MHW Today
Mid Hudson Works is a one-stop business resource with a mission. We provide a variety of support to you and your business. These partnerships allow us to provide workforce development opportunities to physically and/or medically disabled veterans and other individuals with disabilities. The more support you require for your business, the more clients we can develop and serve to fulfill those needs and support our amazing mission.
We manufacture, assemble, wire, solder, drill, co-pack, build, label, collate, test products, fulfill and ship your products. We work, and have worked, with companies that manufacture large aeration systems for water treatment facilities, build toys and devices for highly disabled children and adults, and manufacture LED lighting systems. We offer e-commerce services from downloading and printing orders, storing your products and then picking, packing and shipping your orders across the world. We are proud of the variety of work we do each day and the flexibility to support many types and sizes of businesses.
Mid Hudson Works is a very team-oriented facility. We aim provide a constant culture of acceptance and understanding for our team, as many of those we serve are potentially re-integrating back into the workforce from some type of life-changing event. We empower our team to establish strong working relationships with one another and with the business owners we partner with that provide us with these workforce development and training opportunities. Come join the Mid Hudson Works family!
mhw mission
The MHW mission is ‘to hire and train individuals with physical and/or medical disabilities in order to assist them in finding gainful employment’.
Through our mission’s work, we aim to generate dignified livelihood opportunities for Veterans and every person with a disability.
our history
In 1947, an idea was conceived by Dause Bibby, General Manager of IBM Corporation, to establish a workshop modeled after one in Binghamton, which would employ the physically handicapped. With the assistance of Stephen Puff, NYS Department of Vocational Rehabilitation and Ben Van Winkler, Executive Secretary of Mid-Hudson Industrial Association, an effort was begun to “establish, maintain, manage and support through public and individual effort and appeal, a place for the employment of persons who are physically handicapped and to provide means, whereby, such people can enter into gainful employment”. In early 1948, the Kiwanis Club of Poughkeepsie took over the sponsorship and solicited $3,500 for the initial operating expenses from eight manufacturing concerns and individuals, all of which were repaid.
A Board of Directors was set up and on September 16, 1948, and Marion D Coday was hired as the Managing Director. The workshop received its Certificate of Incorporation on September 20,1948. On December 13, 1948 The Mid Hudson Workshop for the Disabled Inc. opened with two physically handicapped employees. With IBM being the largest customer, the workshop grew, relocated, purchased the building it currently occupies, and expanded with the final addition added in 1985, bringing the total size of the workshop to 52,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space. At this time, the workshop employed and provided workforce development opportunities to nearly 80 physically and medically handicapped people. In November 2017, we changed our assumed name to “Mid-Hudson Works”. For over 75 years, we have assisted in the growth of many businesses from our facility in the City of Poughkeepsie. Our new name reflects our continued commitment to provide training opportunities for Mid-Hudson Valley disabled veterans and others who meet our mission. Currently, Mid Hudson Works employs 10-20 people serving the needs of a variety of companies through contracts with Stephen Gould Corp, Wear Kinetics, Selux Corporation, Tickle Me Plant Company, and more.
