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1985 - ANCA initiates the Adirondack North Country Craft Program by identifying and networking with the craftspeople of the area.
1986 - ANCA starts one of the first regional only craft stores in Lake Placid. Still in operation as an independent business, features 300 artisans of the region.
1987 - ANCA initiates the region's only wholesale craft show, . Program active.
1987 - ANCA initiates the only regional annual craft studio and shop tour publication, Art and Craft Trails. Program active, now titled .
1988 - ANCA helps to initiate Craftfest, a regional juried craft show. Craft show active.
1991 - ANCA creates the registered trademark; Adirondack North Country Product. Logo now in use; Made in the Adirondack North Country.
1991 - ANCA publishes a Forest Products Development Strategy for six of the 14 counties covered.
1992 - ANCA's wood specialist, Carl Golas, begins to provide assistance to wood producers and suppliers. Golas continues to provide services.
1993 - ANCA initiates the Adirondack North Country Products Program, a national marketing program. This program expands to include NYS craftspeople under a separate non profit in 1998. Discontinued.
1994 - ANCA sells the Adirondack Craft Center.
1997 - Nadia Korths becomes ANCA's Craft Programs Coordinator.
1997 - Holmes and Associates collaborates with ANCA on survey of 129 businesses resulting in "Working with Wood" report highlighting the needs and interests of small regional wood producers and suppliers.
1999 - ANCA expands the craftspeople database from 600 to 1500 and the retailer database from 300 to 2000. Annual mailing of craft program applications to 1500 craftspeople and retailers of the region.
1999 - Holmes and Associates premiers featuring a searchable, online directory of 700+ wood product companies in the region and online business assistance.
2000 - ANCA creates new industry specific hands-on workshop How to Establish and Maintain Wholesale Accounts and provides 17 workshops to 230 craftspeople and retailers throughout region and in the Catskills.
2000 - expands from one day to two days and grows in attendence from 50 to 70 vendors and from 85 to 140 shops. Vendors now receive an average of more than $3,250 in order-writing and cash and carry at show.
2000 - Holmes and Associates launches , an e-commerce site featuring 75 artisans and 300 products handmade in the Adirondack North Country region. Active.
2001 - ANCA, in partnership with Holmes and Associates, submits 3 year, $240,000 grant proposal to National Rural Funders Collaborative increasing website services and programs. Not funded.
2002 - ANCA sponsors the regional crafts portal website with links to programs and services for craftspeople and and retailers.
2002 - ANCA, in partnership with Holmes and Associates, submits 3 year, $300,000 grant proposal to USDA TOPS increasing website services and programs. Not funded.
2002 - ANCA sponsors a regional crafts email newsletter providing retailers and artisans with news for and about them. 1,000 retailers, artisans and service organizations receive frequent announcements and news.
2003 - ANCA, in partnership with Holmes and Associates, submits RBEG grant to USDRA for $68,000 in June. Moved to 2004 USDRA grant reviews.
2004 - ANCA sponsors application processing on behalf of direct representation by vendors at ANCA's Group Booth at trade shows in New England: Souvenir Show, Saratoga Springs, NY; Western New York Gift Show, Rochester, NY; Upstate Gift Expo, Verona, NY and others.
2004 - ANCA, in partnership with the Northern Forest Center and Businesses for Northern Forest, resubmits RBEG grant to USDRA for $68,000, to provide funding for the Handmade in Northern Forest Guidebook and to research retailer and studio best practices for onsite and business marketing.
2004 - ANCA partners with the SBDC, SUNY Plattsburgh to present a new workshop Design Your Website in a Day in Piseco, Malone, Elizabethtown and Plattsburgh. Five workshops service 64 people from late 2004 to late 2006.
2004 - ANCA partners with the St. Lawrence Chamber of Commerce to present the free eBay workshop in Saranac Lake in October and to help expand the Northern Adirondack eBay Cooperative into the entire Adirondack North Country region.
2005 - ANCA partners with WEBC/Comlinks of Malone to present workshops Design Your Website in a Day, Marketing Toolkit for Gift Shop Retailers in Rural Areas and How to Ebay in Saranac Lake and Malone to start up and existing businesses.
2005 - ANCA applies for and receives $69,875 in grant funding from the USDA RBEG for a program starting in July 2005 in partnership with The Northern Forest Center. Funding provides for the research resulting in the 45 page report and the presentation of 17 workshops providing 158 businesses with best practices in onsite and business marketing from November 2005 through May 2006.
2006 - The $69,875 USDA RBEG funding also provides ANCA's contribution to the research, printing and distribution of 7,000 guidebooks: . Published in the summer of 2006, it represents 85 artisans and related businesses from the Adirondack North Country and a total of 265 from the northernmost regions of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
2006 - ANCA's new Scenic Byways marketing tool, the Art, Crafts and Foods Along the Scenic Byways of the Adirondack North Country highlights the handmade of the region along and/or near fourteen Scenic Byways. 1600 distribution sites, regional lodgings and chambers, receive 32,000 copies in mid June. Increase in distribution sites by 100% (800) since 2003. Increase in initial distribution from previous year from 27,000 to 32,000. The stylized graphic full color 8 page 8.5 x 11.5 publication is duplicated . Design and solicitation partnership with Polaredge Designs.
Email inquiries and comments to:
Nadia Korths
Craft Programs Coordinator/ANCA
ph/fax:518.891.1632
28 St. Bernard St., Saranac Lake NY 12983
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