Pennsylvania First Program (PA First)
This program provides financial assistance to businesses and organizations in Pennsylvania to promote investment, job creation, and economic development throughout the state.
Description
Pennsylvania First (PA First) is a comprehensive funding tool to facilitate increased investment and job creation within the commonwealth.
Financial Info:
Grants Loans Loan Guarantees The Pennsylvania First Program was established as a comprehensive funding tool to facilitate increased
investment and job creation in the commonwealth and to enable the commonwealth to compete more effectively
in the global economy.
Grants under this program are processed under the authority of Section 3 of the Act of May 10, 1939 (P.L. 111,
No. 51), known as the Commerce Law, which authorizes the Department of Community and Economic
Development to undertake ways and means of promoting and encouraging the prosperous development of
Pennsylvania business, industry and commerce, of expanding markets and promoting and developing new
markets for Pennsylvania products, to encourage the location and development of new business, industry and
commerce within the Commonwealth, to aid in restoring employment in communities affected by
unemployment, and to assist persons, firms, associations, political subdivisions, corporations, cooperative
associations and other organizations in the execution of its duties and functions under the Act.