Meet State Senate Candidates
The Chamber is hosting two virtual and nonpartisan forums for New York State Senate candidates.
New York State Senate District 51 event, featuring candidates Jim Barber (D) and Peter Oberacker (R), will be held on Wednesday, October 21, starting at 12 noon. The 51st Senate District is comprised of all or part of nine counties. In Delaware County, the district includes the towns of Andes, Bovina, Davenport, Franklin, Harpersfield, Kortright, Meredith, Middletown, Roxbury, Sidney, and Stamford.
New York State Senate District 42 forum, featuring candidates Jen Metzger (D) and Mike Martucci (R), will be held on Thursday, October 22, starting at 10:00 am. The 42nd Senate District includes parts of Delaware, Sullivan, Ulster, and Orange counties. In Delaware County, the district includes the towns of Colchester, Delhi, Hamden, Masonville, Tompkins, and Walton.
Both events are free and open to the public via Zoom. Connection information will be emailed prior to the event to all those who register. We will record the programs and make them available for viewing later.
Registrants are encouraged to submit written questions to info@delawarecounty.org in advance of the event.
To register, click below:
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Become a Delaware County Business
'Toys for Tots' Collection Site
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Join the Chamber in providing Christmas gifts to Delaware County children in need! Your business provides a toy collection box for the public to drop off new, unwrapped toys. The Chamber will provide the logo labeling for the collection box and advertise that your business is a collection point!
Chamber staff will pick up the toys from your business and deliver them to Delaware Opportunities, which has partnered with the Chamber, to provide distribution of the gifts to Delaware County families.
To participate call the Chamber office at 607.746.2281 or email us at info@delawarecounty.org.
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Small Business Start-Up Entrepreneur Academy
DCMO BOCES is offering a 4-week fast-track business workshop as part of its newly launched Entrepreneur Academy aimed at start-up businesses, beginning Oct. 27. A combination of in-person and facilitated workshops will be offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at the BOCES Harrold Campus in Masonville and the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce in Delhi.
Participants will explore business consultant and coach-led online marketing and promotion tools and learn business planning techniques and strategies.
Cost is $240 per participant and includes workshop materials and online access to Growthwheel business success tools. Scholarships are available.
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Your Business is Our Business!
Help us to understand your business needs and how we can help you achieve your business goals by completing this Business Check-In Survey for members - and not-yet members!
The Chamber Board of Directors is committed to ensuring that our organization responds to the needs of our members. Your answers to this brief survey will shape the Chamber's future and our program offerings.
Survey responses received by October 31 will be entered into a drawing for a $100 Chamber credit that can be used toward County Chamber membership, program registration fees, or events.
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Chamber Check - In
Chamber staff have been busy this week working for members! Click the video to see what we've been up to and what we have planned!
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Virtual 19th Congressional Candidate Forum on October 20
Meet 19th Congressional candidates Antonio Delgado, Democrat incumbent, and Kyle Van de Water, Republican challenger, who will speak and take questions during a Facebook LIVE watch party on October 20 from 9 to 10 a.m.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear these candidates and ask questions. This event is sponsored and hosted by our friends at the Ulster County Chamber of Commerce and Radio Kingston.
Mark your calendar and visit the Chamber's Facebook page on October 20, where Chamber staff will screen your questions to be forwarded to the candidates.
"Like" and "Follow" the Chamber on Facebook and Instagram for information, events and videos that will help your business succeed! |
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NEW as of October 9
New Forgiveness Rules for PPP Loans
The U.S. Small Business Administration, in consultation with the Treasury Department, today released a simpler loan forgiveness application for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans of $50,000 or less. This action streamlines the PPP forgiveness process to provide financial and administrative relief to America’s smallest businesses while also ensuring sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars.
“The PPP has provided 5.2 million loans worth $525 billion to American small businesses, providing critical economic relief and supporting more than 51 million jobs,” said Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. “Today’s action streamlines the forgiveness process for PPP borrowers with loans of $50,000 or less and thousands of PPP lenders who worked around the clock to process loans quickly,” he continued. “We are committed to making the PPP forgiveness process as simple as possible while also protecting against fraud and misuse of funds. We continue to favor additional legislation to further simplify the forgiveness process.”
“Nothing will stop the Trump Administration from supporting great American businesses and our great American workers. The Paycheck Protection Program has been an overwhelming success and served as a historic lifeline to America’s hurting small businesses and tens of millions of workers. The new form introduced today demonstrates our relentless commitment to using every tool in our toolbelt to help small businesses and the banks that have participated in this program,” said SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza. “We are continuing to ensure that small businesses are supported as they recover.”
SBA and Treasury have also eased the burden on PPP lenders, allowing lenders to process forgiveness applications more swiftly.
SBA began approving PPP forgiveness applications and remitting forgiveness payments to PPP lenders for PPP borrowers on October 2, 2020. SBA will continue to process all PPP forgiveness applications in an expeditious manner.
Click here to view the simpler loan forgiveness application.
Click here to view the instructions for completing the simpler loan forgiveness application.
Click here to view the Interim Final Rule on the simpler forgiveness process for loans of $50,000 or less.
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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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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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Delhi, New York 13753
Give Us A Call: 607.746.2281
DelawareCounty.org
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