Birmingham-Bloomfield Chamber: Looking Ahead to Some of the Biggest Summer Events in Birmingham
While it may be the middle of another cold and windy Michigan Winter, it never hurts to look forward to some of the big events happening this Summer in Birmingham.
First is Art Birmingham. Happening May 13th and 14th Art Birmingham is an exquisite fine art fair that will showcase more than 150 juried artists in an elegant and extraordinary setting. Featured work includes painting, ceramics, photography, jewelry, glass, wood, sculpture, mixed media, fiber, metal and more. Admission is free.
In July is Day On The Town, the biggest shopping day of the year! Head to Downtown Birmingham on July 22 for great deals and fun family activities, including a kid’s bike parade, face painting and live music.
The Woodward Dream Cruise is back for it’s 23rd year. On August 19th see more than 40,000 muscle cars, hot rods, custom, collector, and special vehicles driving down a 16 mile stretch of Woodward Avenue.
The Birmingham Street Art Fair will wrap the Summer up on September 16th and 17th. With more than 140 juried artists among unique shopping and fabulous restaurants, the Birmingham Street Art Fair is the perfect send-off to Summer. Read more: Birmingham-Bloomfield Chamber
Flint & Genesee Certified Tourism Ambassadors Program Sees Continued Growth
Since launching in late 2015, hundreds have joined the Flint & Genesee Certified Tourism Ambassador (CTA) network. And the program shows no signs of slowing down.
Accredited through the Tourism Ambassador Institute and administered at the local level, the CTA program is an industry-recognized certification that serves to increase tourism by inspiring front-line employees and volunteers to turn every visitor encounter into a positive experience.
It’s the only program in existence today that gives an official designation to individuals – from mayors to general managers to drivers to waiter staff – who are passionate about their destination.
“There’s tremendous community spirit here and the CTA program is a great way to leverage that enthusiasm,” said DeAndra McCain, Director of the Flint & Genesee Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Looking forward, the Flint & Genesee Convention & Visitors Bureau has monthly trainings scheduled through the rest of the year. Upcoming classes are scheduled for Feb. 22, March 24 and April 27.
Interested in learning more? Visit www.ctanetwork.com/app. From there, select ‘Michigan’ from the drop-down menu and click on ‘Flint & Genesee’ to complete the enrollment application.
#Best Chamber Practices: Schaumburg Business Association: February 20 - February 24 --- Membership Appreciation WEEK
Monday 10am–12pm FREE 1 on 1 with attorney Goldie Ludwig
General information on your legal issue from the Law Office of Goldie Ludwig. Walk in basis.
Tuesday11:30am–12:30pm Lunch with SBA President, Kaili Harding
Bring your lunch and sit down to talk about an issue, get answers or work on a solution.
Wednesday 10am2pm Complimentary Headshots by James Harvey Photography. RSVP's required. 10 min increments. Available times and registration can be found on the SBA events calendar.
Stylists from HIP Salon will be available for hair/makeup touchups
Thursday 10am – 2pm Master Your LinkedIn Profile
Noon Key Productions will be at the SBA office to offer advice and make updates to individuals LinkedIn profiles. Walk in basis.
Friday 11:00am – Have SBA experts update your SBA profile
12:00pm – 1pm – Membership Overview presentation.
Are you utilizing all the SBA has to offer? Stop by to update your profile at the SBA office or plan on attending the Membership Overview presentation at Sandler Training (1501 E. Woodfield Rd #210S)
All Week
New Balance (685 E Golf Rd) 10% off regular priced items
UBREAKIFIX (2511 W Schaumburg Rd) Free Diagnostic and 10% off.
They’ll fix anything with an on / off switch!
Sam’s Club (1470 Golf Road) SBA members who signs up for a Sam's Club premium membership receive 55% discount (only $45!) AND gets a $25 gift card.
Microsoft (Woodfield Mall) Entrepreneur Week events: February 20 - February 24 - Membership Appreciation WEEK
Entrepreneurship Week: Each of these events takes place at Microsoft (Woodfield Mall)
Monday, February 20, 5:30pm Bunker Labs: By Veterans, For Veterans
Bunker Labs works to inspire, educate and connect transitioning service members and veterans as they seek to launch their own ventures. Staff of Bunker Labs will present, and some successful graduates will be available to talk about their experiences with the program and how it helped them succeed in business.
Tuesday, February 21, 5:30pm Healthy Life=Healthy Business
The team from The Diagnostic and Counseling Center will be here to talk about the allimportant worklife balance and things entrepreneurs particularly need to consider about maintaining their health and providing health benefits to their employees.
Wednesday, February 22
11:00 am Getting Certified to Work with the Federal Government
1:00 pm Small Business Loans
3:00 pm Starting a Business in Illinois
6:00 pm Online Safety and Blogging as a Business
Thursday, February 23, 5:00pm Ignite Your Ideas panel event
Business vs. Execution Plans. Why you must have both and how they differ. | The Importance of a Strong Marketing Plan for Startups. | Why Joining a Chamber Can Help | Why Small Businesses Use Office 365 as the ultimate productivity software. | Panel Q&A and networking to follow.
Friday, February 24, 5:30pm Gaming Entrepreneurship
The new and growing field of Esports and Gaming is ripe for Millennial entrepreneurs! A panel of Chicago gaming enthusiasts, featuring Chicago Esports and Gaming, who have turned their passion into a business. Light refreshments during presentation, Q&A to follow.
Full details and registration here:
http://www.microsoft.com/enus/store/locations/il/schaumburg/woodfieldmall/store36
Monday, February 20, 5:30pm Bunker Labs: By Veterans, For Veterans
Bunker Labs works to inspire, educate and connect transitioning service members and veterans as they seek to launch their own ventures. Staff of Bunker Labs will present, and some successful graduates will be available to talk about their experiences with the program and how it helped them succeed in business.
Tuesday, February 21, 5:30pm Healthy Life=Healthy Business
The team from The Diagnostic and Counseling Center will be here to talk about the allimportant worklife balance and things entrepreneurs particularly need to consider about maintaining their health and providing health benefits to their employees.
Wednesday, February 22
11:00 am Getting Certified to Work with the Federal Government
1:00 pm Small Business Loans
3:00 pm Starting a Business in Illinois
6:00 pm Online Safety and Blogging as a Business
Thursday, February 23, 5:00pm Ignite Your Ideas panel event
Business vs. Execution Plans. Why you must have both and how they differ. | The Importance of a Strong Marketing Plan for Startups. | Why Joining a Chamber Can Help | Why Small Businesses Use Office 365 as the ultimate productivity software. | Panel Q&A and networking to follow.
Friday, February 24, 5:30pm Gaming Entrepreneurship
The new and growing field of Esports and Gaming is ripe for Millennial entrepreneurs! A panel of Chicago gaming enthusiasts, featuring Chicago Esports and Gaming, who have turned their passion into a business. Light refreshments during presentation, Q&A to follow.
Full details and registration here:
http://www.microsoft.com/enus/store/locations/il/schaumburg/woodfieldmall/store36
More information can be found at Schaumbrug Business Association
La Porte Chamber Starts 2017 with Team Changes and Events
The Greater La Porte Chamber of Commerce has started off its 2017 with a flurry of events, changes to staff, and a number of committee meetings. To begin the year, Rita Mrozinski, a five-year employee of the Chamber, became President and CEO of the organization. Mrozinski stated, “It’s been an exciting new year, and I am truly enthusiastic to continue working with the La Porte community and businesses and determine where Chamber can help them grow and thrive. I believe that as a Chamber, we must not just accept the status quo and must reach for higher opportunities and expectations.”
That was not the only change with the staff, however. The Chamber also recently welcomed Michelle Dickman as the new Membership Director. “I’m excited to become even more involved with this community,” stated Dickman. “I truly believe this is the position I have always been looking to do.” Dickman came to the Chamber with experience in marketing and sales, working for La Porte County Realty and the Edward Jones office of Cheryl Reinhart.
Many of the Chamber’s committees began to meet in January. The Retention and Expansion Committee met and has decided to work more closely with the Greater La Porte Economic Development Corporation to help retain and expand businesses in the greater La Porte area. The Education Committee had a near record turn-out for its meeting with members discussing various workforce development and education initiatives at La Porte Community Schools, Ivy Tech Community College, Purdue University Northwest, the La Porte County Public Library, WorkKeys and other organizations. Read more: La Porte County Life
Indy scores economic wins
Indiana’s largest metro scored major economic wins in 2016, based on year-end results recently announced by the regional business attraction arm of the Indy Chamber. The Indy Partnership reports 11,100 new jobs and more than $1.2 billion in capital investment last year, coordinated with its local economic development organization (LEDO) partners across the nine-county area.
Nearly one of every three new jobs came in information technology, continuing a recent IT growth trend. The 2016 "Tech Thirty" report (released annually by commercial real estate broker CBRE) ranked the region fifth among major metros in tech employment gains for the last two years – besting even Silicon Valley over that span.
“Indy continued to build a more innovative economy in 2016, and it shows clearly in our attraction and retention successes,” said Indy Chamber president and chief executive officer Michael Huber. “Our best is yet to come: We’ve only begun to implement the ‘Accelerate Indy’ strategy, focusing on high-skill talent and a high-tech business climate and restructuring regional economic development to be more competitive.”
Major tech wins include the 800 job Salesforce expansion in Indianapolis, Octiv (formerly Tinderbox, 225 new jobs), Clear Software (190 new jobs, Zionsville) and Braden Business Systems (120 new jobs, Fishers) among 27 projects accounting for more than 3,300 jobs.
Other notable investments show the region’s advanced industry momentum, including high-skill, R&D-driven areas of manufacturing and life sciences along with technology:
• Development of the 16 Tech innovation district and Indiana Bioscience Research Institute continued to pay dividends, with major expansion plans from Indiana-based medical device giant Cook Group;
• Advanced industries are highly globalized, and Indy attracted foreign investment from firms like Italy-based Sigma Tau Pharmaceuticals (Indianapolis) and Japan’s Ryobi (Shelbyville) and marked the opening of Cummins’ new worldwide logistics headquarters;
• Advanced manufacturing also continued to be a pillar of the regional economy; nearly a thousand new jobs came from 23 manufacturing projects across seven counties last year, including the 115-job/$111 million expansion of ELSA Corp., Elwood.
The region’s logistics industry also showed major movement in 2016, adding nearly 3,000 new jobs from projects like the expansion of Knight Transportation (a 426-job commitment in Plainfield) and 84 Lumber (100 jobs in Franklin). Read more: Batesville Tribune
New Castle-Henry County Chamber of Commerce 2016 Community Map
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Fox Cities Chamber event: Speaker says economy is better than people think
In the midst of giving an economic forecast speech Wednesday, a strategist told a crowd of 500 people not to put too much stock in economic forecasts.
“Actual results rarely match forecasts. Economic forecasting is a fool’s errand,” said William Delwiche, Baird’s investment strategist and speaker at the Fox Cities Chamber’s annual Economic Outlook Breakfast at the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel.
Hard, cold facts are what matter, he said, and they're now showing that the economy is turning a corner.
“The economy is doing better than a lot of people think. Improvement has already begun. It’s not contingent on policy going forward. We’ve sown the seeds already."
Delwiche cited improved statistics from housing, inventories and the Purchasing Managers’ Index as proof.
The GDP, which has been below 3 percent for years, can rise above that mark and return to its healthy 1980s and 1990s levels, he believes.
“We are so conditioned for sub-par growth. The economy has been in a slow growth mode for a decade or decade-and-a-half. We’re finally starting to emerge from that. We’ve got some momentum. In retrospect we’ll be able to say ‘Aha! This was the moment,’” he said.
"The hope of progress is out there, and that is enough to unleash the ‘animal spirits’ in the economy that have been pent up for too long,” he said, using the term made famous by John Maynard Keynes.
“The feeling is positive, and that’s how it starts. What has been missing is the belief that things are getting better.”
Changes in Washington, D.C. are a “tailwind on top of that,” Delwiche said. Read more: Post-Crescent
Community Leaders Recognized by Loudoun Chamber
The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of its 2017 Loudoun Community Leadership Awards on Jan. 26, honoring local businesses and community leaders for what the Chamber called true leadership and commitment to support the Loudoun County community and its citizens.
Finalists were named in five categories: large and small businesses, non-profit executive, executive leaders and young professionals. Winners were announced at the Chamber’s 2017 Annual Meeting and Community Leadership Awards Ceremony at the National Conference Center in Lansdowne.
“Loudoun County is truly privileged to have so many outstanding leaders and organizations that are willing to invest their time, talent and treasure to serve their community. The Loudoun County Chamber is privileged to honor these great Community Leaders for the hard work and valuable contributions they have made to make Loudoun a world-class community to live, work, raise a family and grow a business,” said Chamber President & CEO Tony Howard.
Chauvon McFadden of Crimson Wealth Strategies won the Young Professionals category. Nicholas Bagg of AOL, Carolyn Dobson of Evergreen Sportsplex and Jennifer Knowlton of StoneSprings Hospital Center were finalists.
Pam Jones of Extraordinary Transitions — Long & Foster won the Executive Leader Award category. Jimmy Olevson of Main Street Bank, Roman Blazauskas of SpeedPro Imaging Northern Virginia and Fran Craig of Unanet were finalists. Read more: Loudoun Tribune
Chamber contest: Enter to win a weekend getaway to Ocean Springs
Call it a stay-cation, but winning a weekend in Ocean Springs could be just the thing, even if you’re from the Coast.
Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce–Main Street–Tourism Bureau has teamed with the creators of The Mississippi List and Visit Mississippi to give away a weekend stay here, with dining around town, shopping and sightseeing.
After all, this is Ocean Springs, “a mesmerizing waterfront town bursting at the seams with world-class food, art, boutique shopping and outdoor activities” according to Mississippi List. They also called it “the little seaside escape that racks up awards year after year for its welcoming experience that just hits all the right notes with visitors and locals alike.”
Visitors to Mississippilist.com can enter — click under the coastal section — for a chance to win the weekend package that includes a stay at The Inn downtown, a visit to the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, breakfast at The Greenhouse on Porter, lunch and live music at Murky Waters BBQ, afternoon desserts at French Kiss Pastries and fine dining at Vestige. Read more: Sun Herald
Kyndle names new existing industry and workforce development manager
Kyndle names new existing industry and workforce development manager
A Kentucky native with industrial workforce and training experience has been hired to join the staff of Kyndle.
Whitney Risley will serve in the newly created position of manager of existing industry and workforce development. In that role, she will seek to visit each of the more than 130 existing industries in the Kyndle region of Henderson, McLean, Union and Webster counties.
Risley will also partner with industries as well as schools and other education providers to help make the region’s education and workforce training system as effective as possible.
“We know that 70 to 80 percent of new industrial jobs will be created by existing companies,” Kyndle CEO Tony Iriti said. “It’s very important that Kyndle have a professional who can stay in regular touch with our existing industries to gauge how they are doing and whether there are opportunities for Kyndle to help them secure incentives to help them expand. Read more: The Gleaner
Risley will also partner with industries as well as schools and other education providers to help make the region’s education and workforce training system as effective as possible.
“We know that 70 to 80 percent of new industrial jobs will be created by existing companies,” Kyndle CEO Tony Iriti said. “It’s very important that Kyndle have a professional who can stay in regular touch with our existing industries to gauge how they are doing and whether there are opportunities for Kyndle to help them secure incentives to help them expand. Read more: The Gleaner
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