Good morning #ChamberWorld! It's going to be a GREAT day!
A Warm Welcome to Small Business
Administration's Newest Cabinet Level Official- Jovita Carranza!
Jovita Carranza now serves as
the 26th Administrator of the SBA. Administrator Carranza will lead the only
federal agency exclusively dedicated to assisting small business owners and
entrepreneurs in starting, growing, and expanding their businesses. Additionally,
the SBA provides targeted recovery support in the event of a declared disaster.
This is Administrator
Carranza’s second tenure at the SBA. She served in the George W. Bush
Administration as Deputy Administrator, from 2006-2009. The President nominated
Administrator Carranza to lead the SBA while she was serving as the 44th
Treasurer of the United States. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a
strong bipartisan vote of 88-5.
Administrator Carranza’s
experience includes a remarkable 30-year career with United Parcel Service,
where she began as an hourly dock worker, rose to oversee operations in Latin
America and the Caribbean, and ultimately retired as the highest-ranking Latina
in the company’s history.
Administrator Carranza pledged
to preside over an Agency focused on creating more opportunities for women and
historically underrepresented entrepreneurs while ensuring the SBA remains
prepared to assist displaced homeowners and small businesses impacted by
disaster.
Administrator Carranza earned
her MBA from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and received
executive, governance, management and financial training at the INSEAD Business
School in Paris, France; Michigan State University; and the University of
Chicago.
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on social media:
Virginia Peninsula Chamber: Speakers Wanted for
2020 Pink Bag Lunch Series
Want to speak at a 2020 Pink Bag
Lunch (PBL)?
Submit your request to Elisa
Hernandez at elisa@vpcc.org or call (757) 325-8162. Spots are limited and
filling up quickly!
We have the following dates
available for speakers at upcoming Pink Bag Luncheons (PBL):
September 10, 2020
November 12, 2020
December 10, 2020
Events are located at the Chamber
Office (21 Enterprise Parkway, Suite 100 | Hampton, VA 23666), from 11:30 AM -
1:00 PM.
*Speakers must be a current
Peninsula Chamber member, and be fluent on a topic that impacts women in the
workplace.
Event Information:
The Pink Bag Lunch (PBL) is a
program created to provide women with the opportunity to network, connect and
engage with other women in business on the Peninsula. This program is typically
held on the second Thursday of each month from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM, in the
conference room at the the chamber office. The program includes networking,
lunch and a guest speaker presenting on topics that challenge, impact and
influence women in their careers today.
Pink Bag Lunch Ticket Prices:
Members | $7.00
Non-Members | $14.00
If you are interested in becoming a
speaker or learning more about the program, please contact Elisa Hernandez
at elisa@vpcc.org or (757) 325-8162 for more details.
The Top of Virginia Regional
Chamber 2020 Voice of Business
The Top of Virginia Regional Chamber 2020 Voice of
Business is available at the Chamber today! Thanks
to Richard Kennedy and the chamber team for their help and
direction putting this together!
Town Square Publications (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.
#BestChamber practices: Oxford-Lafayette County
Chamber: Do you hire current college students?
The University of Mississippi
Career Center invites you to our Lunch and Learn on Thursday January 30th for
best practices in recruiting, hiring and developing student talent. The Job
Location and Development Program (JLD), a program partially funded by the
federal government, helps students obtain off-campus employment in the Oxford
area. The department is interested in advertising and promoting your available
positions free of charge. Use this link or e-mail office@career.olemiss.edu to
register for the event. Call (662) 915-7174 for additional questions.
Logansport Cass County Community Resource
Guide and Map
The Logansport
Cass County Community Guide and map is available at
the Chamber today! Thanks to the Bill, Teresa and the chamber members for their help and
direction putting this together!
Town Square Publications (www.townsquarepublications.com)
can help you accomplish your chamber's gloss map, directory, community guide or
publication needs at no expense to the chamber. Please email John Dussman at jdussman@tspubs.com or
call (847)-427-4633.
Fox Cities Chamber Celebrated its 2019 Work at
Annual Report to the Community
Collaborative efforts are a key
focus in 2020
The Fox Cities Chamber celebrated
its 2019 work and recognized countless partners at its annual Report to the
Community on Thursday, January 23 with over 300 business and community leaders
in attendance.
The program opened with a welcome
by Becky Bartoszek, President/CEO of the Fox Cities Chamber.
“Without question, we are an
organization committed to building a strong and prosperous community,”
shared Bartoszek. “In twelve
months, our small team of fifteen employees brought the community 70-plus
events to further our mission and create a sense of belonging in the region. We
look forward to serving the Fox Cities in the year ahead. You can expect to see
a combination of traditional Chamber favorites along with a number of new
programs as well.”
This annual event featured stories
shared from Chamber partners regarding the impact of Chamber
programming to their business,
their employees and the overall community. The program highlighted the
Chamber’s Annual Report as well as key priorities of work coming in 2020.
A few 2019 Annual Report highlights
included:
• 987 total members, 78 new members
in 2019
• 75 total events
• Celebrated 38 years of
Octoberfest; estimated 200,000+ in attendance, $44,000 awarded to 15
organizations in the Fox Cities
through Octoberfest grants during the year with an estimated $2.5-
million given back to the community
to date through Octoberfest grants
• 39 Leadership Fox Cities
graduates in Spring 2019 with six sustainable service projects
completed
• 3,000+ student attendees at
two-day Your Future LIVE Career Expo event
• 700 college students exposed to
employment opportunities in the Fox Cities at new Fox Cities
Days program
• 11 Public Policy issues affecting
local businesses presented and discussed at monthly meetings
• Fox Cities Regional Partnership,
the economic development division of the Chamber, completed
10 RFI requests and assisted with
projects generating an estimated $135-million in total capital
investment, the creation of an
estimated 260 jobs and included 125 business retention and
expansion visits.
• Please see our 2019 Annual Report
for additional details.
#FamousChamber Of Commerce Quotations: (Be
happy!)
“If more of us valued food and
cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
New Strategic Road Map for the Battle Creek
Area Chamber of Commerce
by Kara Beer, IOM, MPA
Our Chamber has experienced a
continued strong financial position, growing membership numbers and revenue,
and healthy member satisfaction ratings. We want to build on this success and
improve our value proposition by serving the highest needs of our community,
now and far into the future. By crystallizing our strategy, and aligning our
resources to achieve that, we can enhance our membership offerings ensuring
that we provide the information, counsel, resources, services, training, and
other benefits needed to make membership easier and helping members to be more
successful. We’ll work to elevate the capabilities and brand of the Greater
Battle Creek Area and our Chamber of Commerce, so that we can best promote,
serve and improve our community. In addition to a new strategic road map, the
Chamber is proud to announce a new logo and brand colors as well.
In 2020, the Chamber’s launch of a
new strategic road map, goals and horizons is upon us. With four Strategic
Pillars, we hope that you’ll join us over the next three years tackling these
four pillars:
1. Be a Center of Excellence | Be
the number one resource for best-practice and innovative resources and
information for the community.
2. Storytelling | Help Chamber
members craft their narratives, and serve as a platform and megaphone for
Chamber member success stories.
3. Community Advocacy | Provide the
information, connections and services that’ll help Chamber members deal with
the greatest challenges within our community so they can best promote, serve
and improve our region.
4. Organizational Excellence |
Ensure the Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce is the best organization it
can be for staff and members.
Our brand refresh continues to be
built off of the iconography of the original logo while the colors showcase
different aspects of the Chamber’s goals and ideals (see below). The new logo
is warm and inviting, and redesigned to be a continuation of the use of wheat
abstracted into the State of Michigan. The icon is literally waving and welcoming
everyone to the area. Also, an addition to our brand is the wheat deconstructed
into a pattern meant to resemble the bristles of wheat in the wind,
illustrating the flow and flexibility of the Chamber found throughout our work.
Here's how the colors of our new
logo fit within our new strategic road map:
Cobalt | Classic Chamber Blue, Governance
· Teal | Storytelling, Communication & Trustworthiness
· Crimson | Community Advocacy,
Red of Jackets (Ambassadors)
· Gold | Center of Excellence,
Center of Attention, Energy & Excitement
· Charteuse | Organizational
Excellence, Growth & Deep Roots, Commerce & Economic Growth
As we welcome and celebrate
the New Year, please stay tuned into the Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce
as we continue to roll out more aspects of what’s to come. We’re confident that
you’ll find the refreshed brand to withstand the test of time representing our
mission, vision, and strategic direction as we continue to serve the Greater
Battle Creek Area.
To learn more, or how you and your
organization may engage with the Chamber into the future, please contact
President Kara Beer at 269.962.4076.
Midland Business Alliance: Expand Your Business
in the Great Lakes Bay Region
Business growth and expansion are
strong in our region. It's a reflection of the positive business climate that
is fueling our economy.
This online tool has the powerful
information needed to help business leadership make strategic decisions. It
features data and information including demographics, sites and buildings,
regional community comparisons, labor force data, consumer spending data,
business cluster data and much more.
Information is specific to the
Great Lakes Bay Region, specifically Arenac, Bay, Clare, Gladwin, Gratiot,
Huron, Isabella, Midland, Saginaw, Sanilac and Tuscola counties.
Click
here to visit the site and start planning your next expansion.
#BestChamber practices: Carol Stream Chamber of
Commerce: Entrepreneurial Learning via FREE webcasts
International Economic Development
Council
Creating an Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem
January 30, 2020 | Online
2:30 - 3:30 PM ET
Price: FREE
In recent years, entrepreneurial
development has become an important job creation strategy for economic
development organizations. From connecting your region's entrepreneurs with the
resources to succeed, to creating a culture of entrepreneurship, and filling
the gaps in between, your entrepreneurship-led economic development efforts
must be multi-tiered. That's where our free webinar "Creating an Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem" can help.
Tune in next Thursday, January
30, to hear from University of Missouri –Kansas City Vice Provost and
Executive Director Maria Meyers on the strategies, relationships, and
resources that go into a successful entrepreneurial ecosystem.
This webinar is supported by a
grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In 2020, IEDC and
our partner UMKC SourceLink will develop a set of training courses and
credential for professionals working on entrepreneurship-led economic development.
Interested in learning more about this initiative?
SPEAKER Maria Meyers
Vice Provost
Executive Director, UMKC Innovation
Center
Founder SourceLink
University of Missouri – Kansas
City
Maria is passionate about working
collaboratively to build entrepreneurial communities. She heads the University
of Missouri – Kansas City Innovation Center that supports thousands of
community members every year in starting and growing businesses. Maria has
developed a number of new resources for entrepreneurs in the Kansas City region
including KCSourceLink, a network of 240+ resources in the region that help
small businesses start and grow, Whiteboard2Boardroom, a program that connects
research innovations to entrepreneurs, and Digital Sandbox KC, a proof of
concept center. She leads efforts to make Kansas City America’s most
entrepreneurial city.
International Economic Development
Council
734 15th St NW #900, Washington, DC
20005
(202) 223-7800
Army Corps - meeting in Louisville about
Contracting - Open House Jan 30th USACE-Louisville
From
Nancy Eckerle: To Jasper Chamber members and other interested parities:
This is an open house
for those interested in contracting with the Louisville Corps District.
It
is January 30, link below has more info on location (Marriott in Louisville)
while the attached agenda is just that. Patoka Lake is through the Louisville
District. Forwarded from Greg Carpenter, Project Manager at Patoka Corps office.
This
could be a good way to learn more about getting contracts to work or purchase
with the Army Corps. Also a good way to learn how to get setup in
the system, and be ready to bid on work, or become better informed on updates
if you already have worked as a contractor.
Thanks,
Greg
Carpenter
Patoka
Dam & Lake
Project
Manager
U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers
Louisville
District
(812)678-3761
Louisville District
Open House
30 January 2020
8:00
– 9:00AM Arrival
9:00
– 9:05AM Welcome & Introductions MAJ Kyle Brinks
Deputy
Commander
9:05
– 9:15AM Louisville District Perspective COL Antoinette Gant
District
Commander
9:15
– 9:35AM Military Programs Hans Probst, PE
Chief,
Military and IIS Programs
9:35
– 9:55AM Reserve Programs Cristie Mitchell, PE, PMP
Chief,
Reserve Support Programs
9:55AM
– 10:10AM Break
10:10
– 10:25AM Civil Works Program Amy Babey, PMP
Chief,
Civil Works PM Branch
10:25
– 10:40AM Veterans Affairs (VA) Projects Matt Lowe, PE, PMP
Chief,
Veterans Affairs Division
10:40
– 11:00AM AE Contracting Opportunities John Bock, PE
Chief,
Engineering Division
11:00
– 12:00PM Lunch (On your own)
12:00
– 3:30PM Visits with Key District Staff Ballroom
Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Executives: Be.
Your. Best. Institute for Organization Management Application
Be. Your. Best.
Don't we all strive to be the best version of our ourselves?
At KCCE, we want to make sure you have the opportunity to
grow, experience and learn more about your profession and your self. We are
proud to offer scholarships every year to events and programs we believe can do
just that.
This application is for Institute for Organization
Management ONLY.
We will have another application later for all other
categories.
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