The Allegheny Conference on Community Development is a private, non-profit leadership organization dedicated to improving the economy and quality of life of the Pittsburgh region. The organization is composed of the chief executive officers of the region's most significant employers and universities that generate more than $156 billion in annual revenue, provide over 221,000 jobs and serve over 111,000 students in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern PA provides early stage funding and business support services to emerging technology-based companies, as well as small, existing manufacturing businesses in their 32-county footprint.
BioEnterprise is a business formation, recruitment, and acceleration initiative designed to grow health care companies and commercialize bioscience technologies. Based in Cleveland, BioEnterprise’s founders and partners are Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Summa Health System and BioInnovation Institute in Akron.
Carnegie Mellon University is a global research university of more than 10,000 students, 70,000 alumni, and 4,000 faculty and staff. Recognized for its world-class arts and technology programs, collaboration across disciplines and innovative leadership in education, Carnegie Mellon is consistently a top-ranked university.
Case Western Reserve University is continually ranked among the country's top research universities, but its success is not bound by the numbers. The university's unique history supports an experence-based approach to education and inquiry that combines arts and humanities with science and technology.
Catalyst Connection is an economic development organization whose mission is to advance the performance of manufacturing companies in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation is an independent foundation established in 1944 by Michael and Sarah Benedum, natives respectively of Bridgeport and Blacksville, West Virginia. They named the Foundation in memory of their only child, Claude Worthington Benedum, who died in 1918 at age 20. The Benedums expressed the wish that grantmaking be focused in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania, their native and adopted homes.
Cleveland Clinic, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a nonprofit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education.
Established in 1914, the Cleveland Foundation is the world's first community foundation and the nation’s third-largest today, with assets of $1.6 billion and annual grants of $84 million. The foundation improves the lives of Greater Clevelanders now and for generations to come by building community endowment, addressing needs through grantmaking, and providing leadership on vital issues.
Cleveland State is a metropolitan university that provides a rich environment for engaged learning in an exciting and dynamic location. Our students are fond of claiming that the entire city is their campus for study, practical experience, and recreation. And our pledge to each student is an engaged learning experience in the real world, for the real world, among a diverse student body.
Dollar Bank is a large, full service, regional bank serving both individuals and business customers. Today, Dollar Bank operates more than 50 branch offices and loan centers throughout the Pittsburgh and Cleveland metropolitan areas.
DSN Innovations is a non-profit organization focused on bolstering U.S. manufacturing. It conducts research and develops innovations that help improve manufacturing supplier network coordination, agility and efficiency.
The Fund for Our Economic Future is a collaboration of philanthropic organizations and individuals that have united to strengthen the economic competitiveness of Northeast Ohio through grantmaking, research and civic engagement. The Fund works with partners in Advance Northeast Ohio, the region's economic action plan, to develop and implement regional strategies that address four key priority areas of Business Growth & Attraction; Talent Development; Growth Through Racial & Economic Inclusion; and Government Collaboration & Efficiency.
The Mission of the Foundation is “to strengthen communities in our region through discerning and creative support of worthy organizations.”
The George Gund Foundation was established in 1952 as a private, nonprofit institution with the sole purpose of contributing to human well-being and the progress of society. Over the years, program objectives and emphases have been modified to meet the changing opportunities and problems of our society, but the Foundation’s basic goal of advancing human welfare remains constant.
With more than 16,000 members, the Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP) is a membership association of Northeast Ohio companies and organizations and one of the largest metropolitan chambers of commerce in the nation.
Idea Foundry is a non-profit organization that supplies the critical ingredients for transforming an entrepreneur’s business idea into a Pennsylvania-based, fundable, start-up. They bridge the gaps between business skills, knowledge, funding and relationships that are critical when launching your own Information Technology and Engineering related enterprise.
Innovation Works invests capital, business expertise and other resources into high-potential technology companies in southwestern Pennsylvania with the greatest likelihood for regional economic impact. IW is the single largest investor in seed-stage companies in the Pittsburgh region and one of the most active in the country.
JumpStart is a nationally recognized venture development organization that accelerates the progress of high potential, early-stage businesses. Through the depth of its entrepreneurial team and breadth of its high value resources, JumpStart improves client success in achieving the milestones and raising the follow-on capital necessary to create wealth.
The mission of Kent State University is to discover, create, apply and share knowledge, as well as to foster ethical and humanitarian values in the service of Ohio and the global community. As an eight-campus educational system, Kent State offers a broad array of academic programs to engage students in diverse learning environments that educate them to think critically and to expand their intellectual horizons while attaining the knowledge and skills necessary for responsible citizenship and productive careers.
The Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network (MAGNET) supports and champions manufacturing in Northern Ohio. MAGNET is the voice for the region's manufacturers.
The McCune Foundation, established in 1979, provides grants to enable communities and nonprofit institutions to improve the quality and circumstances of life for present and future generations, primarily in the Pittsburgh area.
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest diversified financial services organizations providing retail and business banking; residential mortgage banking; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-based lending; wealth management; asset management and global fund services.
The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) is a community-based, public institution focused on the interprofessional training of health professionals. Through its educational, research and service mission, NEOUCOM improves the quality of health care in northeast Ohio.
The Northeast Ohio Technology Coalition (NorTech) works to invigorate growth in northeast Ohio's high tech economy. It seeks to build industries from technology areas where there are the best opportunities to be successful and by marshaling the resources and forging collaborations.
Embracing the concept of the whole being stronger than the sum of its parts, the groundbreaking interstate collaboration of workforce development and economic development along with education, creates a powerful force for the betterment of the area and its citizens. Specifically the collaborative effort seeks to attract and keep businesses, serve the workforce and in general advance the region’s economy.
The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center is a worldwide leader in facilitating the commercialization of nanomaterials technologies, and builds upon Pennsylvanias excellence in advanced materials research, development and manufacturing. The Center uses a unique model to proactively create partnerships between government organizations, universities, entrepreneurs, small and large companies to match nanotechnology research with innovative new ideas, and then accelerates the development of those ideas into new products, new companies and growth for the region and the country.
The Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse provides capital investments and customized company formation and business growth services to life sciences enterprises in southwest Pennsylvania. It supports biosciences companies with promising innovations in the following concentrations: Biotechnology Tools, Diagnostics, Healthcare IT, Medical Devices and Therapeutics.
Since 1983, the Pittsburgh Technology Council has been the principal point of connection for companies from four primary clusters of the technology industry that are represented by a critical mass of businesses in southwestern Pennsylvania including, the Advanced Manufacturing / Materials, Green Technology, Information Technology and Life Sciences sectors.
The Raymond John Wean Foundation enhances community well-being and vitality in the Mahoning Valley through grantmaking, convening, advocating and providing leadership with a focus on economically disadvantaged people and neighborhoods.
Team NEO advances Northeast Ohio’s economy by attracting businesses worldwide to the 16-county Cleveland Plus region. Team Northeast Ohio unites the region to accelerate economic growth by serving as the central point for business attraction. It is a nonprofit joint venture of the region’s largest metro chambers, privately funded to market the 16-county Cleveland Plus® region.
The Technology Collaborative (TTC) is a not-for-profit, member-driven, technology-based economic development organization focused on starting, attracting and growing robotics, cyber-security and digital technology companies. TTC works with other regional economic development organizations to implement an end-to-end strategy for transitioning technology from universities into commercial products that are designed, engineered, produced, marketed and sold by companies based in Pennsylvania.
The Technology Council of Northwest Pennsylvania is a trade association of technology companies and professionals seeking to increase technology deployment and adoption. They act as a neutral third party broker to advise the community on broadband, software, hardware, internet solutions, university/industry collaboration and technology training.
The University of Akron is a comprehensive research and teaching university at the heart of a dynamic regional economy. At UA, students can choose from more than 200 undergraduate majors and areas of study. UA also has more than 110 master’s and doctoral programs, a law degree with four tracks and an accelerated medical education offered in partnership with the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine.
The University of Pittsburgh is also among the nation’s most distinguished comprehensive universities, with a wide variety of high-quality programs in both the arts and sciences and professional fields. The University of Pittsburgh strongly supports and invests in research that fosters the multidisciplinary team approach to answering complex questions.
The Youngtown Business Incubator’s (YBI) mission is to accelerate the startup and growth rates of scalable technology-based businesses in the greater Mahoning Valley. Although YBI works with firms possessing a broad range of proprietary technologies, its current focus is on developing B2B software application companies.
Youngstown State University, an urban research university, emphasizes a creative, integrated approach to education, scholarship and service. The University places students at its center; leads in the discovery, dissemination, and application of knowledge; advances civic, scientific, and technological development; and fosters collaboration to enrich the region and the world.
The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber (Regional Chamber) is a private, non-profit organization that provides leadership and business services to promote the growth of nearly 3,000 members—representing more than 150,000 employees in the Mahoning Valley.
In addition to the TechBelt Initiative Steering Committee, an Executive Committee comprised of regional organizations of excellence helps drive the progress of the Initiative.
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