There are changes coming to the Women’s Business Center at Cornerstone Alliance.
Cornerstone President Marla Schneider tells us Cornerstone Alliance is absorbing the WBC to allow for better services and more efficiency.
“We’ve decided to take the Women’s Business Center and remove that moniker from it and fold it within Cornerstone as an Entrepreneurial Services Division,” Schneider said. “What that does for us is it allows us to work with our partners like Emerge and the South Haven Innovation Hub.”
Schneider says this move will allow for better alignment with those partners. Also, she says as the Women’s Business Center has been about half-funded by the Small Business Administration, removing its SBA affiliation will allow for WBC services to be broadened.
“There was some prescriptiveness with being tied to the SBA, and now it opens us up to focusing on areas of diversity, working with men in particular, which we always did work with men. But I think that Women’s Business Center moniker could have been a little confusing.”
Schneider says folding the Women’s Business Center into Cornerstone as a division will ensure there’s no duplication of services.
The Women’s Business Center has been part of Cornerstone Alliance for about 20 years.
