Wednesday, November 16, 2011
YourSchoolBucks keeps students from doing door-to-door fundraisers and puts money into school's pockets by offering a online discount certificate program.
Jason Reed, a 15-year teacher in the Stow-Munroe Falls School District, is not a fan of children going door-to-door selling “overpriced, unwanted” items like magazines, wrapping paper and cookie dough for school fundraisers. He views such fundraisers as unsafe for kids, unfair to buyers who feel pressured and ineffective for schools, which typically only receive between 5 and 50 percent of the gross sales. That’s why Reed and a business partner have created an alternative: YourSchoolBucks, an online discount certificate program that donates a minimum of 70 percent of its gross sales to participating schools and groups. “Typical fundraisers provide no help to the local businesses that are the backbone of support in each district,” Reed said…
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Local banks will absorb the bulk of losses under a city-backed economic development loan program
Kent banks are losing about $65,000 this year due to defaults in a small-business loan program in partnership with the city. At least five small businesses have failed to continue paying on loans obtained through the Kent Mini-Loan Program, which is a partnership comprised of the city, local banks and the Kent Regional Business Alliance. The KRBA administers the program, which is intended to make modest loans available to small businesses that otherwise would not qualify for typical, more stringent business loans with area banks. Of the $64,962 being liquidated by the banks as a loss, the city is on the hook for 10 percent, or about $6,500, under the terms of the program. Kent Economic Development Director Dan Smith said the program has …
Monday, February 7, 2011
City, Kent Regional Business Alliance want to build technology park on Mogadore Road
The city of Kent and the Kent Regional Business Alliance are looking to resurrect a plan to build a business technology park in the Mogadore Road area. Long referred to as the business technology park, both entities are again looking for funding to construct the 43,000 square foot anchor building in the Atlantic and Great Western Discovery Park. The last attempt came in 2008, when the city and the KRBA applied to a $48 million grant fund through the Ohio Department of Development Job Ready Sites Program. Kent was not awarded any funds for what was then estimated to be an $11.5 million project. The difference between then and now is that the project has an anchor tenant for the first building. Jack Crews, CEO of the business alliance, said …
