- Recommendation 1
- Conduct and help grantee partners be equally accountable for smart, microtargeted outreach about government-funded technical and financial assistance that resonates with women innovators unfamiliar with that programming.
- To further leverage their communications planning efforts, federal agencies could build grantee toolkits that help resource partners market inclusively to women innovators by identifying priority constituents, messages, and channels. Agencies will need congressional authorization and dedicated funding for intelligent outreach.
- Conduct and help grantee partners be equally accountable for smart, microtargeted outreach about government-funded technical and financial assistance that resonates with women innovators unfamiliar with that programming.
- Recommendation 2
- Lead an effort to identify secure information-sharing protocols, record and category standards, and cybersecurity requirements to enable expanded reciprocity and data exchange between business certifying bodies.
- If data-managing agencies explored methods for sharing information with trusted entities, including confidential application components with an applicant’s permission, they could help lay the groundwork that increases the value of all certifications.
- Lead an effort to identify secure information-sharing protocols, record and category standards, and cybersecurity requirements to enable expanded reciprocity and data exchange between business certifying bodies.
- Recommendation 3
- Adopt common contract bid/grant application elements and have more live contact with agency representatives to expand the opportunities for WOSBs in federal programs.
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