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Breakfast Series: Transforming Communities through Business
Are you a small business owner who wants to create a stronger and more sustainable local economy? Please join us as we network and learn with other businesses interested in being part of a local...
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Breakfast #3: Making Capital Work for Lancaster
July 7th’s Transforming Communities Through Business Breakfast Series kicked off yet again with Upohar’s wonderful breakfast stylings at the Southern Market Center. Local business owners, investors,...
View ArticleOpportunity for All Breakfast – August 4
We’re all better off when we’re all better off. We’ll be talking about inequality in Lancaster and what we can do about it to create opportunity for all on Tuesday, August 4 from 7:30 – 9 AM at the...
View ArticleVote for The Great Social Enterprise Pitch ideas that move you
It’s time for you to share what matters most to our community. Between now and August 19th, share and support the pitches you believe in, and you just might see your favorites in the Live Pitch on...
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Sustaining One Business, Starting Another
This summer, ASSETS clients Kam Li Tangbau and Brang Gan Maran opened a new restaurant in North East Lancaster City. But the story behind the restaurant, Burma Road, runs much deeper than you’d expect....
View ArticleLending Circles Returns
Calling all Entrepreneurs and Business Owners: another ASSETS Lending Circle is scheduled to start mid October! If you have previously been denied a business loan through a commercial bank or credit...
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#LancasterPitch 2.0
Amidst a bustling Friday evening in the city, ASSETS in partnership with the Lancaster County Community Foundation, brought the Great Social Enterprise Pitch back for its second year. For 8 months...
View ArticleASSETS is hiring
*[This position has been filled. ] * ASSETS is excited to be launching a new Women’s Business Center (WBC) in Lancaster, PA, and is actively searching for a Director to oversee the activities of the...
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Community Wealth Building: Reinvigorating American Democracy
Ted Howard’s localist approach to community wealth building argues the necessity of progressive pathways—working beyond the scope of traditional, federally driven solutions—for combating socioeconomic...
View ArticleNew Year = New Programs
Start 2016 right by participating in one of the ASSETS programs that seek to create economic opportunity and cultivate entrepreneurial leadership. You, your business, and your community will benefit....
View ArticleGreat Social Enterprise Pitch Competition planned for this Friday
Central Penn Business Journal recently published an article titled “Great Social Enterprise Pitch Competition Planning for This Friday”. The Great Social Enterprise Pitch, a business plan competition...
View ArticleGreat Social Enterprise Pitch: The Stroopie Co. takes top prize
To view the original post from LNP, including photos of this year’s Great Social Enterprise Pitch, click here. A less than cookie-cutter approach to making cookies wound up winning big Friday night in...
View ArticleIN THE SPOTLIGHT: Jessica King working to create opportunity
LNP features ASSETS Executive Director, Jessica King, in October 11th’s In The Spotlight. You can view the original post, including images, here. Jessica King has spent her career helping others...
View ArticleOutsourcing Lancaster County’s janitors sets a bad example of business
To view the original post on LNP, click here. Lancaster city is in the midst of an epidemic. Rates of Lancastrians living below the poverty line have risen 50 percent in the last decade. Our poverty...
View ArticleMaking space for entrepreneurs in Lancaster
Courtney Rinden, ASSETS intern, references ASSETS and Lancaster City Alliance’s Cultivate Lancaster forum. View the original post on LNP here. In any community, there is space and place. Space is the...
View ArticleWe’re looking for a Microlending Manager!
ASSETS is currently looking for the following: Microlending Manager: The Microlending Manager oversees the Lending Circles program which provides small loans ($600-$5,000) to entrepreneurs who would...
View Article2016 Great Social Enterprise Pitch Info Session
The presentation from the March 24, 2016 Info Session about the 2016 Great Social Enterprise Pitch can be downloaded below: Info Session 2016
View ArticleWomen’s Business Center Summer Series
Are you an entrepreneur looking to launch or grow your business? The Women’s Business Center at ASSETS, in conjunction with San Juan Bautista, is inviting you this summer to experience a series of six...
View ArticleLancaster’s Great Social Enterprise Pitch: Last year’s winner offers advice
To view the original post by Lenay Ruhl on CPBJ, click here. The Stroopie Co., winner of last year’s business plan competition in Lancaster, is on schedule to open a brick-and-mortar store downtown in...
View ArticleVegan-friendly businesses ‘expand the circle of compassion’ in Lancaster
To view the original post by Vance Lehmkuhl on philly.com, click here. WITH ITS CHARMING contrast of redbrick buildings and white cherry-tree blossoms, Lancaster is a beautiful place to be right now....
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