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Three students at the Isabella Graham Hart School of Practical Nursing of Rochester Regional Health have received scholarships from the Greece Chamber Charitable Foundation’s Daniel E. Richardson Memorial Fund. Deanna Rodriguez, Christina Torres, and Amanda Vaccarelli were recipients of the ...

Small businesses that had budgeted for employee retention tax credits for the fourth quarter may either be in for a surprise or face a payback burden now that the program has ended, payroll and accounting advisors say.

Aaron Hilger, who has guided Builders Exchange of Rochester as CEO since 2003, is leaving the trade association for a similar position with a national organization. Hilger will become CEO of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association ...

PrisAM LLC, which manufactures composite structures for the aerospace industry, was one of seven winners of $50,000 in the fifth annual FuzeHub Commercialization Competition. PrisAM is a member of Rochester Institute of Technology’s Venture Creations business incubator and aims to ...

There was a time, as Mike Smith's firm grew and gained a greater foothold within Rochester's real estate community, that it made sense to be multi-faceted.

Tom Golisano still tells the story of when Paychex was in its infancy and he took the firm’s workforce — all six employees — out to dinner. His credit card was declined and returned to him cut in half by ...

The U.S. Small Business Administration has launched a Women’s Business Center (WBC) here that will be operated by the Urban League of Rochester, N.Y. Inc. (ULR). The new center will carry out the mission of helping women-owned small businesses throughout ...

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The Rochester Economic Development Corporation (REDCO) has been awarded a $1 million Small Business Administration grant to continue to improve Rochester’s entrepreneurial ecosystem through its innovative Resource Partner Enhancement Program (RPEP). RPEP is a two-year peer learning cohort program designed ...

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Datto founder Austin McChord will be the featured speaker at the Rochester Startup Summit “Back to Business Meet Up” on Nov. 11. The event will feature networking, seminars including “Resources in Rochester to aid startups” and “How to create mutually ...

Two Rochester firms, Crystal Creek Organics, Inc., and PrisAM LLC, are among 12 finalists in the fifth annual FuzeHub 2021 Commercialization Competition, with $50,000 to be awarded to the winner. FuzeHub assists small- and medium-sized manufacturing companies in New York. ...

The tidal wave of businesses migrating to the cloud during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a boon to Innovative Solutions. The company’s own day-of-reckoning moment, however, began three years earlier, which is one reason the recent workload has increased so ...

Rochester’s Doyle Security Systems Inc. has expanded its reach to Watertown with the acquisition of STAT Communications. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Doyle is the largest family-owned provider of residential and commercial security, fire and medical monitoring ...

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Paychex Inc. has acquired Flock, a benefits enrollment and administration, onboarding and human resources information system provider in San Francisco. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Paychex, a leading provider of integrated human capital management software solutions, will ...

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The Canandaigua ATHENA Leadership Awards Program will take place online and on television on Nov. 19, the Canandaigua Chamber of Commerce said this week. Now in its 36th year, the Canandaigua ATHENA program has been recognized nationally for its innovation, ...

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Google for Startups has awarded Rochester-based Sign-Speak a non-dilutive $100,000 grant as part of its second Black Founders Fund awards. As part of the program, Sign-Speak Founder Yamillet Payano will receive technical and business mentorship from Google employees, $120,000 in ...

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