It’s Your Business
Charleroi General Industries hires Mahaven
General Industries has hired Douglas E. Mahaven of Upper St. Clair as a senior estimator. With more than 30 years of experience in the construction industry, Mahaven brings to General Industries a wealth of knowledge in the industrial, commercial, institutional and heavy/highway sectors. He has been a senior/chief estimator since 1989 where he estimated major construction projects for a cancer research hospital, a student union for the University of California, the IKEA store in Robinson Township, churches, highway construction and many other large-scale construction projects.
Mahaven will work with owners, architects, sub contractors and General Industries’ project managers to identify the needs, demands and economies of projects to ensure that each project is delivered on time and within budget.
Mahaven is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, State College, where he earned a B.T. degree in Mechanical Engineering. Doug also has been a Certified Professional Estimator since 1987.
Pittsburgh
SCORE schedules workshop
SCORE will present a Small Business Basics Workshop on Jan. 13 from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Point Park University, Boulevard of the Allies and Third Avenue in the JVH Theater on the second floor, downtown Pittsburgh.
The workshop is designed to help people succeed in starting a new business and in growing an existing small business. All presentations are made by experienced business planners, lawyers, certified public accountants and bank loan officers.
The agenda includes: planning, financing, marketing, insurance, human resources, management, legal aspects, record keeping and business taxes for small business.
There is a fee that includes a continental breakfast and lunch. Reduced rates are available for group registrations.
For more information, call SCORE at 412-395-6560, extension 130 or 131 or visit SCORE at www.scorepittsburgh.com
Pittsburgh
Junior Achievement gets donation
Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania announced that it has received a $75,000 donation from Respironics Inc. of Murrysville. The donation was given by Respironics through Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program to support Junior Achievement’s Bishop Wuerl Scholarship program.
Junior Achievement expects an increase of nearly 70 percent in the number of scholarships that will be provided to students this year.
The scholarship program is very specific, providing tuition assistance to eighth grade students who are currently participating in JA programs at a catholic school and who wish to continue their catholic education by attending one of the high schools in the four diocesan school systems that are currently served by Junior Achievement. These include schools in the Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Altoona-Johnstown, and Erie diocese.
The Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC) began in 2001 to allow companies to receive dollar for dollar tax credits for financial support they give to approved educational improvement or scholarship organizations. Educational Improvement Organizations are non profit organizations that provide supplemental programming that help to enhance the curriculum that schools are currently offering. Junior Achievement’s programs supplement school curriculum by teaching students in grades k-12 the basic concepts of money management, career exploration, and job readiness just to name a few.
Of the over 70,000 students in our region that received Junior Achievement programs last year, support through the EITC program assisted JA in touching the lives of nearly 25,000 young people in western Pennsylvania with JA’s mission of opportunity, hope, and self reliance.
Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania is the organization’s 13th largest chapter, serving more than 70,000 students in 32 counties.
For more information, visit jawesternpa.org.