** Member Spotlight **
Honest Brook
Music Festival
The Chamber shines this week's member spotlight on Honest Brook Music Festival located at 1921 Honest Brook Road, Delhi.
Honest Brook Music Festival was founded in 1989 and is a registered, 501C-3 non-profit, committed to presenting concerts by outstanding young musicians and well-known artists. The Festival’s Summer Series is held in a preserved dairy barn amid the idyllic rolling hills of the Western Catskills. Adjacent to the barn there are beautiful perennial gardens that welcome concert-goers before performances and during intermissions, when refreshments are served. The 2021 concert line-up includes:
Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.
July 10 – Cuarteto Latinoamericano (string quartet) with Jiji (guitar)
July 17 – Thomas Mesa (cello) & Ilya Yakushev (piano)
Sundays at 4 p.m.
August 1 – The Claremont Trio
August 8 – Albert Cano Smit (piano)
For more information call 607.746.3370, email hbmf@aol.com or visit them online by clicking here.
Please support the small businesses that support our communities! #strongertogether
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Third Thursday:
Chamber Connects with Assemblyman Joe Angelino
Start your day with a productive and potentially profitable virtual learning opportunity! Stay current on what’s happening in Delaware County and the region, and learn how to effectively pivot toward a sustainable and thriving business model.
Our FREE monthly Third Thursday : Chamber Connects interactive, virtual
Q & A webinar on June 17 from 8:30 - 9:30 a.m., is a terrific opportunity to participate in a leader-led conversation focused on building a better business and better business climate!
The featured speaker for this event is Assemblyman Joe Angelino, representing the 122nd Assembly District, including the towns of Colchester, Deposit, Franklin, Hancock, Masonville, Sidney, Tompkins and Walton in Delaware County.
Assemblyman Angelino is a member of the Banks, Corporations, Authorities and Commissions; Oversight, Analysis and Investigation; People with Disabilities; and Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development Committees.
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2021 Business Links Golf Tourney is a Success!
On Wednesday, June 9 the Chamber held its 2021 Business Links Golf Tournament at The College Golf Course in Delhi. It was a perfect day on the course and an excellent opportunity for out-of-the-office networking!
A huge thank you to our sponsors: sfcu, NBT Insurance, Clark Companies, Delhi Telephone Company, Hughson & Benson Insurance, HELIOS Care, Lamont Engineers, and INKdicted!
Pictured below are three of the the four members of the tournament's winning team, Meyers Cabinetry, who won the tournament with a team score of 57! Golf Pro, Dave Arehart, left presents the team with their cash prize. Chamber President Ray Pucci, is at the right.
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NYS: $800 million COVID-19 Grant Program for Small Businesses NOW OPEN
Empire State Development, the state’s primary business-aid agency, will open the online application portal on June 10 for the COVID-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program. The funding was included in the 2021-22 state budget that was adopted last month.
Besides small businesses, the grants will be available to small for-profit arts and cultural organizations.
The maximum grant amount is $50,000 per applicant and will serve as reimbursement of employee wages, rent and mortgage payments, taxes, utility bills and other operating expenses from the pandemic. The minimum grant is $5,000.
The grant amount will be based on the applicant’s 2019 gross receipts and serve as reimbursement for expenses incurred between March 1, 2020, and April 1, 2021. The expenses may include the purchase of masks, gloves, face shields and other personal protective equipment and improvements to ventilation systems to slow the virus' spread.
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Watch this video from Delaware County Economic Development to learn more about the process. |
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FREE Transportation to COVID Vaccination Appointments |
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Chamber Check In
Chamber staff have been hard at work for members this week! For more information visit delawarecounty.org. #strongertogether
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Tobacco Free Communities Seeks Your Input
The intent of the survey from Tobacco Free Communities: Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie (TFC-DOS) is to learn about the tobacco and smoking rules for your outdoor property. Participation in the survey is voluntary. Employers who complete and return the survey by June 21 will be eligible to enter a raffle for a 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘅𝘆 𝗔𝟳 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘁. If you would like to participate in the raffle, please provide your contact information at the end of the survey. We will ONLY use this information to enter you in the raffle and / or provide any requested information.
To fill out the survey, please click:
Tobacco Free Communities | Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie (TFC-DOS)'s mission is to use current data and research to reduce the devastating health impacts and alleviate the social and economic burden caused by tobacco use in Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie counties. TFC-DOS offers free education, technical assistance and resources in developing tobacco-free policies and in preventing youth from becoming tobacco users. Located on Main Street in Oneonta, TFC-DOS is one of 21 chapter organizations in New York State funded by a state Department of Health grant. We offer free technical assistance, resources and education on DOS.
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Delaware County Travel Guide Now Available |
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The printed version of our travel guide is now available. Rather than the typical endless lists of most guides, ours is more of an experiential guide to our many assets. It’s really a lifestyle publication and can assist you in your recruitment and on-boarding efforts.
Distribution of the guide started earlier this week, bringing a little bit of Delaware County to information centers from Albany to Utica to Binghamton to Northern Jersey and along the New York State Thruway.
If you want some of the 50,000 guides we just received, contact us by calling 607.746.2281 or email info@delawarecounty.organd we can arrange a time for you to pick them up.
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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.
Reservations are required for the one hour appointments. Schedule your appointment at by clicking HERE.
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Chamber 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 Prevention Training |
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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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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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