Founded in 1966 in Harlem, the Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO) is a private non-profit organization that is committed to assisting men and women with the drive to become successful entrepreneurs. WIBO’s mission is to enable small business owners and budding entrepreneurs from under-served communities to obtain financial success by starting, operating, and building successful businesses that develop economic power, provide jobs and improve communities.
WIBO offers a myriad of programs including its flagship 16-week workshop, How to Build a Growing Profitable Business. Other programs include personalized business advisory services, legal and accounting clinics, monthly seminars, networking events and other business support activities. Supporters include the Edwin Gould Foundation for Children, Price Foundation, Bank of New York Mellon, Citi Foundation, and New York Community Trust to name a few. Please review our fact sheet for more information.
Business Advisory Services
Are you interested in a personal business advisor to help you reach your goals?
What's new
- To be added to WIBO's mailing list, please click here
- COMPLETE AN APPLICATION AND ENROLL TODAY! The 16-week workshop, How to Build a Growing Profitable Business is a bootcamp for all business owners. The workshops are offered every February and September of each year. Learn sound business practices and create a profitable business plan. Visit our success stories, schedule, registration, events, course description, and newsletter, press room pages.
- Click here for more information about business loans, mentoring services, and other important programs to help your business grow.
- Join WIBO on FACEBOOK and TWITTER. For Facebook, visit the following link to become a Fan.
- For Twitter, click here to follow WIBO.
- Search for products and services in WIBO's Alumni Business Directory
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SPECIAL OFFER: Formerly-incarcerated individuals who have been out of the system for up to one year are eligible to enroll in the 16-week workshop free of charge. Here is the coupon with more information.
Build a detailed plan
During WIBO’s flagship 16-week workshop, How to Build a Growing Profitable Business, you build a detailed plan—a complete step-by-step book of directions for carrying out every phase of your business, including how to:
- Lay a strong foundation for your business
- Determine and understand your markets
- Develop customers
- Promote sales
- Find & reach people who buy what you have to sell
- Get the most out of technology
- Get people to buy from you
- Use money wisely
- Hire, train and supervise productive workers
- Price for greatest profits
- Make sound financial decisions
- Control costs and taxes
- Get and give credit
- Work with other people's money
- Assure lasting success
