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#BestChamber practices: Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce: Free City of Chicago Business Workshops Available
The Department of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection (BACP) offers workshops every Wednesday and Friday. Workshops vary each month and are conducted by City Officials, experts, and partner business organizations. All workshops are free, and open to the public. Workshops are held at BACP's offices located in Room 805 at City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL 60602.
City Inspections - Ask Questions, Get Answers 2016 Workshop Calendar
Talk to City Inspectors, Ask Questions, Get Answers is a special workshop offered on the first Wednesday of every month at City Hall. The workshop is highly recommended for anybody interested in opening a business, especially one that requires a pre-license inspection for one or more city departments. This workshop will give you the full spectrum of licensing, permits and inspection requirements for many types of businesses including restaurants, manufacturing, day care centers, motor vehicle repair shops and many others.
Downloadable Workshop Schedules
July 2016
Batavia Chamber of Commerce 2016 Community Guide & Membership Directory
The Batavia Chamber of Commerce 2016 Community Guide & Business Directory is available at the Batavia Chamber today! Thanks to Holly Deitchman and the chamber team for their help and direction putting this together!
Town SquarePublications (www.townsquarepublications.com) can help you accomplish your chamber's gloss map, directory, community profile or publication needs at no expense to the chamber. Please email John Dussman at jdussman@tspubs.com or call (847)-427-4633.
Prince William Chamber
Inducts 2016-2017 Board of Directors, Presents Annual Report at State of
the Chamber Luncheon
Manassas,
VA- On
Thursday, June 30 the Prince William Chamber of Commerce celebrated the end of
their fiscal year with their Annual Meeting Luncheon at Heritage Hunt Golf
& Country Club. Jim Dinegar, President & CEO of the Greater Washington
Board of Trade was the Keynote Speaker, offering insights on recent changes to
the region’s economy and suggesting opportunities for a “regional mindset” when
it comes to promoting the Greater Washington, DC area as the nation’s premier
locale in which to live and do business. Outgoing Chamber Chairwoman Dalena
Kanouse, President & CEO of MTCI-Management & Training Consultants,
Inc., presented the Chamber’s Annual Report.
During
her year as Chairwoman, Kanouse asked Chamber members to focus on education and
workforce development as ways to invest in tomorrow’s employees and business
owners. Kanouse invited Smart Beginnings of Greater Prince William and the
Education Foundations for the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park School
Systems to be her guests at the luncheon. Over the last twelve months, her
efforts produced results as members worked to build bridges with the local
school systems. Business leaders read to a record 26, 382 elementary-aged
students on National Young Reader’s Day last November, and the Chamber’s
Education & Innovation Committee expanded their programming to include
participation in STEM Career Fairs at the middle school level.
Following
his talk on the evolving regional economy, Mr. Dinegar inducted the Chamber’s
2016-2017 Board of Directors, including incoming Chairman C.C. Bartholomew, a
Realtor with Keller Williams Solutions. Her remarks revealed her belief in the
Chamber as an economic engine; a place where businesses can come to grow,
influence change and gain inspiration from the success stories of fellow
members. Bartholomew said that during her term, she will encourage members to
see the Chamber as a partner in success and to share their share their stories.
The
members of the 2016-2017 Prince William Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
are:
- Chairman
of the Board, C.C. Bartholomew, Keller Williams Solutions
- Immediate
Past Chair, Dalena Kanouse, MTCI- Management & Training Consultants,
Inc.
- Chairman-Elect,
Jim Elliott, First Virginia Community Bank
- Chair
Elect Nominee, Betty Dean, Betty Dean & Associates
- President
& CEO, Debbie Jones, Prince William Chamber of Commerce
- Directors
•
Jim Aram, Advantage Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation, LLC
•
Patty Baisden, QMT Windchimes
•
Roy Beckner, S.W. Rodgers Company, Inc.
•
Debbie Bennett, Bennett, Atkinson & Associates, P.C.
•
Andy Burcher, Walsh, Colucci, Lubeley & Walsh, P.C.
•
Steve Clark, Old Hickory Golf Club
•
Steve Daves, R.W. Murray Co.
•
Christian Deschauer, Transurban
•
Bishop Lyle Dukes, Harvest Life Changers Church
•
Randolph Frostick, Vanderpool, Frostick & Nishanian, P.C.
•
Kim Golanski, Novant Health UVA Health System
•
Ryan Gandy, City of Manassas Park
•
Brian Gordon, Apartment & Office Building Association of Metropolitan
Washington
•
Molly Grove, George Mason University - Science & Technology Campus
•
George Harben, Prince William County Economic Development
•
Sharon Henry, Prince William County Schools, Community & Business
Engagement
Office/
SPARK
•
Todd Hewitt, Cardinal Bank
•
Dr. Sam Hill, Northern Virginia Community College
•
Harry Horning II, Harry H. Horning Financial Services
•
Tim Jackson, MDA Technologies Group, LLC
•
Deb Jewell, Sharp Communication Services, Inc.
•
Michael Kalish, Walsh, Colucci, Lubeley & Walsh, P.C.
•
Jackie Krick, ECU Communications, LLC
•
Bruce Moore, Internet Ad Management Inc.
•
Traci Morris-Cole, I-95 Business Park Management, LLC
•
Martin Nohe, Appliance Connection
•
Stephen Porter, Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center
•
Michelle Rao, Laser Quest Corporation
•
Matt Rogers, Live Nation Entertainment- Jiffy Lube Live
•
Mark Shaaber, SCS Integrated Support Solutions
•
Ben Simms, TML- A Xerox Company
•
Patrick Small, City of Manassas
•
Donna Snellings, NOVEC- Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative
•
Eric Tatum, Dominion Virginia Power
•
Aaron Tolson, Twin Air, LLC
•
William White, Apple Federal Credit Union
•
Gayle Whitlock, Whitlock Wealth Management
•
Richard Wingo, Micron Technology, Inc.
The 2016-2017 members of the Prince William Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
For more Information: contact Andrea Whaley, Director of Marketing & Communications - Prince William Chamber of Commerce awhaley@pwchamber.org; 571-765-1876
#BestChamber practice: Brookhaven Lincoln County Chamber: Shop ‘til you drop tonight at Girls Night Out
Tickets for the sixth annual Girls Night Out will be available at the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce until 6 p.m. The sixth annual event, sponsored by the Chamber, is today from 39 p.m. at 31 retailers and eateries throughout the city. The Chamber is located at 230 S. Whitworth Ave. More than 1,350 tickets were printed.
“We’re on target to have our best year to date as far as ticket sales are concerned,” said Katie Nations, the Chamber’s program director. “We’re on target to sell out.”
Admission includes a meal voucher that can be used at participating restaurants today through Saturday, a coupon book with promotions and discounts from participating stores, a Girls Night Out Tshirt and a canvas logo bag. The bag is new to the items each participant receives, which adds to the value of the tickets, Nations said. Vouchers are available for Tshirts and bags if the Chamber runs out, she said.
The signature event was started as a way to garner more business during the summer months for area retailers and restaurants. More than 1,000 tickets were sold for last year’s event. “The ladies seem really excited about it,’ she said. “We hope the weather will be good and everyone has a good time.” The event has also attracted shoppers from outside Lincoln County. Read more: Daily Leader
St Joseph County chamber: Indiana's week to celebrate entrepreneurs
#BestChamber practices: Tickets selling fast for Midland Area Chamber's first Farm to Fork Dinner
2016 Kentucky Chamber Business Summit
Kewaunee County is home to many talented artists and on July 4 county residents will have a unique opportunity to view their work during what organizers hope will be an annual Kewaunee Art Walk, says Beth Liebherr, a Chamber of Commerce board member who has brought the art walk concept to Kewaunee.
The Art Walk showcases 60 original works by 30 area artists on banners displayed in downtown Kewaunee.
The featured artists live in the county or have a close association with it, Liebherr said. As a juried show, all artists had to submit samples of their previous work to be accepted.
"These wonderful artists have painted for several months," said Liebherr."We want to put Kewaunee on the map for artistic talent in Northeast Wisconsin."
The banners were hung on June 23 with an artist's painting on either side. The banners start at the corners of Ellis and Wisconsin 42 in downtown Kewaunee. They extend a block west and two blocks east on Ellis, as well as to the bridge over Kewaunee Harbor on 42, she said.
The banners have been judged with a first, second and third place awarded among the 20 adult entries and a Student Award given for one of 10 student entries.
The winning banners will be announced on the 4th of July when anyone in attendance will be invited to stroll down the street and vote for another award – "People's Choice." .
The "People's Choice" award will be announced between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. at Lakehaven Hall on July 4..
It was Liebherr who proposed the idea to the Kewaunee Chamber of Commerce this winter after helping to organize a similar art walk in West Bend, her former hometown.
As a new Chamber member, she said she was hesitant to propose an idea at last December's meeting, but when she did everyone on the board saw it as a great opportunity, including Chamber president Vicki Vollenweider, she said. Read more: Green Bay Press-Gazette
Town Square Publications Chamber of Commerce Membership Directories, Custom Maps
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#BestChamber practice: Brookhaven Lincoln County Chamber: Shop ‘til you drop tonight at Girls Night Out
Tickets for the sixth annual Girls Night Out will be available at the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce until 6 p.m. The sixth annual event, sponsored by the Chamber, is today from 39 p.m. at 31 retailers and eateries throughout the city. The Chamber is located at 230 S. Whitworth Ave. More than 1,350 tickets were printed.
“We’re on target to have our best year to date as far as ticket sales are concerned,” said Katie Nations, the Chamber’s program director. “We’re on target to sell out.”
Admission includes a meal voucher that can be used at participating restaurants today through Saturday, a coupon book with promotions and discounts from participating stores, a Girls Night Out Tshirt and a canvas logo bag. The bag is new to the items each participant receives, which adds to the value of the tickets, Nations said. Vouchers are available for Tshirts and bags if the Chamber runs out, she said.
The signature event was started as a way to garner more business during the summer months for area retailers and restaurants. More than 1,000 tickets were sold for last year’s event. “The ladies seem really excited about it,’ she said. “We hope the weather will be good and everyone has a good time.” The event has also attracted shoppers from outside Lincoln County. Read more: Daily Leader
St Joseph County chamber: Indiana's week to celebrate entrepreneurs
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| Jeff Rea |
This week is Entrepreneurship Week in Indiana. All week, residents from every corner of Indiana are celebrating entrepreneurs and the great risks they have taken to launch a new business and the contributions they make to Hoosier communities.
Entrepreneurs offer a product, process or service for consumers. Often they introduce a new product, or a new or better way of delivering a service. They seek to fill an unmet need as they design, launch and run a new business.
Entrepreneurs take great risks. As many fail as succeed. Entrepreneurs pour great time and resources into ventures that have great uncertainty. In most cases they put their own career and financial security on the line and take risks in the name of an idea.
An entrepreneur often begins as a small business. And those small businesses are critical to Indiana’s economy. Today, 97 percent of all businesses in Indiana are classified as small businesses. Those businesses employ close to 1.2 million Hoosiers.
But small businesses can evolve into larger ones. We sometimes forget that people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sam Walton and Warren Buffet were and are entrepreneurs. They each took great risks along the way and overcame setbacks before they enjoyed great success and the fruits of their hard work.
Locally, our communities were built by entrepreneurs who saw an opportunity and took a risk. Pierre Navarre and Alexis Coquillard came here to trade furs. Schuyler Colfax saw a local newspaper opportunity. Alanson Hurd came to mine bog iron. Studebaker, Oliver, Singer, Eberhart and Beiger all saw this area ripe for business opportunities.
Those are the names of entrepreneurs most of us recognize, but thousands of others that we don’t recognize also played a critical role in the development of our area. Some operated a general store, some small manufacturing companies, while others offered needed services. Their efforts netted a bustling and growing economy that thrived.
We lost that entrepreneurial spirit for a period of time and we experienced little overall growth. At the same time, other communities with a strong entrepreneurial culture have flourished. But we’re making a comeback in this arena, and that is playing an important role in our economic comeback. It’s also leading to population growth, higher employment and rising wages.
Today, there is a shortage of available housing, and there is a tremendous amount of construction happening in our urban areas. In those areas, entrepreneurs see opportunity and are taking great risks on some big projects aimed at boosting housing options in the downtown area.
Innovation Park at Notre Dame has become an important launchpad for new businesses evolving from research happening on the university’s campus. Their success has the university contemplating the need for a second building.
Ignition Park is seeing a number of new tenants with the opening of the Catalyst buildings. They join Data Realty, an entrepreneurial venture that opened there a short time ago. The Renaissance District, too, is welcoming a number of entrepreneurs as it works to develop its 1 million-square-foot footprint.
The St. Joe CEO Program graduated its first class of future entrepreneurs and seeks to grow its program in our region. Others, such as Elevate Ventures, the Northern Indiana Small Business Development Center, the Spark Program at Saint Mary’s College, Junior Achievement, the Robinson Community Learning Center and the South Bend Code School, are all working to develop and support future entrepreneurs. Read more: St. Joseph County Chamber
#BestChamber practices: Tickets selling fast for Midland Area Chamber's first Farm to Fork Dinner
If you were thinking of attending the inaugural Farm to Fork Dinner through the Midland Area Chamber of Commerce, you better act fast.
Kristy LeVasseur, director of communications at the Midland Chamber of Commerce, said there are only 10 tickets left for the event on Sunday, July 24. The Farm to Fork Dinner brings together farmers from the Middleton Farm CSA, LLC, Chef Theo Bawar from The H Hotel and patrons together for a feast accompanied by hard cider pairings from Eastman’s Forgotten Ciders.
Tickets are $75 each and can be purchased from the Chamber of Commerce website athttp://bit.ly/296ktMc. The event will take place at the Middleton Farm CSA, LLC at 2630 N. Lewis Road, in Coleman.
LeVasseur said she and Chamber staff were surprised to see how quickly the tickets were sold, and that there is another Farm to Fork Dinner tentatively scheduled for September.
“It’s meant for the people who go to the farmers market, to go out to a farm and see how it works,” LeVasseur said.
Similar to a farm, patrons will have to wait and see what vegetables are in season before a menu is revealed. Read more: Midland Daily News
2016 Kentucky Chamber Business Summit
Questions?
For questions contact Lori Jo Goff, customer service manager, at
502-848-8727 or via email at lgoff@kychamber.com.
For questions contact Lori Jo Goff, customer service manager, at
502-848-8727 or via email at lgoff@kychamber.com.
Chamber delight: Kewaunee Fourth of July features new Art Walk
The Art Walk showcases 60 original works by 30 area artists on banners displayed in downtown Kewaunee.
The featured artists live in the county or have a close association with it, Liebherr said. As a juried show, all artists had to submit samples of their previous work to be accepted.
"These wonderful artists have painted for several months," said Liebherr."We want to put Kewaunee on the map for artistic talent in Northeast Wisconsin."
The banners were hung on June 23 with an artist's painting on either side. The banners start at the corners of Ellis and Wisconsin 42 in downtown Kewaunee. They extend a block west and two blocks east on Ellis, as well as to the bridge over Kewaunee Harbor on 42, she said.
The banners have been judged with a first, second and third place awarded among the 20 adult entries and a Student Award given for one of 10 student entries.
The winning banners will be announced on the 4th of July when anyone in attendance will be invited to stroll down the street and vote for another award – "People's Choice." .
The "People's Choice" award will be announced between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. at Lakehaven Hall on July 4..
It was Liebherr who proposed the idea to the Kewaunee Chamber of Commerce this winter after helping to organize a similar art walk in West Bend, her former hometown.
As a new Chamber member, she said she was hesitant to propose an idea at last December's meeting, but when she did everyone on the board saw it as a great opportunity, including Chamber president Vicki Vollenweider, she said. Read more: Green Bay Press-Gazette
Town Square Publications Chamber of Commerce Membership Directories, Custom Maps
Town Square Publications, a division of the Daily Herald Media Group, is a national chamber custom publishing group that specializes in developing partnerships by producing high-quality print and digitally integrated publications along with other added value programs dedicated to creating relevancy for local chambers of commerce and other membership focused organizations interested in raising non-dues revenues.
Town Square Publications parent company, Paddock Publications, has over 100 years’ experience of print product development and dedicated customer service in communities throughout the Midwest. Our experience allows Town Square Publications to offer you attractive royalty and non-dues revenue share streams, provide direct distribution of your custom designed printed publications, including digital and mobile integration, and all with the quickest turn-around times available in the industry. Town Square also offers multi-media maps in both print and online formats, both with our No-Cost guarantee. More information: Town Square Publications
For further information about Town Square's publishing partnership with chambers of commerce and our No-Cost guarantee and Earned Revenue Share Program, To request your chamber publication or map proposal, Contact Town Square Here
Friday: 157 Rules for Executive Success in Organization Management (and your Chamber of Commerce) by Patrick McGaughey
RULE #8 --- Recruit
board members that sign the front of the checks, not the back.
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