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• American Association of Home Based Businesses Incorporated Supports, promotes and encourages businesses in the home. The Association provides networking, support and legislative monitoring for home-based businesses in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Interest quickly spread outside the area and a chapter development program was instituted to meet the need.
• American Business Womens Association National Headquarters Brings together businesswomen of diverse occupations and provides opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership, education, networking support and national recognition.
• American Chamber of Commerce Executives National association of individuals involved the management of chambers of all sizes. The site offers chamber information and resources along with related publications.
• American Society of Association Executives World's leading membership organization for the association management profession. The site offers information and resources relating to associations and organizations.
• American Society of Corporate Secretaries Incorporated Professional association whose membership is composed principally of corporate secretaries, assistant secretaries and other persons who are involved in duties normally associated with the corporate secretarial function.
• Association for International Business Non-profit educational organization. Its primary goals are to provide a way for business people around the world to learn from and teach people in other lands and to form professional and personal relationships along the way, and to share resources, knowledge and experience to help others to do business more efficiently.
• Employee Relocation Council Non-profit professional membership organization committed to the effective relocation of employees worldwide.
• Executive Leadership Council Independent, non-partisan, non-profit corporation that promotes and implements charitable and educational activities designed by the membership of the Council. The Council's mission is to provide African-American executives with a network and leadership forum that adds perspective and direction to the achievement of excellence in business, economic and public policies for the African-American community, their corporations and the community at large.
• Home Based Business Owners Association Assists you in operating a successful home based business. The HBOA offers a wide range of member benefits including insurance, legal services, and the Virtual Office, a high tech solution to running a successful home based business.
• Home Office Association of America National association for home-based business people. This site offers resources, ideas and benefits to help you run a more profitable business from home. It also contains an extensive list of links to other sites of interest to the self-employed.
• International Franchise Association Membership organization of franchisors, franchisees and suppliers. Its Web site is dedicated to providing our members and guests with a one-stop shopping experience for franchise information.
• Licensing Executives Society Association of 27 national and regional societies, each composed of men and women who have an interest in the transfer of technology, or licensing of intellectual property rights - from technical know how and patented inventions to software, copyright and trade marks.
• National Association of Corporate Directors An educational, publishing, and consulting organization in board leadership and the only membership association for boards, directors, director-candidates, and board advisors.
• National Association of Corporate Treasurers Professional association of treasurers from America's leading corporations of all sizes. Its purpose is to facilitate the exchange of information beneficial to the management of corporate treasury operations.
• National Association for the Self-Employed Offers a wide range of information for the self-employed. The Association also offers 100 member benefits designed to meet the changing needs of its members' professional and personal lives.
• National Business Incubation Association Leading source of information for the business incubation industry that offers professional development activities that help business assistance professionals create and administer effective incubation programs.
• National Center for Employee Ownership Private, nonprofit membership and research organization that serves as the leading source of accurate, unbiased information on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), broadly granted employee stock options, and employee participation programs.
• National Center for Nonprofit Boards Nonprofit organization dedicated to building stronger nonprofit boards and stronger nonprofit organizations. The site offers information and publications to help you run a successful nonprofit organization.
• National Federation of Independent Business News, workshops and action alerts for small business owners. The NFIB is the nation's largest advocacy organization for small and independent businesses.
• National Foundation for Women Business Owners The premier source of information and statistics on women business owners and their enterprises. It is a non-profit research, consulting and leadership development organization. NFWBO is affiliated with the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO).
• NOBOSS Provides its members and the general public a means to search and evaluate the amazing variety of legitimate Business Opportunity Sources that can be launched, established, owned and controlled with a minimal capital investment (under $5,000). NOBOSS publishes a monthly on-line and e-mail newsletter and a database of business opportunities.
• Small Business Legislative Council An independent, permanent coalition of trade and professional associations who share a common concern for the future of small business. The purpose of SBLC is twofold: to consolidate the strength and maximize the influence of business on legislative and Federal policy issues of importance to the entire small business community; and secondly, to disseminate information on the impact of public policy on small business.
• SOHO America Association representing small and home office businesses.
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce World's largest businesses federation representing an underlying membership of more than three million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region.