"CLIMB" is an acronym for Citizens for Long Island Manufaturing and Business. It is an "LLC" corporation founded on Long Island by Long Islanders, comprised of experienced, technically oriented and trained, professionals with manufacturing or distribution backgrounds.

CLIMB was founded in response to the question, "Who is doing What to Keep Long Island manufacturing Alive and Growing?" More than 15 governmental, academic, and private agencies on Long Island profess in their charters to be involved in fostering manufacturing to Long Island's 3,400 manufacturers and distributors. Despite these effort, discouraging news stories were presented by the news media as it reported on statements from local business leaders, clearly demonstrating a local surrender in the fight to preserve Long Island manufacturing.

To the founders of CLIMB, the negative statements, the lack of governmental support for a manufacturing-friendly environment, the lack of support for manufacturing job creation, all of these actions prompted the creation of CLIMB.

Most definitely not, however, each of CLIMB's founders has literally hundreds of contacts. Therefore, to the degree that one of our clients might ask us to help them locate a specially qualified person, CLIMB might serve as a "clearing hours" and thereby alert hundreds of our life-long contacts to spread the word that someone special is in demand. The "litmus test" we use to determine if such a project is suitable for CLIMB is whether this job has already been advertised and potential employees have responded. In such cases, CLIMB would not see our involvement as adding anything useful.

CLIMB has two "modes" of activity. In our "Advocate Mode", we monitor, report, and sometimes use our contacts to mobilize the LI manufacturing workforce to use its collective voice in support of a variety of "Quality of Life" issues, ranging from taxes to affordable housing, road congestion, education, natural resources, and so forth.

By the same token, CLIMB is a "people-oriented organization", and nowhere is that clearer than in our "Action Mode". In Action Mode, CLIMB goes out into the field to conduct "contracted projects", such as our 1-on-1 survey programs done on behalf of specific manufacturers or trade groups. We also mentor high school students, council veterans, meet parent organizations, council inmates at county correctional institutions, and help employers develop succession plans or address similar corporate planning needs.

CLIMB's experience in all aspects of running a manufacturing business is unmatched. Each of the founders has a minimum of 35 years hands-on manufacturing experience. So, we know how to construct and manage complex programs, programs with multiple "moving pieces", so that all those moving pieces synchronize instead of conflice. We can also read a Balance Sheet and Income Statement. Some of our founders even have patents, and all founders have mastered life's "soft skills". Not surprisingly, we work well with all age groups.