What does the Path Forward Center deliver? A lot.

Program participants report:
  • New entrepreneurial ideas and liberated creative thinking about doing business
  • Inspiration and confidence to start it, try it, do it
  • Skill development—of the skills critical to entrepreneurial and operating success
  • A network of contacts with women entrepreneurs, others facing similar challenges, role models, mentors, backers and women’s business organizations
  • Resources, including access to information, data, guidance and help
  • Capital access. Contact with potential investors and how-to advice about raising capital

More specifically, participants from our ACTiVATE program are starting businesses, creating jobs, and making a difference for themselves and their communities. But why take our word for it when you can hear about the impact and their accomplishments directly from them.

See below for a few ACTiVATE women and their business:

Featured Companies:

Other ACTiVATE'D Stars:

And more to come!


"ACTiVATE took me through the steps I needed to learn to start my technology company. As a result, I'm well on my way to building a successful medical technology company"

—Kris Appel, CEO of Encore Path and ACTIVATE program participant

The Proof is in..
ACTiVATE at UMBC - Economic Impact Study
ACTiVATE creates jobs for less than 20% cost per job of Federal Stimulus!

Download the report now!



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Path Forward Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
20271 Goldenrod Lane Second Floor Suite #V3 , Germantown, MD 20876
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