For the Entrepreneur

York Biotech
www.yorkbiotech.org
The Biotechnology Resource Council was founded October 2004. The council's mission is to promote biotechnology, create economic opportunities, and develop a networking resource. York’s Biotechnology Resource Council currently has 33 representative organizations, 38 individual members, and 9 new biotech companies identified and/or started as a result of the BRC network. New members from diverse business and community organizations are welcome.

Community First Fund
www.commfirstfund.org
Community First Fund creates lasting economic growth for communities by providing equitable financial services, technical knowledge, and advocacy for its customers. They also have an outstanding history of providing loans and technical assistance to entrepreneurs, affordable housing developers, and community groups in under-served communities in its service area.

Entrepreneurial Support Alliance
www.esaonline.info
The Entrepreneurial Support Alliance (ESA) is the one stop shop to find the resources that you would need for all of your entrepreneurial needs. We help you navigate the many providers to direct you to the organization which is best suited for your particular need.

HACC Institute For Entrepreneurial Studies
HACC formed the Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies to assist individuals in turning their dreams of business ownership into a profitable reality. Their focus is one-on-one counseling and educational programs that serve entrepreneurs from the initial idea stage through the first three years of operation. The HACC Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies can help with the tough questions and uncertainties of people in the preliminary stages of starting their businesses. It is one of the few entrepreneurial assistance programs that work with clients before they decide on a business.

Hanover Chamber
www.hanoverchamber.com
The local chamber is your best resource for city government, business data, community profile and visitor guide information. At Hanover Chamber we refer only Chamber members to any outside inquiry. Chamber members support other Chamber members for all business, home and family needs. The Workforce Development Committee of the Hanover Chamber continues to focus on initiatives to enhance business education partnerships, incumbent work skills training and employee recruitment

J.D. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship
http://groups.ycp.edu/browncenter
The J.D. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship was established in 2006 to promote initiative, creativity, individual opportunities and to add value to the local community.
The center helps to enable growth by offering various support programs and development of entrepreneurial skills. At the J.D. Brown Center, their mission is to fuel the entrepreneurial engine of central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland.

Junior Achievement
www.jascpa.org
Junior Achievement is a non-profit organization comprised of business and community leaders all focused on the goal of impacting the lives of young people throughout South Central Pennsylvania. JA is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students in grades K-12 about work readiness, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship through experiential, hands-on programs.

NutriCore
NutriCore NorthEast Inc, is an industry-driven initiative with participants from public and private sectors. NutriCore works to promote collaborative, focused research and development in areas of food and nutrition. NutriCore coordinates with industry and government agencies to maximize their investments in food and nutrition R & D, as well as to help achieve the goals of the National Nutrition Strategy.

PSU Cooperative Extension and Outreach
www.extension.psu.edu
Helps individuals, families, businesses, and communities throughout Pennsylvania with information and a broad range of educational programs designed to:
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Support productive, profitable, and competitive businesses and a strong agriculture and food system
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Strengthen families, children and youth, and the elderly
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Build caring, safe, and healthy communities
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Ensure the long-term vitality of Pennsylvania's natural resources
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Enable people to better understand and deal with complex public issues

The Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP)
www.penntap.psu.edu
PennTAP supports technology-based economic development by helping Pennsylvania companies improve competitiveness by providing a limited amount of free technology assistance to help resolve specific technical needs. Additionally, PennTAP continues to serve the Food Industry as a Penn State Outreach program. PennTAP’s partnership enhances your ability to help your business clients grow with services and training targeted to their needs. For the food manufacturer, we provide fee for service technical consulting expertise and training excellence in critical subjects like: HACCP, GMP, food safety assessments, and preparation for GFSI food safety schemes like SQF and FSSC 22000. We also offer well-tuned business development and training programs.

Shippensburg SBDC
www.shipsbdc.org
The Shippensburg University Small Business Development center has a team of professionals that can work confidentially with local entrepreneurs. They are available in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties to help your new business retain a competitive edge. Shippensburg USBD is an accredited affiliate of the National Network of Small Business Development Centers.

SCORE
www.yorkscore.org
Formed in 1964, SCORE is a premier source of free and confidential small business advice for entrepreneurs. SCORE considers themselves the "Counselors to America's Small Business" and additionally provides training to small businesses. Not only is SCORE a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration, but they are also a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the formation, growth and success of small businesses nationwide.

www.technavate.com
Technavate is a collaborative partnership with a broad range of educational, community and industry partners for the purpose of supporting knowlege and technology transfer activities.
This effort will build an easily accessible, accountable, and responsive process and a shared resource comprising in-reach to the Penn State University system and outreach activities to the business community.

Technology Council
www.tccp.org
The mission of the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania is to create, attract, grow and retain technology companies in the central PA region. TCCP's four full-time employees and small army of more than 100 committee volunteers work together on initiatives, events and projects to accomplish their mission. Some accomplishments by the Technology Council: Lead efforts to attract, retain and train the best technology workforce in the nation. Lead efforts to make Pennsylvania a leader in Broadband and Wireless deployment focused on deploying the fastest, most reliable and most affordable telecommunication systems in the nation.

On January 1, 2012, The York County Chamber of Commerce and the York County Economic Development Corporation joined forces and formed the new York County Economic Alliance, a 501(c)3 corporation. These two very significant organizations in York County - the Chamber and the EDC - are now affiliates of the Economic Alliance. The intent is to retain, and build on, the best characteristics, structures and programs of the founding entities. By joining together we’ve create a stronger voice for business and community efforts of all shapes and sizes.
The York County Economic Alliance
www.ycea-pa.org