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Causes: Leadership Development
Mission: Womens economic ventures (wev) is dedicated to creating an equitable and just society through the economic empowerment of women.
Programs: Women's economic ventures provides small business loans, business training and technical assistance to help primarily low-income women start or expand a small business. Wev is a community development financial institution (cdfi) and provides micro enterprise loans of up to $25,000 to startups and business expansion loans of up to $50,000 to pre-bankable businesses. Wev serves both men and women in all programs. In 2017, wev provided training and technical assistance to 286 clients, provided 12 micro loans totaling $194,196 & provided 1,046 hours of consulting to 298 clients.