The Missing Economy: Small Business, Ownership, and Uneven Growth in Central New York
Contributing Authors: Jared Shepard, Director of Planning and Research at CenterState CEO & Skylar Richardson, Impact & Evaluation Coordinator, CenterState CEO Central New York’s economy is growing. After more than a decade of federal and state investment in industrial policy, employment growth in 2025 reached its highest level since the late 1990s, signaling the start… Read more »
Meeting People Where They Are: Inside Cortland’s Trauma-Informed Grace Space
Written By: Aster Parrott, Director of Public Health Infrastructure at the Rural Health Institute of New York and Ashley Lewis, Epidemiologist at the Rural Health Institute of New York From November 2024 to April 2025, the Rural Health Institute of New York (RHI) and other Cortland County community partners successfully piloted a low-threshold, data-driven daytime… Read more »
NY Legislators Move to Lessen Long-Standing Nonprofit Contract Delays
Central Current recently published an article detailing New York State’s efforts to address a long-standing challenge for nonprofits: delayed payments on state contracts. Legislators have approved an overhaul that includes provisions such as 25 percent advance payments, interest on late reimbursements, and automatic contract renewals—steps designed to relieve the heavy financial strain nonprofits face when… Read more »