Valuable Experience Working with VWEC to Redesign the Website

I am Claire Chang. My fellowship as a web designer and developer for VWEC has been a really rewarding and motivational experience during my time as a student at the University of Texas at Austin. I collaborated closely with VWEC and the RGK Center’s CONNECT program to leverage my web design skills to give VWEC’s website a new look.

Working with such compassionate and supportive people, this experience helped me achieve my goal to elevate my competency in web design and development. Because of the valuable lessons I learned during this project, I am confident that I will continue to grow and develop professionally and in my personal endeavors. Within this fellowship project, there were two distinct learning experiences that stood out to me as the most influential aspects of my development: collaboration and professional skills. 

Working closely with VR and Alyssa (from the CONNECT program) has helped me to develop the ability to collaborate in a fast-paced, dynamic, and creative environment. I have honed my ability to work together, and communicate clearly with stakeholders. Not only did my collaboration skills improved greatly, but I also developed skills in project management related to coordinating daily and weekly progress goals, to meet the desired completion timeframe.

Through iterating on design solutions, I became more proficient in many aspects of web design, including thinking strategically to deliver the website, building the content and navigation structure, defining UI components and interfaces, and providing solutions under technical limitations. After the new-looking website was published, I was so happy to hear the positive feedback from our user testing results.

This experience definitely motivates me to pursue more in this field. I would not have the knowledge or skills I have today if it were not for this fellowship project experience with VWEC and the CONNECT Program. I look forward to where my career in web design takes me in the future!

The Veteran Women's Enterprise Center in Partnership with Southern Methodist University Conducts National Focus Groups

The VWEC seeks to provide real-time data for additional funding and resources for women veteran entrepreneurs

The data collected from our focus groups will offer metrics that clearly identify how women veteran entrepreneurs are driving our economy”— VR Small, CEO and Founder, Veteran Women's Enterprise Center

DALLAS, TX, USA, March 17, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center (VWEC) has announced through its partnership with the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity’s Global Development Lab at Southern Methodist University, they have extended their ongoing Women Veteran Entrepreneurs, National Focus Group Initiative.

Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center: Dedicated to Shepherding Female Soldiers to Financial Success

The Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center (VWEC) is providing business and financial support to women entrepreneurs associated with the military, inclusive of veterans, active duty, reservists, and female military spouses across the nation through education, funding, access to critical technical assistance and vital business resources. The VWEC is laser focused on decreasing the disparity between the entrepreneurial success that exists between male and female veteran business owners.

North Dallas Gazette - February 25, 2021 - Online & Print

Annual Business Survey Release Provides Data on Minority-Owned, Veteran-Owned and Women-Owned Businesses

JAN. 28, 2021 — The U.S. Census Bureau today released new estimates on the characteristics of employer businesses. According to the 2019 Annual Business Survey (ABS), covering reference year 2018, approximately 18.3% (1.0 million) of all U.S. businesses were minority-owned and about 19.9% (1.1 million) of all businesses were owned by women.

Additional statistics released include:

• In the United States, the four sectors with the most businesses were Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services; Construction; Health Care and Social Assistance; and Retail Trade. Combined, these estimated 2.8 million businesses employed about 51.1 million people and had an annual payroll of approximately $2.6 trillion.

• Veteran-owned businesses made up about 5.9% (337,934) of all businesses, with an estimated $947.7 billion in receipts, approximately 3.9 million employees, and about $177.7 billion in annual payroll.

The Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center (VWEC) based on a segment of our mission to “advocate for relevant research, services and funding” we will be digging deeper into this data to identify the specific statistics related to women veteran owned businesses and how we can use this data to help women veteran entrepreneurs access the resources they need to succeed.

In the meantime review our Phase 1. Moments that Matter Report in collaboration with the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank as well as the Women-Veteran Entrepreneurs Face Hardships Made Worse by Pandemic comparative analysis and/or participate in our series of Women Veteran Entrepreneurs National Focus Groups working to change the narrative and bring the voices of women veterans out of the shadow, email info@veteranwomensec.org to schedule your private group session.

Women Veteran Business Owners: We Want to Hear From You

The number of businesses owned by female veterans in the U.S. more than tripled in a five-year period, but little is known about these enterprises.

Moments that Matter Research Project Launch Lunch

The Veteran Women’s Enterprise Center (VWEC), a national initiative launched in southern Dallas, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas are conducting a research project exclusively focused on the “Moments That Matter” for women veteran-owned businesses in Dallas County. With a focus on identifying the most impactful issues and situations encountered by veteran women-owned businesses in Dallas County.