Congratulations to the YWCA members on an extremely successful first meeting with the women in the YWCA course! This Tuesday (11/10), five of our members attended one of the YWCA Introductory Entrepreneurship classes at CCAC. The women were eager to meet us and tell us about their business ideas. We got to know their background and motivation for their businesses as well as the progress they have made in their business plan thus far and the components they are stuck on. The members really adapted to their position as coaches - while we will help the women with the content of their business plans, our main job is to motivate the women to get their business plans completed and open shop!

For the remainder of the semester, we plan on attending the YWCA course on Tuesdays and the lab session for the course on Wednesdays. We hope to keep project members paired with the same women at each session so that we can follow each woman's progress.

Finally, we'll be attending the women's graduation ceremony on January 12th!