Valley Partners

Learn how to keep your business safe & increase your brand awareness at Valley Partners' upcoming Lunch & Learn Seminar! Join us on Thursday, November 7th to hear from Attorney Brittany Brantley & branding extraordinaire, Noel Powers, for an informational session on legal & branding business principles. 📲 Click here to register: https://lnkd.in/gMGtFNWq

Happy #WomensWednesday! Today, we celebrate Omadee Curry—the owner of Curry Chemical Company LLC. 🌟 Omadee is a Valley native that graduated from The Rayen School. Omadee initially furthered her education at Westminster College, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics. Later, she extended her knowledge at Youngstown State University by achieving master’s degrees in both Economics and Chemistry. Omadee has had a diverse career background: Marketing in the Automotive Industry, Sales in the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Sales & Procurement in the Chemical Industry. Each experience helped structure the foundation for creating her Chemical Repackaging Facility: Curry Chemical Company. Curry Chemical Company LLC is a chemical repackaging facility that services the agriculture sector of the Chemical Industry. Located in Warren, OH here in the Valley, it is the only 3rd party repackaging facility to serve the Chemical AG Industry in its US region. Since relocating to Warren, OH, the company has had an opportunity to create seasonal employment for local residents and expand its customer base to include a World Class Leader within the Agriculture Market. These recent accomplishments were made possible with the direct help and guidance of Valley Partners. Valley Partners provided both financial aid and support to help Curry Chemical Company keep the doors open and restructure the foundation for creating a unique employment opportunity for our community. We are honored to have been able to support you in your entrepreneurial success, Omadee! Thank you for continuing to put this region on the map. #WomensLeadHERship2025 👩🔬💪✨

It's been a million-dollar month here at Valley Partners! Special shoutout to our SBA Lender, Maureen Stenglein, for getting THREE 504 Loans approved this month—approximating a $1.71 million total. Here's her ✨ superstar ✨ pose to celebrate the milestone. GREAT WORK, MAUREEN! 🎉 🤩 🎊 🥳

Valley Partners was honored to receive the Ohio Department of Development’s (ODOD) Capital Infusion & Best Overall Performance Award as a Tier 1 MBAC yesterday afternoon at the statewide MBAC retreat! Thank you to Chief Monica Womack & the entire ODOD staff for the honorable recognition. We are looking forward to continuing our work for small businesses in this region. 🎊

As National Women’s Small Business Month comes to a close this week, today, we celebrate Aundrea Heschmeyer—owner of MARQUEE Creatives LLC—for earning dual SBA certifications: Women-Owned Small Business and Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business! 🎊 Aundrea’s passion to offer small businesses fresh ideas and new perspectives in marketing through her full-service agency does not go unnoticed! Congratulations Marquee Creatives LLC for continuing to scale to new heights. 🥳 📲 Visit their website here: marqueecreatives.com 🖱️ To read more about Marquee’s journey to earning dual SBA certifications, click here: https://lnkd.in/g47kN3dZ

Thank you to The Business Journal - Youngstown Publishing Co. for spreading the word about our recent $800,000 Financial Assistance Award—granted by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund! 🎉 To learn more about our active campaign to continue supporting underserved entrepreneurs, check out the article here: https://lnkd.in/gPsBiUqH

Valley Partner's impact continues through the GrowBiz Loan Fund! 🎉 The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) announced their 2024 Financial Assistance Awards on September 26, 2024. Valley Partners (VP)—through our proven track record—was awarded $800,000. Here's to furthering our mission of offering affordable capital to small business entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their business here in the Valley—located in an underserved geographic area designated by the CDFI Fund. 🎊 Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gG8YKa5Z

Start your week off by learning some of the Better Business Bureau's best tips on how to spruce up your small business' marketing campaigns this fall! For 10 fun & creative ways to increase your brand awareness, click here to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gy9Skt8y 🍂🍁🌥

🎉GOOD NEWS!🎉 Valley Partner's GrowBiz Loan Fund has been awarded $800,000 in Financial Assistance (FA) by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund)! The GrowBiz Loan Fund is a revolving loan fund created in 2021 with the initial funds received by VP from the CDFI Fund. Its purpose is to offer affordable capital to small business entrepreneurs looking to start or grow their business here in the Valley—located in an underserved geographic area designated by the CDFI Fund. This significant funding is part of a larger initiative where 357 CDFIs received a total of $408.2 million to provide financial services and products to low-income and underserved individuals and communities across America. Check out the full announcement here 🎊: https://lnkd.in/gbCmXwta

Thank you to every banker, non-profit/foundation, financial institution, & municipality representative who joined us this morning for our Funders Round Table event! As we were proud & honored to share with you the work Valley Partners has done across the region so far, we appreciate you taking the time to learn more about our impact as a CDFI organization. Also, a special thank you to our keynote speaker, Shaundretta Boykins—the Ohio Department of Development's Manager of Business Development and Entrepreneurship, for providing valuable information on state-level funding opportunities! The Valley Partners team is grateful to have your support as you continue to champion & cheer us on. 📲 For more information about Valley Partners, be sure to visit our website at valleyedp.com.