The Women’s Business Border Center (WBBC) is the first Center to be co-located with a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in the United State. The Women’s Business Border Center is partially funded by the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Women’s Business Ownership (OWBO).

The Women’s Business Border Center provides instrumental information, training, individual counseling and opportunities for women interested in starting or expanding their business. The WBBC creates opportunities for women who want to access information, personal guidance and insight into business-management skills.

The center provides assistance and/or training in finance, management, marketing, procurement and the Internet as well as addressing specialized topics such as home-based businesses, corporate executive downsizing and welfare-to-work.

HISTORY

The El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce recognized the growing market need for business services for Hispanas (Latinas) due to El Paso’s predominantly Hispanic population and the significant shift in the regional economic base due to NAFTA. The phenomenal growth of Latina-owned firms, the unique cultural aspects of this group of entrepreneurs and the historically low level of business loans to women on the Texas-Mexico border led the Chamber to establish the Women’s Border Business Center (Mujeres sin Fronteras), or WBBC, to capture this market niche and further the goals and mission of the Chamber.