When you’re relocating your business to a new city, you look for the right place to live and conduct business. But what makes a city really special is when it goes to work for you and your company- when it actually becomes your resource for success. Cities such as this are rare indeed, and that’s what makes Lubbock the smartest move you can make. In the heart of West Texas and the economic hub of a 29 county region of which over 600,000 people call home, Lubbock boasts a strong and diverse economy of emerging markets and industries. Lubbock was built on, and continues to be, the hub of education, agriculture, and health care. With a world-class university system, a high quality operating environment, competitive cost environment and an integrated approach to addressing economic development and workforce issues, Lubbock is the place for your business to thrive. The Lubbock Economic Development Alliance staff is ready to put our unlimited resources to work for your business. We are your resource for success.

Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area is a community partnership providing no cost recruitment, employment services and child care assistance, to businesses and job seekers in the Rural Capital Area of central Texas.

Since 1982, Omni Therapeutics, Inc. has been providing high quality School-based Therapy and Health Services within schools throughout the Chicagoland suburbs. We are celebrating our 37-years in business and have served thousands of children. Our multidisciplinary teams provide a dynamic environment, encouraging creative, time-tested techniques, combined with cutting edge approaches, in multiple school districts ranging from EC-12th grade. We are now open to opportunities in IN, OR, NC, TX, CO, MN, MI, MA, and FL.

Founded in 2007, Austin Children’s Academy (ACA) is a distinguished Montessori School rooted in Dr. Maria Montessori's renowned educational philosophy. ACA is committed to providing an exceptional early childhood development and education program for children aged 2 months to 6 years. Our mission is to deliver a comprehensive educational curriculum, firmly grounded in the Montessori Method, while embracing a forward-looking, 21st-century perspective. Our goal is to prepare students to excel in today's technologically advanced world and to ignite and nurture their innate passion for learning. At ACA, we prioritize values such as self-respect, respect for others, and a strong work ethic as integral components of the educational experience. These principles empower our students to develop into confident learners ready to tackle the challenges of the modern world.

Based in Dallas, TX, Central Texas Fitness, LLC is the Area Developer and Orangetheory Fitness franchise rights holder for an area that covers Temple/Killeen, Waco and South Dallas and east through Tyler, Longview and the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metroplex. CTF employs more than 30 team members and records annualized revenues in excess of $2 million.

Bloom Consulting is a global consulting firm specializing in Nation and City Branding and Placemaking, working for countries, regions, and cities across six continents since 2003. From our headquarters in Madrid and offices in Lisbon, London, and Sao Paulo, we provide global countries, regions, and cities with a wide range of innovative and unique services, such as research, strategy, stakeholder engagement, policy making, urban policies, digital identity, and marketing advisory, as well as management and measurement of nation and place perception and reputation. Bloom Consulting’s technology division, D2 - Analytics, has developed several intelligence tools for countries, regions, and cities, such as D2 – Digital Demand ©, D2 – Digital Supply © and D2 – Live Quanti ©. The Economist, Forbes, The Guardian, SKY News and CNN have interviewed and quoted Bloom Consulting as a key international consultancy and expert in the field. Every two years, Bloom Consulting publishes its Bloom Consulting Country Brand Ranking © with the aim of analyzing the Country Brand performance of 180 countries and territories worldwide. This specialization makes Bloom Consulting one of the most advanced and globally renowned companies in the sector. In addition, Bloom Consulting is an official data partner of the World Economic Forum, and the World Bank and the European Travel Commission use Bloom Consulting data for measurement purposes.

At Samaritan Center, we heal hearts, provide hope, and enhance lives with a holistic approach to mental health for all ages, whole families and the military community. Samaritan Center was founded on the belief that there is a close relationship between the mind, body, spirit and community. We provide professional counseling, integrative medicine, peer support, wellness education and skills-building workshops that are accessible and affordable in Central Texas. Many clients are uninsured or under-insured low-income families, and veterans and military families struggling with service-related trauma. Our focus on the whole family means we serve all ages - from very young children to older adults - and can truly impact entire family systems. Samaritan Center programs include: • Healthy Community: counseling for children, adults, couples and families • Hope for Heroes: counseling, integrative medicine, and peer support for veterans, military service members and their families • Integrative Medicine: alternative treatments including acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutritional counseling, Tai chi, and Pilates • Military Field Clinician Program: a program serving justice involved veterans with peer mentoring and counseling • Military Veteran Peer Network (MVPN): a statewide mental health program that provides peer support for veterans; Samaritan Center facilitates this program in Travis County

We exist to eliminate domestic violence in Central Texas by sheltering victims of domestic violence and by preventing abuse from occurring through intervention and education.

Brookwood in Georgetown is a very “out of the box” innovative vocational community for adults with special needs where everything we make we sell in a beautiful high end gift shop, cafe and greenhouse. We want to change the way our world views this population by taking the "status quo” of providing these individuals with custodial care to these individuals creating beautiful, marketable items to sell to help sustain the vocational community they enjoy everyday. They have become artisans, bakers, gardeners, card makers, jewelry makers, and more.

Breast Cancer Resource Center (BCRC) is a community-based non-profit serving Central Texans since 1995. Strengthened by our mission to empower those affected by breast cancer with personalized support and compassion and in collaboration with our community partners, BCRC envisions a future where no one faces breast cancer alone. BCRC offers individualized, patient-centered care from the time of diagnosis, through treatment, and into survivorship. Through our pillars of support - Guidance, Education, and Peer Support Groups, BCRC’s Certified Patient Navigators, who are all breast cancer survivors themselves, empower those affected by breast cancer to become active and knowledgeable participants in their healthcare. All BCRC programs and services are offered at no cost to our clients and their loved ones.

OUR MISSION The mission of the Austin Area urban League is to assist African Americans and all other under-served Austin area residents in the achievement of societal and economic equality by focusing on educational improvement, employment readiness, health and wellness, and the preservation of affordable housing. OUR ORGANIZATION The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically under-served urban communities. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in New York City, the National Urban League spearheads the efforts of its local affiliates through the development of programs, public policy research and advocacy. Today, there are more than 100 local affiliates in 36 states and the District of Columbia, providing direct services that impact and improve the lives of more than 2 million people nationwide. OUR MOVEMENT The Austin Area Urban League incorporated on August 12, 1977, stands proudly as it takes its place among the 96 affiliates of the National Urban League. Although 36 years have passed since its creation, the Austin Area Urban League continues to hold fast to our original mission; one which guides our outreach, programming, partnerships and advocacy. We envision a community in which all citizens are free from barriers to education, economic and social success. Over the years, significant steps have been made in removing the early prejudices and barriers, thus allowing many of our constituents to learn to grow, and to thrive in the Austin community. As we move forward with our programs, we have been able to adapt to the ever-changing Austin environment – one that has grown from being merely the state capital to that of a thriving technological hub that incorporates the community, government, and the business sectors.