General Benefits:

  • Join business people that are seeking to make Paoli a more-community centered village for increased local shopping, visiting, eating, playing, walking and enjoyment

  • Gain Association members for support of your businesses with local political groups

  • Provides representation and feedback regarding task forces focused on:
    • Paoli Transportation Center
    • Township ordinance coordination
    • BID/NID exploration
    • Parking alleviation initiative
    • Evolution to a more walkable town center community

  • Gives a louder, collective voice to businesses to ensure their needs are heard

  • Has established working committees to encourage increased business through beautification, pedestrian
    safety along Lancaster Avenue and by adding new businesses that answer an unmet need to drive traffic (please join a committee)

  • Plans community events and opportunities for participation and sponsorship

  • Actively pursues improvement grants, tourism monies and government contributions for village improvement

  • Participate in our long-term legacy program, The Front Porch Trust, that awards annual college scholarships

  • Offers group medical benefits

  • Receive enewsletters and alerts about meetings, speakers, events, new members, information on regional and legislative issues of interest

  • Creates goals for the town – like development of a Paoli Village Green


PBPA Also Provides Visibility and Sponsorship
Opportunities at Events

  • Breakfast for Champions, Blues Festival & Stroll, The Heart of Paoli Street Fair, Citizen and Business of the Year Banquet

  • Monthly meetings on topics of interest - financial, taxes, township, transportation, etc. and the opportunity to network

  • Owns, maintains and puts up the Christmas decorations that adorn the downtown business district.

  • Supports the maintenance of the VFW War Memorial.

  • Has “twinned” and maintains an international relationship with people from Corsica, homeland of Pasquale de Paoli (Paoli, PA’s namesake)

Visibility in Group Advertising

  • Street banners

  • PBPA web banner ads and enewsblasts

  • Inclusion in “Welcome” bag

  • InWayne.com advertising

  • Paolibusiness.com - Website directory, eblasts and electronic newsletter

  • Paoli map and directory

  • Scheduled networking events at your business


Membership Application

It's easy, fast, and best of all, affordable. For all the benefits above, your yearly membership will only cost you $150. When mailing us your application, please make checks payable to PBPA.

Dues are $150 per year September to August. Anyone joining after March 31 will receive Membership savings by paying $225 that registers them for a full year-and-a-half membership.

Please select the link that reflects your preference:

I would like to apply for membership and
pay by check.

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pay online via PayPal (credit card & bank transfer).


 

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! The Paoli Business And Professional Association is growing! We look forward to building a better community together.

The Front Porch Trust was created as a long-term legacy of the Paoli 250 celebration. There have been 18 scholarships awarded to date. It is PBPA's goal to continue this yearly. Click here for more details (PDF)

Click here to read the winning essays and view the photo gallery.


Packages to Iraq – Let’s Keep Them Coming
And Going!
The PBPA and Paoli Presbyterian Church have received several generous gifts from “postage angels” to not only enable the delivery of the existing 75 care boxes to soldiers in Iraq, but we can even continue to collect more boxes to mail.
Read more..


“Welcome to Paoli” POLE BANNERS! Get a banner, or two, for your business this fall. When the “Tredyffrin Township 300” banners are removed, there will be an opportunity for more “Welcome to Paoli” Banners to take their place.
Read more..


Paoli Master Plan – Transportation Center
In 2001, the Paoli Community Master Plan lays out a vision for long range development of the Paoli Community.
Read more…



Sept 23: Biz Blues & Networking Event, The Center on Central in Paoli.
Details



Oct 3: Paoili Blues Festival
Details



PBPA is now offering banner and text advertising on this website for our members.
Proceeds support the PBPA. For rates and formatting information, please click here or contact Marie Thibault.

 


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