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  • America’s Small Business Development Center
    The Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) represents America’s Small Business Development Center Network — the most comprehensive small business assistance network in the United States and its territories. The mission of the network is to help new entrepreneurs realize their dream of business ownership, and to assist existing businesses to remain competitive in the complex marketplace of an ever-changing global economy. In short, your success is our business. Hosted by leading universities, colleges, and state economic development agencies, and funded in part through a partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, approximately 1,000 service centers are available to provide no-cost consulting and low-cost training. To find a Small Business Development Center near you, search by your zip code or your state in the light blue box on the right side of the page.
  • The Center for Economic Development: Manufacturing Brief
    Trends in manufacturing industries in Northeast Ohio. This brief aims to provide a quick, current and informative report on trends in employment, wages, and output for major manufacturing industries. NEO is defined as a 16-county area that includes 4 metropolitan areas - Akron, Canton, Cleveland, and Youngstown - and 5 rural counties (Ashland, Ashtabula, Columbiana, Richland, and Wayne).
  • Crain’s Cleveland Business
    Presents breaking business news five days a week and contains all news articles from each week’s print issue.
  • Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness: Cluster Mapping Project
    The Cluster Mapping Project uses detailed county level data and statistical techniques to profile regional economies and their performance over time, with a special focus on clusters. Clusters are geographically concentrated groups of interconnected companies, universities, and related institutions that arise out of linkages or externalities across industries. Regions and clusters are analyzed at various geographic levels including states, economic areas, and metropolitan areas.
  • Mahoning Valley Economic Development Corporation
    A partnership of public and private interests focused on the revitalization and diversification of the Mahoning Valley in Northeastern Ohio. MVEDC, working with commercial lenders and government agencies, provides a wide array of financing loan programs, as well as services and resources designed to encourage location, retention and expansion of businesses.
  • MahoningValley.Info
    This community-driven site is offered to provide information about Youngstown, Ohio and the surrounding areas called the Mahoning Valley.
  • Northeast Ohio Employment and Wage Trends: Economic Brief
    Provides a broad overview of employment and wage trends for Northeast Ohio (NEO). Its objective is to provide a quick, current, and informative report on the region’s jobs and wages. NEO is defined a a 14-county area composed of 4 metro areas - Cleveland, Akron, Canton, and Youngstown - and 3 non-metropolitan counties (Ashtabula, Columbiana, and Wayne).
  • Northeast Ohio Trade & Economic Consortium (NEOTEC)
    The NEOTEC is a ten-county economic development partnership. Member counties include Ashtabula, Columbiana, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Richland, Stark, Summit, Trumbull and Wayne. Major cities within NEOTEC member counties and Northeast Ohio include Akron, Canton, Cleveland, East Liverpool, Kent, Mansfield, Medina, Warren, Wooster and Youngstown. Their mission is to promote domestic trade, international trade and global competitiveness of the region and its businesses.
  • Ohio Business Connection
    The Ohio Business Connection (OBC) is dedicated to helping your small businesses grow. Through partnerships with the Small Business Development Centers of Ohio (SBDC), Ohio Department of Development, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and other economic development organizations, they administer several of Ohio’s specialized small business services.
  • Ohio Department of Development
    The Ohio Department of Development works to attract, create, grow, and retain businesses through competitive incentives and meaningful, targeted investments. Working with partners across business, government, educational, and non-profit sectors, we are changing the trajectory of Ohio’s economy by purposefully redesigning the business climate, increasing the global competitiveness of Ohio’s businesses, and fostering prosperity for all Ohioans
  • The One-Stop of Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana Counties
    The mission of the One Stop System is “to offer coordinated workforce development and direct customer service to employers and job seekers - at one accessible location - to promote ongoing regional economic development through effective partnerships.”
  • Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) of Ohio
    Within the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Division, the Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) are considered the gateway for small business owners and entrepreneurs to access support services. The mission is to accelerate Ohio’s economy by helping people start, sustain and grow their businesses. The SBDCs are staffed with highly trained business advisors who offer FREE counseling to help with your specific business needs.  The 36 centers across Ohio are in your local communities to guide you to the right resources and services to help your business grow and succeed.  The SBDC business advisors are the experts to assist pre-venture, start-up and existing businesses.
  • U.S. Small Business Administration
    The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. Small business is critical to the economic recovery and strength, to building America’s future, and to helping the United States compete in today’s global marketplace. Although SBA has grown and evolved in the years since it was established in 1953, the bottom line mission remains the same. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and Guam.
  • Youngstown 2010
    Youngstown 2010 began as a process to engage and educate the community about the importance of planning and the planning process, as well as create a vision and plan to help revitalize Youngstown well into the future. The City of Youngstown and Youngstown State University coordinated this planning process with help from nearly 200 volunteers, neighborhood organizations and businesses.
  • Youngstown Area Development Corporation: Minority Contractors Business Assistance Program
    A private, not-for profit community development organization whose goals are to improve the economic and social life of minority persons in the Youngstown area and in the process improve the quality of life for all the residents of Youngstown. YADC’s founders had been engaged in business, professional, civil rights and labor activities for many years.
  • Youngstown Business Incubator
    YBI is a non-profit corporation, funded in part by the Ohio Department of Development. Its primary mission is to accelerate the startup and growth rates of scalable technology-based businesses in the greater Mahoning Valley. Although YBI will work with firms possessing a broad range of proprietary technologies, its current focus is on developing B2B software application companies.
  • Youngstown Central Area Community Improvement Incorporation
    MISSION: To revitalize the Central Business District through the zealous pursuit and promotion of the downtown development activities. PURPOSE: To promote jobs and activity in Downtown Youngstown… through the encouragement and support of commercial, retail, and residential activities; through the creation of an Arts & Entertainment District; through the creation and promotion of a safe and clean downtown environment; through the development of promotional and public relations.
  • Youngstown Office of Economic Development
    YOED offers a variety of programs and services tailored to support business development at every level. Services include business retention and relocation programs as well as business finance programs.
  • Youngstown SCORE
    The Youngstown, Ohio Chapter of SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” is part of a national nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of the nation’s small business. Youngstown SCORE provides free and confidential business counseling tailored to meet the needs of small business and personal objectives. It also offers workshops, for a modest fee, for both start-up entrepreneurs and in-business small business owners.
  • Youngstown State University: Public Service Institute
    The Public Service Institute at Youngstown State University was created by the YSU Board of Trustees in 1985 to coordinate, promote and stimulate public service programs and activities offered by the University to the community. The University’s investment in the Institute, in staff, resources and facilities, has yielded a range of services that otherwise would be unavailable in this area. At present, the Institute consists of two Centers: The Center for Human Services Development and the Center for Urban and Regional Studies. The Institute works with community organizations, as well as with University departments, to facilitate the extension of University resources into the community where they might be needed.
  • Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber
    The Youngstown/Warren, Ohio Regional Chamber is a private, not-for-profit business membership association. It is an action organization designed to meet business and community needs. Whether it’s through business development and networking opportunities, access to up-to-date economic and market data, or free advertising opportunities, member companies capitalize on contacts and resources provided by the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber.

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