School receives important financing and assitance through the PathStone Enterprise Center, Inc.
ROCHESTER, NY (January 26, 2012) — 120 eager students showed up to the first day of classes last fall for the opening of Discovery Charter School in Rochester, NY.
The idea for the school started in 2009, when a group of concerned individuals identified [...]

First Resident-owned Manufactured Home Park in Erie County
MARILLA, NY (January 6, 2012) - Homeowners in a Marilla manufactured home park face a more certain future after purchasing their community on December 29, 2011. The resident purchase of Bush Gardens Manufactured Home Park creates the first ever resident-owned manufactured home park in Erie County.
The 154 site park [...]

Published in the Sullivan County Democrat on January 17, 2012
By Eli Goldfarb
MONTICELLO, NY (January 17, 2012)- Late last year, the Literacy Volunteers of Sullivan County held a training class for those who want to help tutor illiterate adults. The culmination was a graduation party for the 12 people taking the course.  It was held at [...]

December 23, 2011 (ROCHESTER, NY) - In keeping with the season of giving, Michael Hartman presented Sojourner House at PathStone, Inc. a donation of $8,000.00 raised during the 22nd Annual 10 Ugly Men Festival held last July.  10 Ugly Men, Inc. is a Rochester non-profit comprised of sixteen young professionals dedicated to philanthropy and charitable [...]

Originally published in the Press of Atlantic City on October 25, 2011.
By THOMAS BARLAS and EMILY PREVITI Staff Writers
VINELAND - A Feed the Children-sponsored distribution of food and living essentials to needy families will take place as planned Wednesday.
Pat Constantino, director of training and empowerment services for the nonprofit PathStone’s Vineland office, said all the [...]

ROCHESTER, NY (Oct. 12, 2011) - With appreciation for her service, President & CEO of PathStone Corporation, Stuart J. Mitchell, has accepted the resignation of Mary Wilmot, current President of Sojourner House at PathStone, Inc. Wilmot served as the president of Sojourner House at PathStone, Inc. since early 2011.
“When we hired Mary it was with [...]

ITHACA, NY (September 23, 2011)-  The face of Ithaca’s downtown is about to change for the better.  PathStone Corporation and Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS) have received commitments for all of the funding needed to build Breckenridge Place Apartments, a $14.5 million project.
Located at the site of Women’s Community Building at the corner of Seneca [...]

ROCHESTER, NY (September 8, 2011) — On Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, PathStone Corporation will celebrate the opening of two affordable housing developments, Mildred Johnson Estates II and Stonewood Village Apartments. Both ceremonies will be held separately on the same day.
The ceremony at Mildred Johnson Estates will take place at 10:00 am at 89 Maria Street, [...]

ROCHESTER, NY (June 29, 2011) — PathStone Corporation received an award of approximately $420,000 over two years from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) to conduct outreach in the Finger Lakes Region to encourage energy efficiency improvements by residents and businesses.  PathStone will target communities in Monroe, Orleans and Genesee counties [...]

Rochester, NY (July 1, 2011) On Wednesday, the US Department of Labor announced $83,941,360 in grants through the National Farmworker Jobs Program to combat the chronic unemployment and underemployment experienced by migrant and seasonal farmworkers who depend primarily on agricultural labor jobs. Rochester-based non profit, PathStone Corporation, received more than $8.4 million to provide training, [...]

Rochester, NY (June 30, 2011)- PathStone Corporation was awarded a grant to help 31 homeowners in the Rochester region through the new Emergency Homeowner’s Loan Program (EHLP), launched by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and NeighborWorks® America. This program was funded by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
PathStone [...]

ROCHESTER, NY (June 6, 2011)- PathStone Corporation was honored with a 2011 Wealth of Health Award from the Rochester Business Journal and Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Rochester Region on Friday, June 3, 2011.  PathStone is one of twelve recipients of the 2011 award.
 The award, now in its sixth year, honors businesses and organizations in the Rochester [...]

Site to increase awareness, education and reach of PathStone’s energy services and Weatherization Assistance Program
Rochester, NY (April 7, 2011) - PathStone’s Housing Rehabilitation and Energy Services Department launched a new department website today.  The goal of the new site is to increase PathStone’s energy services visibility in Monroe and surrounding counties, and provide the public with [...]

Did you know that you can support PathStone Corporation’s programs and services in Rochester by donating to the United Way of Greater Rochester?  It’s easy,  simply write in PathStone Corporation and select the donor designation number 139.
The United Way of Greater Rochester hopes to raise $28 million in 2011. The money raised will be used to fund [...]

PathStone program helps retain low-cost housing by creating cooperatives
This article appeared in the Rochester Business Journal on March 11, 2011.
By Nate Dougherty, natdougherty@rbj.net
ROCHESTER, NY - The building boom of the 2000s had detrimental effects on mobile home communities.  Before the subprime crisis and ensuing commercial credit restrictions, there was a rash of owners selling off these [...]

 ROCHESTER, NY (February 7, 2011)- William LaForte, chairperson of the Sojourner House at PathStone, Inc. Board of Directors and Stuart J. Mitchell, president & CEO of PathStone Corporation take great pleasure in announcing the appointment of Mary Wilmot as the new President of Sojourner House and Senior Vice President for Community Services at PathStone Corporation. 
 Wilmot [...]

ROCHESTER, NY (December 8, 2010)-  Germaine Knapp, president of Sojourner House at PathStone Inc. since 1997, will leave her post in 2011.  Knapp notified the Board of Directors today that she intends to step down after the Board finds her successor.  Founded in 1981, Sojourner House provides housing and case management to women and children [...]

Rochester, NY (December 7, 2010) - As the days grow colder and consumers gear up for another winter, many are looking for ways to beat the season’s high monthly energy costs.  According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average U.S. household spends about $1,900 per year on home utility bills.  With so much of [...]

Funding to boost business lending, job creation and provide off-farm income opportunities in rural areas in Upstate New York
Rochester, NY (Nov. 22, 2010)-  Officials from the US Department of Agriculture announced funding through the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP) to organizations in 36 states earlier this month.  The funding, authorized by the Food, Conservation, [...]

Governor Paterson announces $25 million in Small Business Revolving Loan Fund allocations throughout State 
ROCHESTER, NY (Nov. 18, 2010) -  Governor David A. Paterson and Empire State Development (ESD) announced today allocations from the State’s new Small Business Revolving Loan Fund to twenty community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and other community-based lending organizations throughout New York [...]

Oneonta, NY  (October 29, 2010) - At noon today, Meadow Valley Park, Inc. purchased the Meadow Valley Manufactured Home Park in Unadilla, New York-creating the first ever resident-owned manufactured home park in the Southern Tier.
The $755,000 purchase was financed by ROC USATM Capital, the finance arm of a non-profit social enterprise that supports resident ownership [...]

In September, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. named four Fellows to the 2010-2013 class of its Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship program, including its first Fellow in Puerto Rico, Juan Calaf.  The national fellowship is highly competitive and partners emerging architectural leaders with community developers for three years.
Juan will work with PathStone’s development team in Orocovis and Lajas,  Puerto [...]

Award to Provide Critical Financing to Meet Affordable Housing Need
Rochester, NY (October 19, 2010) - Officials from the US Department of the Treasury announced $80 million in Capital Magnet Fund (CMF) awards for the development of affordable housing in low-income communities at an event Thursday in Oakland, California.  PathStone Corporation is one of two organizations [...]

Rochester, NY (October 18, 2010)- In late August, PathStone, in conjunction with the Marketview Heights Collective Action Project, hosted the first annual Neighborhood Leadership Institute (NLI) in Rochester, NY.  The institute, inspired by NeighborWorks® America’s national Community Leadership Institute, united more than 70 residents from 14 different zip codes in the City.
 The NLI kicked-off with [...]

October 15, 2010
In February 2010, PathStone was one of 38 agencies nationwide to be awarded a federal Pathways Out of Poverty grant to train Americans for green jobs. The US Department of Labor awarded PathStone $8 million to recruit, train and place eligible participants in green jobs in Rochester, NY, Scranton, PA and Puerto Rico.
In [...]

Stuart J. Mitchell has been honored with the Pathstone Visionary Award for his 40 years of leadership of the community development and human resource organization.

Stuart J. Mitchell

Mitchell is president and CEO of Rochester-based PathStone Corp., formerly known as Rural Opportunities Inc., and has been with the organization since its creation. He has been the top [...]

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This article appeared in the Democrat and Chronicle on September 16, 2010.
Meaghan M. McDermott
Staff writer
GREECE - A year and a half after fire destroyed a nearly complete senior citizen apartment building on Long Pond Road, the rebuilt complex is open for business and full of tenants.
“This is truly a joyous occasion,” said Stuart Mitchell, president [...]

This article appeared in the Democrat and Chronicle on September 12, 2010.
Diana Louise Carter
Staff writer
When Art and Joyce Hunt took over the family farm in Yates County 37 years ago, they didn’t know what they were in for.
“At that time you could make a very good living growing grapes for Taylor Wine Co.,” said Art [...]

PathStone’s Al Hartsig is quoted in an article in The Buffalo News Business Today.   The article has advice for  financing your business with alternatives to banks.
“Al Hartsig, business development officer with the PathStone Enterprise Center in Rochester, cautioned small-business people against applying for loans from multiple institutions at once, a practice that he said can end [...]

Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship
PathStone in Puerto Rico has been selected as a host organization for the “The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship.”  The mission of the Rose Fellowship is to inspire and nurture a new generation of architects as lifelong leaders dedicated to creating sustainable communities for people at all income levels. 
 The Rose Fellows use their [...]

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Rochester, N.Y. –In the Marketview Heights neighborhood of Rochester, there is a group of residents who not only want to see change in their community but actively engage in changing it.  Called the Collective Action Project, it consists of three Action Teams: Safety and Security, Housing and Development, and Beautification.  For the past six years, [...]

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Local residents to train for ‘green jobs’ through federal grant
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$2.3 million federal grant will train 200 local residents for jobs
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PathStone Corp. receives $8 million for green job training
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Federal Dollars Will Provide Training for Clean Energy Jobs at PathStone Corporation

January 13, 2010
Today, U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced that PathStone Corporation of Rochester will gain access to $8 million over two years through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Green for Gold project to help individuals find jobs within energy efficiency [...]

PathStone (formerly ROI) is celebrating 10 years of providing affordable housing, job training, employment, health and safety services, homeownership promotion, financing, training and technical assistance to entrepreneurs, and other related human services in Puerto Rico. To celebrate this milestone and to share our future plans,we invite you to join us at several events throughout the [...]