WINTER PARK CHAMBER WELCOME

CONVENING PEOPLE, IDEAS

Welcome, friends and neighbors. The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce is

here to help newcomers settle in and to meet the needs of longtime residents as well.

The chamber’s mission is to convene people and ideas for the benefit of our businesses and community. Our goal is to provide leadership by bringing everyone together for the betterment of the whole.

Newcomers and others are welcome to join the chamber and enjoy the many advantages of membership, including heightened exposure of businesses to potential customers, networking at a wide variety of events, using dynamic social media opportunities and submitting items for our newsletters.

We’re here to help share your message with the region at large. Our team also works with each member to match opportunities with the message, budget and timing that are an ideal fit for their organization.

You should know that the chamber hosts more than 110 events and programs each year that connect our member businesses to the community. Be sure to go to winterpark.org to check out these programs and opportunities, including:

n Leadership Winter Park. A must-do program for people looking to increase their leadership presence and become involved in the decision-making process within the community.

n Relaunch: Career Reentry for Professional Women. This dynamic curriculum is for women who have taken a career pause and are ready to go back to work. We help you build your resumé, confidence and network.

n Youth Leaders. We host Central Florida’s premier leadership program for high school youth.

n Government Affairs Platform. We help lead the conversation on issues that affect our businesses and community.

And we invite you to join us at our annual events, such as the Autumn Art Festival, Taste of Winter Park and Ye Olde Hometown Christmas Parade.

We encourage you to support our local businesses, including our charming boutiques and bistros. And we encourage you to reach out to the chamber and its staff, who have many years of collective experience living and working in Winter Park. You can count on us to help you make crucial connections.

BETSY GARDNER ECKBERT, IOM

President/CEO, Winter Park Chamber of Commerce

Winter Park Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Betsy Gardner Eckbert.

The Winter Park Chamber of Commerce offers a variety of programs. Among them are Leadership Winter Park (top), in which participants learn about every aspect of civic life and city operations; and Relaunch: Career Reentry for Professional Women (above), which helps women who’ve taken pauses in their careers and are now ready to reenter the workforce.