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Certified By The Women's Business Enterprise National Council

Happy Feet, LLC, has recently been
certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). WBENC, founded in
1997, is the nation's leading advocate of women-owned businesses as
suppliers to America's corporations. It also is the largest
third-party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in
the United States. WBENC works to foster diversity in the world of
commerce with programs and policies designed to expand opportunities
and eliminate barriers in the marketplace for women business owners.
WBENC works with representatives of corporations to encourage the
utilization and expansion of supplier/vendor diversity programs.
Dedicated to enhancing opportunities
for women's business enterprises, WBENC works in partnership with
women's business organizations located throughout the country to
provide a national standard of certification for women-owned
businesses. The organization also provides its corporate members and
certified women's business enterprises (WBEs) with access to a range
of B2B sourcing tools including, an Internet database – WBENCLink –
that contains information on certified women's businesses for
purchasing managers nationwide. WBENC is a resource for the more
than 700 U.S. companies and government agencies that rely on the WBENC
certification as an integral part of their supplier diversity
programs.
Through its benchmarking surveys and ongoing interaction with
certified women's business enterprises, WBENC has become the
nation's leading source of information on trends in supplier
diversity programs for WBEs at U.S. companies and government agencies. WBENC also promotes best practices in supplier diversity through the
annual selection of "America's Top Corporations for Women's Business
Enterprises."
WBENC prepares and provides its partner organizations with on-site
training and educational materials detailing certification
procedures and program management. WBENC's research projects and
surveys, primarily of CEOs and corporate procurement
decision-makers, help to identify impediments to doing business and
suggest "best practices" to maximize WBE opportunities and expand
and enhance supplier diversity programs. The "Balanced
Scorecard for
WBE Program Process Improvement" assists WBENC corporate members in
self-evaluating their WBE programs.
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