BCW member Andrus welcomed New York State legislative leaders and senior staff to its Yonkers/Hastings campus on Thursday to showcase the agency’s important work with children. Andrus—a member of the BCW’s Legislative Enhanced Advocacy Program—addresses the behavioral health, educational, and wellness needs of children, youth, and their families. The nonprofit provides services to young people at 34 school-based and other locations across Westchester, touching an estimated 9,200 lives. The elected officials who attended and met with Andrus president and CEO Heath Bloch were: Assemblyman Gary Pretlow County Legislator MaryJane Shimsky County Legislator Jewel Williams Johnson The award-winning Orchard School offers […]

The Westchester Innovation Network’s match of Huntress and BCW Member Progressive Computing successfully beta tested a new cybersecurity product. Huntress—an innovative provider of cybersecurity solutions for small and medium-sized businesses—markets cybersecurity technology that monitors behavioral data and relies on analysts to investigate potentially malicious behavior. During the four-month beta test, Progressive Computing, a Yonkers-based managed service provider, bundled Huntress’ Process Insights—an advanced endpoint detection and response solution—into its managed platform of cybersecurity solutions for small- and medium-sized businesses. “Smaller businesses may feel immune from cybersecurity threats, thinking they are too small to really matter to thieves, but thieves are savvier […]

The BCW’s members filled half the ranks of City & State New York’s 2022 Westchester Power 100 list revealed earlier this week. Our president and CEO Marsha Gordon and executive vice president and COO John Ravitz shared the #9 position on the annual list that highlights government officials, business executives, health care leaders, nonprofit heads, union chiefs, advocates, activists and more. In its introduction, City & State noted some of the listees’ remarkable accomplishments. For example, Leonard Schleifer’s Regeneron developed a drug that helped save the life of former President Donald Trump. The BCW board members on the 2022 Westchester […]

BCW member Kathleen Halas, executive director of the Child Care Council of Westchester, recently published an editorial in lohud.com/The Journal News about the continuing failure to address long-standing deficiencies in U.S. child care. In the piece, the Child Care Council challenges federal officials to fulfill promises made to working families. This advocacy has a long history. The BCW has worked with the Child Care Council for years to convene numerous roundtable discussions with business leaders from different sectors. When Gov. Kathy Hochul was lieutenant governor, she participated in one of those discussions. As an original member of the BCW’s Legislative […]

One of the BCW’s Westchester Innovation Network innovators—the health education tech company Lessonbee—has won a $100,000 award from the Google for Startups Initiative. Based in Mount Vernon, N.Y., Lessonbee joined the Westchester Innovation Network (WIN) in the spring and the early-stage ed-tech company was matched with the Yonkers housing authority, which is also working with several other WIN participants. Lessonbee is one of 50 recipients of financial support from the initiative’s Black Founders Fund, which provides cash awards to black-led startups that have participated in Google’s programs or have been nominated by Google’s partner community or a previous recipient. Besides […]