Regional partner of Women's Business Enterprise National Council, Astra Women's Business Alliance provides growth opportunities through training and supporting the access to markets and supply chains of Fortune 500 corporations. One of the tools used is the third-party certification program from WBENC which ascertains whether women own and run their companies on a day-to-day basis.Astra works with regional and national corporations to provide access to qualified women business owners as part of the companies supplier diversity programs to create more diverse opportunities for women as suppliers for their supply chains. Astra Women's Business Alliance changed its name to WBEC-Pacific and is an active partner of WBENC.See www.wbec-pacific.org.

Co-founded a nonprofit focused on helping women business owners in Oregon gain access to capital and funding. The organization ran for 10 years and helped women business owners grow their companies through helping them build loan packages they could present to local banks for funding their companies.