Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce 2024 is on Tuesday, October 15, 2024: What is a chamber of commerce?

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 is Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce 2024. October is support your local chamber day Support Your Local Chamber

Hi Jackie

A chamber of commerce is a not for profit organization that supports local businesses through mixers, events and providing cost effective ways for small businesses to participate in benefit plans, etc.

Chambers usually have web sites. Check if the city you are in has one. This will give you a ton of information of what your Chamber is doing.

Working at a chamber is lots of fun! You will get to meet many influential business people! Congrats on getting the interview!

I have provided you a link to the Las Vegas chamber web site.

Why does the Chamber of Commerce support the Republican party?

It's an organization comprised of businesses in local communities nationwide - mainly small businesses that make this country roll.

This is why Obama is waging war on this great organization. Kill the Chamber, kill small business, kill contributions to the Republican party.

Evil.

Whom can I contact about getting more grants for my local Chamber of Commerce?

Grants, in addition to the fees you collect from your members?

Your best bet is to seek for private grants or grants from private foundations.

The best resource for this is Foundation Center . They have a very good database covering all organizations giving grants and you can find foundations that are interested in supporting your type of cause. However, it's a subscription based website ($19.95 per month I think is the cheapest subscription price). But it certainly is worth the fee. You can subscribe one month, and make sure you get all the info you need and then stop the subscription.

If you want to try federal sources, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) and Grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants.

CFDA has several ways to search for grants. I suggest you search by beneficiary and select Private Non Profit Organization and you can find listings of grants available

However, to be able to get grant awards, you need to be 501C(3) certified from the IRS