The Empowered PHXX Spring Summit 2017 focused on updates and initiatives aimed at strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem for female entrepreneurs through community collaboration. It emphasized the importance of critical data, action-based collaboration, and advocacy to enhance support for women-owned organizations. The event encouraged stakeholder involvement by attending meetings, sharing feedback, and implementing best practices within their organizations.

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Empower PHXX
Spring Summit 2017

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Agenda:
Overview of Empowered PhXX
Updates in the Community
Updates on Initiatives
Where are we going in the next 6 months?
Where are we at? Team Performance Model
Quick Break
Action Swarms

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What is Empowered
PhXX?

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Empowered PhXX is a
community collaboration of
diverse leaders, advocates and
stakeholders committed to
strengthening the
entrepreneurial ecosystem for
female entrepreneurs.

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Empowered PhXX
100% community-owned and self-
organized. Meaning no one person or
organization runs it —
everyone contributes through action.
Plus many more…

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Vision
Empowered PhXX vision is to
create significant economic and
community impact for the
future of PhXX.

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Mission
To improve every stakeholder’s
ability to effectively support the
growth of women-owned
organizations through critical data,
action based collaboration, and
voice.

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Model
1.) Critical Data

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Model
1.) Critical Data

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Model
1.) Critical Data

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Model
1.) Critical Data
2.) Action Based
Collaboration

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Model
1.) Critical Data
2.) Action Based
Collaboration
3.) VOICE

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50 /50 in
entrepreneurship in
Arizona would add
91,000 more jobs and
$105.2 billion to our
local economy.
-Datos, AZHCC 2016
-U.S. Census Bureau; generated by
Melissa Kovacs, FirstEval

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How do I get involved?
Stakeholder – attend meetings and provide
feedback, read blogs, share social media,
advocate
Partner – implement best practices within your
organizations
Leadership – serve on a committee for specific
initiatives or critical communication tools

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What does that all mean?

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#PhXX In Action
Efforts elevated by Empowered PhXX:
E+I Kauffman Inclusion Grant

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#PhXX In Action
Global Ties:

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#PhXX In Action
InnovateHer

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#PhXX In Action
Presentation Across the Valley:
Maricopa Association
of Governments
Rise of the Rest

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#PhXX In Action
Action Based Collaboration –
WOWOB – Mike Bull
StarShine – Susan Moody
Hera Hub – Shatha Babour
Critical Data – NEW research
Voice –
Money Month – Annie Groth and Jenavi Kasper
Survey – Melissa Kovacs, Phd.

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#PhXX In Action
Action Based Collaboration:
WOWOB – Mike Bull
Star Shine – Susan Moody
Hera Hub – Shatha Babour

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#PhXX In Action
Bi-Month Action Planning Sessions
Messaging Tools: Tagline and Tools
Public Policy: Leveraging Money Month
Media: WBO List and Outreach- Lauie Anderson
Actions Needed:
- Outreach to WBO on Media List
- Outreach to Media
- Use communications tools (#PhXX, Templates, tagline)

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Critical Data – NEW research

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#PhXX In Action
Critical Data – NEW research
Action Needed:
How can this model help us collaborate further?
Do the obstacles we listed transfer?
Any NEW obstacles?
Thoughts on top 3 obstacles?

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#PhXX In Action
Voice: Money Month – Annie Groth and
Jenavi Kasper
Actions Needed:
- Partner sign up for Money Month events!
- Outreach for participation
- Website Support

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#PhXX In Action
Voice: Survey – Melissa Kovacs, PhD
Actions Needed:
- Feedback on categories
- Sign up for promotion of survey
- Partner outreach

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Looking Forward
Leadership: Serve on a committee for
specific initiatives or critical
communication tools to make Money
Month and Survey successful.
Partner: Implement best practices
within your organizations report
back results.

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Looking Forward
Stakeholder
Action Planning Roundtables: Every other
Month, Friday, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
August: Money Month Update and Survey
Finalization
October: Debrief and initial survey results
December: Survey results.
Emails, Communication Tools, #PhXX

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Looking Forward
Objective: Elevate the voice of women
business owners (policy and in the
general public), strengthen every
partners ability to serve women business
owners, gather the data needed through
the survey and qualitative research to
put together a comprehensive strategy for
the entire ecosystem and benchmarks to
measure the effectiveness of Empowered
PhXX.

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Get Involved
How does it look for you?

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Team Performance Model
Framing the evolution of Empowered PhXX.
Where are we at for you?

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QUICK BREAK

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Let’s Get To It: Action Swarms
1.) Survey: Feedback on the Survey
2.) Money Month: event sign up, partner outreach
3.) Media: Update the list of WBO’s and Outreach
4.) Resource List: Updating the resource list
5.) Research: Updating ecosystem map

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Debrief