New York State

  • NYS Covid-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program opens

    Empire State Development is happy to announce the New York State COVID-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program is now open! This program was created to provide flexible grant assistance to currently viable small businesses, micro-businesses and for-profit independent arts and cultural organizations in New York that have experienced economic hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The […]

  • NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER ANNOUNCES BLOOD EMERGENCY WITH NEW MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO HELP INCREASE DONATIONS

    NEW YORK – Today New York Blood Center announced a blood emergency, with a 3-day bloodsupply. The long-term impact of the pandemic has resulted in a year of virtually no youth firsttime donors, 3000 fewer blood drives and 100,000 New Yorkers that have yet to return to donate since before the pandemic. Complicating matters, recently […]

  • Economic Development Opportunity Highlights

    $800 million New York State COVID-19 Small Business Recovery Grant Program Provides grant funding to eligible small and micro businesses and for-profit independent arts and cultural organizations impacted by the pandemic. Grants will be flexible and can be used for a number of different business operating expenses, including payroll, rent or mortgage payments, taxes, utilities, […]

  • RCC Marketing Team Named Finalist in Global Solutions Sustainability Challenge

    ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y. (June 3, 2021) – Rockland Community College honors class won second place in the Global Solutions Sustainability Challenge where twenty-seven international teams from institutions in the U.S., Iraq and Jordan competed in a competition focused on technology and sustainability. The Global Solutions Sustainability Challenge is funded by the Stevens Initiative, which is […]

  • U.S. Census 2021 Data Summit Series

    JUNE SPOTLIGHT In June 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau New York Region is hosting the following Data Summits. You can register for the summits by clicking the links below.  A complete catalog of Data Summits is attached and can be found HERE.

  • Mid-Hudson Economic Development Updates

    Economic Development Opportunity Highlights Consolidated Funding Application (CFA) Now Open The eleventh round of the CFA is now open with over $750 million in funding available through more than 30 state programs. Since 2011, the first year of the REDC initiative, the CFA has enabled businesses, municipalities, not-for-profits and members of the public to apply […]