Sentences with phrase «small cities community»

GOSC is New York State's administrative agency for the federally funded Small Cities Community Development Program.

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A new exhibit at New York's Tenement Museum explores a century of the city's immigrant small - business owners, while the city government champions its growing tech startup community.

«Small banks are definitely the driver of small business,» says Joshua Siegel, founder and managing principal at StoneCastle Partners, a financial firm that invests in community banks and is based in New York Small banks are definitely the driver of small business,» says Joshua Siegel, founder and managing principal at StoneCastle Partners, a financial firm that invests in community banks and is based in New York small business,» says Joshua Siegel, founder and managing principal at StoneCastle Partners, a financial firm that invests in community banks and is based in New York City.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

The personal finance site recently crunched through numbers from the Small Business Administration, the Census Bureau, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics among other sources to uncover the best cities with thriving communities of educated, young entrepreneurs.

She has been active in the Toronto community promoting startups, female entrepreneurship and has been a guest speaker at Ivey School of Business, University of Waterloo and City of Toronto Small Business Forum.

Instead of just the big, famous causes and their galas, Six Degrees is more focused on people who are in individual, smaller communities, or big cities, who need funding and can use the celebrity status to get noticed.

From a distance, a Canadian SME may avoid places like Jackson because they're small communities with the sort of insular business networks that tend to characterize such cities.

That includes a focus on communities of color, the military community, LGBTQ, people with disabilities and those in small towns and cities.

The problem was that many small, community - based entrepreneurship support organizations, or ESOs, existing in New York City lacked resources, networks, and visibility.

The city's Small Business Development Center is also well - integrated with the business community, giving new company owners the resources needed to succeed.

At last week's Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program graduation at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., and again this week at the White House's United State of Women Summit, Buffett offered his number - one tip for business success.

Friends who live in smaller communities have much nicer bigger newer houses but sacrifice liveability (my opinion) and lower COL. Yes, I do find it cheaper and healthier to live in a coastal city.

The 10,000 Small Businesses program currently operates in 19 markets in the U.S. through a network of more than 100 academic and community partners, and the program continues to expand on a city - by - city basis.

Across the top 10, the average unemployment rate is 5.1 %, a full point below the average across all small cities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2013 American Community Survey.

To ensure business owners are aware of and accessing the full range of financing options available to them, Wells Fargo recently established referral relationships with more than 20 nonprofits and other lenders in cities across the country that are participating in the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Community Advantage program.

West Fargo is one of the fastest - growing communities in North Dakota and is known for its small - town living with the resources and amenities of a large metropolitan city.

«Every dollar put into helping more people in Miami participate in our city's economic opportunities is an investment in our future and these funds will go to community organizations that are helping families and small business owners get ahead and build a path to prosperity,» Guillermo Castillo, market leader and head of commercial banking for Chase in South Florida, said in a statement.

Secondly, we would welcome invitations to speak to local groups, including economic development organizations, community bankers, and city government, about our bill and how it will help Massachusetts communities and small banks.

In contrast, Public Banks empower small businesses, students, homeowners, city and state governments, and community banks to prosper and thrive by banking for the common good over the long term, and making low - cost credit available where it is needed in the real economy.

Grounded in Boston Fed research, the Challenge encourages leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to advance proposals that tackle complex challenges facing smaller post-industrial cities and achieve large scale impact across communities.

I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

Because of it, 85 % of the startups in the GAN community stay in business and continue to operate thriving businesses in cities large and small, all over the world.

Over and above, mobile juice truck business is indeed a profitable line of business and it is open for any aspiring entrepreneur to come in and establish his or her business; you can choose to start on a small scale servicing a community or you can choose to start on a large scale with several mobile juice trucks in key cities all around the United States of America.

Making and marking history in low - income community struggle at the edge of Metro Vancouver On May 2nd 2017 a small group of homeless people and supporters marched from Maple Ridge's soon - to - close Rain City

The goal of the presentation is to provide audience members with information that will inspire them and encourage them to return to their own town or city and work to increase engagement of underrepresented segments of their community in entrepreneurism and small business growth.

And whether you live in a big city, small town, or somewhere in between, we know you care about your community — as do we.

They don't have the support system that people provide in small cities and farm communities.

Morrison accepted the position at the small (less than half the size of the Perry congregation) west - side church in the city and became active in the Disciples community of the Hyde Park area located near the University of Chicago.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

A little over a year ago, God gave us, Cornerstone Community Church, an ethnically reflective church in the small city of Orangeburg, S.C. (that has the greatest BBQ in the world!)

We simply do not know what community would look like in a modern city because our deepest cultural experience with it comes from the 19th century, in the small - town, face - to - face relationships of an agrarian economy.

In the early years of Islam, when the Muslim community was small and frequently under attack, the Prophet Mohammed sent a delegation of recent converts from the city of Mecca to the kingdom of Abyssinia.

A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.

As small towns, small firms, inner cities, in spite of and at times, in their own way, because of gentrification, decline, and suburban life styles become increasingly mobile, privatized, and fragmented, the loss of the sense of community is more acute.

I want to tell you about a small vegetable patch at our city's community garden that we challenged ourselves to take care of last year (as strange as last year sounds).

My daughter's class got to spend the morning at the sugar bush in a small community not far outside the city.

(NEW YORK)-- The Alliance for a Healthier Generation and America's beverage companies announced today that New York City will now be part of a community - based initiative to help reduce beverage calories consumed by 20 percent per person by 2025 in neighborhoods where there has been less interest in or access to lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverages.

This national effort includes a «Community Initiative» that calls for a focused, aggressive, multi-pronged approach in neighborhoods within select cities where for a variety of reasons there has been less consumer interest in — and thus less access to — bottled water, lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverage choices.

Ms. Brenner has received a Rising Star Award from Women for WineSense (2008), a New York Small Business Administration Women in Business Champion Of The Year (2009), a New York City National Association of Women Business Owners Signature Award (2010), the Lillian Vernon Award for Outstanding Community Service by the Women's Enterprise Development Center (2011), a NY Women in Communications Rising Star Award (2013), the Rockland Business Women's Network Woman of the Year Award (2014), American Cancer Society Dr. Louis Berger Award (2017), and Wine Enthusiast Wine Star Award Person of the Year Nominee (2017).

There was this small town feeling of community, like everyone in the city was on one team and they were there to crush it — while being non pretentious, incredibly kind, and filled with a sincere love for their town.

As a woman who's chosen a small city as her home base, it's heartening to see another blogger out there owning her «tightly - knit creative community» (aka Bloomington, Indiana) with so much pride.

Earlier this week, I went to a small town about 40 minutes east of where I live to speak on behalf of the immigrant community in the hopes that the city council wouldn't vote to oppose SB 54 (California's major piece of legislation that creates real limits on state and municipal law enforcement from being used for immigration enforcement).

As the small city recovers, it doesn't want to be defined by the crash; it wants to be defined by how its heartbroken community responds.

Protecting a nine - game unbeaten run that stretches back to their Community Shield triumph over Manchester City is one massive incentive for the players who do turn out on Tuesday, while there's also the small matter of surging to the top of Group C. Only a two - goal margin will suffice if United wish to take command of an incredibly weak group, and they may well achieve that goal against a team more renowned for their goalscoring exploits back home than for their staunch defending.

I recently moved from a city in Southern Canada to a small northern Canadian community.

What we hadn't realized at the time was that this one article is a small part of a continuing debate over cloth versus disposables for low - income families in Salt Lake City... perhaps everywhere since it is a topic that affects communities nationwide.

The tiered investment structure offers several packages that focus on marketing services for your business, increased interactions with consumers through community events, contributions to beautification projects along the local business corridors, and a direct connection to city departments that work with small businesses.

Berkshire Bank, known for its great corporate citizenship and strong support of small businesses, is the official community partner of «Boston Seasons presented by Berkshire Bank» at City Hall Plaza.

BV (as the locals call it) offers all of the small - town charm and the sense of community that comes with a small town as well as offering a «big city» appeal.