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

Provides a wide range of free management counseling to existing and start-up small business in the county.

Seeks to revitalize the Elyria community including downtown and its neighborhoods, respecting the history of the city and improving the quality of life for residents.

Provides US postal service center.

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 free services to help start a small business or to make a small business more profitable including individual counseling, mentoring, workshops, and seminars. Services are provided by volunteers including retired and working business owners, executives and corporate leaders who share their wisdom and lessons learned in business.

Encourages, facilitates, and develops affordable housing for low and moderate income households while contributing to neighborhood revitalization development in Summit County by renting and selling homes.

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.

Offers a broad range of consulting services such as strategic planning, business management, marketing, and product development for small businesses in Medina, Portage, and Summit counties.

Operates a variety of community development programs and projects focused on creative placemaking, real estate development, financial education, youth and families, and neighborhood and community.

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.

Provides affordable homeownership opportunities for qualified low-income families in Montgomery County and Greene and Clark County. Partner families invest hundreds of hours of their own labor into building their own houses and the houses of others, and they also attend homeownership classes. Families pay a down payment and a monthly mortgage payment, taxes and insurance to Habitat. Direct services include personal contact from staff and volunteers, home visits, one-on-one mentors, educational classes, sweat equity management, and ongoing communication and nurturing to ensure families' success as a mortgage-paying homeowner and self-sufficient citizen of the community.

Provides a variety of activities to recruit and retain businesses in the area, including environmental assessment, acquisition, demolition, clean-up and soil remediation of vacant land in the area in order to stimulate new product and new economy initiatives (high tech centers, mixed use transit-oriented development, and urban residential projects.)

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.

Provides funding for research and treatment of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, and other variants of these disorders.

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.

Helps individuals, corporations, and small business development.

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 guidance to help develop the skills needed to live independently. Program teaches life skills, job readiness (how to make a resume, interviewing techniques), dealing with anger, and how to break the cycle of abusive relationships. Also offers counseling and information to this who want to start their own business. Offered in group and one-on-one settings.

Provides advocacy, talent and workforce programs, business networking opportunities and cost-saving benefits like health insurance, workers comp group rating and energy programs. Hosts the the Minority Business Assistance Center and Small Business Development Center which provide no-cost small business counseling for start-up and existing businesses.

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.

Provides assistance to individuals who are starting a small business or non-profit or wish to make a small business or non-profit more successful. Confidential services include individual counseling, mentoring, workshops, and seminars. Services are provided by volunteers, including retired and working business owners, executives and corporate leaders, who share their wisdom and lessons learned in 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.

To encourage redevelopment in specific areas within the City of Newark. Provides tax abatement for improvements and new construction for up to 15 years in certain areas. Call for locations of four (4) areas in which the program is available.