The next meeting of OCL’s current study, Understanding the Employment Skills Gaps in CNY, on Tuesday, May 20 at 11:30 a.m. at ProLiteracy will feature a discussion with several area service and training providers including Northside Up, JOBSplus, Women’s Opportunity Center, SUNY EOC, CNY Works, Spanish Action League and others. Interested in attending the session... Read more »
Join us for the OCL Annual Luncheon Meeting on Friday, June 6 at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo! Keynote speaker is David Holwerk of the Kettering Foundation. Levi L. Smith Civic Education Award recipient is Carol Dywer of the Community Benchmarks Program at the Maxwell School. Register by May 28. Click here for the registration form:... Read more »
The Onondaga Citizens League honored child care advocate Peggy Liuzzi with the Dr. Bettye Caldwell Advocacy Award on Monday, April 14 at a conference marking release of OCL’s new study report, “Early Childhood and School Readiness: Creating a Community Where All Children Thrive by Five.” Liuzzi retired as executive director of Child Care Solutions, a... Read more »
Onondaga County Children and Family Services Commissioner David Sutkowy and Syracuse Director of Administration Beth Rougeux announced proposed City and County support for expansion of the Imagination Library at the April 14 conference releasing the Onondaga Citizens League report on early childhood and school readiness. The Imagination Library, a program of the Literacy Coalition of... Read more »
The Onondaga Citizens League released its new study report, “Early Childhood and School Readiness: Creating a Community Where All Children Thrive by Five” at a conference on Monday, April 14, 2014 at WCNY. The report, co-chaired by OCL board members Laurie Black of Syracuse 20/20 and Paul Predmore of Bousquet Holstein, focuses on the importance... Read more »
