Rescue Mission Alliance expands food service and culinary education center

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SYRACUSE — It’s a facility that provides meals and trains those who would like to help provide meals. The Rescue Mission Alliance has completed a $5.8 million project that expanded and renovated the Clarence L. Jordan Food Service and Culinary Education Center. The center includes an expanded dining area that “triples seating and better accommodates” […]

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SYRACUSE — It’s a facility that provides meals and trains those who would like to help provide meals.

The Rescue Mission Alliance has completed a $5.8 million project that expanded and renovated the Clarence L. Jordan Food Service and Culinary Education Center.

The center includes an expanded dining area that “triples seating and better accommodates” foot traffic. The expansion also allows for two serving lines to reduce outdoor waiting.

The renovated center also offers workforce-training space to prepare adults for employment in the food service industry.

The Syracuse–based nonprofit, which is located at 155 Gifford St., on Nov. 7 formally opened the venue following the project that spanned more than four years, the Rescue Mission said in a news release.

The work included a “full update” to the nearly 30-year-old commercial kitchen. The facility also has increased storage to accept more food donations.

It has a multi-purpose room that will serve as a chapel and for client/community events. The facility also offers a family dining room and additional restrooms

Salina–based Parsons-McKenna Construction Co. was the general contractor. King + King Architects of Syracuse was the project’s architect. The initiative involved “energy-efficient” construction to reduce utility costs and the structure’s carbon footprint, the Rescue Mission noted.

“This project was long overdue and will have a tremendous impact on the people we serve for decades to come,” Rescue Mission CEO Dan Sieburg said. “Our new food service center will allow us to meet the growing need in the community, and will ensure those we serve will continue to be treated with dignity and respect.”

The food service center bears the name of Clarence L. Jordan, a longtime Rescue Mission executive director and honorary board member, who passed away in September 2018.

The Rescue Mission now serves up to 700 meals a day to men, women, and children in need. In 2018, it served nearly 200,000 meals at its campus in Syracuse.

The Rescue Mission Alliance is working to end homelessness and hunger across upstate New York, with operations in Syracuse, Auburn, Ithaca, and Binghamton.

Council to join ConMed board in December

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UTICA — ConMed Corporation (NASDAQ: CNMD), a Utica–based surgical-device maker, recently announced that LaVerne Council will join its board of directors, effective Dec. 1. Council is the national managing principal of enterprise technology strategy & innovation at Grant Thornton LLP, a large accounting and advisory firm based in Chicago. She previously served as the senior

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SUNY Broome, SUNY Empire State College partner on allied health program

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BINGHAMTON — The presidents of SUNY Broome Community College and SUNY Empire State College on Nov. 7 announced a new partnership “making it easier” for SUNY Broome students to advance their health-care careers with an online bachelor’s degree in allied health from SUNY Empire State College. It represents the first partnership in New York that

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It represents the first partnership in New York that helps students with an associate degree in an allied health field to pursue a bachelor’s degree, Empire State College said in a Nov. 7 news release.

The agreement provides guaranteed admission for eligible students in SUNY Broome’s dental hygiene, health-information technology, medical assistant, physical-therapy assistant, and radiologic technology associate-degree programs into SUNY Empire’s bachelor of science in allied health program. SUNY Empire will waive the orientation fee for transfer students, provide a $100 Presidential Scholarship, and support the students in their transition to online learning, the school said.

“Our partnership will streamline opportunities for SUNY Broome students in the health-care field to also earn a bachelor’s degree that works around their schedule,” SUNY Empire State College President Jim Malatras said. “It’s a win-win for the students and for many communities facing a shortage of qualified health workers in critical areas of need. We are always working to make higher education more accessible to everyone. I want to commend the faculty and staff at both institutions for making this first of its kind partnership possible.”

The demand for health-care workers between now and 2020 “is projected to grow nearly twice as fast as the national economy in the U.S.,” per the release. Allied health professionals — which include a range of health-care practitioners who are not doctors, nurses, or dentists — make up about 60 percent of the health-care workforce, “with more and more jobs requiring bachelor’s and master’s degrees.”

The “flexible” online bachelor’s degree at SUNY Empire is designed to help working health-care practitioners advance their careers with a degree that focuses on core competencies for health-care professionals, which prepares them to “improve outcomes” for individuals, families, and communities.

“This partnership is a win not only for our students, but for our region’s health-care providers, who are in great need of trained allied-health professionals,” SUNY Broome President Kevin Drumm said.

“The program provides an opportunity for seamless academic progression to the bachelor of science degree and beyond,” Kim Stote, associate dean for the SUNY Empire School of Nursing and Allied Health, added. “The bachelor of science in allied health degree option will allow students to gain the additional knowledge, skills and competencies to move into new roles within health care and achieve personal and professional goals.”

4 Tips For Steering Your Business Through Tough Times

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Good times come with this certainty: They never last. For businesses, that means formidable challenges (a weak economy, new competition, a sea change in the marketplace) are always just around the corner, and unprepared business leaders face the potential for disaster. You don’t have the luxury of resting on your laurels. You have to keep

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Good times come with this certainty: They never last.

For businesses, that means formidable challenges (a weak economy, new competition, a sea change in the marketplace) are always just around the corner, and unprepared business leaders face the potential for disaster.

You don’t have the luxury of resting on your laurels. You have to keep battling, innovating, out-innovating, and outworking your competition.

Here are four tips for helping business leaders meet the toughest of times with a resolute attitude:

• Acknowledge fear, and move through it. Fear gets a bad rap, but it’s there for a reason: to protect you from something. Just like standing on a balance beam is scary because your life or limbs are at risk, so, too, is making business decisions that carry huge risks. Your job is to acknowledge the fear — to take note of its presence — and then push through it. Fear is a normal human response. The trick is in not letting it dominate your psyche.

• Commit to finishing what you start. You have to commit before you even begin. If you start anything knowing you probably won’t succeed, then you won’t. You’re setting yourself up for failure. You must show up with full commitment, having faith, true grit, and belief in yourself.

• Know that all great ideas start with “what if.” Never be afraid to ask what if, over and over, until you find an answer. Most of the best entrepreneurial innovation in the United States over the past 20 years has been born out of Silicon Valley, precisely because of the constant willingness to ask and re-ask this simple question. Some people’s responses to challenges or obstacles are to stop asking questions. If you want to solve a problem, you have to open yourself up to the possibility that change is inevitable, and reframing the problem will present an otherwise undiscovered solution.

• Remember that you have to be present to win. You can’t win a race if you’re not competing. So before you do anything else — before you commit to finishing what you start, before you acknowledge your fear and move through it — you have to show up. Remember that saying that 80 percent of success is showing up? There’s truth to that because showing up matters.

It’s inevitable that, regardless of how well you think you’ve planned, life will throw you curveballs.

They will come at you in every area, every industry, every walk of life. I’ve faced them as a mom, wife, entrepreneur, executive, friend — you name it. But I don’t run from them. I’ve learned to apply my brother’s advice: “The only way out is through.” The truth is, I love curveballs, because each one comes with a question: What the hell are you going to do about it?

Alyssa Rapp (www.alyssarapp.com), author of “Leadership & Life Hacks: Insights from a Mom, Wife, Entrepreneur & Executive,” has been CEO of Surgical Solutions since 2018. Previously, from 2015 to 2017, she advised startups and private equity-backed companies through AJR Ventures. Prior to that, Rapp ran an e-commerce business called Bottlenotes for about 10 years.

Leadership Greater Syracuse graduates its 29th class

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SYRACUSE — Leadership Greater Syracuse (LGS) announced that 53 area citizens are ready to take on high-level community roles in Central New York after graduating from the LGS Class of 2019 on Nov. 13 at The Rail Line event venue in downtown Syracuse. “The Board of Directors, staff and I are very proud of this

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Tell Us What’s in Store for Your Business in 2020

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Current macro-economic trends reflect a regional economy that is overall strong and growing. However, to truly get a clear, nuanced, and comprehensive picture of the region’s economy, we ask our CenterState CEO members annually to share their expertise through our economic forecast survey and focus groups. Members can take this year’s survey through this link: https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=157177508200 CenterState CEO

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Salina industrial flex building sold for $225,000

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SALINA — The 9,400-square-foot industrial flex building located on about one-quarter acre at 505 Mitchell Ave. in the town of Salina was recently sold. Richard Madonia purchased the property from Cambridge Properties, LLC in August for $225,000. William Evertz of Cushman & Wakefield/Pyramid Brokerage Company exclusively represented the marketing of the property and facilitated the

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Barclay Damon appoints Burgio as cannabis team leader

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SYRACUSE — Barclay Damon LLP announced it has named Aleece Burgio, special counsel, as the firm’s new cannabis team leader. In this role, she will lead and oversee multi-disciplinary team members in counseling clients across the full spectrum of cannabis-related legal issues, the Syracuse–based law firm said in a news release. Burgio’s primary focus is

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CNY Tweets – November 18, 2019

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Some recent tweets that came across the @cnybj Twitter feed, offering various small business, HR, and career tips. SBA @SBAgovDid you know @sbirgov programs provide U.S. small businesses more than $3.7B in early stage R&D funding per year to develop breakthrough technologies of tomorrow? More information available at http://ow.ly/wnsv50wUjC5 IRS Small Biz @IRSsmallbiz#IRS to business

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Some recent tweets that came across the @cnybj Twitter feed, offering various small business, HR, and career tips.

SBA @SBAgov
Did you know @sbirgov programs provide U.S. small businesses more than $3.7B in early stage R&D funding per year to develop breakthrough technologies of tomorrow? More information available at http://ow.ly/wnsv50wUjC5

IRS Small Biz @IRSsmallbiz
#IRS to business owners: Learn more about the rules and limitations for depreciation and expensing. They may affect your business now: https://irs.gov/smallbiz

Angel Biz Advisors @AngelBiz
5 Steps You Must Take Right After Starting Part-time Business – http://ow.ly/r3fK30pR3FO #entrepreneur #smallbiz

Strategic Watch @Strategic_Watch
Unlocking The Inner Entrepreneur: How A Shift In Leadership Helped This Entrepreneur Find Another $10 Million In Revenue http://dlvr.it/RHgSzx

NFIB @NFIB
@kcbroughton of @WSJ reports on how #SmallBiz assesses the costs of beneficial ownership bills, citing NFIB’s opposition because “they raise privacy concerns and cut into the time that small business owners should be using to run their companies.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/small-businesses-brace-for-compliance-hurdles-under-shell-company-bills-11572782401

Wells Fargo SmallBiz @WellsFargoWorks
New ideas don’t always have to come from the top. Owning a #smallbiz means listening to customers and employees for insight on what could be the next big thing. Find more guidance: http://on.wf.com/60121KRaa

Clay Sanford @Sanford_IRS
The Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) has features that can help #smallbiz employers meet their tax obligations. Get more details from #IRS: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-reminds-employers-about-the-benefits-of-eftps

Lolly Daskal @LollyDaskal
How to Make Your Management Meetings More Productive @LollyDaskal http://bit.ly/2MRrhSd

Leadership News @post_lead
Can you learn to be a leader? http://dld.bz/dDQy2 #smallbiz #leadership

Mark C. Crowley @MarkCCrowley
Next time you send an employee to a #training class, ask them to teach you what they learned & even put together a brief presentation to their colleagues. The adage according to Harvard’s Angela Duckworth (Grit): “Tell me & I forget, teach me & I remember, involve me & I learn.”

Blueboard @blueboard
How do you measure recruiting productivity at your organization? We put together our best recommendations from @Lever, @bamboohr, @MHEducation, @eventbrite, and @RelativityHQ: http://bit.ly/31Py2ea

SHRM @SHRM
Are businesses expecting too much? Or has a college education changed so much — or not kept up enough w/the changing workplace — that a four-year degree is no longer a ticket to a rewarding career and a decent living? https://shrm.co/softskills

Connection Culture @ConnectToThrive
Are you a boss or a leader? @RandyConley shares 7 ways to tell the difference and why it matters to your workplace and #career. http://ow.ly/pbYX50x6IVR

Hannah Morgan @careersherpa
Developing a Career Insurance Policy: https://careersherpa.net/developing-a-career-insurance-policy/

Microsoft begins partnership with Syracuse organizations

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SYRACUSE — Tech giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) has started an “expansive” partnership in Syracuse. Company representatives recently visited Syracuse, meeting with community stakeholders and planning for implementation of programs and services it will make available to people, nonprofits, and businesses, per a news release from the local organizations involved. Top executives of Microsoft on Nov.

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SYRACUSE — Tech giant Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) has started an “expansive” partnership in Syracuse.

Company representatives recently visited Syracuse, meeting with community stakeholders and planning for implementation of programs and services it will make available to people, nonprofits, and businesses, per a news release from the local organizations involved.

Top executives of Microsoft on Nov. 7 joined with the City of Syracuse, Onondaga County, and Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (iSchool) for a signing ceremony to launch Microsoft’s “expansive” partnership in Syracuse.

“For this new era of digital transformation to benefit us all, we need to create strong ties across government, academic institutions, and industry in support of a common vision of a digital future. The Syracuse AI Innovation Digital Alliance represents an opportunity for us to formalize a multistakeholder collaboration that will use Artificial Intelligence [AI] in responsible and trustworthy ways in order to create a smarter city and a more accessible environment for the acquisition of digital skills,” Jennifer Byrne, MSUS chief technical officer at Microsoft, said.

Microsoft plans

The memorandum of understanding outlines Microsoft’s plans to select Syracuse as home to its first Smart Cities technology hub in the Northeast.

Microsoft will also seek a location on the Southside Campus for the New Economy geared toward early-stage startups and people who want to build a company.

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh discussed the Southside Campus for the New Economy in his “State of the City” address in January, but his office tells CNYBJ that specific locations and parameters on that project are still to come.

The firm will also partner with education providers and community organizations on digital literacy and workforce training.

In addition, Microsoft will sponsor public events, including an “Innovation Summit” before June 30, 2020.

The firm will also support development and research in artificial intelligence (AI) to grow “long-term” opportunities for residents and a “leading-edge” role for Syracuse in that arena. It will also support continued development of an “entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem” to help “establish [and] grow” new startups and innovation jobs.

Significance

The collaboration is “significant” to the Syracuse community because Microsoft will work with the additional partners across the region to deliver a “broad” curriculum of technology and digital-literacy programs to local nonprofits, community centers, educational institutions, employment, and workforce development organizations, and businesses.

The goal is to “more rapidly advance the Syracuse Surge, the community’s strategy of inclusive growth in the New Economy,” per the release.

The iSchool in October announced an alignment of technology initiative and economic development goals between the City, County, the iSchool, Syracuse University, and Microsoft. That followed talks with Microsoft leadership over the summer at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters, led by the iSchool and involving Mayor Ben Walsh and Onondaga County. The City and the iSchool previously have collaborated on smart data events and “Smart Cities” technology initiatives.

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