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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 … [Read more...] about NYS Covid-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program opens

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 there has been a surge in blood usage as … [Read more...] about NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER ANNOUNCES BLOOD EMERGENCY WITH NEW MEDIA CAMPAIGN TO HELP INCREASE DONATIONS

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 … [Read more...] about RCC Marketing Team Named Finalist in Global Solutions Sustainability Challenge