurs the opportunity to build a network of potential customers, identify potential suppliers, as well as develop support groups for emerging business owners. Its video conferencing centers in Marks, Canton, and Greenville also serve to break the isolation of rural communities through state of the art technology.  The centers ultimate goal is to create self-sufficiency and build wealth, particularly for low-income women residing in the Mississippi Delta. For additional information about the MACE Women's Business Center, call (662) 335-3523 or visit their office at 119 Theobald Street in Greenville, MS.

The Crudup-Ward Activity Center

Celebrating its grand opening in December of 2006, the center provides services designed for women seeking to start a new business or improve their existing business.  Along with traditional one-on-one business and financial counseling, technical assistance services to women, minority and low wealth entrepreneurs, the program also offers WNET Roundtable sessions,  workshops in preparing a business proposal and plan, financial and tax matters, management and marketing assistance, government procurement and certification assistance, computer/software and internet training, legal issues and youth entrepreneur training among other topics.  The center serves Scott, Jasper, Lauderdale, Clarke, Kemper, Leake, Smith, Neshoba and Newton counties.  For more information about the Crudup-Ward Activity Center, call (601) 469-3357 or visit their office at 630 Longview Street in Forest, MS.

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Cooperative Agreement is partially funded by the SBA. SBA's funding is not an endorsement of any products, opinion, or services. All SBA funded programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.