June, 2019
Grapevine Chamber of Commerce Newsletter
Business Matters Your Chamber's Action's & Accolades: Mission: The mission of the Grapevine Chamber of Commerce is to promote business that adds value to our community.
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.
Values:
Excellence Innovation Integrity & Community
Well, we have all sur vived M a i n Street Days and moving forward with a ton of summer activities and business dealings. For the Grapevine Chamber, we continue to have a wonderful team of dedicated members who are reaching out to the membership asking for your support of the Grapevine Chamber remodel of our current facility and expansion with a new community room. If you haven’t stepped up to support this effort, I would personally like to ask you to be a part of our great and growing future! And speaking of great, I want to share with you the news received that your Chamber of Commerce is one of the twelve finalists for this year’s Chamber of the Year Award. Not only are we a 5 Star Accredited Chamber, but out of 7,000 Chambers in the nation, you are a member of one of the Top 12!!! No matter whether we receive that single designation which will be awarded in July, just being at this level is a reflection of the work and effort that our chamber, business community, city, citizens
and staff have done to move our Chamber to the forefront as a solid organization working towards the betterment of our community! What does it mean to be a finalist for Chamber of the Year? We had to first qualify by participating in a vigorous multi-stage process. Organiz ations entering the Chamber of the Year competition must meet m i n i m u m thresholds in at least three of five key performance areas, including net revenue and assets, membership a c c o u n t retention, and membership dollar retention. Qualifying for Chamber of the Year is a rigorous process. Chambers compete based on meeting key performance criteria on the ACCE Annual Operations Survey. Qualifying chambers enter the competition with a written application addressing all aspects of organizational operation and programmatic work. Applications are scored by peer chamber executives to determine finalists. Winners are selected from among finalists based on an
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in-person interview before a panel of experienced chamber professionals. This year's competition drew numerous entries from chambers throughout the U.S. To ensure the fairest competition, applicants are grouped into four categories
based on: annual revenue, membership, area population and other factors. I want to thank the Board, all our business members and staff for creating an organization that we can be proud to be a part of, and that you have allowed me to serve in the role of Chairman. Steve Brown, 2019 Chairman of the Board
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