Public Projects

Strategy developed to scale agricultural production and transform the food supply chain to become a major foodshed for the Northeast USA, by 2050.

Assisted with essential starting equipment for beginning farmers to establish viable business operations

Impact

Jobs Created: 16

Tech-Entrepreneurs & Start-Up Business Center offers access to resources and mentorship, ARC invested in...

Train and secure sustained employment for unemployed and underemployed residents of Broome County who experience barriers to employment from justice-related complications, such as former incarceration or substance use disorder

Impact

Workforce Served: 85

Prepare students to pursue higher education and employment within local industries, such as Advanced Manufacturing, Agriculture, Healthcare, and Business

Impact

Workforce Served: 763

Develop the first New York State regional ecosystem to assist underemployed individuals in recovery, and local employers improve workplace wellness with Broome Tioga Workforce, Family Counseling Services of Cortland, LEAF, The Council of Tompkins County, and The Agency.

Impact

Workforce Served: 168

With increasing averages ages and limited access to healthcare in much of the region, the Physician's Assistant (PA) Program at Ithaca College helps train more students to fulfill this healthcare need.

Impact

Workforce Served: 70

Jobs Created: 3

In response to food supply chain weaknesses, family-owned farm bankruptcies, and devastated rural economies, Schoharie Economic Enterprise Corporation was awarded an Appalachian Regional Commission grant to hire a consultant to write a business plan for profitable, sustainable, state-of-the-art independent processing facilities that serve as a pilot program for the region. They interviewed grocery chains and food distributors to learn the capacity and willingness to purchase from a local processing facility, what products, what volume, and at what price point. Farmers were also interviewed on barriers to redirecting and transitioning raw milk and other commodities to independent processing.

This program increased educational access for students seeking occupations in local technology-focused businesses.

Impact

Workforce Served: 108

Develop a stream corridor management plan to reduce flood risk and increase water management, including staffing, engineering services, and a public education campaign.

Attempts to minimize transportation as a barrier to employment by providing safe, reliable, and sustainable transportation to employment strategies that help program participants achieve long-term, stable employment.

Impact

Workforce Served: 294

Jobs Created: 1

Provide business loans, training, and technical assistance to entrepreneurs from communities under-represented in Tompkins County

Greater Good Grocery located at 435 State St. in Binghamton is a grocery store in a community with limited access to food. This program provided a workforce training program and allowed them to sell groceries at a lower price for those in need. The program expands the budgets of those in the community while encouraging healthy habits, providing the dignity of food access, and being a fully integrated community hub.

Impact

Workforce Served: 2

Jobs Created: 10

RoboRAVE International is a robotics education and competition program for students and teachers in Delaware and Chenango Counties

Impact

Workforce Served: 162

The EAGLES project prepared a unique learning experience that blends classroom instruction, pre-vocational skills training, and work-based learning for students who are historically underemployed after graduation. A total of 20 students per year who are working to receive either a Career Development and Occupational Studies Credential or a Skills and Achievement Credential will participated.

Impact

Workforce Served: 23

Hartwick College Grain Innovation Center will provide convenient, affordable, and reliable testing and technical support for growers, millers, and bakers. Located in downtown Oneonta, it will house a research bakery, a lab, and space to host workshops and other educational events. As with the CCFB, a priority of the Grain Innovation Center will be to provide Hartwick students with research and other experiential learning opportunities.

This pilot workforce STEM-based training program aims to work in collaboration with high-tech manufacturers to assist in increasing workforce skill development for industry needs.

Impact

Workforce Served: 37

This preliminary engineering report examines two drinking water source supply alternatives.

The Hub enhances recruitment, training, and retention of individuals entering nursing-related careers to address healthcare worker in areas with limited access.

Impact

Workforce Served: 97

This project enhances Cornell University's College of Agriculture & Life Sciences' Maple Syrup Laboratory with specific equipment needed for research and extension programs that advance the growth and profitability of the region's maple products industry

This program aims to bridge this gap through the creation of two jobs that will solely focus on the provision of ongoing communication and coordination toward making our region a successful, regionally branded food and hospitality destination.

Construct walkways, access drives, docks, launches, restrooms, storage structures, fountains, signage and a boathouse on the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers.

Develop training curriculum and acquire supplies for an advanced line-worker training program.

Develop an "earn and learn" pilot program that develops micro credentials to be earned as part of career pathways towards high-wage in-demand tourism jobs.

Tier Energy Network assessed and developed strategies to support established & start-up companies in the Clean Energy Industry across the Southern Tier.

Establish the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator, as a business incubator and start-up workspace, to create and develop transformational, innovative products and ideas, provide resources to grow startup companies, offering office and lab space, business mentoring by subject matter experts and strategic programs (In-person & virtually).

Develop and support educational programs and institutions to prepare students in grades 9-12 for post-secondary education by establishing work-based learning opportunities for students, while fostering workforce ready skills and supporting talent development for employers across the region.

Impact

Workforce Served: 28

Design of Master Site Plan for an industrial park and engineering plan of necessary infrastructure.

Development of a Technology and Manufacturing Development Center equipped with state-of-the-art manufacturing lines for the production of full-size battery cells, enabling the scale-up, qualification, and advanced manufacturing of batteries for various sectors.

Prepare engineering design plans for two 40,000 SF buildings to determine feasibility of construction, for manufacturing and warehousing.

Complete the expansive Phase 2 of our county-wide developable site inventory and spec sheets. With all the developable sites identified in Phase 1, Phase 2 will grade each property and create spec sheets with significant details included on the top-rated sites.

Develop a workforce program to expand opportunities for behavioral health practitioners, and provide "soft" skills for entry level jobs.

Start-up investment for the operation of a new shared-use kitchen for regional food-based business use.

Impact

Jobs Created: 13

Establish liquid compounding services that will result in cost reductions, job creation, and increase revenues needed to fund the services for individuals with disabilities.

Provided medical, dental, optical, and veterinary services to the Cortland County residents.

Impact

Workforce Served: 2477

Development of the Broome County Innovation District Fiber Enhancement and Smart Cities Plan

Establish a Malting Barley Quality Laboratory, to provide testing for malting barley and other food grains for regional farmers.

Expand volunteer medical transportation services to residents of the villages of Owego and Waverly.

Repair the flood-damaged Utica Main Line rail system that runs 45.5 miles through the county, from the southern part of Greene to Earlville.

Build fiber broadband trunk extension that spans from Ithaca to the recently retired Cayuga coal plant in Lansing.

Assist and support people in recovery through education, training, and wraparound services in order to attain or improve employment while improving the economic stability and workplace culture of small businesses through the use of an adaptive, evidence-based prevention model.

Expand affordable dental services to low and moderate income residents through the purchase of a custom-built mobile dental unit.

Impact

Workforce Served: 3885

Provide workers in recovery with wrap-around support services to better prepare for successful entry into workforce.

Impact

Workforce Served: 20

Construct a community kitchen facility at the Cobleskill Fairgrounds to be available for community use, in particular, small rural agribusinesses or entrepreneurs seeking to sell products at market which requires preparation in a Department of Health approved kitchen facility.

Provide engineering services to the Chenango County Fairgrounds and Fire Training Center.

Install fiber redundancy loops in strategic locations throughout the Southern Tier area of New York, creating a more resilient and less vulnerable fiber network in the region.

Study essential infrastructure upgrades as a critical need for the transformation of an abandoned industrial site into a vibrant mixed-use neighborhood including residential, commercial, and manufacturing uses.

Construct a waterfront multi-use trail along the Schoharie Creek linking downtown to larger recreational trails.

Construct a fiber network from the Town of Dryden Municipal Building to SUNY Tompkins Cortland Community College and connect to Open Access Southern Tier Network in Ithaca.

Complete a downtown parking plan with parking structure feasibility study.

Incentivize employers to work with educators to improve workplace preparation using plans and onboarding strategies.

Impact

Workforce Served: 31

Provide medical, dental, optical, and veterinary services to the Chenango County residents.

Impact

Workforce Served: 1131

Support the development of skilled workforce and creation of small businesses in health related fields.

Create an updated county governmental operations strategic plan that will guide operations for the next five to ten years.

Develop a plan, including public outreach, analysis of data, development of goals and objectives and the creation of a strategic action plan to meet the goals established.

Purchase a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Class A vehicle, which would allow the organization to offer CDL Class A training.

Rehabilitate the administration building and jet hangar at Lt. Warren E. Eaton Airport in order to attract a fixed based operator (FBO) to a fresh, newly renovated, energy efficient facility.

Develop a strategic development plan for Cortland County. This strategic development plan will foster increased community resilience and generate positive economic impacts throughout Cortland County communities.

Develop a Technical Assistance Program for communities interested in establishing their own reuse operations, based on the nationally-recognized Community ReUse Center model

Launch a micro-credentialing platform focused on STEM skills and careers for schools in Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego Counties.

Impact

Workforce Served: 231

Create a county operations strategic plan to prioritize investments in government operations to more efficiently and effectively serve community needs while improving organizational resiliency.

Develop a 6-12 month transitional employment program to provide instruction, 400 hours of authentic paid work-experiences, and job coaching.

Provide medical, dental, optical, and veterinary services to Delaware County residents.

Develop a Strategic County Plan with robust resident engagement in order to set new and updated priorities in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Develop a 3-part strategic plan that analyzes Broome County's current and future operational, housing, and energy efficiency needs.

Draft a comprehensive housing study to identify trends, goals, and strategies to improve the overall housing stock in Schoharie County.

Create an aggressive vision of projects and initiatives to spur Chenango County growth into the future.

Construct a new business park which would allow businesses to expand in the northern end of Otsego County.

The project will develop programs and train the local workforce to fill local in-demand jobs within the Healthcare & Wellness Industry, developing 4 micro-credentialling programs & a related degree program.

Develop a two-year Mechatronics/Robotics program for high school students and adult students.

Impact

Workforce Served: 4

Construction of an extension to an existing one-mile trail connecting the Village of Endicott and the Town of Union.

Develop a model to improve workforce development using mentors as vehicles to connect students with employers.

Impact

Workforce Served: 218