Rochester: Reducing Regulatory Burden for Local Small Businesses
The city of Rochester is a finalist for this year’s City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities build and grow their network of local businesses and entrepreneurs of color.
The city of Rochester is a finalist for this year's City Accelerator project, which is focused on helping cities build and grow their network of local businesses and entrepreneurs of color. Cities that are chosen for the project will receive valuable support and resources from experts and peers to help them achieve their goals.
You can help select this year's City Accelerator participants! Check out the cities' pitches, and then let us know which ones you think should be a part of this important program by giving them a star rating and leaving your comments below!
What is Rochester proposing?
The city of Rochester proposes an effort to reduce the regulatory burden for local small businesses, particularly Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises. The goal is to improve access to business capital support, and enhance local procurement policies and processes to support underrepresented entrepreneurs—helping them navigate local, state, and federal regulations, and take advantage of available business technical assistance.
VIEW OTHER CITY PITCHES
For a detailed description of the mission and purpose of the City Accelerator’s cohort on Local Businesses and Jobs Growth, click here.
Public response is one of several criteria being used by the City Accelerator to select cohort cities. The number of ratings or comments by themselves do not determine final status or selection.
Anthony Lewis
On: 07-29-2018As an entrepreneur and someone that helps other entrepreneurs with their businesses, this is great. I would like to learn more about the Accelerator Project and how this will not only help my clients but also myself.
Carol J. Zierman
On: 07-03-2018This pilot could be a great model for other mid-size communities that are close to fully developed and have experienced economic decline, to show how they can reinvigorate their economy with a focus on inclusive wealth building.
Anonymous
On: 07-01-2018GO ROCHESTER!
Jason Pierce
On: 07-01-2018Love and believe in Rochester and the amazing people that make this a great place to live, work, raise a family, and create new opportunities.
JoshI
On: 06-28-2018Outside the box thinking at its best Great action plan
Dave Garretson
On: 06-28-2018Rochester!
David Garretson
On: 06-28-2018Rochester!
Christina M
On: 06-25-2018Rochester has been making excellent strides in recent years to support underrepresented entrepreneurs which is VITAL to helping alleviate the effects of poverty in our city. Good job, everyone! Keep up the amazing work!
Eric Wallgren
On: 06-23-2018Municipal growth initiatives like this can be transformative. I hope it comes to fruition and helps grow the ROC!
Sandy Tiff Flint
On: 06-21-2018⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Was there in October, been many years since I was there, and so very impressed how clean and great this City is.
sam
On: 06-21-2018great video
ray
On: 06-21-2018ok
rope
On: 06-21-2018great
Andrew Brady
On: 06-21-2018This could be a game changer for more inclusive prosperity in Rochester!
Gisela
On: 06-20-2018Go Rochester
Moira Lemperle
On: 06-20-2018Rochester’s the best!
Jill Zabinski-Berne
On: 06-20-2018Great initiative!!!!
Mitch Gruber
On: 06-20-2018Small businesses make this city ROC
Katherine
On: 06-20-2018Love Rochester!
Steve Carter
On: 06-20-2018Small businesses add so much to the culture and vibrancy of our city and in many ways have led to the reinvestment in our downtown. Anything to support those willing to take a risk and add value to their community.
Jamison Clark
On: 06-20-2018The future of the city is being shaped every day. We have to be very intentional about the way we design that process.
Karen Wilows
On: 06-20-2018Up and coming city for young adults love it
Mary Beth Spinelli
On: 06-20-2018Excellent presentation. In my over 7 years of community work and volunteerism in Rochester, NY I have witnessed few small businesses run by people of color or women. I'm fully supportive of your idea!
Madiya Bracamante
On: 06-20-2018Awesome!!
Victorin kothor
On: 06-20-2018This is great!
Mike
On: 06-20-2018Absolutely!
Andrej Krajewski
On: 06-20-2018Yes!!!!!!
Bri Terrell
On: 06-19-2018Rochester is a great city with cultural diversity and community members who work incredibly hard to help each other out. However, due to a history of gerrymandering, racial politics, and outsourcing, the city has fallen behind. Community members are brilliant, hardworking, and have established amazing programs and businesses fit for the community demand; however, they often lack the resources for sustainable growth of companies. Rochester is the most deserving city for this prize.
Liza Savage-Katz
On: 06-19-2018Nice to see possibilities for a brighter future!
EG HELFMAN
On: 06-19-2018Born and rsised in Brighton, but know City government leaders ALWAYS trying to make Rochester profitable and livable for all.
Lily Vail
On: 06-19-2018It is great to see the progress Rochester has made in equipping their small business and entrepreneurial communities with resources needed to grow. Excited to see what more they can achieve with the possibility of support from this grant!
Dominick Annese
On: 06-19-2018I like the inclusion portion of this presentation. I think Rochester give an upswing but without 100% participation we can’t get there.
Andy.
On: 06-19-2018Great stuff.
Fernando
On: 06-19-2018So much potential!
Horace Allen
On: 06-19-2018Rochester is the perfect city for the Accelerator program.
Matt Cochran
On: 06-19-2018Very nice. Great message.
Jessica Kennedy
On: 06-19-2018Go Rochester!
Joy th
On: 06-19-2018Great content, but we need less pictures of the city and more of the people engaged in these incubators. Speakers’ message is good, by we could see less of them and just use their voices over pictures of your target groups.
sarah adeel
On: 06-19-2018Go Team Rochester!
Sarah
On: 06-19-2018Great initiative and so important for our city. Good luck Rochester! p.s I'd add a picture showing more diversity in your cover photo.
David Grome
On: 06-19-2018I'm fortunate to work alongside many community leaders who view our region's most challenged neighborhoods as a hot spot for new and emerging economic opportunities instead of a problem lacking a plausible solution. To advance this vision, the City of Rochester and its community partners across private and public sectors create the environment for change. Instead of a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach, the City of Rochester, Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative and their affiliates, use test-and-learn strategies that increase inclusive models for experimentation, entrepreneurship, and economic prosperity. These efforts and their leaders innately redefine the image of success. I'm encouraged by our community's collective ambition and persistence to foster change, advance progress, and cultivate wealth for more people. I'm pleased to give the City of Rochester and Mayor Lovely Warren a five-star rating for its five-star vision.
Debbie Lind
On: 06-19-2018Great message
Anna
On: 06-19-2018Let's do this!
Dorraine Kirkmire
On: 06-19-2018Rochester's reinvention!
Tricia
On: 06-19-2018Strong message; might benefit from more variety of speakers and images
Delia Ingham
On: 06-19-2018The City of Rochester’s Mayor’s office has done an excellent job pinpointing one of the big problems in the underlying economic problems of the city. It seems that with such a focused plan great improvement can be achieved to close that disparity between the people of Rochester.
Jonny Price
On: 06-19-2018Inspiring stuff, great work!
Daniel Roeder
On: 06-19-2018Great video, great initiative
karen
On: 06-19-2018nicely done and great initiative / great presentation
bob
On: 06-19-2018nice presentation
Brian McKeown
On: 06-19-2018Go Rochester, I'm a big supporter!
Meenu
On: 06-19-2018this is incredible!!!
Anna
On: 06-19-2018This video has me pumped! I'm glad to see a coordinated effort in making Rochester the best mid-sized city and a local government committed to helping small businesses!
John O
On: 06-19-2018I've seen the strides Rochester has made, but am excited for the potential for greater progress.
Sam
On: 06-19-2018Because of Rochester's history, we already have the infrastructure to support a bigger economy. We're ready.
Carol
On: 06-19-2018Wonderful to hear such great news about Rochester. Hope your video is successful.
Albert Valentin III
On: 06-19-2018Rochester needs more economical opportunities like this.
Ellie
On: 06-19-2018This ROCs!!!
Jill
On: 06-19-2018Excellent!
Henry Fitts
On: 06-19-2018The Rochester community just needs a little push in the right direction. We are poised to have a big impact, where this initiative can really be felt.
Brian Hamlin
On: 06-19-2018Great idea!
Anonymous
On: 06-19-2018Rochester is making itself a great place to be a small business
Lisa
On: 06-19-2018Let's make Rochester great again!
Sue
On: 06-19-2018Failed in trying to rate.. sorry. 5 stars. Pop
Sue
On: 06-19-2018Below
Sue Washington
On: 06-19-2018I watched the video, I am not a small business owner but I would like to visit Rochester.
Chris
On: 06-19-2018Let's see Rochester revitalized!
David Taliaferro
On: 06-19-2018Rochester is walking the walk. They are serious about creating more opportunities to build wealth through entrepreneurship!
Graham Hughes
On: 06-19-2018Go Rochester!
Chad Rieflin
On: 06-19-2018The City of Rochester has an incredible vision and is doing amazing work! Very proud to see all that is happening!
Colin Lemen
On: 06-19-2018I support small businesses