"The National Association for the Self-Employed is the nation's leading resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses, bringing a broad range of benefits to help entrepeneurs succeed and to drive the continual growth of this vital segment of the American economy. The NASE was founded in 1981 to provide day-to-day support, benefits and consolidated buying power that traditionally had been available only to large corporations. Today, the NASE represents hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and micro-businesses, and is the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan association of its kind in the United States."