[CPEO-BIF] "Buffalo Niagara [New York] Partnership says strategy is paying off"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Buffalo Niagara Partnership says strategy is paying off

by James Fink
Buffalo Business First (NY)
June 24, 2015,

The Buffalo Niagara Partnership has taken a look back and likes what it sees, particularly the role the group has played in assisting area businesses address important issues.

The Partnership focused on workforce development, support for the 43North competition, pushing the Buffalo Building Reuse Program forward and gaining a long term extension of the state’s brownfield cleanup program.

“It’s not about numbers,” said Dottie Gallagher-Cohen, Buffalo Niagara Partnership president and CEO. “It’s about strategy.”

Gallagher-Cohen highlighted the business group's annual report Wednesday to more than 200 local business and elected leaders.

The Partnership’s agenda was mixed, combining traditional chamber of commerce-like functions including awards and networking opportunities as well as outreach to more than 100 local companies to bolster business.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2015/06/24/buffalo-niagara-partnership-says-strategy-is.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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