Causes: Microfinance, Small Business Development

Mission: Educate the business community via an agressive marketing campaign; encourage economic, industrial, and cultural development to create employment; promote sustainable reuse and redevelopment of abandoned, contaminated, or obsolete industrial properties; promote business retention and expansion; provide support to municipal units to achieve the eg cvc's objectives and purposes; maintain and operate the 'i can make it' camp, an educational initiative supported by area manufacturers to help children learn about math and science; maintain and operate the academy for manufacturing careers, a certified u. S. Department of labor registered apprenticeship program, to educate, train, and help incumbant and potential workers acquire the skills and proficiency required by the modern manufacturing workplace; and promote art and cultural development within the community.

Programs: Educate the business community via an agressive marketing campaign; encourage economic, industrial, and cultural development to create employment; promote sustainable reuse and redevelopment of abandoned, contaminated, or obsolete industrial properties; promote business retention and expansion; provide support to municipal units to achieve the eg cvc's objectives and purposes; maintain and operate the 'i can make it' camp, an educational initiative supported by area manufacturers to help children learn about math and science; maintain and operate the academy for manufacturing careers, a certified u. S. Department of labor registered apprenticeship program, to educate, train, and help incumbant and potential workers acquire the skills and proficiency required by the modern manufacturing workplace; and promote art and cultural development within the community.