Grapevine Chamber of Commerce Newsletter
August, 2019
BusinesS MATTERS Mission: Your Chamber, Your Opportunities The mission of the Grapevine Chamber of Commerce is to promote business that adds value to our community.
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Vision: The vision of the Grapevine Chamber is a progressive business organization that brings relevant and essential opportunities for our investors and community to grow and prosper.
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Values: Excellence Innovation Integrity & Community
August is here. We can’t gripe too much because for Texas, we had an amazingly “cool” month in July (cool for Texas anyway). And now we get into what is historically the hottest month of the year in temperature, and the start of our busiest months for our community and Chamber. School starts, committees gear back up after summer breaks and events begin to happen. For your 5 Star Accredited, Chamber of the Year Finalist organization, we are looking forward to great things happening in the last five months of the year. If you aren’t involved in something, I encourage you to look through the calendar and newsletter, and find something that interests you, and take at least one hour to connect to your fellow Chamber members. I own a restaurant and sometimes my time is not my own – but, I find that just coming
to the Chamber luncheon each month is a great way to meet some key community business leaders, potential clients and soon to be friends. If lunch doesn’t work for you, find a networking group to go visit. There is one in the morning, at noon, and even an afternoon group. Each is a little different in what they do, but for the majority of those attending, they are looking forward to shaking your hand, getting to know you and learning about our businesses. Of course if events are your thing, we have those coming up with the Casino Night on Friday August 16th, Grapefest September 12th – 15th, the 40th Annual Grapevine Golf Tournament Monday, October 7th, the Job Fair on Wednesday, October 30th, the Christmas Parade on Thursday, December 5th and the Elves on the Run event on Saturday, December 7th. You can help plan any of these, or just work a shift at one of them – but in each activity
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you will help a cause, meet new people, or just have fun. If you haven’t driven by the Chamber, I encourage you to come check out the progress. New concrete is poured for more parking, the piers are in and dirt is flying daily! If you haven’t donated to the Capital Campaign yet, I’d like to ask you to consider making some contribution. You have three years to pay While we did not come home from Long Beach as the 2019 Chamber of the Year, we congratulate Longview, and appreciate that at least it came to Texas! We are still extremely proud that your Grapevine Chamber is one of the top 12 Chambers for 2019 in America – and you are a big part of the reason why. Thanks for your commitment to your Chamber, our community and I look forward to continuing to serve you for the remainder of 2019!
Steve Brown
Chairman of the Board
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