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United Bank’s employee volunteer program was recently recognized as one of the strongest in the nation. The award, presented by the American Bankers Association (ABA) Foundation, specifically recognized United’s Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Action Committee during the ABA’s Annual Convention in New York City. In 2017, United created a bank-wide infrastructure to connect employees to…
The West Virginia Small Business Development Center will offer a Business Fundamentals workshop, Thursday, Nov. 29, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in Mercer County. The workshop will be held at Bluefield State College S, 704 Bland Street, Fourth Floor Conference Room, Bluefield. Business Coach Harold Patterson will lead the session.The Regional Development Funding Corporation (RDFC)…
West Virginia’s unemployment rate is 5.3 percent, the lowest recorded level in over a decade. Core industries such as timber, manufacturing and mining have experienced a 13.1 percent growth rate in the last two years. Tourism is expanding as more travelers make their way to our wild, wonderful state. Small businesses are forming at an…
After the big Thanksgiving banquet with family is over this year, carve out some time for shopping with small businesses. Small Business Saturday was created to raise awareness of the importance of small businesses and bring more customers through their doors. Since it was launched in 2010, the event falls on the first Saturday after…
West Virginia Northern Community College (WVNCC) will host a Google Small Business Workshop focused on growing business online. The workshop will be held on Friday, December 7, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on their Wheeling Campus in the B&O Building. The workshop will include three sessions and are free and open to the…
Sam didn’t expect to make $40,000+ a year by Christmas 2018, but she does. The first day she entered the Step Up for Women Manufacturing Pre-Apprenticeship Program in June of 2017, she was quiet and unsure of herself. She was working less than forty hours per week helping people with disabilities and had a newborn…