Columbus, OH, March, 2008 - The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education is pleased to announce the continued CELEBRATION with the 3rd Annual National Entrepreneurship Week, to be featured February 21 - 28, 2009, continuing the effort first encouraged by the U S House of Representatives in HR 699 of June 2006.

We thank all of the organizations across the US for their outstanding events in sponsoring the 1st and 2nd National Entrepreneurship Weeks. Thus we plan to continue and expand celebrations and recognitions of entrepreneurship in America on a regular basis.

We are very proud of our State Leadership Teams formed in 49 states to build collaboration in support of their entrepreneurial culture, and we hope to have all 50 states participate in February 2009.

To indicate your interest in being a National Entrepreneurship Week Leader, Local, State, and/or National, as we begin planning, please contact Cathy Ashmore at . This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Watch our website for exciting details as the 3rd Annual National Entrepreneurship Week CELEBRATION develops (www.nationaleweek.biz). 

According to Dr Cathy Ashmore, executive director, "The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education is challenging our 100+ member organizations and their extensive networks of entrepreneurship educators nationwide to join with entrepreneurs and economic developers to sponsor events at the local, state, and national levels during this special week. As an advocate for entrepreneurial education as a lifelong learning process we are reaching out to educational leadership nationwide to support entrepreneurship education programs and activities that prepare our youth and adults for careers in the 21st Century."

Entrepreneurship is a driving force of the U.S. economy. During the past 15 years, businesses less than five years old have accounted for about 70 percent of the net job creation in the United States. However, while America presently maintains the edge as an entrepreneurial society, there are clear signs of massive economic competition from abroad. More Americans in the future will need to be generating more ideas and better innovations if the United States is to stay ahead of the large populations of educated citizens in emerging and globally savvy economies.

For more information on events and activities across the country and information to engage young people on how to get involved in National Entrepreneurship Week 2009, please visit: www.nationalEweek.com.

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About the Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education

The Consortium is a national membership organization that provides leadership to educators nationwide in support of entrepreneurship education as a lifelong learning process. The Consortium was created at the Ohio State University in 1981 to focus on professional development for teachers involved in creating entrepreneurship education programs and activities in the schools, and is now serving educators nationwide as a non-profit 501 ( c) (3) corporation.