The National Federation of Independent Business is the leading advocacy organization representing small and independent businesses. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1943, NFIB represents the consensus views of its members in Washington and all 50 state capitals.

NFIB's mission is to promote and protect the right of its members to own, operate and grow their businesses. NFIB also gives its members a power in the marketplace. By pooling the purchasing power of its members, the National Federation of Independent Business gives members access to many business products and services at discounted costs. NFIB also provides timely information designed to help small businesses succeed.

For more information, visit http://www.nfib.com.

Visa and NFIB: Working Together

NFIB and Visa will be launching a comprehensive data security education program later this year. Combining Internet technology, in-market events and turnkey materials, the effort will be designed to be as accessible as possible to today's fast-paced, busy small business owners and employees. Visa and NFIB have a long-standing, multi-dimensional partnership focused on delivering valuable educational resources to the small business community and tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

Visa proudly supports NFIB's Young Entrepreneur Foundation (YEF) by sponsoring scholarship awards to young entrepreneurs distributed through the NFIB program. Visa is also a copresenting sponsor of NFIB YEF’s innovative educational programs, which aim to ignite the entrepreneurial spirit in students nationwide.

For more information, visit the SCORE web site.

StartupNation is a community for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. StartupNation was created to be a one-stop resource for entrepreneurial success and boasts the largest online community of startup entrepreneurs in the world.

Inside the site is all the easy-to-follow, practical information you’ll need to start and grow your own successful business. Looking for quick answers? Want to connect with other entrepreneurs, mentors and experts? Curious about first steps to take? StartupNation is all about giving you access to helpful articles, peer-to-peer forums, blogs, on-demand seminars, podcasts, and success stories. You name it—it’s all there.

StartupNation was created by two of the country’s top entrepreneurial experts—Rich and Jeff Sloan. You can hear the Sloan brothers as they co-host StartupNation's nationally syndicated radio program on more than 85 radio stations across the country every week.

StartupNation is a community of entrepreneurs who live the dream every day. Be a part of it!

Winning Workplaces is a non-profit organization providing information and solutions to help small and mid-size businesses create high-performance workplaces. Based on the overwhelming evidence that people-friendly workplaces produce better business results, Winning Workplaces addresses its mission in three ways:

• By providing a clearinghouse of information and practical tools, housed on our website and in a monthly e-newsletter, designed to offer ideas, examples of best practices and current studies and publications
• By annually recognizing Top Small Workplaces in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal.
• By providing consulting and training to help organizations improve their workplaces, thus improving productivity, retention, culture, and business results.