Handles all purchasing for the county. Registers and annually certifies all vendors for county projects. Assures that minority and women-owned businesses are included as participants in county projects.

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).

Provides a way for businesses to learn, support one another and find ways to work together. Provides opportunities for local business owners be more productive and collaborate with other businesses and organizations.

Provides loans of up to $20,000 to Lake County businesses. Assists with business startup and expansion, business plans, government contracts, international trade and referrals.

Afterhours care: Whole Person Healthcare never sleeps. Call to speak to a live nurse outside of normal office hours.

Provides funds to assist in research towards a cure for leukemia, and myeloma.

Trains and monitors legally blind managers of vending facilities owned by the State of Ohio.

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training, training supplies and books, financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed to work), occupational supplies, placement, small business development, and follow-up on the job. Also helps disabled students who are transitioning from school to work or college after high school. Some of the above services are provided by other agencies through a referral 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.

Chartered by the United States Congress with a mission to provide ongoing funds, stability and affordability to the United States housing and mortgage markets. Works to increase availability of funds so as to make home ownership and rental housing more available and affordable. Works with home loan banks, not with individual owners.

Provides low-interest business loan of up to $200,000 to existing businesses in the City of Barberton, New Franklin, or Norton which contribute to the overall economic growth of the community. Offered for a variety of purposes including: - Building Acquisition. - Building Construction and/or Expansion. - Equipment and Machinery. - Furniture and Fixtures. - Inventory. - Working Capital.

U.S. postal service center. Issues Passport applications and photos.

Conducts medical and health research at a number of campuses across the country and funds research at outside institutions. Also conducts clinical trials and distributes information about all government funded and private trials that are currently taking place in the United States.

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.

HUD approved housing counseling. Assist with identifying and resolving the barriers to home ownership in one-on-one counseling sessions. Housing counseling services address the following topics: Pre-purchase and Homebuyer Education and Non-Delinquency Post-Purchase Counseling.

Provides counseling for start-up or existing businesses in northwest Ohio

This is the agent for the City of Springfield's Revolving Loan Program and the Clark County Development Corporation's SBA 504 Loan Program. Loans under these programs, when combined with required private sector financing, can provide up to 90% financing for eligible small businesses.

Provides solutions to the most critical issues throughout Butler County by working to prioritize and maximize contributed dollars so as to make the strongest impact possible on areas of greatest need and for permanent improvement.

Provides services for clients to find gainful employment or training. Specific services include: counseling and planning, personal and work adjustment training, vocational training, training supplies and books, financial aid to attend post-secondary classes, artificial limbs, braces, eyeglasses, hearing aids, psychotherapy, physical therapy, wheelchairs (if needed to work), occupational supplies, placement, small business development, and follow-up on the job. Also helps disabled students who are transitioning from school to work or college after high school. Some of the above services are provided by other agencies through a referral process.

Offers a zoo set on 50 wooded acres. Visitors have an up close look at over 700 animals. Features include Pride of Africa, Legends of the Wild, Komodo Kingdom, Penguin Point, Grizzly Ridge, and the Lehner Family Zoo Gardens. A petting farm, train and carousel rides, gift shop, and cafe are available.

Contracts with local agencies to provide services to youth released from agency facilities but still in the agency system. Services sought may include (but are not limited to) group homes, mental health services, counseling (individual and group), substance abuse services, sex offender counseling, or other needed services.

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.

Offers various direct loans to small businesses. Loans can be used for working capital, staffing salaries, inventory, machinery, equipment, land and buildings.