Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative

The History of
The Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative

Rural Opportunities, Inc. through their Rural Opportunities Enterprise Center, Inc. (ROECI) established the Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative to offer new and expanding entrepreneurs access to new markets, business training and loan capital. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton views this program as a way to assist rural area businesses and entrepreneurs that heretofore have had difficulty in accessing new markets for their products, proper business training and access to capital for the purchase of equipment, inventory, real estate and working capital.

ROECI began a search for partners for a program for the nine county Finger Lakes Region. Livingston and Wyoming counties partnered with ROECI in undertaking this effort to enhance their already successful two-county Micro-enterprise Assistance Program (MAP).

In the short time since that decision their staff has worked with ROECI to put together a network of service providers to support the Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative. The Eastman Kodak Company has donated 20 digital cameras and a $20,000 grant towards the purchase of new computers in support of the program and E-Bay has hosted training sessions highlighted by their popular E-Bay University class to teach participants how to market and sell their products on the internet. In addition, HSBC, SUNY Geneseo, the Small Business Development Center at Geneseo, the Livingston County Chamber of Commerce and Wyoming County Chamber of Commerce have committed to assist with this program.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider, and employer. To file a compaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD). The Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative is a program of The Enterprise Center, Inc. which is a project of Rural Opportunities, Inc., a private, nonprofit community development corporation working to build stronger communities in New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and Puerto Rico. TDD 800-545-1833 ext. 210.


	News Why Participate? FLTC Advantages History Application Online Stores Sponsors Syllabus Enterprise Center This is a program of Rural Opportunities, Inc.	The History of The Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative Rural Opportunities, Inc. through their Rural Opportunities Enterprise Center, Inc. (ROECI) established the Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative to offer new and expanding entrepreneurs access to new markets, business training and loan capital. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton views this program as a way to assist rural area businesses and entrepreneurs that heretofore have had difficulty in accessing new markets for their products, proper business training and access to capital for the purchase of equipment, inventory, real estate and working capital. ROECI began a search for partners for a program for the nine county Finger Lakes Region. Livingston and Wyoming counties partnered with ROECI in undertaking this effort to enhance their already successful two-county Micro-enterprise Assistance Program (MAP). In the short time since that decision their staff has worked with ROECI to put together a network of service providers to support the Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative. The Eastman Kodak Company has donated 20 digital cameras and a $20,000 grant towards the purchase of new computers in support of the program and E-Bay has hosted training sessions highlighted by their popular E-Bay University class to teach participants how to market and sell their products on the internet. In addition, HSBC, SUNY Geneseo, the Small Business Development Center at Geneseo, the Livingston County Chamber of Commerce and Wyoming County Chamber of Commerce have committed to assist with this program. This institution is an equal opportunity provider, and employer. To file a compaint of discrimination, write: USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (800) 795-3272 (voice) or (202) 720-6382 (TDD). The Finger Lakes Trading Cooperative is a program of The Enterprise Center, Inc. which is a project of Rural Opportunities, Inc., a private, nonprofit community development corporation working to build stronger communities in New York, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and Puerto Rico. TDD 800-545-1833 ext. 210.