Our Sponsors

The Consortium would like to thank those that helped us make the Standards and supporting materials possible.

The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education is indebted to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (www.kauffman.org) for sponsoring the development of the National Content Standards for Entrepreneurship Education, which support the Lifelong Learning Model.

To our researcher, Jim Gleason of Mark-Ed (www.mark-ed.org), we thank you for the professional methods you used to interview the entrepreneur focus groups and capture their ideas about what entrepreneurs do, and what they need to know to do it. We appreciate especially the diligence of Mark-Ed's Beth Osteen who conducted an extensive review of the literature about entrepreneurship education and helped form the statements that became the Standards and Performance Indicators.

Mathew Georghiou and the team at MediaSpark Inc (www.mediaspark.com | www.goventure.net) has provided vision and style to production of the Standards Toolkit, the promotional brochure, and the PowerPoint presentation, all of which are available to everyone on the Consortium website. The field of entrepreneurship education is indebted to him, as well as to the Consortium Executive Committee and staff who served as the coordinating committee for the entire project. And we would like to thank all of the educators at all levels of education that gave thoughtful input and important ideas to the development of the final National Content Standards for Entrepreneurship Education.

Finally, educators now have specific definitions for the curriculum that is such an important part of the process for developing the entrepreneurial spirit at all levels of education. We now have the educational framework needed to support the experiences that motivate future entrepreneurs to "become."