2019 NEW YEAR MESSAGE
What is FOCUS Greater Syracuse?
“Forging Our Community’s United Strength,” FOCUS Greater Syracuse is a community-wide visioning program created with the goal of making Syracuse a better place to live and work. Started by a group of interested residents, the program, loosely modeled after several visioning projects around the country, came out of the desire to determine a course of action and growth for Syracuse. FOCUS Greater Syracuse is a not-for-profit organization.
What is different about FOCUS Greater Syracuse from other visioning programs is that the ideas came from thousands of every day folks, the citizens of Syracuse and Central New York, not from people in authority positions.
FOCUS asked the citizens of Greater Syracuse what their dreams were for the future of our community. What did they want Central New York to look like in the future? They came up with real goals. READ ABOUT THEM HERE.
We highlight 20 GOALS for 20 YEARS.
FOCUS Mission Statement
FOCUS is a citizen driven organization that taps citizen creativity
to bring about change in Central New York by enabling citizens,
organizations and government to work together to enhance the quality of our lives
and our economic future.
FOCUS engages in citizen-centered research, engagement and planning.
www.focussyracuse.org
FOCUS Board of Directors
Current Board
BOARD
Carrie Carapella, SRC, Inc.
Sean Daughton, Dannible & McKee, LLP
Daniel Feng, P.E.C., Inc.
Robert Haley, Architect, AIA, LEED, AP
Suzann Hensley, American Red Cross
Brian Hoke, Bentley Hoke LLC
Michelle Jones Galvin, Onondaga County administration, retired
Carlene Lacey, National Grid
Michael LaMontagne, C&S Companies
Andrea Latchem, Syracuse University retired
Donald Radke, FM Realty, Board President & acting Executive Director
Kathleen Rapp, Onondaga County Legislature, retired
Rita Reicher, KS&R
David E. Rogers, SUNY Morrisville
Amy Rood, Brown & Sanford Consulting, LLC
William Sanford, Brown & Sanford Consulting, LLC
Nancy H. Smith, N H Smith Consulting
Mary Thompson, Home Builders & Remodelers of Central New York
Ahmeed Turner, Say Yes to Education
Emeritus
Bill Brod, Syracuse New Times
Lucille Browning, Citizen Volunteer
Kevin Magdon, Hilton Worldwide
Andrew Maxwell, C&S Cos., SUNY ESF
Judith Mower, JC Mower Consultants
George Puzey, GA Puzey Consultants
Rosie Taravella, American Red Cross
2019 NEW YEAR MESSAGE
2018 NEW YEAR MESSAGE
FOCUS Staff
Don Radke
Acting Executive Director and Board President
focus@syrgov.net
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Jim’s Letter of Thanks to Friends of FOCUS
James Keib
Former FOCUS Executive Director
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Charlotte “Chuckie” Holstein
Executive Director Emeritus
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Dee Klees
Communications Director
focus@syrgov.net
dklees@syrgov.net
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