Document Type
Report
Publication Date
1-1-2005
Research Center
Center for Nonprofit Policy and Practice
Abstract
Developing small businesses is a way to concentrate wealth, employ city residents, improve neighborhood amenities, and provide entrepreneurial role models in urban neighborhood communities currently bereft of such. In a city where well over half of the resident population belong to groupings of people traditionally in the minority, and whose ranking is high in terms of concentrated poverty, nurturing existing and new small minority business enterprises makes good policy sense and offers a systematic intervention strategy to alleviate poverty. This report has been completed to help leadership organizations such as the Urban League of Greater Cleveland and policy-makers such as the city of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County look for ways to adapt their program initiatives to address the concentration of poverty in the city of Cleveland through small business development. A number of recommendations have been offered throughout this report that focus on providing support and technical assistance to small businesses, which comprise the overwhelming majority of enterprises in the region.
Repository Citation
Mendel, Stuart, "A Report to the Urban League of Greater Cleveland: An Assessment of Business Support Services Available to Existing and Start-up Small Businesses in the City of Cleveland" (2005). All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications. 0 1 2 3 184.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/urban_facpub/184
Issue
urban_facpub
