Increase Non-Dues Revenue Through the Power of Text
Everyone texts. Email can be outdated and clunky, limiting your ability to create urgency. Texts have 98% open rates.
Mission-Driven Work Pays Off in St. Paul
Chamber professionals are known for wearing many hats. The St. Paul Area Chamber is using that ability to their financial benefit through Workstream, a program that provides services and support to local municipalities and organizations that share in its mission.
Chamber coworking space expanding in Grand Rapids
When the Grand Rapids Chamber moved offices in 2018, the relocation provided opportunities beyond a new view. The creation of a coworking space helped to align the facilities to the chamber’s strategy of being an epicenter of business activity for West Michigan. Fast forward to today, the chamber is expanding its member-driven collaborative workspace and launching a five-year investment campaign.
Fund the Big Picture: Community Impact and Capital Campaigns
At the turn of the 20th century, Alamance County (N.C.) was home to 30 textile mills. By 1950, the city of Burlington was dubbed the Hosiery Center of the South. At the next turn of the century, the fabric of the textile-based economy was in question as companies moved overseas. In 2005, the Alamance County Economic Development Foundation was formed to ensure a transition toward new industries and livelihoods for local residents.
Add Membership Value with Savings Partnership
When it comes to member value, chambers are constantly working to ensure business owners are getting useful benefits with their membership. That might be networking opportunities, connections to other businesses and customers, marketing and events or community impact work that chambers take on.
Get Strategic with Mission-Based Non-Dues Revenue
Economic development and tourism formerly fell under the umbrella of the Greater Pensacola Chamber (Fla.). But when all three agencies became independent in 2015, the chamber found itself focused solely on what Jessica Simpson, vice president of membership and operations, called ‘chamber work,’ centering on local business, connecting and convening, advocacy and networking.
Chamber Impact, Built on a Strong Foundation
Chambers of commerce are in the community impact business, and many chambers are leveraging their foundations to create new revenue streams that support their mission-based work.
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