Name Title County Summary Total Budget

Career Readinees for High Low income high school students will identify post-graduation
Community Action School Students: Bridging opportunities to devlop maximum earning potential over their
Madison $69,812
Program the gap between education lifetimes. Increases awareness of education opportunity and
and the workforce alternative career paths while developing skills and future plans.
Training for 25 employeees - building the first African-American
Access Dental Employee
Access Dental Onondaga owned, full service dental laboratory on the south side of $445,500
Training Program
Syracuse.
Workforce preparedness and re-entry for 150 individuals who are
Loretto Expansion of an Employee- Onondaga justice-oriented over proposed program period of three years $858,030
Based Re-Entry Program (2020-2022).
Provides 75 participants with pre-employment and vocational
North Side
Economic Mobility and ESL, job development and employer connections, case
Learning Center, Onondaga $279,895
Quality of Life Project management & support services, career pathways learning,
Inc.
college navigation, and workplace literaly skills.
Northern
CenterState CEO will partner with CENTRO and Commute with
Onondaga,
Enterprise to launch Commute’s vanpool program in Central New
Oswego,
Centerstate CEO Commute CNY York. Commute with Enterprise uses a vanpool model to fill gaps $646,800
parts of
in the transit system, connecting workers from underserved areas
Madison and
to workplaces in remote localalities.
Cayuga
Program will create career pathways for low-income individuals
from distressed communities by establishing workforce and
education strategies that align with employer needs and create
Oswego County
SCORE Oswego County Oswego tools and incentives for educational attainment.Program will $180,000
Opportunities, Inc.
ncrease access to transportation to private sector job
opportunities and in career and technical educational
opportunities.
Career Services will expand its internship offerings in Oswego and
Oswego and
Cayuga Counties during the school
OnPoint Career Services Cayuga $1,000,000
year and over winter break, building on a successful internship
Counties
program which began in 2017
After-school program in SCSD for middle and high school students
to prepare young men for employment through job and college
Building Men
Building Men Onondaga readiness skills which will help with employment opportunities $74,672
Program Inc.
after high school or collge graduation. A Leadership Conference
will also be held in February.
United Radio is proposing a formal training and certification
program. The program would run over the course of three years
United Radio Workforce Training Program Onondaga $551,550
and positively impact the lives of an estimated 325 unskilled
laborers.
Upstate Minority
To increase capacity and develop a diverse set of training
Economic Alliance WorkNow CNY Onondaga $337,500
programs for minority and new American businesses.
(UMEA)

Program will create career pathways to address barries to

Jubilee Homes of W.E.D. Build to Work
Onondaga employment and careers while helping to devlop aspirations and $914,735
Syracuse, Inc. Program
a pathway to achieve goals.

Educational attainment and work readiness program geared

Work Readiness for the Deaf
WHOLE ME, Inc Onondaga specifically towards deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals living in $479,880
and Hard of Hearing
Central New York.

People's Equal Provide facilitated solutions to help children and families in the
Action and The Early Childhood Career shorter-term and contribute substantially to identifying and
Onondaga $526,370
Community Effort, Pathways Project addressing cross-sector systems issues. To increase the number
Inc. of trained practitioners in early childhood education settings.

Community Action Provide employment services and opportunities, along with skill
Program for training to current inmates and those recently released. Address
Community Action Program Madison $455,361
Madison County barriers to re-entry including housing, employment, education
Inc. and case managemnet services.

Driving Books Home​ is a mobile, seven-week summer literacy

Oswego program that drives books, hands-on activities and healthy snacks
Driving Books Home​ Oswego $124,611
Bookmobile Inc. into neighborhoods where our neediest children live and play.
Funding requested for a new book mobile.
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Will provide grants for part-time small business owners trying to
Partnership for Southern Madison County
become full-time, someone buying a business or farm from a
Community Rural Business Transitions Madison $300,000
retiring owner, and business transitioning. Program will assist low-
Development Program
income individuals start and grow locally-owned businesses.

Program to facilitate recruitment of the “unexpected

The Good Life R.E.A.L. Success HipHop- entrepreneur” between the ages of 13-24 to participate in a
Philanthropic preneurship Academy Onondaga series of workshops, entrepreneurship bootcamp, and $661,000
Youth Foundation Program Expansion experiential learning opportunities designed and taught by
experienced business and entrepreneurship educators.

Identify, create, and promote opportunities that support the

advancement of minority and MWBE, to increase certification,
participation and utilization, by lowering the rate of waivers on
Diversify-NY ,LLC Certify CNY 5 Counties $336,000
NYS contracts, offering monthly MWBE certification assistance
workshops in the five county region, and providing ongoing
technical assistance to businesses to build their capacity.

Partnership with Nick's Ride to provide structural outcomes to

Cayuga/Seneca improve health and/or safety, increase access to transportation
Volunteer Transportation
Community Action Cayuga to private sector job opportunities, increase unemployed and $235,754
Program
Agency, Inc. underemployed residents placed in jobs, increase access to
educational opportunities and overall health and well-being.

Increase sustainable employment and economic security for low-

YWCA of Syracuse
income minority individuals and women by providing life skills
and Onondaga Work2Work Onondaga $327,206
training, professional development, job training, and access to
County, Inc.
employment.

A coding bootcamp that teaches computer programming to

women and minorities to help combat poverty in Central NY. To
Hack Upstate Careers in Code 5 Counties provide students with the technical skills they need to obtain $618,000
internships and entry level software development jobs with local
employers after 24 weeks of instruction.

Before & after school drop-off and transportation using provided

Boys & Girls Clubs Great Futures Start Here
Onondaga vans. Provide meals, homework help, extra sleep and lifeskill $284,712
of Syracuse and Take You There
planning to youth.
To increase the number of trained, culturally and linguistically
diverse, practitioners in early childhood education settings
Partners in Diversity in Early Education throughout Onondaga County.
Onondaga $582,075
Learning, Inc. & Care Expansion Project activities will aim to minimize or eradicate barriers to
career pathways in child care and early education by providing
language help and seminars.
Cortland County
YWCA Cortland & stabilization and expansion Provide CDA training and credentials to stabilize and expand
Cortland $629,889
CAPCO program for Early Learning the early learning (birth-5 years) care system.
Child Care
Provide entry-level job opportunities and support services for
Brady Health Hope and members. Provide a new and accessible place to purchase
Brady Faith Center
Healing- Agribusiness Onondaga discounted healthy food and to use this new grocery store and $500,000
Inc.
Apprenticeship Program food distribution center to provide job training at a variety of
levels.
Create tools and incentives for educational attainmnet within low-
E. John Gavras income communities, making higher education accessible and
Imagination Library Cayuga $45,000
Center affordable for all. Include monthly mailing on average of 2,400
books totalling 28,800 books delivered to homes.
Help ensure residents are better connected to all the available
Seven Valleys
Transportation to resources like jobs, transportation, healthcare, andr human
Health Coalition, Cortland $139,446
Employment services. Providing these types of rides will increase social norms
Inc
for carpooling
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Creates career pathways for low-income adults in the health care
industry. Provides immediate opportunity for employment and
Pathways to Health Pathways to Health Care provides a pathway to continue education in the field of nursing.
Cortland $276,032
Care Careers Careers Provide opportunities, tools and incentives for participants to
earn the credential to obtain employment in the health care
field.

Syracuse Northeast Assist unemployed and underemployed individuals across Central

Supported Employment
Community Center Onondaga New York in finding employment, building financial security, and $598,700
Program
Collab caring for themselves and their families.

Provide opportunities to learn a sustainable and professional

career for more significant economic opportunity. The need to
USA Barber School
Madison become a state-accredited trade school, purchase equipment, $80,490
Incorporated
student supplies, and complete construction renovations for a
state of the art barber school experience.

Rescue Mission Addition of one full-time and one part-time postion to assist
Rescue Mission Workforce
Alliance of Onondaga those who struggle to find and maintain employment. Provide $275,425
Development Expansion
Syracuse, NY tools to stengthen lives and build independent futures.

To build a robust and inclusive workforce pipeline for residents,

aligned with upcoming employment opportunities. Access to
Work Train Syracuse Build Onondaga these jobs will place lower income residents along career $519,610
pathways that will improve financial opportunity and reduce
poverty over the long term.

Pathway of Hope (POH) is a national initiative and long-term

The Salvation Army Pathway of Hope - Oswego
Oswego intensive case management strategy for families $293,706
of Oswego County County
motivated to break the cycle of inter-generational poverty.

SYRUP works in neighborhoods marked by the highest

concentrations of poverty and addresses economic disparities
and inequities by providing access to business opportunity for low-
Building Generational
Syracuse Urban income neighborhood residents by helping them start and
Wealth Through Onondaga $1,001,000
Partnership operate successful small businesses in their own community. This
Entrepreneurship
will assist in building generational wealth to become visible
leaders in the revitalization of their neighborhood through a
collaborative approach.
Build wealth and next-generation community leadership by
Business establishing and growing entrepreneurs and business ownership.
Business Opportunity Fund: Onondaga,
Opportunity Fund: Will focus on attainable, affordable small & micro business loans $600,000
Phase 2 Oswego
Phase 2 to help establish and grow business within economically
distressed target markets.
A comprehensive job search & readiness program to build the
Dunbar The Dunbar Workforce skills of participants to help them obtain and retain gainful
Onondaga $200,000
Association, Inc. Development Initiative employment, moving them from poverty to wealth. Includes civil
service exam preparation.
Refugee and Immigrant Self- 120 low-income, unemployed and underemployed refugees and
RISE Onondaga $280,879
Empowerment other immigrants will participate in the project over one year.

Funding through this proposal will allow HHQ to expand its

Redevelopment of 310
Home
South Avenue, Syracuse
HeadQuarters, Inc.
(B&B Lounge)
programming in both scale and scope. HHQ's existing rental
Onondaga $300,000
portfolio will increase to 93 units with the addition of two
residential units at 310 South Avenue.

Provide an alternative transportation solution for low income

Providence
workers that could not use CENTRO. Will assist more companies;
Services of Shuttle To Work Onondaga $243,519
non-profit, for-profit, governmental organizations and individuals
Syracuse
with transportation to and from work.