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 certification and development assistance to minority businesses in Ohio.

Did you know that the overall health of an organization directly impacts employee wellbeing A well-functioning workplace helps employees thrive, resulting in high retention, morale, engagement and productivity. Through our Occumetrics process, we help businesses and organizations of all sizes assess their overall health through the lens of employee wellbeing and recommend improvements in identified areas of concern.

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.

Partners with retail, industrial and agricultural businesses to offer members services such as: educational programming, legislative updates, newsletters, networking opportunities, business to business referrals, community-wide promotions, group healthcare coverage at reduced rates, a worker's compensation pool, and cooperative purchasing for various products and services. Answers general questions about the Middlefield area for businesses and individuals considering moving there.

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.

Chamber of Commerce for Darke County. Services offered to members include business development, legislative updates, problem solving, marketing, networking opportunities, group purchase of services for small businesses (such as health insurance and workers’ compensation premium reduction), and business-to-business referrals.

Provides the opportunity to meet with professionals in the business world to map out a plan for success with individual business development.

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

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 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 economic development programs and future workforce development programs.

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.

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.

Offers a range of consulting services in areas such as: - Customized Board Training: Customized board training presentations to address the particular and timely concerns and issues facing a nonprofit. Specific topics include the role and responsibilities of serving on a board, best practices in nonprofit governance, leadership succession planning and the roles of advisory boards. - Board Consulting: Conducts board consultations for board and staff leaders of nonprofit organizations. The board assessment process engages the full board in a discussion around the best practices in governance. BVU then prepares recommendations and facilitates a process with the board to strengthen its own performance. - Leadership Succession Consulting: Provides leadership succession and transition planning consulting for nonprofit staff and boards, including the development of emergency succession plans, long range staff succession plans and board succession plans. - Operational Consulting: Engagement of volunteer consultants, financial management, technology, marketing, legal and human resources.

Offering a 15-week accelerator course that helps both existing and aspiring non-tech entrepreneurs learn the nuances of business ownership and build a comprehensive business canvas; the goal being to launch businesses that create jobs and circulate dollars locally.

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 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).

The Economic Development Division businesses and consultants to communities, workforce, and incentives. Visit https://www.co.miami.oh.us/140/Economic-Development.

Assists with housing and employment discrimination; provides referrals for job and student education grants; employment outreach; shelter for the homeless; and other short-term programs.

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

Provides business retention and marketing activities to maintain stable climate for small businesses in the area. Provides training and business technical assistance as participants in the Neighborhood Main Street Initiative.

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

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.

Raises awareness of economic issues and initiates a process to address problems and opportunities impacting Lake County business conditions. Microloan Fund provides small loans for small businesses without conventional financing.