Dear Friends:
WEB’s success is no fairy tale. Since 1989, WEB has helped hundreds of financially
struggling men and women create their own jobs by starting small businesses.
• When her sales job dissolved and her mother suffered a stroke, Joi Turner needed a
new job and the flexibility to care for her mom. WEB showed her how to create the
business she needed rather than settling for the job she could find. “WEB had all the
information I needed to start and run a healthy business. It was a priceless experience.”
Today Joi’s virtual assistance company is going strong. And her mom is better, too.
• Yolanda Maria Welch struggled with domestic violence and homelessness but
dreamed of starting a business to help people suffering from respiratory illnesses. WEB
helped her launch and grow Respira Medical, a prospering enterprise that now employs
more than 50 healthcare professionals and has helped more than 16,000 patients.
Today Maria gives back generously through her Better Breathing Foundation and as a
WEB supporter and board member. In Maria’s words, “WEB rebuilt me.”
• Unceremoniously laid off from her engineering position of eleven years, Kathy Fritz
had had enough of being expendable. With WEB’s help, she turned her talent for
designing jewelry into a money-making proposition. In October, she opened Bead
Soup, a full-service store offering crystal beads, supplies and jewelry-making classes.
Says the now inexpendable Kathy, “I’ve never worked harder in my life and I love it. But
I wouldn’t have known where to start without WEB.”
WEB succeeds even during these tough economic times by teaching people like Joi,
Maria, and Kathy to create their own opportunities. And thanks to WEB’s proven,
practical business training in marketing, planning, and financial management, WEB
graduates have a three-year business survival rate of 71% compared to a national rate
of 56%.
With your help, WEB can help create more jobs, more businesses, and more hope.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today to WEB, the little engine that
could, can, and does.
Wishing you and yours peace, hope, and prosperity in 2009.
| Joi Turner Proprietor, Advanced Virtual Outsourcing, LLC WEB 2008 Graduate |
| Yolanda Maria Welch CEO, Respira Medical 2001 WEB graduate |
| Kathy Fritz Owner, Bead Soup 2007 WEB graduate |
The LITTLE ENGINE That COULD
Once upon a time in a troubled land, there lived a little
economic engine named WEB. When others looked
across the land and saw layoffs and downsizing, WEB
peered ahead and saw . . . OPPORTUNITY AND
HOPE. She saw struggling people who, with a little
help and business training, could START BUSINESSES,
CREATE JOBS, and HELP THEIR COMMUNITIES.
So, against a strong wind and up a steep hill, our little
engine chugged along, moving hundreds toward financial
stability. To each of these hard-working individuals,
WEB said, “I know you can. I know you can. I know you can.”
And they did.
Once upon a time in a troubled land, there lived a little
economic engine named WEB. When others looked
across the land and saw layoffs and downsizing, WEB
peered ahead and saw . . . OPPORTUNITY AND
HOPE. She saw struggling people who, with a little
help and business training, could START BUSINESSES,
CREATE JOBS, and HELP THEIR COMMUNITIES.
So, against a strong wind and up a steep hill, our little
engine chugged along, moving hundreds toward financial
stability. To each of these hard-working individuals,
WEB said, “I know you can. I know you can. I know you can.”
And they did.
| Joi Maria Kathy |
| Fuel the economy. Donate to WEB. Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore, Inc. 1118 Light Street, Suite 101 • Baltimore, MD 21230 | 410.727.4921 • 410.727.4989 Fax www.webinc.org |