As a 501(c)(3) organization, Growth Partnership for Ashtabula County is required to file a 990 form with the Internal Revenue Service. These returns are public documents. This link will download a pdf of the 2005 990 return, the most recent one posted at www.guidestar.com
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE GROWTH PARTNERSHIP IRS FORMS
Reality Check
March 21, 2008
Growth Partnership's IRS forms
These returns are public documents.
- Reality Check
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Why are we hurting so?
It’s time for a reality check.: Main story, Day one
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Beyond wineries and covered bridges …
An introduction to reality check
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What it is, how it’s calculated
Determining per capita income is a complex exercise that — at best — is a mathematical expression of a moving target.
In its simplest terms, per capita income is, according to the Ohio Department of Development, “the income of a given area divided by the resident population of that area.” Sounds simple enough, but arriving at the figure is not. -
Bad vibes: Lack of opportunities, progress make for sour attitudes
Eavesdrop on conversations at the lunch counter, in the aisles of Wal-Mart on a Friday evening or around the sports bar on a Sunday afternoon, and you’re likely to hear some pretty disparaging remarks about the old hometown.
- Finding work after prison nearly impossible A portion of Ashtabula County’s unemployed can’t find a job because of their prior address – a prison cell.
- County part of Team NEO marketing efforts Ashtabula County is part of a 16-county alliance aimed at marketing the Northeast Ohio region to employers and business investors, many of have never heard of Ashtabula, let alone Mentor, Akron or Youngstown.
- Some people just don’t want a job Ashtabula County Commissioner Deborah Newcomb talks to a lot of employers, and they all express the same concern: finding people reliable people with basic skills is a problem.
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POOR BUT WORKING
A winter wind blew across the parking lot of the Neighbor to Neighbor Food Pantry next to St. Joseph’s Church in Ashtabula; the six adults lined up at the door turned their faces from the wind, toward the metaphoric concrete wall of the building.
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County's largest hospital feels the Medicaid pain
Perhaps no one in Ashtabula County feels the pinch of subsidizing unemployed or underemployed individuals more than Philip E. Pawlowski.
- Crime & Drugs Inc. always hiring Some “unemployed” residents find crime to be their best source of steady income. Judge Richard Stevens of Western County Court says he noticed a 50-percent increase in the number of criminal cases handled by his court between 2005 and last year.
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