Hello

As we finally prepare to roll out of 2020 and into our 55th anniversary year, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for being part of the WIBO family.

On March l, 1966 at the YWCA on 125th Street in Harlem, Walter Geier, and Mallalieu Woolfolk offered the first inclusive and comprehensive training course ever conducted anywhere, How to Run a Growing Profitable Business.  Since then, we have trained close to  19,000 entrepreneurs who have created over 34,000 jobs.

This year WIBO directly provided its program to 175 New York-area entrepreneurs and indirectly served 325 more in 5 cities through our affiliate partners. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, WIBO has already moved all of its programs online.

Even in an unprecedented pandemic, some things never change—as unemployment and poverty rates skyrocket, the people getting hit the hardest are people of color, women, disabled people, formerly incarcerated people, and residents of low-income communities.

While charitable programs are doing their best to help in the short-term, nothing reduces unemployment and poverty more effectively than nurturing successful, profitable, locally created, small businesses, and WIBO has been doing just that since 1966.

As we look ahead we hope you will continue to support our mission to enable small business owners and budding entrepreneurs from underserved communities to obtain financial success by starting, operating, and building successful businesses that develop economic power, provide jobs and improve communities.

If you haven’t had the chance yet, we’d still love it if you could invest in our local entrepreneurs and help us reach our year-end goal of $15,000.

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Thank you again for all of your support

Happy Holidays

Stephen Jackson

CEO

Workshop in Business Opportunities, Inc. - WIBO