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Small businesses and nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply for matching mini- grant funding that will assist with the cost of conducting a service project in the communities where they live and work. The West Virginia Business Volunteer Council (BVC) will provide a direct cash match of up to $500 to eligible and approved applicants.…
The Foundation for the Thomas Memorial and Saint Francis Hospitals is hosting its 18th Annual Golf Tournament on Monday, June 4, 2012 at Edgewood Country Club’s Derrick’s Creek Golf Course. This tournament is a double shotgun with the morning shotgun beginning at 8:00 am and the afternoon shotgun beginning at 1:30 pm. The Huntington National…
In January of 2005, Gene Brooks, Jr. and his wife, Frances Foster Brooks, began their entrepreneurial journey in a small trailer in Dunbar. Their business, named BrooAlexa, LLC, eventually evolved into a multi-faceted construction company that has been named by the U.S. Small Business Administration as the 2012 West Virginia Small Business of the Year.…
The U.S. Small Business Administration and AARP are launching a strategic alliance to provide counseling and training to entrepreneurs over the age of 50 who want to start or grow a small business. Through SBA’s online training courses and its nationwide network of business mentors and counselors, the two organizations expect to train 100,000 “encore…
Research to explore the use of biochar as a soil amendment will continue now that Dr. Amir Hass has joined West Virginia State University as an assistant research professor. Biochar is a carbonaceous co-product from pyrolysis thermo-conversion of cellulosic biomass to a petroleum replacement product, such as bio-oil. The pyrolysis technology can also be used…
Offering the tools and technical assistance to take an entrepreneur’s idea from concept to prototype with the goal of creating jobs for West Virginians, the StartUp West Virginia Manufacturing program announced its first class of seven awardees in March during an event at Marshall University’s Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) on…