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The September 17, 2020 Advocacy report, provided by Alex Rahn of Wanner Associates, is now available on the Members Only Advocacy Reports page of PEDA’s website. Please use your membership credentials to gain access.

The Town of Clarksville (IN) seeks a Revelopment Director. Additional details are available here.

Vision Together 2025 seeks an Executive Director. Additional details are available here.

The Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center (PASBDC) seeks an associate state director of finance. Additional details are available here.

The August 24, 2020 Advocacy report, provided by Alex Rahn of Wanner Associates, is now available on the Members Only Advocacy Reports page of PEDA’s website. Please use your membership credentials to gain access.

Tyler Preast, a new member of PEDA in 2020, is Norfolk Southern’s industrial development manager for counties west of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania as well as New York. Tyler is new to PA, arriving in February of this year, and is looking to make an impact on the local economy by working closely with economic development organizations to market prime sites to incoming firms as well as identify areas for expansion in current rail business. Tyler’s past professional experiences include operations roles with the railroad as well as a career as an army engineer officer, and he is looking forward to gaining an in-depth understanding of the situations encountered by local economic forces and situations at play in PA through close collaboration with the PEDA organization as a whole.

Tyler can be reached at tyler.preast@nscorp.com or 404-801-5090.

The July 28, 2020 Advocacy report, provided by Alex Rahn of Wanner Associates, is now available on the Members Only Advocacy Reports page of PEDA’s website. Please use your membership credentials to gain access.

The COVID-19 Relief Pennsylvania Statewide Small Business Assistance program will provide grants ranging from $5,000 to $50,000 to small businesses that have been economically impacted by COVID-19.

Please note that this is not a first-come, first-served program and that there will be multiple rounds of application windows. The application window for the first round of funding will remain open until 11:59 pm on July 14th. Applications submitted after this date will be considered for future rounds of funding. 

The Pennsylvania CDFI Network, a coalition of 17 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) that will support small businesses throughout the Commonwealth to access the grant funds, has provided an updated fact sheet.

Click here to access the updated fact sheet.