Corporate Patrons

Guardian Life Insurance of America
The Tomorrows You Want Begin With You...Go There With Guardian

Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has a longstanding commitment to helping women business owners grow their businesses and prepare for their financial futures and will work with you in areas that are most important to you: investments, retirement planning, business succession planning, life insurance protection, estate planning, employee benefit programs, and special needs planning. Guardian is also dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and financial literacy for young women through the Girls Going Places Scholarship Program. Each year Guardian awards scholarships to girls ages 12 to 18 who demonstrate budding entrepreneurship, financial independence, and outstanding community service. NAWBO members are welcome to call 212-598-7881 for information about how Guardian can help you create a plan to meet current needs and future aspirations. Learn more about Guardian and find out about its Girls Going Places Scholarship Program.

Hewlett-Packard
At Hewlett-Packard, we are proud to be a corporate patron for NAWBO and the sole technology partner. We want to help you leverage our portfolio of personal computing, printing, software, and services to be a competitive asset to your business. Access FREE online classes, learn how to become an official HP supplier, shop for technology products, find out how to take advantage of our grants for your child’s school, and much more. We understand small business. After all, HP was founded in a garage in Palo Alto, CA in 1939 with just two employees – Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. Let us help you write your success story.

 

Jones New York
Polished and perfected, elegant but not pretentious, Jones New York is a leading brand of apparel with high brand awareness, loyalty, and conversion that delivers timeless, sophisticated designs that makes her feel confident and successful. Jones New York delivers true lifestyle dressing through our strategic brand offerings—Collection, Signature, and Sport—helping women create their best selves, feeling confident and successful, through lifestyle fashion that is timeless and always appropriate. Learn more.

OfficeMax
Life is beautiful. Work can be too. OfficeMax is proud to sponsor NAWBO and seeks to help each NAWBO member reach their full potential and do their best work. NAWBO members can enjoy a single source for office supplies like paper and pens, as well as print and document services, furniture solutions, technology products and services. A variety of OfficeMax customers are served by approximately 36,000 associates through direct sales, e-commerce and 900+ stores. Please visit OfficeMax’s websites for more information: www.officemax.com for individual customers and www.officemaxsolutions.com for businesses.

Principal Financial Group
We'll give you an edge.

With the focus on growing businesses, the goal of the Principal Financial Group is to help businesses and individuals meet their financial goals. For NAWBO business owners, the Principal Financial Group offers a full range of products, including group retirement solutions, group insurance benefits, key employee benefits and business protection programs. For your personal needs, The Principal provides personal retirement solutions, mutual funds, life and disability insurance, banking products and online brokerage. The Principal is proud to be a corporate sponsor of NAWBO and encourages members to call our NAWBO hotline at 1-877-475-3444. Learn more about our products or locate a representative for your local chapter.

Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines is one of the most honored airlines in the world. Among Southwest’s recent honors was being named to Business Week’s first ever list of “Customer Service Champs,” which ranks the best providers of Customer Service. For eight years in a row, Southwest Airlines was named to Business Ethics magazine’s list as one of America’s “100 Best Corporate Citizens” for excelling at serving a variety of stakeholders and for leadership roles in corporate citizenship. And, for an impressive 11 consecutive years, FORTUNE magazine recognized Southwest Airlines as one of America’s Top Ten most admired corporations.

Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV), the nation's largest carrier in terms of domestic passengers enplaned, currently serves 64 cities in 32 states.  Based in Dallas, Southwest currently operates more than 3,300 flights a day and has more than 33,000 Employees nationwide. 

U.S. Postal Service®
It’s never been easier for businesses—small and large—to ship packages via the U.S. Postal Service. Today's world is a busy place. When you don't always have time to get to the Post Office, usps.com brings the Post Office to you. Print shipping labels, pay for postage using Click-N-Ship®, and even schedule a Free Package Pickup. Let the Postal Service bring the convenience of the post office right to your office.

Helping you grow your business is our focus. The Postal Service is a resource to help you learn to plan and send Direct Mail campaigns that attract and retain customers. Direct Mail is a proven and cost effective way to help your business grow. Find a guide to get started on a mail campaign, suggestions on design templates, and some answers to frequently asked questions.

UPS
UPS is the world's largest package delivery company and a global leader in supply chain services, offering an extensive range of options for synchronizing the movement of goods, information and funds. Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., UPS serves more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. UPS stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange (UPS).

NAWBO members can now save up to 26 percent on an expanded portfolio of UPS air and international Express shipping. Simple shipping! Special savings! It's that easy! Get complete details and sign up.

Wachovia
Uncommon Approach, Sharing all we know, Understanding all you need.

What are the advantages of doing business with Wachovia? We can help you pull it all together, with a complete range of financial services and products, and with the people, ideas and commitment to customer service you can trust. Wachovia is one of the nation’s largest diversified financial services companies, providing 13.4 million household and business relationships with a broad range of banking, asset management, wealth management and corporate and investment banking products and services. Wachovia has retail and commercial banking operations in 21 states with 3,400 offices from Connecticut to Florida and west to Texas and California. Wachovia ensures that a significant percent of its business is directed to women-owned businesses and is proud to be a national corporate partner of the National Association of Women Business Owners. At Wachovia, understanding and addressing challenges women-owned businesses face when accessing capital is a priority, and we support female customers with tailored education, tools and solutions to meet their individual needs. Our goal is to deliver what you want from a financial partner—simple access to financial services and advice for your business or for you personally. Get more information.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. operates Wal-Mart Stores, Supercenters, Neighborhood Markets and SAM’S CLUBS in all fifty states. Internationally, the company operates in Puerto Rico, Canada, China, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, United Kingdom, Argentina and South Korea. The company's securities are listed on the New York and Pacific stock exchanges under the symbol WMT. Last year, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., contributed more than $150 million to support communities and local non-profit organizations. Customers and associates raised an additional $70 million at stores and clubs. Visit Wal-Mart or SAM'S CLUB. Read more about Wal-Mart's Good Works community involvement.

Wells Fargo
For more than 150 years, Wells Fargo has been a committed partner and supporter of women business owners, working with small business owners. Today, we continue that tradition through our Women's Business Services program, launched in 1995 to support the women-owned businesses in our communities. The program is dedicated to making information and resources available to women business owners through financial education and community outreach.

Wells Fargo is proud to expand our support by introducing the NAWBO Home Financing Program provided by Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage is committed to assisting women business owners and their employees enjoy the personal and financial benefits of homeownership. Rely on the long-standing strength of a well-established lender. To ensure you have the home financing that’s right for your situation and piece of mind, call on the nation’s leading retail mortgage lender.* 

*Based on year-end 2006 statistics by Inside Mortgage Finance 2/23/07.