Alabama Entrepreneurship Week

WHEREAS, Alabama’s entrepreneurs are an important source of economic innovation – enhancing productivity, improving efficiency and generating inventive methods for marketing new ideas; and

WHEREAS, more than 70 percent of Alabama’s young people envision themselves starting their own businesses in the future; and

WHEREAS, according to the Department of Labor, most of the new jobs created in the United States over the past decade have been the direct result of the efforts of our nation’s entrepreneurs; and

WHEREAS, Alabama’s entrepreneurs are dedicated individuals who work hard to improve their communities by creating professional business environments, which not only promote advances in technology, but also the sharing of new ideas; and

WHEREAS, entrepreneurial education is helping students to understand and appreciate the many benefits of business ownership; and

WHEREAS, the recent increase in the amount of students interested in becoming business owners makes it more important than ever to encourage students to seriously explore their entrepreneurial potential; and

WHEREAS, through a national initiative to observe Entrepreneurship Week, organizations such as the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and hundreds of other organizations nationwide are partnering to promote the many laudable contributions of America’s entrepreneurs; and

WHEREAS, the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association, Alabama Concrete Industries Association, Alabama Farmers Federation, Alabama Funeral Directors Association, Alabama Independent Auto Dealers Association, Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives, Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants, Alabama State Nurses Association, Alabama Travel Council, Alabama’s NFIB Chapter, Automotive Aftermarket Association Southeast, Home Builders Association of Alabama, Petroleum & Convenience Marketers of Alabama, School Superintendents of Alabama and many other state organizations are also providing students with real opportunities to fulfill their entrepreneurial goals through annual scholarship programs:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama, do hereby proclaim February 20 through 24, 2012 as

Alabama Entrepreneurship Week

in the state of Alabama.

Given Under My Hand and the Great Seal of the Office of the Governor at the State Capitol in the City of Montgomery on the 10th day of February 2012.

      

Governor Robert Bentley