2020 'Toys for Tots' Campaign Underway |
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Join the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce in providing Christmas gifts to Delaware County children in need by dropping off a new, unwrapped Christmas gift in a Toys for Tots collection box located throughout Delaware County.
Toys for Tots works with the U.S. Marine Corps to provide a tangible sign of hope to economically disadvantaged children at Christmas. The Toys for Tots program was created in 1947 and has distributed 584 million toys to date to 265 million children.
In 2019, The Delaware County Chamber, through its member businesses, collected nearly 800 toys which were distributed to Delaware County children.
This year, participating members who have placed toy collection boxes in their businesses include:
- Community Bank, Delhi
- Coldwell Banker Timberland Properties, Margaretville
- As You Wish Design & Gifts, Walton
- Feather & Stone Restaurant, Walton
- Ren-Rest Building Supply, Walton
- Robinson Terrace Nursing Center, Stamford
- NBT Bank, Grand Gorge and Hobart
- Delhi Telephone Company, Delhi
- Margaretville Telephone Company, Margaretville
- Hobart Hardware, Hobart
- Hobart Book Stores, Hobart
- Delhi Motors, Delhi
- The Arc of Delaware County, Hamden and Walton
- M-ARK Project, Arkville
- Beaver Mountain Log Homes, Deposit
- Mirabito, Steiner Road, Sidney
- Roxbury Town Hall, Roxbury
- Catskills Regional Harvest, Andes
- Catskill Seasons, Margaretville
- Sidney Municipal Airport, Sidney
- Subb Hubb, Walton
- Delaware County Sheriff's Office, Delhi
This year’s Delaware County campaign runs from Nov. 2 through Dec. 4. Chamber staff will pick up the toys from member businesses on Dec. 4 and deliver them to Delaware Opportunities which has partnered with the Chamber, to provide distribution of the gifts to Delaware County families.
To sign up a family in need of Christmas gifts contact Delaware Opportunities at 607.746.1600.
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2020 "I Pledge" Campaign
The Delaware County Chamber encourages people to make the pledge to spend local, shop small, eat local, enjoy local and support the small businesses that support our communities. This year's Campaign launches on November 28.
You will see these posters in businesses and other high-visibility, high-traffic locations throughout Delaware County reminding all of us to support the foundation of our local economy.
If you would like a poster for your location please stop by our office located at 5 1/2 Main Street in Delhi.
Remember, we're stronger together!
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Restoring Consumer Confidence
With cases of COVID-19 increasing in several communities across Upstate New York, our businesses, particularly retail and restaurants, are being threatened with new government-mandated restrictions. While we may have no control over the latest dictates from the Governor’s office, each business owner can influence consumer confidence that our stores, restaurants, and offices are safe and welcoming places.
Earlier this year, consumer confidence reached a nine-year low. More recently, the McKinsey & Company Consumer Pulse Survey found that one-third of U.S. consumers have returned to “normal” out-of-home activity, while 80% report still feeling somewhat unsafe. The survey also noted that 84% of U.S. households plan to maintain or reduce their holiday spending. The good news, though, is that more than half of consumers plan to shop at different retailers than last year, with concern for safety being the most important reason driving this change.
What, then, can you do to bring new consumers to your front door, while keeping your core of returning shoppers? Here are a few simple and inexpensive actions you can take to ensure that your customers feel safe and comfortable doing business with you.
- Promote safe social distancing practices
- Tell Your Story
- Offer contactless checkout
- Acknowledge the struggle
- Emphasize safety
Consumer confidence is more than an economic indicator toward recovery - it is a state of mind. As we remind our neighbors to shop local, we can focus on their desire to shop safe. We can help restore their faith by taking actions to support them during this anxiety-filled time, build consumer confidence, and reignite our local economy.
#StrongerTogether
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Free Online Platform to Learn New Job Skills
A new online training platform has been launched by the Governor's office
and will enable unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers to learn new skills, earn certificates, and advance their careers at no cost. The new platform will provide access to nearly 4,000 online programs taught by leading professors and industry professionals, with a focus on high-growth and in-demand sectors like advanced manufacturing, technology, and health care, among others.
Examples of the wide range of courses, programs, and professional certificates available include:
- How to Manage a Remote Team
- Business Writing
- Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Design and Manufacturing Machine Learning
- Motors and Motor Control Circuits
- Generative Design for Additive Manufacturing
- Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects
- Marketing in a Digital World
- Supply Chain Operations
- Data Science Specialization
- Project Management
- Cybersecurity
- Google IT Support Professional Certificate
- The Business of Health Care Specialization
- Medical Neuroscience
- Financial Markets
- Facebook Social Media Marketing
- Entrepreneurship
- Introduction to Game Development
- The Art of Negotiation, and more!
To sign up for a free account and begin skill-building click here.
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Chamber Check - In
Chamber staff have been busy this week working for members! Click on the video to see what we've been up to and what we have planned!
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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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5 1/2 Main Street
Delhi, New York 13753
Give Us A Call: 607.746.2281
DelawareCounty.org
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