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Provide peer socialization and activities to adults. Yoga, physical exercises, recreational activities, games, etc. STNA on staff provides blood pressure checks as needed. Breakfast and lunch provided. Bus passes available for those who need them. A smoke free and drug free environment.

Provides several types of guaranteed small business loans. Loans can be used for the cost of start up, expansion, equipment purchases, permanent working capital, and inventory or business-occupied real estate purchases.

Offers a free 10-week training program for individuals interested in starting and operating a small business. Training includes assistance with developing a business plan and information about budgeting, finance, marketing strategies, and legal issues.

Offers information and assistance to individuals interested in starting or who own a small business. Assistance includes access to capital, entrepreneurial development, government contracting and advocacy for small businesses.

Provides information and guidance to the formerly incarcerated on starting their own business.

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.

Promotes commercial development in downtown by providing a variety of services to businesses currently located downtown and assistance withdowntown relocation for businesses not currently located downtown. Offers information on city and county economic development programs, as well as assistance with predevelopment studies for business relocating to downtown.

Offers low cost or free trainings to grassroot organizations, small nonprofits and community residents to improve existing skills, build or improve organizational capabilities and create new ways in developing stronger and safer neighborhoods. Training topics include: grant writing, organizational development, financial stability, technology building and safe homes and neighborhoods.

Provides economic development programs and future workforce development programs.

Provides low-cost loans to homeowners for energy efficiency improvements, small businesses for job creation/retention or operation, and family farms for operating expenses. Interest rates on loans will be discounted from 1-3%. Loan amounts vary based on type of loan.

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 loans (below market rate interest) to purchase, rehabilitate, or construct commercial properties. Provides equipment and working capital loans for industrial and commercial development projects. Assists in the assembly of land parcels for industrial and commercial development (city of Dayton only).

Offers a variety of educational and supportive services for start-up and existing businesses, including business, computer, and social media classes, workshops, and seminars, financial literacy classes, and one-on-one coaching.

Provides an atmosphere and forum in which entrepreneurs can test out ideas in front of a group of professionals representing an array of industries. Help refine the entrepreneur's idea and shape the business model in a way that saves the entrepreneur time and money in a trial and error learning process.

Provides transitioning active duty service members training in how to start and grow a business. Offers a 2 day Introduction to Entrepreneurship workshop taught at a local military instillation which will provide an education on business fundamentals and an analysis on the feasibility and sustainability of the service member's business concept. Also offers an 8 week Foundations of Entrepreneurship course taught online via the University of Syracuse in which the service member will learn the fundamentals of developing a business plan.

In coordination with other county subdivisions, fosters an environment within Columbiana County which is conducive to economic development and helps implement and administer programs which enhance business or property activity in the county.

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 referrals to local human service organizations, distributes information for newcomers, publishes a bi-monthly newsletter.

Provides professional career development services both in person and virtually.

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.

Offers information, business planning assistance, and business counseling for those who own or want to start a small business. Provides assistance in obtaining loans but does not provide direct loans. Does not provide grants to start or expand a business. Offers specialized programs for international trade, minority enterprise development, women and veteran business owners, federal government procurement, and disaster assistance. Can refer to area Small Business Development Centers with whom they are partnered.

Works to provide retail, office and residential opportunities in the historic Warehouse District. Supports merchants and links business with funding opportunities. Facilitates commercial redevelopment of individual and mixed-use projects.

Helps accelerate emerging businesses by providing an array of services. Assist with commercialization process, counseling on marketing strategies, identify funding resources, facilitate networking opportunities, provide access to physical infrastructure, and seek out collaborative opportunities.