The Hotspot Café at 101 E 3rd St. was presented with the new JCC Entrepreneur of the Year Award during a ceremony on Thursday morning.
The Small Business Development Center at SUNY JCC launched the effort to recognize area small businesses who have adapted to pandemic challenges, something owner Hector Alverio is all too familiar with.
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June 29th at 4PM ET: BronXchange, Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative, and Owner to Owners to host a business roundtable conversation on how Bronx businesses can survive and thrive in the post-pandemic future. Although some resources will be specific to the Bronx, many topics will be of value regardless of a business location, like employee ownership, growing, and selling your business.
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New York Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) had to help small business owners with a new challenge this year — reimagining their business model and rebuilding in the face of an economic crisis caused by a global pandemic. For 35 years, the SBDC has focused exclusively on small business assistance. That mission has become even more critical this year as thousands of businesses were forced to close during the New York Pause. The SBDC’s network of experienced and knowledgeable business professionals, located in service centers that reach into every neighborhood in New York State, played a more significant role than
ever. They helped small business owners invest more than $511 million in their businesses and impacted
more than 25,000 jobs. They helped thousands of businesses stay in business that might otherwise have gone under.
The success stories in our 2020 Annual report demonstrate how the COVID pandemic impacted small businesses in New York and how the NYSBDC came to the
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Binghamton, NY – State University of New York Chancellor Jim Malatras announced today that the New York Small Business Development Center (New York SBDC)—the state's premier business assistance organization administered by SUNY and funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration—has helped nearly 3,000 COVID-19-impacted small business owners secure more than $560 million in aid over the last 14 months. That funding includes more than $265 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, nearly $125 million in COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster (EIDL) loans, as well as other local, state, and federal grants.
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