ACE Awards Gallery

2017 ACE: Award of Excellence

The Conway Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2016. The goal of the 125th anniversary video was to provide a historical look at the Chamber's influence in Conway and demonstrate how decisions Chamber leadership made over the last 125 years are still making a difference today.

2017 ACE: Award of Excellence

The goal of this video was to promote the annual Eden Prairie Chamber Golf Tournament - to attract golfers, sponsors and donors and to bring awareness to the theme for the 2017 tournament. In order to promote the tournament early enough, our volunteers played up the new theme for 2017, "Go Big or Go Home," while incorporating the outdoor elements that are typical of a Minnesota winter.

2015 ACE: Award of Excellence

The goal of Grandview Chamber Challenge was to take a local business who was hitting hard times and as a chamber help them achieve success. Members partnered together to help provide a complete makeover of The French Loaf. Services consisted of review of current books, writing a new business plan, training and business coaching, creating a new financial plan, architectural drawings, signage, marketing and branding, social media campaign development and implementation, decorations, printing, and physical labor. The transformation was astounding; the members truly guided the French Loaf on to the road of success.

2017 ACE: Award of Excellence

Lemonade Day is a free program that teaches youth how to start, own, and operation their own business -- a lemonade stand. Kids across Galveston County will become entrepreneurs and learn goal setting, planning, budgeting, recruiting investors, and how to start a small business.

2017 ACE: Award of Excellence

This annual report was created to inform One Acadiana's stakeholders of the organization and region's progress.

2018 ACE: Grand Award

This document contains Legislative Affairs Committee member Gary Huddleston's testimony opposing House Bill 793. This proposed legislation would overturn a Texas Supreme Court ruling from 2015 and deem Chambers to be "governmental bodies", placing these nonprofits under the Texas Public Information Act and subjecting Chambers to open records requests. See also the Governmental Affairs Strategic Plan, Fact Sheet, and Written Testimony.

2018 ACE: Grand Award

This fact sheet is for the Chamber's advocacy campaign opposing House Bill 793 (HB 793) & Senate Bill 408 (SB 408) which directly target Chambers that have public-private partnerships (PPP) with governmental entities. This legislation was extremely troublesome to the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber’s PPP model because it exposed the Chamber's proprietary information and jeopardized sensitive, competitive corporate recruiting inquiries and proposals. See also the Governmental Affairs Strategic Plan, Written Testimony, and Oral Testimony.

2018 ACE: Grand Award

The objective of this Governmental Affairs Strategic Plan is to develop, strategize and implement a grassroots effort to defeat harmful legislation being considered during the 85th Texas Legislative Session targeted at Chambers of Commerce receiving public funding. House Bill 793 (HB 793) & Senate Bill 408 (SB 408) directly target Chambers that have public-private partnerships (PPP) with governmental entities. This legislation would expose the Chamber's proprietary information and jeopardize sensitive, competitive corporate recruiting inquiries and proposals. See also the Chamber's Written Testimony, Oral Testimony, and Fact Sheet.

2018 ACE: Grand Award

Northern Colorado Prospers (NCP) is a five-year strategic initiative of the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce designed to address four specific challenges facing business in Northern Colorado: (1) Fix North I-25; (2) Align, attract and retain talent; (3) Bold voice of business; and (4) Retain and expand existing business. The NCP Quarterly report communicates progress on all four goals, with an overview of what has been accomplished, what is underway and where the Chamber is headed next. While not only highlighting the key elements of the 2017-2021 initiative, other goals of this publication include keeping investors engaged, informed and accomplished with the issues they believe and have financially invested in.

2018 ACE: Grand Award

This letter was written as part of the Chamber's advocacy campaign to oppose Senate Bill 408 (SB 408). This bill would place the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce under onerous provisions of the Texas Public Information Act and detract from the Chamber's ability to fulfill its mission. See also the Governmental Affairs Strategic Plan, Fact Sheet, and Oral Testimony.