ACEnet Ventures
Athens
AHC Community Development, LLC
Cleveland
Appalachian Development Federal Credit Union
Nelsonville
ASB Community Development Corp
Portsmouth
Cincinnati Development Fund
Cincinnati
Cincinnati New Markets Fund, LLC
Cincinnati
Columbus Compact Corporation
Columbus
Columbus Growth Fund, Inc., The
Columbus
Enterprise Development Corporation
The Plains
National City New Market Fund, Inc.
Cleveland
Neighborhood Capital Corporation
Cleveland
Shorebank Enterprise Group
Cleveland
ShoreBridge Capital
Cleveland
Uptown Consortium, Inc.
Cincinnati
Village Capital Corporation
Cleveland
The Small Business Administration has established the Historically Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZone) Empowerment Contracting Program wherein they aim to provide federal contracting assistance to eligible small business corporations which are located in underutilized business zones so as to improve their employment opportunities, investments, and their area's economic development.
In keeping with this mission, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture has recently established the Common Bean Productivity Research for Global Food Security Competitive Grants Program in an attempt to develop approaches and methods that can efficiently address the various challenges facing common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) production among small holder producers in food insecure countries.
Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.