WE'RE HIRING Job Fairs
Delaware County is Ready to Work
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Join us for our WE'RE HIRING Job Fairs during the week of September 14 at the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce.
Connect with motivated workers for full or part-time employment.
Present information about your company and job openings.
Be prepared to interview applicants, accept resumes, and offer advice about how to prepare for employment with your company.
Cost:
Delaware County Chamber members: Free, included with your membership!
Registration is required.
Not-Yet Chamber Members: $50
Registration includes:
- Exhibit area under a 10'x10' tent, includes 6' table with cover, and two chairs
- Multi-media advertising campaign targeted at local job seekers, college students, and residents
- Access to electronic compilation of resumes of attendees
- Refreshment area will be available to exhibitors
COVID-19 Safety Precautions will be in place:
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Only nine booths are available for each event to abide with recommended distancing guidelines
- Use of masks will be required
- Masks and hand sanitizer will be available
Fair Schedule:
Friday, September 18: Professional Services, including financial services, education, and telecommunications
All programs run from 1:00 to 3:30 pm.
To register, click on the date above.
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FREE Business Assistance and Recovery Webinars |
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The Delaware County Chamber, along with the Commerce Chenango, will sponsor two FREE online workshops hosted by the United States Small Business Administration on September 22 and October 15 from 12 noon to 1 p.m. where business owners can learn about COVID-19 relief and recovery programs.
Traditional lending and small business assistance programs, as well as small business recovery programs, will be discussed. Participants will learn about SBA products and resources including access to capital and government contracting. SBA staff will speak about the current status of COVID-19 disaster relief resources. Topics will include: funding options, guidance for businesses and employers, and local assistance. Updates on disaster relief programs will also be discussed.
Questions will be answered by SBA staff following each session.
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ONC BOCES Appoints New District Superintendent
Dr. Catherine Huber was appointed as District Superintendent of Chamber member Otsego Northern Catskills Board of Cooperative Educational Services (ONC BOCES) on August 24, 2020.
Dr. Huber leaves her role as Superintendent from Alexander Central School. She earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership at D’Youville College.
In addition to her work in K-12 public education, Dr. Huber has higher education administration experience in addition to her current work as an adjunct lecturer in the SUNY Brockport Educational Administration program.
She chairs the Genesee Valley BOCES Superintendent Instructional Subcommittee and serves on the Chief School Officer Executive Committee and Management Subcommittee. Dr. Huber’s work with technology enhanced learning (Professional Learning 2.0) was published in the May 2020 Issue of ASCD’s Educational Leadership.
Dr. Huber holds a NYS School District Administrator, Permanent Certification, NYS Permanent Teaching Certification, English 7-12.
Welcome Dr. Huber!
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Hobart Rotary Club Sponsors Drive Thru Sausage Dinner September 19
Chamber member Hobart Rotary Club will sponsor a drive-thru sausage dinner at the Hobart Community Center on Saturday, September 19 from noon until sold-out at the Hobart Community Center parking lot on Cornell Avenue, Hobart.
The menu includes hot or sweet sausages ($7), with peppers ($8), a choice of side salads ($3 – macaroni, potato, coleslaw), jumbo chocolate chip cookies ($1), and beverages. Sausage meats will be provided by Albano Farms of Stamford, and fresh, homemade salads and cookies will be prepared by Rotary volunteers.
Drivers should enter from the corner of Maple and Railroad Avenues where traffic will be directed by volunteers. NYS Covid regulations and safe practices will be followed by all Rotary participants and drivers are requested to wear masks when interacting with servers.
All proceeds will support the Rotary’s community service activities including foreign exchange and other education programs, the South Kortright Central School backpack program, Delaware County food programs, senior outreach, highway cleanup, and village flower baskets.
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Delaware County Counts!
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Chamber Launches Online Learning Center |
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As part of the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce ongoing initiative to respond to member needs, an online learning center has been opened to help businesses meet their training needs in three key areas:
- Leadership, Management, and Supervisory Skills
- Sales and Customer Service Skills
- Human Resource Compliance Skills
In a self-paced, online learning environment, your staff can learn and enhance various skills including how to create a productive working environment, effective delegation, conflict management, working in a remote environment, working post-COVID and much more.
Sales and customer service modules focus on handling client or customer attitudes and objections, negotiating styles and effective sales negotiation and the dos and don'ts of effective customer services.
Human resources modules include diversity and inclusion training, micro-inequities, process of stereotyping and methods of exclusion, among other topics.
Each module is priced at a reduced rate of $45 per person.
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Annual Sexual Harassment Training Renewal Is Due in October |
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The Chamber has partnered with New Haven Consulting Group, Inc. to provide our members with an online “Preventing Sexual Harassment" workshop that meets the requirements of the new law.
This program is available at a Chamber-member reduced price of $20 per participant.
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Poster Welcomes Customers to Your Business |
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Use this poster to welcome customers back and inform them about the measures you are taking to ensure everyone's health. It also outlines the expectations of those entering your business.
Designed as an 8.5" x 11" poster, it can easily be posted in your window, on your door, at your point of purchase, and other prominent locations.
The Chamber will soon produce a video promoting the "We Can Do It" campaign, featuring Chamber members replicating the iconic image from the Second World War.
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At the start of the economic shut-down, the Chamber's Great Western Catskills promotion team quickly pivoted from marketing toward visitors to promoting the businesses that were able to serve people as essential businesses. We continued to do that through Phase 2 of the reopening.
We created a companion website-- SisBoomYum.com--within days of the stay at home order that allowed us to easily inform residents which restaurants, bottle shops, farm stores/stands and general supply shops remained open.
Our campaign netted 95,557 impressions, reaching 13,901 people in Delaware County, and resulting in 2,717 clicks through to the website providing information on Delaware County businesses.
We have shifted our focus now to BRINGING OUR VISITORS BACK.
The message is very simple: Delaware County is open and ready to welcome guests. We have fresh air, wide open spaces, incredible natural resources to offer. We are ready to welcome family and friends back to enjoy the Great Western Catskills.
Our next steps include:
- Focus on promoting the various businesses open during the current phase of economic reopening.
- Leverage all press opportunities through I Love New York that match well with Delaware County assets.
- Continue to update various sections of the GreatWesternCatskills.com site. Add new seasonal content.
- We have requested all businesses to provide their cleaning and special COVID protocols for us to add to the website. web
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Listen to Crisis Management and Recovery Workshop Recording
GrowthWheel for Crisis Management is a tool designed to help you make good and helpful decisions during a crisis. These tools encourage you to identify personal challenges, look for financial warning signals, and establish a solution plan. It includes decision sheets specifically designed to improve the operational aspect of the crisis.
Chamber member GrowthWheel is a worldwide recognized visual tool to help entrepreneurs make decisions and take action.
All webinar participants will receive 20 one-page worksheets at no cost for your use. Additionally, we have created a team of trained volunteers who have offered to guide you through the worksheets to find the ones that are most useful to your business.
This workshop is for business owners and managers, and will help guide participants through how make the best decisions in business during these stressful times.
Register to receive a copy of the recording here.
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Feeling Stressed?
The Chamber has partnered with Maia Wilde of Maia Wilde Consulting in Treadwell to provide stress relief tips and techniques for use in a business setting or at home.
This three part video takes you through a variety of poses, exercises and planning tips created to release tension from the body and the mind and help us navigate the uncertainties we are facing due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The New York State Office of Mental Health Emotional Support Helpline provides free and confidential support, helping callers experiencing increased anxiety due to the coronavirus emergency. The Helpline is staffed by volunteers, including mental health professionals, who have received training in crisis counseling. Call 1-844-863-9314.
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FREE (Virtual) One-on-One Business Counseling Sessions |
The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is offering FREE comprehensive programming to provide management and technical assistance to small businesses in Delaware County!
Specializing in direct one-to-one counseling, the SBDC offers assistance in the following business areas:
- Start-up assistance
- Business Plan Development
- Accounting and Financial Projections
- Sources of Financing
- Marketing
- Business Expansion
- Relocation and Agribusiness
There is no cost for the counseling services of the SBDC.
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The Delaware County Chamber is a private, non-governmental, not-for-profit membership organization. We believe that healthy communities begin with healthy businesses. By focusing on key areas–community and economic development, advocacy, tourism promotion, and business engagement–we partner with municipal leaders, community organizations, and local companies to present a unified voice of business for the improvement of our communities. |
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5 1/2 Main Street
Delhi, New York 13753
Give Us A Call: 607.746.2281
DelawareCounty.org
GreatWesternCatskills.com
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