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NASE Supports Activities, Goals of Global Entrepreneurship Week
November 23, 2009
Worldwide Event Aims To Encourage Entrepreneurship By Young People
Washington, D.C., November 23, 2009 – Young people in 85 countries had the opportunity to explore their potential as self-starters and innovators this month through Global Entrepreneurship Week. Organizers aimed to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity, and to allow them to join a growing movement to generate new ideas and seek better ways of doing things.
The NASE supports the Kauffman Foundation’s work with Global Entrepreneurship Week in encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation around the world. The NASE believes in the importance of educating and encouraging young people to pursue entrepreneurship.
Global Entrepreneurship Week was co-founded in 2008 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare, in the United States and Make Your Mark, a business-led government-backed campaign, in the United Kingdom.
In the United States, participants had the opportunity to compete in a clean technology challenge and an “Apprentice-style” innovation promotion tournament, and mentoring and networking events among many other state and local activities. More than 650 program partners hosted events in all 50 states, and more than 200 colleges and universities also held events celebrating entrepreneurship during the week.
About the NASE
The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) is the nation's leading resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses, bringing a broad range of benefits to help entrepreneurs succeed and to drive the continued growth of this vital segment of the American economy. The NASE is a 501(c) (6) nonprofit organization and provides big-business advantages to hundreds of thousands of micro-businesses across the United States. For more information, visit the association's Web site at www.NASE.org.
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Press Releases
- NASE Lauds Senate For Introducing Small Business Tax Extenders Act
The NASE’s recent call to Congress to heed the Self-Employed Agenda focusing on taxes was heard this week in the Senate. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) introduced the Small Business Tax Extenders Act of 2012, which would continue some popular tax breaks for the self-employed and micro-businesses (10 or fewer employees) for an additional two years.
- NASE Supports Bill To Cut Excessive Paperwork For Small Businesses
The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) announced its support today of a bill that would help decrease a potential paperwork nightmare for the self-employed and micro-businesses (10 or fewer employees).
- NASE, Obama Administration Celebrate One-Year Anniversary Of Startup America Initiative
“Tax incentives for startups and for businesses that have recently purchased new equipment are certainly a start, but we are concerned that so few of the policies suggested actually apply to the largest segment of small businesses – the self-employed and micro-businesses. That key demographic makes up more than 78% of the nation’s small business population,” commented NASE President Kristie L. Arslan.
- NASE To The White House And Congress: Don’t Forget The Self-Employed Agenda This Year
As the President prepares to deliver his annual State of the Union address and Members of Congress prepare their talking points in response, the 22 million Americans who are self-employed must not be forgotten in the back and forth over big policy changes.
- Small Businesses Support SBA Cabinet Level Status
As news reports circulate that President Obama will recommend the Small Business Administration (SBA) be elevated to Cabinet-level status, Kristie Arslan, President and CEO of the NASE, reacted by supporting the effort saying “it signals the importance of the small business community to our national economy.”
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