A Community Engagement & Outreach Project on the Challenges, Realities and Opportunities of Economic Development and Community Wealth Generation You can hear the WCNY-FM broadcast of the three community economic development forums at www.wcny.org/radio/shows/tmr/ SESSION 3: Nov. 1-2 For the third and final Forum of the series FOCUS invites four local leaders actively involved in our […]
Onondaga County Director of Environmental Protection Travis Glazier and Honeywell Project Director John McAuliffe offered an update on the lake and surrounding projects. FOCUS presented some highlights from the 2017 community survey about Onondaga Lake waters. This Forum included great views of the lake from the Skydeck at Destiny USA.
The July Forum featured Onondaga Citizens League report on Community Engagement.
The June Forum brought a national speaker to Syracuse. The June 15, 2018, FOCUS Forum featured Dr. Joe Selby, Executive Director of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute in Washington, D.C., with Dr. Sharon Brangman of SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Selby’s visit is the result of years of work by the CNY-CAN collaboration of FOCUS […]
The May Forum on Showcasing Greater Syracuse was May 24 It featured: Kim Parker – Founder & CEO of Parkerpower Corporation – Accounting & Finance Professional Talent Search, MATCH & Placement Specialists Martin McDermott – Senior Vice President of JF Real Estate – Commercial Real Estate specializing in downtown office buildings and suburban retail properties […]
In 1997-98 thousands of people offered up goals for the Greater Syracuse community that boiled down to 87 categories. Our community is still tackling them, but here are 20 highlights.
Healing the Earth in a Time of COVID features Dr. Neil Murphy, who led O’Brien & Gere engineering and SUNY ESF, and Onondaga Environmental Institute President Dr. Ed Michalenko discussing lessons from the pandemic shutdown. See the August 2020 FOCUS Forum here.
The first virtual Forum on Coping with COVID Challenges features Sharon Brangman, MD, Chair of the Department of Geriatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University; and Tracey Musarra Marchese, Professor of Practice in Syracuse University’s School of Social Work.