Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in the growth of the economy.
As businesses begin, some also die, but those that can withstand the toll of time continue to build a reputation and develop into some of the iconic businesses that we know today. The YMCA of Youngstown began serving the community in the 1800s and became an independent, locally controlled Ohio corporation in 1884, which was 32 years after the first YMCA in the United States was founded.