By the time the magnitude of the residential devastation left behind by the Sept. 13 gas explosions was fully realized, small business owners in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover were just beginning to come to grips with their new reality. More than 800 small...
More than 800 small businesses in Andover, Lawrence and North Andover were directly affected – and hundreds more indirectly – by last September’s devastating gas explosions. A broad Coalition came together quickly and organically to align resources, develop...
Nearly 10 months after last September’s gas explosions in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover, more than 70 percent of the nearly 900 small, locally-owned businesses affected by the disaster have returned to pre-crisis operations, according to a status report provided...
By Beth Francis In her quarterly Giving Back column in North of Boston Business Magazine, Essex County Community Foundation President and CEO, Beth Francis, discusses small business resiliency in a post-gas explosion time. Read Joined by Tragedy, United in Survival,...
PHOTO: EFORALL/EPARATODOS CONDUCTS OUTREACH SURVEYS IN THE MERRIMACK VALLEY BUSINESS COMMUNITY In the wake of the Sept. 13, 2018 gas fires in the Merrimack Valley, nearly 1,000 small businesses in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover faced unprecedented challenges....
The Small Business Resiliency and Venture Fund builds on the longstanding work of Mill Cities Community Investments (MCCI) to provide permanent commercial lending programs and supplemental technical assistance for non-bankable businesses in Essex County. This work was...
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