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From Professional Burnout to Entrepreneur: A CEO’s Story

Alison Pidgeon is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with three additional letters in her title – CEO. For Alison, the circumstances that led to her venture into business ownership and […]

Embracing Identity: Opening Doors to Success by Empowering Young People

By Veronica Kirchner, ASSETS’ Blogger Meet Isaac Etter, an activist driving change to help open doors and create opportunities for young people. While Isaac’s activism initially began with a focus […]

Positivity and a Pair of Clippers: Resiliency in the Midst of Change

By Veronica Kirchner, ASSETS’ Blogger Amit Corso, a trailblazing local leader in barbering, recently made big headlines when he helped change a Lancaster law about Scalp Micropigmentation. What’s that, you […]

An Experiment in Entrepreneurship: Building Confidence with Classes

By Veronica Kirchner, ASSETS’ Blogger Meet Beatrice Zorrilla. She’s a recent college graduate and aspiring entrepreneur. But just a little over a year ago, Beatrice didn’t think her dream of […]

The Heart of a Teacher: Giving Back through Knowledge

Fred Waller of Waller Tax & Financial Services describes himself first and foremost as a teacher. From an outside perspective, this may seem like an unusual job description for the […]

Sabbatical Report: Second Shot At a Sabbatical

Pictured above: Tina Campbell with her husband, Max Campbell, in Ohiopyle, PA ASSETS believes that well-rounded employees are better employees and that our passionate, innovative, committed team works their best […]

Community Over Competition: Building and Sharing Success

At the moment, PhotOlé Photography doesn’t have a physical place to call home. If it were just any business, that might be more a logistical issue than a loss. But […]

Making an Impact: Quality Products with a Global Purpose

Petros Pappalas’ path to entrepreneurship in the environmental market wasn’t borne out of a passion for the earth, but the desire to impress a girl. Three years later, having built […]

The New Southern Market: FAQs & ASSETS’ Vision for our Future Home

ASSETS’ Home Base—A Catalyst for Transformation For the past 8 years, the historic Southern Market has been home to ASSETS. Southern Market sits at the fulcrum between the thriving economy […]

Doing His Part: Transforming a Community by Empowering Refugees & Immigrants

When you see Amer Al Fayadh, you notice two things. First, he carries three cell phones, which is at least one more than some of the most connected people out […]

ASSETS welcomes new leadership model and says goodbye to a longtime staff member

After operating under a joint leadership model for the past three years, we’re transitioning our leadership structure as Tina Campbell, our former Co-CEO, shifts to lead ASSETS as the sole […]

Stay Strong and Patient: A Message from Chef Oliver Saye

Support. Amplify. Share. That’s what we want to do when we share about the work that our inspirational entrepreneurs do every day. Especially during these uncertain and unjust times, we […]

F.O.C.U.S. Counseling: Courage, Strength, & Hope During COVID-19

I was so grateful and thankful that ASSETS was able to approve me [for an ASSETS’ Emergency Fund loan] because this meant I could pay my rent, utilities, my one […]

Emergency Fund: “A Catapult for others”

Just wanted to inform you that I have received PPP finally. I would like to withdraw my application for the $5,000 grant from the Emergency Fund. At the beginning of […]

Cafe 301: Navigating the Pandemic

“I don’t know how I would’ve been able to navigate during this pandemic if it wasn’t for the team at ASSETS.” Laurie Newman, Owner, Cafe 301 Back in March – […]

Sabbatical Report: A Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

ASSETS believes that well-rounded employees are better employees and that our passionate, innovative, committed team works their best when they have opportunities to refresh, revitalize, and reflect. In pursuit of […]

Creativity and Collaboration: A Local Focus on Loving a Community

Just like individuals, B Corps have the greatest impact when they work in their specific areas of talent and passion. For Fig Industries, care for the community is job number […]

More Than Skin-Deep: B Corp Values As a Way of Life

Business owners tend to approach B Corp certification along a spectrum of motivations: at one end is the desire to affirm values and goals that were already in place before […]

2019’s Best For The World

Lancaster Works selected as 2019 “Best for the World” Honoree. ASSETS’ for-profit social enterprise employment agency, Lancaster Works, has already worked its way to the top ten percent of all Certified B […]

Is Your Credit Score Really That Important?

Written by Alex Vazquez, Credit Analyst & Financial Coach at ASSETS For many of us, our credit score doesn’t begin to cross our minds until we become adults. Then, we […]