Entrepreneurship Action Day Will Highlight Policy Impact

On June 3, CPA will coordinate Entrepreneurship Action Day: It’s Our Business, encompassing media events in state capitals and cities across the U.S. to promote the impact of women business owners on our economy.

Women-owned businesses are the fastest growing enterprises in every state, employing one in four U.S. workers and generating $2.3 trillion in sales.

But a gap remains between women’s economic power and their unrealized potential. While women own 36 percent of all businesses, a lack of resources and opportunies results in lower revenues for their businesses.

State policies must close this gap by insuring that these businesses have the resources needed to reach their potential.

CPA’s state policy checklist, to be released on June 3, highlights strategies for financing business start-up and growth, training and education that help women entrepreneurs gain the skills to start and grow their businesses, access to market opportunities, procurement and building women’s economic leadership.

Momentum around the events has been growing as June 3 approaches. Connecticut’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women held Connecticut Women’s Entrepreneurs Day on April 26. Governor John Rowland signed a proclamation supporting women’s entrepreneurship and day-long Commission-organized events highlighted Connecticut’s women entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurship is one of four issue areas identified by women leaders across the country and is one of the four pillars of CPA’s report, America’s Economic Agenda: Women’s Voices for Solutions.

For more on how you can join Entrepreneurship Action Day, contact Ericka Hines at [email protected].

Entrepreneurship Action Day Leadership Committee
• An Income of Her Own
• Association for Enterprise Opportunity
• BellSouth Corporation
• Business Women’s Network
• Fannie Mae Corporation
• National Association for Women Business Owners
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• National Foundation for Women Business Owners
• National Women’s Business Council
• SBA Office of Advocacy
• Women Incorporated
• Women’s Business Enterprise National Council