Employer Resources

These resources are provided for informational purposes only. PWDC does not endorse, nor can it guarantee the accuracy of, any of the listed resources.

  • African American Chamber of Commerce: The leading advocate for black-owned businesses in the Delaware Valley.
  • Ben Franklin Technology Partners: An independent not-for-profit economic development organization that stimulates economic growth through innovation, entrepreneurship and the development and adoption of new technologies.
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics: The principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
  • Center for Workforce Information and Analysis: Pennsylvania's designated provider of employment statistics. 
  • Delaware Valley Healthcare Council: Assists member organizations to improve the health status of their communities and to exercise leadership in addressing the  appropriate restructuring of the regional health care system through advocacy, information and education in the public interest.
  • Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center: An economic development organization dedicated to helping manufacturers in the Philadelphia region compete  and grow.
  • Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce: As advocate for businesses  throughout the region, dedicated to supporting and encouraging the continued growth of each of its nearly 6,000 member companies, and the business community at large.
  • Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce: Helps to develop, promote, and advocate for Hispanic business in the Greater Philadelphia area and encourages the advancement and economic growth of the Hispanic community.
  • Guide to the Philadelphia Reentry Employment Program (PREP): Offered through the Mayor's Office of Reintergration Services for Ex-Offenders (R.I.S.E), this program provides employers with business tax incentives associated with the hiring of ex-offenders.
  • Innovation Philadelphia: A public/private partnership dedicated to increase the region's entrepreneurial capacity and to position Philadelphia as a leader in the Global Knowledge Economy.
  • InventPA: A provider of easy-to-access online programs, initiatives, and assistance for businesses, communities, and individuals.
  • Mayor’s Business Action Team: A provider of business assistance, services and programs by the City of Philadelphia and its economic development agencies.
  • Midlantic Business Alliance: The region’s largest association dedicated exclusively to the needs and concerns of small and medium-sized businesses.
  • Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers: Provides entrepreneurs with the education, information and tools necessary to build successful businesses.
  • Pennsylvania State Data Center: The Commonwealth's official source of  demographic and economic data.
  • Pennsylvania Workforce Improvement Network: PA WIN’s purpose is to help literacy providers integrate the basic skills needs of  their community’s workforce within the services offered by their agency. 
  • Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation: PIDC is a private, not- for-profit Pennsylvania corporation, found in 1958 by the City of Philadelphia and the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce to promote economic development throughout the city.
  • Philly.com: The region’s news homepage.
  • Select Greater Philadelphia: An organization dedicated to marketing our region nationally and globally as well as attracting and growing companies to firmly establish Greater Philadelphia as a top-tier place to do business.
  • SEPTA: The nation’s fifth largest public transportation system and one of the region’s largest employers, with a workforce of about 9,000 employees.
  • U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration: Focused on understanding business' needs and funding training programs to help meet those needs.