CBED | The Center for Business and Economic Development is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania not-for-profit, volunteer organization committed to assisting new & aspiring entrepreneurs, high-school & university students, and certain established enterprises develop and implement the skills and business practices needed to successfully navigate today's corporate environment.

The Center for
Business and Economic Development
The Center for Business Education & Development (CBED) is a Pennsylvania not-for-profit, volunteer organization committed to assisting new & aspiring entrepreneurs, high-school & university students, and certain established enterprises develop and implement the skills and business practices needed to successfully navigate today's corporate environment.

Founded in 2008, CBED was created by the management and staff of David A. Lopez and Company, LLC as a way to combat the increasing failure rates of new businesses in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding areas. The Delaware Valley is consistently one of the regions within the United States with the highest rates of business creation and business failures. These failures are caused by many reasons, but during the last few years, the firm saw young businesses and new entrepreneurs falter due to a lack of professional guidance. In response, the firm, with the support and input of other local professionals formed CBED to provide business owners access to local experts that, under normal circumstances, may have been out of reach.

Our professional volunteers are licensed accountants, attorneys, bankers, insurance and risk management advisors, investment and wealth-management counselors, management consultants, and valuation specialists that have committed their time and expertise to strengthen the local business community and to serve as a support system for those business owners on the threshold of greatness.

With the wide array of expertise and knowledge that we have at our fingertips, CBED will create an atmosphere that will promote economic vitality and strength by providing professional guidance, instructional workshops, educational materials, and timely, relevant information to businesses throughout the Delaware Valley.

Mission and Vision
Our mission and vision is to be diligent and relentlessly strive to be tool for success for business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs throughout the region, state, and country by providing access to education, information, networking, and technical assistance. To continuously promote business development and opportunities by serving as a catalyst for entrepreneurs in our region. To remain committed to providing a forum for business success by encouraging; the exchange of ideas within our professional network, strategic collaboration between entrepreneurs that our organization serves, and the development of strategies that will assist businesses grow, establish stability, exist to maturity, and sustain profitability.