Skip to main content

MCC Daily Tribune Archive

Business Entrepreneurship Program Receives Media Coverage


Monday’s news conference at MCC to announce the launch of the Business Entrepreneurship Program resulted in media coverage on TV, radio, in print and online.

This initiative, funded by a $100,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation, provides domestic violence survivors in the Greater Rochester area with the skills and know-how to start successful small businesses. It is a collaboration among Monroe Community College, Alternatives for Battered Women, and New York State Small Business Development Center at The College at Brockport. The program on MCC’s Brighton Campus began Monday, with 17 women in the first cohort.

Key MCC faculty and staff members who helped make this program possible are Chuck Caples, program director of the Office of Workforce Development; John Striebich, chair of Business Administration, who developed and will manage the Business Entrepreneurship Program curriculum; and Dick Petitte, primary instructor for the program.

In addition to coverage by WHAM-AM radio:


News 10NBC (WHEC): http://brighton-pittsford.whec.com/news/news/72423-new-program-mcc-domestic-violence-victims

Rochester Business Journal:
https://www.rbj.net/article.asp?aID=191886

Democrat and Chronicle:
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120716/BUSINESS/307160023/Monroe-Community-College-Verizon-Wireless-Alternatives-for-Battered-Women?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CHome&nclick_check=1

YNN Finger Lakes:
https://rochester.ynn.com/content/all_news/rochester/591728/new-business-program-for-domestic-violence-survivors/

Video produced by MCC’s Daren Hammond and John Frontuto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om269D9VDKo&feature=youtu.be

The news conference also included special guests. Among them were Mariana Pugliese from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s Office, Julie Allen from Monroe County, and Peter Pecor of Monroe County Workforce Investment Board.

Hency Yuen-Eng
College and Community Relations
07/18/2012