The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania received a $100,000 grant from the BB&T Economic Growth Fund, a donor-advised charitable fund of the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation.

The funding will support the fit out costs of a new, expanded student, faculty and alumni collaboration area to create the Lehigh University "Hatchery" business incubator within the new Ben Franklin TechVentures West Wing on Lehigh's Mountaintop Campus.Since 1983, the incubator has graduated 68 successful companies that together have created more than 6,400 jobs and grossed more than $1.2 billion in recurring annual revenue.