Frank Cetera is an Advanced Certified Business Advisor with 11 years service for Onondaga SBDC -Syracuse, NY - with specialization in Employee-Ownership. Frank’s cooperative business and community developer experience includes CDCU/CDFI Cooperative Federal Credit Union Board Member and Chair (since 2010/2012 respectively); living in and co-managing two housing cooperatives; member and volunteer of two retail grocery cooperatives; professional presentations including the 2019 Association for Cooperative Educators in Montreal, three times at statewide NYSBDC Staff Training, Eastern Conference for Workforce Democracy at Fordham Law in NYC, New Economy Coalition’s CommonBound Conference at SUNY-Buffalo, North Country Symposium at St. Lawrence University, Pathways to Ownership 5-part webinar series, a CNY Business Journal article series, and speaking alongside Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at Syracuse Surround Label & Printing (a 100% owned ESOP company) promoting and lobbying for the Main Street Employee Ownership Act. Frank currently is a member of CooperationWorks! - ?a national association of organizational and individual members in cooperative development; and has a caseload of cooperative development clients that includes such projects of interest as a radical feminist bookstore in Birmingham, AL, a construction worker coop in the 3rd ward of Houston, TX, an MCS (multiple chemical sensitivities) housing cooperative in Onondaga County, NY, and a northern nut growers cooperative near Ithaca, NY
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U.S. Main Street Employee Ownership Act Implementation by Small Business Development Centers