JARI Growth Fund Receives $1.28M to Help Entrepreneurs. (Johnstown Tribune Democrat)

The $1,281,900 award to JARI Growth Fund was made through ARC’s Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) initiative, which is designed to “help communities and regions affected by job losses in coal mining, coal power plant operations and coal-related supply chain industries due to the changing economics of America’s energy production.”

JARI Growth Fund is to partner with JARI, Southern Alleghenies Planning & Development Commission, Alleghenies Angel Fund and other private lenders to provide technical assistance and access to the new Startup Alleghenies Microloan Fund to businesses in Cambria, Somerset, Bedford, Blair, Indiana, Fulton and Huntingdon counties. Click here to read more.