The Inland Empire Women’s Business Center at Cal State San Bernardino will host a free webinar on Wednesday, October 26 to help people who are considering launching a new business or who already operate their own business.

“eProcurement Webinar: How to Do Business With Corporations and the Government” will be from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and can be taken online from the comfort of your own home, or at the IECE Business Resource Center, 202 E. Airport Dr., Ste. 100 in San Bernardino if prior arrangements are made. The webinar is free to all who attend.

The e-procurement webinar is designed to provide small business owners with the foundation for doing business with the local, state, and federal governments and corporations. Learn to use e-procurement software to take advantage of procurement opportunities. The webinar will provide step-by-step interactive exercises demonstrating e-procurement software, who to get it from, and how to incorporate it into a small business.

The e-procurement webinar is possible with generous funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act within the U.S. Department of Commerce and the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF). CETF provides leadership statewide to minimize the Digital Divide by accelerating the deployment of broadband and other advanced communication services to underserved communities and populations.

The Inland Empire Women’s Business Center is a program of the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration. The IEWBC provides business counseling, training and mentoring designed for women business owners.

The program provides services in English and Spanish to Latina business owners, currently the fastest growing group of women business owners in the country.

The Inland Empire Women’s Business Center’s hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday by appointment only. The center also has a part-time outreach office in Corona, where it meets clients by appointment only on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

For more information, or to register for the workshop, contact Rachel Wolfinbarger at (909) 890-1242. To register online, visit the IEWBC website at iewbc.org.