What is the Steel Valley Authority (SVA)?
The Steel Valley Authority (SVA) is a multi-municipality governmental authority addressing layoff aversion throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For a quarter of a century, SVA has been helping workers, the unemployed and their families, small manufacturers, and communities survive the traumatic changes in the global economy. Growing from a small regional initiative in response to the dramatic loss of local manufacturing jobs around Pittsburgh and the Mon Valley, the SVA has evolved into a nationally acclaimed leader driving both new economic policy and innovative programs that effectively save and create manufacturing jobs. The SVA works to revitalize American manufacturing through a number of innovative fronts including:
Over the past 25 years the SVA has earned a reputation of significant accomplishments in economic revitalization and pioneered the Strategic Early Warning Network (SEWN) in Pennsylvania, gaining incomparable expertise in business and manufacturing investment, retention and development. Building on its success, SVA has expanded its presence with offices in Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre and a fourth office whiich recently opened in Philadelphia. The SEWN Team is saving jobs and turning around critical manufacturing firms every day, one company at a time, in all 67 counties across the state.
The “bridge” symbol in SVA’s logo has stood for the values we believe in. It’s a bridge to the craftsmanship and artisanship of the past, our industrial heritage. It’s a bridge to cross over the troubled waters faced by the managers and workers who make the things that drive our economy and put food on our tables. It’s a bridge to the green advanced manufacturing jobs of the future that will employ our children. We hope you will appreciate our work to build these bridges and we hope you’ll join us.
