Retention Growth Progress Lakeshore focuses on helping businesses retain and grow, presenting a sales opportunity to offer tailored services that support business stability, expansion planning, and recruitment—especially for small to mid-sized firms seeking local resources and partnerships.

Economic Development Active involvement in Excellence in Economic Development events and partnerships with local universities indicates opportunities to propose consulting, event sponsorship, and program management services targeted at regional economic initiatives.

Entrepreneurial Training New and expanding ventures are being nurtured through the Entrepreneurial Training Program, suggesting demand for coaching, mentorship, startup programming, accelerator-style offerings, and post-training advisory services.

Funding & Licensing Recurrent updates about childcare development specialists and licensing resources point to a need for grant writing, licensing navigation support, and funding optimization services for providers and related small businesses.

Visibility & Tech As a tech-enabled nonprofit with a visible website and marketing stack, there is potential to offer digital marketing, CRM optimization, and data-driven growth services to enhance outreach, analytics, and partner engagement for Progress Lakeshore and its network.