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Provides several types of guaranteed small business loans. Loans can be used for the cost of start up, expansion, equipment purchases, permanent working capital, and inventory or business-occupied real estate purchases.

211 Cleveland

The Economic Development Division assists businesses to expand and grow in the community.

HelpLine211 Delaware OH

This young professionals group are for ages 21-45 who work in Knox County, Ohio. They meet when scheduled for networking and discussions.

211 Pathways

Promotes the welfare of the community, especially its commercial interests. Encourages the growth of new businesses, provides assistance to new firms seeking to locate in the community, advocates for actions that promote tourism and benefit the regional economy and serves as a voice for the business community at local and state levels.

211 Pathways

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.

211 Cleveland

Local associations of business people, either operating their own companies or employed in organizations, who have organized to promote the welfare of their community (city, county, town, township or other locale), especially its commercial interests. Chambers of commerce direct their efforts to promoting the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises within a locality rather than focusing on a particular industry, usually have an elected board of directors, and do their work through committees. They encourage the growth of new businesses, provide assistance to new firms seeking to locate in the community, advocate for actions that promote tourism and benefit the regional economy and serve as a voice for the business community at local and state levels. Member benefits may include publicity and advertising opportunities in vehicles such as member directories, visitor's guides and a community calendar; ribbon cutting ceremonies and grand openings for new establishments; business expos; job fairs; small business counseling; business seminars; member referrals; member-to-member discounts; health and other insurance; and a variety of social activities.

211 Fairfield

Offers consultation for new businesses.

211 Summit

Teaches nonprofit organizations how to begin summer lunch programs and 3-Generation Family ESL programs. Educates the community about poverty in the suburbs via speeches, poverty simulations, newspaper articles and television news stories.

LSS 211 Central Ohio

Provides a guide for starting a small buisness in Ohio.

211 UWGC

211 UWGC

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.

211 Summit

Provides international entrepreneurs with opportunities to launch their business in Northeast Ohio.

211 Cleveland

Advocates for child and family issues throughout the state. Offers a newsletter that addresses various family and children's issues. Provides trainings throughout the year for administrators, professional staff, child case workers and foster parents.

LSS 211 Central Ohio

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.

211 Cleveland

Assists "high-tech" entrepreneurs in transforming ideas into new technological commercial ventures. Provides support services through business incubation, business assistance and counseling, networking opportunities,flexible space, high-speed internet access.

211 Mansfield OH

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.

211 Cleveland

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.

211 Cleveland

Business networking group for the greater Mohican area.

211 Mansfield OH

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.

211 Cleveland

Provides referrals to local human service organizations, distributes information for newcomers, publishes a bi-monthly newsletter.

UW 211 Greater Toledo

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).

211 Cleveland

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.

211 Cleveland

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

211 Cleveland

Supports economic interests of Huron County through business development resources, membership directory, events, financial benefits, advertising, networking, and seminars.

211 Mansfield OH

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

211 Cleveland