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Provides local opportunity for residents to participate in planning and implementing strategies for neighborhood revitalization.

Provides information and guidance to the formerly incarcerated on starting their own business.

Provide the Urbana Zoning and compliance department ensures land use conforms to local regulations, town zoning regulations are beneficial, development and redevelopment of community. Also offers nuisance and code enforcement.

Promotes and serves as an advocacy to business and industry by lobbying and supporting organizations at the local, state, and regional levels.

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 help for those starting or wanting advice on the development of their small business. Program has two tracks: one provides a comprehensive series of classes that explores and educates participants on all aspects of starting their own business. The second track provides direct help in evaluating and expanding businesses already in existence.

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).

Chamber of Commerce for the Chagrin Valley area. 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, freight delivery discounts, workers’ compensation premium reduction, etc.), and business to business referrals.

Offers opportunities for community engagement as well as business development, legislative updates, problem solving, marketing, networking opportunities, and tourist information for the Parkman Township area. Sponsors various community events.

HSC provides or facilitates capacity-building and other professional service supports to health and human service nonprofit organizations.

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

Provides technical assistance, peer-learning, and resources to local programs that support small businesses to preserve our vibrant neighborhoods. Services are offered by affiliate non-profit organization Apex Fund for Economic Opportunities.

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.

Association of business people who have organized to promote the welfare of their community (city, county, town, township or other locale), especially its commercial interests.

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 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 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.

Recruits new manufacturing and commercial businesses and encourages business retention. Generally, does not work with retail business development. Also works jointly with area schools and local manufacturers to address and encourage future workforce and introduce local job opportunities.

Works to revitalize the community through initiatives designed to eliminate slums and blight, prevent deterioration of existing structures, restore and preserve properties of historical or architectural interest, create jobs, recruit and support small businesses, engage in long-term community planning, and meet other local development needs.

Provides economic development opportunities and advocacy to businesses. Supports collaborative efforts to boost the economic vitality of the region. Initiatives include both typical chamber of commerce activities, such as membership and advocacy, and programs that focus on equity and inclusion, real estate and development, technology, talent, and COSE, the organization's small business division.

Provides preservation, business development programming, special projects, and social events focused on the downtown area.

Provides US postal service center.

Encourages new businesses to form in, or relocate to, Allen County, and provides support for those already located in the county. Services offered to members include networking opportunities, promotion, and various discounts on business services. Also encourages volunteerism and sponsors community events.

Provides assistance with various development incentives and business assistance programs which may include workforce grants, business financing, and training.

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