Sometimes it takes a little help to get a new venture or a career off the ground. At times like these, it’s important to make meaningful connections, and LMPK is here to assist you. Peruse the following resources for networking and business development.
If you still don’t see what you’re looking for, get in touch with us and let us brainstorm with you.
Beachwood Business Development - serves as a business accelerator for those companies looking to develop a U.S. presence and for local start-ups.
Beachwood Chamber of Commerce- connects its more than 600 member-businesses to the community and other businesses, and serves as a leading voice for the business community.
Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau - committed to serving the needs of children, youth and their families, by focusing on improving quality of life issues.
BioEnterprise - seeks to assist in business-formation and recruitment of non-regional businesses to grow the health care industry in Northeast Ohio and to commercialize bioscience technologies.
City Club of Cleveland - encourages new ideas and a free exchange of thought in the greater Cleveland region. The City Club is the oldest continuous free speech forum in the country, renowned for its tradition of debate and discussion.
Cleveland+ - promotes Northeast Ohio as a united region by leveraging its various strengths to compete for new businesses, leisure travelers and conventions.
Cleveland365 - seeks to connects this progressive,forward-thinking community with news, events, unparalleled innovative technologies, community-based programming and more importantly resources.
Cleveland Bridge Builders - identifies, trains, and channels rising leaders into effective civic leadership roles.
Cleveland City Living - promotes city living to the thousands of Gen-Y'ers who consider leaving this region every year.
Cleveland Council on World Affairs - promotes world peace, by promoting a greater understanding and personal engagement in international relations and global issues.
Cleveland Foundation - serves as the primary philanthropic agency for the greater Cleveland area. The Foundation was the world's first community foundation and the nation’s third-largest today, with assets of $1.9 billion and annual grants surpassing $85 million.
Cleveland Leadership Center - brings together four networking, leadership development,civic education and civic engagement organizations, in order to foster new community leaders.
Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club - works to retain “young professionals” in the region, by providing events focused on both personal and professional development.
Entrepreneur’s EDGE - assists existing middle market companies in Northeast Ohio to grow their value while building a culture that is supportive of entrepreneurial ventures.
First Suburbs Development Council - strives to assist member cities in their pursuit of achieve economic stability and viability.
Fund For Our Economic Future - unites philanthropy in Northeast Ohio to support regional economic development through grant-making, research and civic engagement.
Greater Cleveland Partnership - serves as a catalyst to increasing economic vitality in Greater Cleveland and the region. With more than 17,000 members, it is the largest private-sector economic development organization in Ohio.
Hillel Foundation, Cleveland - serves as the center of Jewish life for about 2,500 Jewish undergraduate and graduate students at colleges and universities in Cleveland and surrounding areas.
Hillel, Kent State - serves as the foundation for Jewish campus life at Kent State University and the University of Akron.
Hebrew Shelter Home - provides emergency and temporary housing with on-site client services to Jewish homeless men, women and children and families.
(i)Cleveland - helps retain talented undergraduate students in Northeast Ohio by providing enriching experiences and civic engagement opportunities to college interns.
Jewish Community Federation - supports and builds the Cleveland Jewish and general communities.
JCF Young Leadership Division- a division of the Federation that offers young Jewish singles andcouples (ages 22 to 40) a broad range of social, educational,volunteer, philanthropic and leadership development opportunities.
Jewish Family Service Association - provides high quality, behavioral and health services for every generation of the family, regardless of religious affiliation or financial status
JumpStart - funds high-growthbusinesses and concepts, works with their founders to develop the businesses into venture-ready entities and simultaneously celebrates Northeast Ohio's early-stage company successes.
Key Entrepreneur Development Center - assists entrepreneurs from all industries with solutions to all sorts of challenges from advertising to taxes. The Center provides a comprehensive set of learning options and tools, including self-directed e-learning, traditional instructor-led classes, and distance-learning initiatives.
Leadership Cleveland- (website under construction)
Mandel Jewish Community Center - "The J" - provides opportunities for social inclusion and interaction, children’s and senior services, and sports, leisure and culture all within a vibrant Jewish setting.
NEO411.biz - provides information on starting or growing businesses in Northeast Ohio.
NOCHE - The Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education - a consortium of public and private colleges and universities in the Northeast Ohio region.
NorTech - The Northeast Ohio Technology Coalition - seeks to build a vibrant and globally-competitive economy in the region by linking and leveraging technology, entrepreneurship and innovation assets.
One Community - connects public and non-profit institutions to the region’s state of the art fiber optic network,enabling those institutions to offer enhanced, innovative online solutions, and attracting outside investment and creating business and job opportunities.
Playhouse Square Partners - promotes and encourages the awareness, education and participation of Cleveland’s community of young professionals as volunteers and patrons in support of Playhouse Square, its theaters and events.
Team NEO - works to market the Northeast Ohio region by attracting business investment in targeted industry clusters.
Summer on the Cuyahoga - offers internship opportunities to students at Case Western, Colgate, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Smith and Yale. The program brings together 75-90 students for an intensive summer immersion program designed to help interns explore the professional, civic, and social offerings of the Cleveland area.
University Circle Inc. - responsible for the growth of University Circle as a premier urban district and world-class center of innovation in health care, education, and arts and culture.
United Way of Greater Cleveland - addresses health and human service needs through convening partnerships, funding programs, and generating resources to support the community's priorities.
World Trade Center Cleveland - promotes the facilitation of global business in the region through its membership in the World Trade Centers Association, which serves more than 2,000,000 business clients worldwide through over 300 locations in 100 countries.