OUR ROOTS WREN began in 1994, with an ambitious plan to create an 8-month training and support program to assist 12 very low-income women in achieving their dreams of business ownership. By the spring of 1995, these WREN pioneers were operating their own enterprises. Encouraged by the positive results from this pilot project, we began building what we today refer to as the 'WREN Community'. Sixteen years later, WREN is a membership-driven organization with over 1100 members, men and women living in New England and beyond, who benefit from and support WREN's many initiatives and resources, including Local Works, our retail store featuring the products of nearly 200 vendors,