Today, some businesses will need to shutter their doors again due to COVID-19. Dottie Gallagher, President and CEO, Buffalo Niagara Partnership, told WGRZ, “I think what’s really challenging from those businesses is they were the last businesses to sort of reopen, and now they’re the first businesses to really be impaired.
Buffalo Niagara Partnership reports that an overwhelming majority of businesses in the City of Buffalo have reported a loss of income according to a business impact survey. Grant Loomis, the organization’s Vice President of Government Affairs, said further closures would be “a deathblow” to the local economy. “Businesses in our
Creating a corporate culture of diversity and inclusion not only helps businesses do good, it helps them perform well. In today’s war for talent, companies that ignore the need to create a climate that is welcoming to all will deprive themselves of some outstanding job candidates who will seek work
Buffalo-area businesses have a long way to go in building a diverse and inclusive workforce. That was one of the findings of a survey the Buffalo Niagara Partnership conducted last summer about diversity, equity and inclusion. The online assessment was emailed to 11,000 area nonprofits and companies; 265 of them
Employers in the Buffalo Niagara region have a mixed track record when it comes to issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. That is the key finding from the Buffalo Niagara Partnership’s newly released Employing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in WNY: 2020 Western New York Diversity & Inclusion Business Community Assessment.
Economic development Dottie Gallagher, president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, said Covid-19 has set new priorities that temporarily take precedence over normal economic development goals. As the pandemic ravages the economy, her business advocacy group sees new need for “paycheck protection plans,” employee retention tax credits and added flexibility for
Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz, Erie County Business Task Force (“Task Force”) co-chairs Scott Pallotta and Brenda McDuffie, and 43North President Colleen Heidinger were joined by multiple partners today at Miss Barbara’s School of Dance in Buffalo to announce the creation of the Erie County Back to Business Grant
“Amazon is a company of the future, so I think we need to think long and hard about what this region needs to do to be competitive in this world,” said Dottie Gallagher, president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, the region’s largest business advocacy group. Learn more here.
Finding talented employees is a challenge. And just when you discover the right candidate, it’s time to move on to the hiring process. Learn more here.
Through the support of a grant from Univera Healthcare, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership has produced 2,500 small business kits as part of the “It’s Our Job” campaign. Dottie Gallagher, president and CEO, Buffalo Niagara Partnership and Art Wingerter, president, Univera Healthcare joined Public Espresso co-owners Sam Scarcello and James Rayburg,
