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Initiative, PCD Gets New Leader

Tue, Dec 13, 2011

Initiative, PCD Gets New Leader

Shannon Mantaro has been appointed as the executive director of the Hamilton Initiative. She currently is marketing and operations director for Operation Oswego County,

She replaces Roger Bauman, who retires at the end of the year. Mantaro will join the Initiative Jan. 3.

The Initiative is the for-profit company formed by the Colgate Board of Trustees whose focus is real estate and economic development in downtown Hamilton. It includes the Palace Theater, the Hamilton Movie Theater and the Barge Canal Coffee Company.

Mantaro will also serve as the executive director of the Partnership for Community Development (PCD), an organization that includes the village and town of Hamilton and Colgate. The PCD and the Initiative are dedicated to fostering community and economic development in Hamilton. 

Mantaro has been employed by Operation Oswego County, which is the designated economic development corporation for Oswego County, since 2002.  In that position, she has been responsible for the oversight of the agency's properties. In addition, she develops and implements marketing strategies to promote the assets of the area for business development, and manages the day-to-day operations of the organization. She has extensive grant writing experience and oversees an annual giving campaign.

Previous to that position, Mantaro was public information coordinator for Oswego County from 1997-2002. She had also previously held the position of public relations director for the Syracuse Catholic Press Association. She holds a B.A. degree in Communication/Journalism from St. John Fisher College in Rochester and expects to earn her M.S. in Communications from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2012.

Her husband Thaddeus has been appointed Colghate’s first director of the Shaw Wellness Center.

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