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.

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 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 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 local mechanism for residents to participate in planning and implementing strategies for neighborhood revitalization. Services include: assistance with maintenance of home exteriors, employment assistance, home repair rebate program, income tax information, neighborhood dispute mediation, and participation in the city's paint refund program, other home maintenance and renovation programs.

Provide children with a free age appropriate book mailed directly to their home until they turn five years old.

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.

Provides tourism marketing and development strategies for Akron and Summit County.

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.

US Post Office branch in Mansfield.

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 local mechanism for residents to participate in planning and implementing strategies for neighborhood revitalization. Services include: a yearly community garden, block-club organizing, participation in the city of Cleveland's storefront facade and paint refund programs, participation in new home construction, home acquisition, rehabilitation, and sales, commercial district improvement, and home rehabilitation/repair loans.

Assists with starting a business and accessing capital. Offers the following services: * Accounting assistance * Business management counseling * Help with certifications * Contract procurement * Estimating/bidding assistance * Identifying local resources * Loan assistance * Marketing plan development * Referrals to financial assistance programs * Program provided through partnership with Akron Minority Business Assistance Center (MBAC) hosted by the Akron Urban League (AUL) to bring business counseling services to Richland County.

Works to revitalize and support Wellington businesses. Provides events for community building.

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 low interest loans and fixed financing for business loans for persons interested in starting a new business, expanding their current business, or those in need of renovation.

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 a program designed to facilitate small business growth, job creation, and access to capital. SBDC's provide confidential one-to-one business advising at no cost, management training, and educational programs. It is the only statewide system that works with entrepreneurs in all industries, at all stages of business growth. The Ohio SBDC Certified Business Advisors utilize a business coaching process to assess the business situation and work with entrepreneurs to think through problems, identify the need, find options, and pinpoint solutions. The District 6 SBDC can provide assistance with items such as: access to capital, business plan development, guidance on government regulations, buying/selling business, feasibility analysis, financial analysis, growth strategies, human resources, management, marketing, research, and strategic planning, just to name a few.

Provides interest free loans up to $10,000 for people who meet the agency's eligibility requirements. Funds are available for small business, tuition, medical expenses, home improvements (including improvements that increase accessibility in a home), high-interest (predatory) debt on funds borrowed from other sources, and a variety of other needs. May include multiple debts into one loan request as long as amount requested does not exceed $10,000. Checks are written to the organization that is owed, not to the individual.

Works with community partners to create affordable housing, improve economy, create place-making initiatives, and rebuild community through relationships in an effort to revitalize neighborhoods of Akron with a focus on Middlebury.

Provides local mechanism for residents to participate in planning and implementing strategies for neighborhood revitalization. Services include: commercial development, and neighborhood organizing around safety issues. Participates in city of Cleveland paint refund program, storefront renovation program, lease/purchase program. Collaborates with other organizations to provide small business lending and individual savings accounts programs.

Provides training on various topics and programs are available and can be customized for schools, colleges/universities, faith-based organizations, healthcare systems, employers, legal systems, service providers and other audiences.

Offering various seminars for small businesses, including: - Business Basics, Part 1. - Business Basics, Part 2. - How to Write a Business Plan.