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The Small Business Support Implementation Team is dedicated to strengthening the West Side as a place where local businesses can grow, collaborate, and sustain themselves over time. This team focuses on supporting existing businesses, encouraging local spending, and identifying tools and resources that help small businesses succeed behind the scenes.

  • Advantage Valley
  • Charleston Urban Works
  • City of Charleston
  • Dem 2 Bros and a Grille
  • The EdVenture Group
  • Element FCU
  • Keep Your Faith Corporation
  • Mountain State Justice
  • Navigation Financial
  • New Economy Works WV
  • Phat Daddy’s On Da Tracks
  • Truist
  • WV Development Hub
  • WV Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
  • WV State University Economic Development Center
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CURRENT

Planning projects now…

PAST

2024

  • Rebecca Street Urban Farm Tractor – Family & Youth Development Services

2022

  • Summer Youth Employment Program – The Working World