Westchester Arc”™s for-profit document management business, eDocNY, last week celebrated the grand opening of its new 6,000-square-foot workspace at 388 Tarrytown Road in White Plains.
Officials at the nonprofit agency, the county”™s oldest and largest organization serving children and adults with developmental disabilities, started the business venture three years ago as a means to generate revenue for agency programs that are either underfunded or receive no public funding while employing disabled persons and other county residents in a service for public agencies and private companies. In addition to its digital electronic scanning, microfilming and mailing services in White Plains, Arc offers document destruction and records box storage at facilities in Mount Kisco and Millwood. The eDocNY business employs about 80 workers, including 68 disabled persons, said Linda Warner, Arc director of business services.
Larger by a few hundred feet than eDocNY”™s former space at 39 Westmoreland Ave. in White Plains, the new location in a former document management company”™s office “is much better organized for the functioning of the workplace,” Warner said.
Revenue from Arc”™s document management operations in 2007 increased nearly 400 percent from 2006. Kevin Hansan, acting director of eDocNy, said at the new location, where two shifts can operate to more quickly meet clients”™ orders, revenue could double this year.
Current clients of eDocNy include the New York State Office of Court Administration, Bronx County Clerk, New York State Office of Small Cities, New York City Transit and the White Plains accounting firm of Maier, Markey and Menashi. “We”™re doing good,” Hansan said. Still, “We haven”™t really picked up much corporate work like we would like to. Right now we”™re still trying to get the word out that we”™re here.”
