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Purchases and renovates multi-unit apartment buildings in the area.

Processes and delivers mail, provides shipping, and sells postal products such as postage and packaging materials. Many locations are application sites for Passports.

Provides a program designed to facilitate small business growth, job creation, and access to capital. SBDC's provide confidential one-to-one business advising at no cost, management training, and educational programs. It is the only statewide system that works with entrepreneurs in all industries, at all stages of business growth. The Ohio SBDC Certified Business Advisors utilize a business coaching process to assess the business situation and work with entrepreneurs to think through problems, identify the need, find options, and pinpoint solutions. The District 6 SBDC can provide assistance with items such as: access to capital, business plan development, guidance on government regulations, buying/selling business, feasibility analysis, financial analysis, growth strategies, human resources, management, marketing, research, and strategic planning, just to name a few.

Provides local mechanism for residents to participate in planning and implementing strategies for neighborhood revitalization. Services include: commercial development, and neighborhood organizing around safety issues. Participates in city of Cleveland paint refund program, storefront renovation program, lease/purchase program. Collaborates with other organizations to provide small business lending and individual savings accounts programs.

Provides 16-week (self-paced) employment training program for persons who are blind or severely visually impaired. Program involves management training, food service safety, sanitation, merchandising, customer service, business math, accounting, restaurant law, taxation and vending machine maintenance/repair, as well as on-site work experience. Service includes exam and licensure. Locations are awarded according to agency selection process.

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Promotes historic preservation and economic development, resulting in a cultural downtown district that attracts and retains businesses and entrepreneurs, making downtown a desirable destination.

Provides training to learn new job skills and to increase current job skill levels in a wide variety of professional employment areas. Provides background for testing for certification and professional licensure as well as continuing education credits where appropriate. Service is also available to employers wishing to increase skills of their employees as a whole. Areas covered include: bank teller training, truck driver training, training and education for those in the construction trades, small business development, customer service, careers working with aging individuals, health care careers (State Tested Nursing Assistant-STNA- training), Spanish for health care professionals, social work certification, human resources, meeting/event planning, food service/hospitality, classes to prepare for standardized tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and other college entrance exams, police/fire/emergency training, and computer classes (including certification in advanced information technology).

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

A team effort by City departments, neighborhood groups and citizens, businesses and other partners to make neighborhoods safer and cleaner. The Pride Center serves as the direct communications link between the city and your community. The Pride Center is a one-stop-shop for city services and offers various programs for the health, safety and social welfare for families living in the area.

Provides information about fodining, lodging, recreation, attractions, events, the arts and retail shops in Allen County. also promotes the Allen County area to meeting planners, tour operators, motorcoach companies, group event planners, leisure and buisness travelers, and buisnesses.

Community partnership committed to increasing economic opportunity in Crawford County by encouraging entrepreneurship, recruiting new businesses, and helping existing businesses grow and expand.

Administers over 40 charitable funds, awarding approximately 150 grants a year to 501(c)3 local nonprofit organizations.

Provides neighborhood promotion, building assessment, and other activities that aim to develop and revitalize the commercial areas of the service area. Provides technical assistance for small business development, marketing, and other activities that build local commercial areas.

Provides local mechanism for residents to participate in planning and implementing strategies for neighborhood revitalization. Services include: small business support and recruitment, community organizing assistance around safety issues for block clubs, purchase and renovation of commercial and residential properties, and participation in City of Cleveland programs (Paint Refund program, Storefront Renovation program, home repair program; Cleveland Housing Network lease-purchase program for home buyers, technical assistance from the Cleveland Restoration Society. Purchases, renovates and owns buildings with section 8 rental units.

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

US Post Office for Ontario.

Provides tax-free savings investment accounts for persons with disabilities. Balances and distributions do not affect needs-based financial aid such as Medicaid or SSI. Earnings on savings are tax-deferred and tax-free when used to pay for qualified expenses such as basic living expenses, housing, transportation, education, assistive technology, employment training, personal support services, legal fees, health and wellness, and financial management services. Account funds do not count as assets for purposes of determining eligibility for means-tested federal benefits programs. For example, if a client has $5,000 in their STABLE Account, that $5,000 does not count as an asset when determining eligibility for SSI or Medicaid. SSI benefits may be affected if account balance exceeds $100,000.

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, mobility training, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training (including small business development), training supplies and books, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, student financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed for work) occupational supplies, placement, and follow-up on the job. Clients accepted in the program develop a plan for employment with a staff counselor that they meet with periodically during a specified time for follow-up. Services are time-limited. Services include transitional assistance from school to work or college for students who are graduating from high school.

Offers a civic organization for community members to join. Currently Rotary International Foundation is completing a two-decade project to eradicate Polio worldwide.

US Post Office for Shelby.

Provides assistance with obtaining a home that has been rehabilitated in the service area as well as assisting homeowners needing to get help with improving and maintaining their property.

Facilitates and promotes business success and growth in the Belpre area and Mid-Ohio Valley. Provides networking opportunities, education, start-up support and business retention and expansion facilitation, plus community service.

Acquire vacant and abandoned tax delinquent property, and market that property to individuals, developers and non-profit agencies for development.

US Post Office for Lucas.