With the fact that 3% of these same businesses gross $1 million or more annually is not acceptable,

Media Contacts: Christina Friedkin Channing K. Barringer M Booth & Associates for OPEN from American Express Count-Me-In and OPEN from American Express 212-640-0512 212-481-7000 channing.k.barringer@aexp.comchristinaf@mbooth.com National 2006 Make Mine a $Million Business™ Program Awards Twenty Women Entrepreneurs at San Francisco Event Awardees to Receive Mentoring, Money, Marketing and Technology Assistance toward Building Million-Dollar Enterprises New York (June 6, 2006) – Twenty successful women entrepreneurs earned a vigorous boost for their businesses Friday after receiving Make Mine a $Million Business Awards in San Francisco. The awards – presented by Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence and OPEN from American SMExpress at the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Women's Business Conference – are part of the only national initiative dedicated to assisting the 97 percent of women entrepreneurs with businesses generating less than $1 million in annual revenues. The Make Mine a $Million Business program aims to foster a community of one million women-owned businesses at $1 million or more in annual revenue by 2010. The effort could help add up to * four million jobs and $700 billion to the US economy. Program awardees are eligible to receive a line of credit from OPEN from American Express and a business loan from Count Me In; a year of intensive business coaching and mentorship ...