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The Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation executive director plans to retire from her position at the end of 2021. Holli Budd has served the foundation for more than 14 years, first as a trustee for four years and then ...

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AAA Western and Central New York has committed to providing future mobile electric vehicle charging solutions as part of its Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance efforts. “AAA Western and Central New York is thrilled to partner with SparkCharge Inc. to ...

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Women Rise, a four-part virtual panel series focusing on personal and professional development, kicks off Tuesday with “Raise Your Voice.” Presented by Rochester Women’s Network (RWN), Women Rise is geared toward women of all ages and at every stage of ...

Xerox Holdings Corp. has acquired a Canadian document management provider. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Groupe CT Inc. was founded in Laval, Quebec, and has worked in the printing technology industry for more than three decades. “We’re ...

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When it comes to providing boutique space to professionals in the health, beauty and wellness sector, Phenix Salon Suites believes its business model is a cut above the competition. The typical Phenix Salon location divides around 5,500 square feet into ...

Entrepreneurs and small businesses have until Friday to apply for Walmart’s eighth Open Call, a chance to pitch to company executives why their U.S.-made or U.S.-grown products deserve shelf space. This year’s Open Call will again be conducted virtually. More ...

With outmigration leading to the loss of one seat in the House of Representatives for New York next year, elected officials must focus on measures that will attract people and businesses, not chase them away, the state Senate Minority Leader ...

The New York Power Authority last week said it has developed a five-year plan that establishes goals and strategies to achieve the state’s climate leadership goals through a comprehensive sustainability agenda. Progress against NYPA’s Sustainability Plan will be measured with ...

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Equal Pay Day has come and gone, but the fact remains that women nationwide earn less than their male counterparts. MoneyGeek has analyzed equal pay by city, looking at data from more than 625 cities, and found that the cities ...

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Local political, health care and educational leaders have undertaken a series of measures meant to improve staff retention and recruitment at Monroe Community Hospital. A long-term care task force in conjunction with Common Ground Health will study opportunities to address ...

Pandion Optimization Alliance, one of the oldest group purchasing organizations with a focus on health care, has partnered with Suki, the leader in voice AI technology for health care to offer the AI-powered, voice-enabled digital clinical assistant to Pandion’s more ...

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The Eastman School of Music will launch its centennial fundraising campaign this Thursday during a livestream on the Eastman Centennial website. With more than $50 million raised during a campaign “quiet phase,” the school is seeking to raise a total ...

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A four-member team of undergraduate students from SUNY Geneseo won the inaugural FDIC Academic Challenge, a competition for university and college students dealing with the U.S. banking sector. Senior Kiersten Colvin and juniors Ian Merrihew, Tyee MacDonnell-Miller and Oliver Stordahl presented ...

The “unretirement” of older adults is good news for business; especially as the economy begins to recover from the pandemic and the demand increases for the recruitment of new workers in a tight labor market. In fact, according to a March 2021 report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), workers aged 55 and over will account for all of ...