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The Northside Chronicle
Volume 35 Issue 2 - FREE -
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Eleanor Williams (second from left), Project Lead for the North Side Partnership Project’s Family Legacy Dinners, stands with members of the Johnson, Gibson and Humphrey families to celebrate the birth of their newest family member, Kyier Lee. Family Legacy Dinners are supported by New Sun Rising’s One Northside Mini-Grant program. Read the full story on Page 27.
Innovation Works turning region into national tech hub By Sophia Mastroianni This story is the second one in a three-part series on the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) economic development initiatives in Pittsburgh. ARC is a regional economic development agency that provided $1.7 million in grants to fund economic development plans in Pittsburgh in October 2018. Plans are aimed at helping to remediate the sharp decline of coal industry jobs in the region.
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Innovation Works, located at Nova Place in the Northside, received $1,035,000 for a program called Western Pennsylvania Small Business Services for Coal-Impacted Communities (SBS). The SBS targets 24 counties, including Washington, Fayette and Greene County, that were impacted by the loss of coal-production jobs, and helps move employment there into other manufacturing sectors. According to Rich Lunak, president and CEO of Innovation Works,
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southwestern Pennsylvania felt the impact of the decline of the coal industry and as the industry changed, so did the economy. It became a more diversified one focused on technology. Innovation Works is the Ben Franklin Technology Partner of southwestern Pennsylvania. Joining together with the Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence (IEE), it will use grant funds for coworking
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spaces, business-support services to main-street organizations and incubators to service business owners, in order to make entrepreneurship accessible to anyone, regardless of whether or not their community historically benefited from the coal economy. “We are in the communities and available for businesses to reach out to us,” said Robert Stein, the Executive Director for the Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence. “We See Innovation, Page 7
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