Facebook Announces Partnership with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women

Facebook announced that it has teamed up with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women to help support the women entrepreneurs’ organization’s mentoring program.

FacebookCherieBlairCaseStudies650Facebook announced that it has teamed up with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women to help support the women entrepreneurs’ organization’s mentoring program.

The social network will create an online portal to support women entrepreneurs, which will include best-practice guides, how-to videos, “inspiration from other like-minded business owners” and an “ask-an-expert” function where they can receive advice on creating pages, acquiring customers and building online presences.

Facebook said it will hold a boot-camp webinar to launch the portal and detail its features to women entrepreneurs, and employees from the social network will join the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s mentoring program to work one-on-one with participants and help them boost their small and midsized businesses.

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a release announcing the partnership:

This partnership combines many things Facebook cares about: the power of small businesses to connect to more customers; the power of technology to drive economic growth; and the...

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