Celebrating Entrepreneurship, Invention, and Innovation by All Americans

A Once-in-A-Generation Opportunity to Affect Our National NarrativeAmerica’s 250th birthday is coming up in 2026. Now is the time to plan a major statement aboutAmerica’s purpose in the 21st century, an epochal celebration of the risk-takers, the doers, and themakers of things—the architects of prosperity past and those on whom future prosperity depends.

e National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovatione National Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will celebrate and supportentrepreneurship, invention, and innovation by all Americans.

rough convenings and educational programs, exhibits, and events, the Center will be home to astate-of-the-art space for discussions, decisions, and ideas regarding innovative solutions tonational and global challenges. It will be a 24/7 hive of activities celebrating past legacies,supporting present dynamism, and realizing future possibilities. e Center will be a dynamic force in the life of the city where important conversations arehappening and entrepreneurs are taking action to realize their dreams. ere will be a vibrantcross-fertilization of online engagement and in-person convenings at the Center. By acting as a hub for the development of 21st Century skills and the expansion of 21st Centuryopportunity, the Center will mobilize resources and capabilities toward the goal of ensuring that thenext century of entrepreneurial opportunity reaches every community . Nurturing connectionsamong local economic ecosystems in each of the 50 states that are hospitable to innovation andentrepreneurship can have profound consequences on the shape of our shared future.

e time has come to bring the celebration of entrepreneurship, invention, and innovation in theUnited States of America to our preeminent public space: the National Mall.

Leadership is Vitale National Center is founded to become a partnership involving entrepreneurs, corporations,foundations, government at different levels, and, above all, citizens across the country. It aims to beoperationally self-sustaining and a lasting resource for the nation and the world.

e newly launched campaign to bring the celebration of entrepreneurship, invention, and innovationback to the Mall will build a national movement and catalyze major gis, but it will not succeed withoutleadership. A tremendous opportunity exists for business, political, educational and communityleaders in every part of the United States to affect the country’s narrative by making a historicalcommitment to celebrating entrepreneurship, invention, and innovation on the National Mall.

| www.ncei.us | President, Philip Auerswald m: 202.378.6438 e: auerswald@ncei.us |

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