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sections (women's business club)WOMEN’S BUSINESS CLUB
Women’s Business Club is a section of the Association of Business Women, initiated after nine years of ABW activities in the sphere of economic empowerment of women. In the course of the last decade has been developing the category of successful women’s enterprises that employ more than ten people and have stable business activities. The aim of this section is to bring together such women, the leaders, to interconnect them and to enable them through contacts and networking with women in managerial positions in institutions important for development of entrepreneurship to have an active impact on improvement of the business environment.
This group of business women, recognizable in the economic life of Serbia, should become visible in the public for the purpose of representing interests of women’s business population, in order to be influential and proactive in the capacity of partners to institutions creating the entrepreneurship ambience.
The intention of the Women’s Business Club is to strengthen our negotiating positions and to improve the business environment, in the first place as entrepreneurs, simultaneously taking care of specificities of the women’s needs in the sphere of business, such as assignment of roles between genders on an equal footing and achievement of balance between family and business duties, as well as support to women who face difficulties on their path towards economic independence, either the unemployed ones or the beginners in business.
Mission
Development of leader and professional capabilities of women entrepreneurs through networking, improvement of skills and advocacy for improvement of the economic position of women through different forms of private and public partnership.
Aims and Objectives
a) Associating women entrepreneurs for the purpose of higher visibility of women’s contribution to the economic development of the country, particularly in entrepreneurship
b) Giving support, inspiration, advice and assistance to women in entrepreneurship
c) Business networking
d) Promotion of women’s achievements in business by granting annual award
e) Organization of seminars and various aspects of educational lectures
f) Advocacy
g) Care for women entrepreneurs’ health
h) Networking with other Clubs – domestic and international
Criteria for the Club membership:
1) Filled out admission form
2) Ownership or stake in ownership of an enterprise with more than 10 employees
3) Membership paid and/or
4) Managerial position in the public sector (institutions) and membership paid on voluntary basis
Meetings Frequency
Once a month, every first Thursday of the month, in the state-room of the “Bel Medic” Clinic, Koste Jovanovića 87, beginning at 18:30 hours. calendar
Activities
- presentations of women’s businesses and success stories
- meetings with women in managerial positions
- organization of advocacy campaigns
- organization of lectures from the domains important for business management
- annual award presentation ceremony
- organization of humanitarian actions
- organization of informal meetings, such as: concerts, literary evenings, fashion shows etc.
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