Celebrating Small Businesses

Onondaga Community College's Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is recognizing outstanding businesses throughout the counties it serves in conjunction with National Small Business week. The 2023 honorees are:

• Cayuga County - Winand Products Inc. in Auburn
• Madison County - H. Grey Supply Company in Cazenovia
• Onondaga County - Birch Tree Montessori in Warners
• Oswego County - Man in the Moon Candies in Oswego
• Seneca County - Finger Lakes Cider House in Interlaken

OCC's SBDC representatives are making presentations at each of the businesses this week.

The SBDC at OCC is also proud to recognize the Regional Small Business Lender Partner of the Year, Pathfinder Bank.

The Small Business Development Center at OCC offers no-cost, confidential business advisement services to individuals and companies throughout a six-county region including Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego, and Seneca counties. The advisor team has more than 150 years of collective business and business advisement experience. They provide customized solutions through advisement, education, research and advocacy for entrepreneurs, innovators, and the small & medium enterprise community.

Over the past 4 years the SBDC at OCC has:

• Assisted more than 4,600 clients,
• Nearly 640 of which started new businesses,
• Supported the creation or protection of more than 11,700 jobs,
• And aided entrepreneurs in securing nearly $72 million in investment, including loans, grants, or other private financing.

SBDC contact info:

• Email - sbdc@sunyocc.edu
• Phone - 315.498.6070
• Website - https://www.onondagasbdc.org/

The SBDC is funded by a grant from the US Small Business Administration and the state of New York.