Digital Women is an international network for women in business. Founded in 1998 in Aledo, Texas by graphic artist Rebecca Hubbard, Digital Women began as a site on the World Wide Web and was designed to provide business resources, small business loan information and support for businesswomen worldwide. The main key to a successful business startup or expansion is the ability to obtain and secure appropriate financing or funding through a small business loan, a government loan, (SBA), or non-government grants for those women unable to tap into their personal finances. Digital Women helps women entrepreneurs find this financing.

Women Business Owners realize that applying for business funding or financing is a much more complicated process than applying for personal lines of credit or personal loans. Applying for business funding requires careful preparation and demands that you understand the loan or grant process and what it takes to qualify for a business loan.
 

Who Are Digital Women?

DigitalWomen are women who are involved in the business world.  While some Digital Women own and work in their own businesses, the group also welcomes women who are employed by others and have an interest in business issues.   Digital Women are mothers, daughters, grandmothers, wives and sisters.  The women range in age from 18 - 70 come from a wide range of backgrounds and have varied business, professional and personal interests. The one common denominator of Digital Women is that they all possess a desire to learn and share business information. They are also women who are tired of working for a paycheck that has little ability to get much bigger. 

What Does Digital Women Offer?

• An online community network of over 17,000 members that allows women in business to communicate with each other on a daily basis providing business help and support for each other through an interactive mail list. Most of the "professional" members have their web sites listed in the Digital Women Directory here providing additional advertising for them on the internet.
• Over 1000 web pages containing a wealth of business information from small business loans to non-government business grants to writing their mission statement, designing their web site, filing a trademark, applying for a line of credit through financial or funding sources and anything else related to starting a business or running a woman-owned business.
• Information and resources for loan applications or grant applications to aquire business startup funding.
• The Professional Membership provides businesswomen and women entrepreneurs all the tools they need to start and run a business of their own including over 1200 foundations, business software, web site software, business ebooks, mini business classes, and a way for them to advertise their business through the DW Directory, the "Classy"fieds,  a Bartering area to exchange business goods and services without being out the cash, a Press Room to make their business news announcements, and many other advertising opportunities.
• MUCH MUCH MORE!

The Minority Pre-qualification Loan Program and the Women's Pre-qualification Loan Program use intermediaries to assist minority and women owned small businesses in developing small business loan application packages and helping to securing small business loans. The Women's Pre-qualification Loan Program uses only nonprofit organizations as intermediaries. The Minority Pre-qualification Loan Program uses for-profit intermediaries as well.