Provides custom-designed kits, including tax forms and all necessary license and permit applications, for applicant's specific business situation, including information needed to start a business in Ohio. Supplies forms only - questions about the forms should be directed to the agencies that will receive and process them.

Provides incentives to reduce taxes for firms and business to locate in Wood County to strengthen the county's economy.

Purchases mortgage loans and mortgage-related securities for investments in an effort to stabilize the home buying market in the United States. Goal is to keep the housing market stable for those in the process of buying a home. Can provide informatoin on whether or not the agency owns individual home loan.

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

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

Provides services for low income housing rehabilitation and litter control (recycling center). Also provides revolving small business loans. Also may repair and replace septic systems for income eligible families in certain areas of the county.

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.

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.

Provides developers, business owners, residents, and others with activities to encourage investment, preservation and infill development of commercial districts and residential neighborhoods. Works to access loans and grants to fund projects.

Provides start-up and operating assistance to business owners located in or wanting to locate in the service area. Services include marketing of retail space, promoting local events and business features, merchant peer groups, business improvement practice guidance, and referrals to other development support 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.

Provides a wide variety of services that support the attraction, expansion and retention of local businesses, assure their competitiveness and help them remain as assets to the local economy.

Provides assistance to existing and prospective small business owners. Some of the services are as follows: free counseling, advice and information on starting a business, assistance to businesses owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, advice to women business owners, counsel to veterans, and assists businesses by providing financial assistance through loan programs through local banks.

Provides opportunity for residents to participate in planning and implementing strategies for neighborhood revitalization. Services include: participation in Cleveland Housing Network programs, for sale rehabilitated homes, and assistance in organizing neighborhood groups.

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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 outreach, information, and resources to manufacturing-related companies to address the challenges and problems that arise in the course of business operations. Serves as an advocate for business, helps to link workforce and business issues and resources, a liaison between the city and manufacturing, and a partner with public and private entities.

Provides a variety of personal enrichment classes and recreational activities. Classes and activities offered may include, but are not limited to, computer training, financial management, gardening, starting a small business, arts and crafts, cooking, foreign language, and music instruction.

Allocates funds to non-profit agencies providing mental health and/or substance abuse treatment within Geauga County. Funding applies to specific program or service areas; decisions are made through analysis of community needs and service gaps.

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).

Administers various community and economic development programs funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Ohio Department of Development. Processes Design Review and Planning Commission applications.

Assists small business through financing expansion, building or site location assistance or referrals, leasing/sale of available vacant BCDC sites, and referrals to other business development incentive programs.

Through a robust public policy program and the management of transformational economic development-focused initiatives, the Regional Chamber is working to create a landscape that is favorable for our continued, future and sustained economic growth. For more information, visitregionalchamber.com.