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Iowa is home to many amazing small businesses and small business champions, and during National Small Business Week you are invited to help celebrate this year’s Iowa awardees at a special reception to be held on Friday, May 6th.

For Decades Des Moines Area Community College has helped thousands of individuals bridge the gap between idea and entrepreneurship. Every day DMACC supports Iowa small business by providing current and future employees with access to the fuel that powers the American dream: education. Now the college adds to its business-building tradition by offering $10,000 to the winner of the 2016 DMACC Foundation Entrepreneurship Competition.

Are you a female entrepreneur seeking to scale your business? Would you be interested in competing for awards totaling $40,000? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you are a great candidate to be a contestant at an Invest in She competition this June!

A report from American Express Open released this April indicates that Iowa now ranks 30th in growth of number of women-owned firms in the country. This is the same report that has ranked Iowa last in the nation for increases in women-owned firms. So why the jump?

Promoting your organization through a gathering during Economic Development Week helps build understanding in your community of the long-lasting benefits economic developers help to achieve.