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May 12, 2012

  Syracuse, NY — The South Side Innovation Center was named incubator of the year by the 1,900-member National Business Incubator Association at the group’s annual meeting Tuesday. The SSIC beat out a South African incubator to claim the Dinah [...]

April 16, 2012

The SSIC Diversity Expo will be a hands-on & up-close discussion of procurement opportunities with the top contracting officials from Onondaga County, the City of Syracuse, Syracuse University, Upstate Medical University, the NYS Office of General Services, and many others [...]

April 12, 2012

Syracuse, NY — Three Central New York organizations are teaming up to offer a program to provided entrepreneurship skills to survivors of domestic violence. Representatives from Vera House, WISE Women’s Business Center and the South Side Innovation Center announced the [...]

March 22, 2012

Awards $500,000 in Grants to Provide Business and Entrepreneurship Skills Training for Survivors of Domestic Abuse across New York State Organizations launching entrepreneurship training programs in New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany $100,000 grants awarded to five workforce [...]

March 20, 2012

Margaret Butler and El-Java William Abdul-Qadir of the South Side Innovation Center (SSIC) are receiving awards for their commitment to local entrepreneurs. Both serve integral roles as counselors and directors, working with a variety clients at the SSIC, including entrepreneurs [...]

March 20, 2012

The South Side Innovation Center (SSIC), launched by the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at Whitman, has been nominated for two awards by the prestigious National Business Incubator Association (NBIA), the premier organization for business incubation and entrepreneurship, with more than 1,900 members [...]

January 13, 2012

Syracuse, NY — The South Side Innovation Center will offer training to aspiring clean-energy entrepreneurs beginning early next year. On Thursday, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority announced it would provide $24,000 for the program for at [...]

October 22, 2011

Amazing day.  See our photos here.  http://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Side-Innovation-Center/120539187971160?ref=ts#!/media/set/?set=a.10150190968421502.312257.194731496501&type=3

October 22, 2011

Anyone who brings an idea for a new business to the South Side Innovation Center will hear encouragement and learn information.   “We never say it’s a bad idea,” says Bob Herz, director of the training center and business incubator at [...]

October 22, 2011

Syracuse University’s South Side Innovation Center will use a grant from the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) to train low-income and very low-income entrepreneurs.  More here http://www.cnybj.com/Channels/ArticleDetailDisplay/tabid/145/itemid/15195/sourcemid/1335/South-Side-Innovation-Center-wins-more-SBA-funding/Default.aspx?returnUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnybj.com%2FDefault.aspx%3FTabId%3D391

October 22, 2011

» The South Side Innovation Center. The center is one of the top business incubator centers in the country for new and existing ventures. It was a finalist for the National Business Incubator Association’s Incubator of the Year Award. SSIC [...]

October 22, 2011

The South Side Innovation Center’s (SSIC) Women of Faith in Business, a unique one-year-old program that works with female social entrepreneurs in the Syracuse area, has received funding from the Central New York Community Foundation. SSIC director Bob Herz announced [...]