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STRATEGIES TO GROW YOUR
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Metro Chamber members have access annually to 94 no-charge events that attract
more than 2,800 participants. Put your membership to use.
Power Lunch Series:
FREE to members, cost of lunch
only. Great way to make business
connections quickly.
Hard
Rock Cafe, Downtown Sacramento
Friday,
07/10, noon-1:30 p.m.
Pearl
on the River, Sacramento
Friday,
07/24, noon-1:30 p.m.
Business Builder Series:
SMUD
Lunch & Learn Workshop
Tuesday,
07/07, 11 a.m to 1 p.m.
Creating
"RAVING FANS"
Tuesday,
07/28, 8-9 a.m.
Social
Media & Networking 101
Thursday,
07/30, 8-9:30 a.m.
Metro Chamber Orientation:
Wednesday, 07/15, 8-9:30 a.m.
Referral Round Table Series:
Connect with companies you can
do business with through an
exchange of legitimate business
leads.
Tuesday, 07/07, 8-9 a.m.
Arden Arcade Metro Mixer: Arden
Hills Spa & Resort
Thursday,
07/23 5:30-7 p.m.
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Number of
businesses visited in Rocklin by
58 walkers in
3 hours during today's
Business Walk
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Med-Ready Healthcare launches Med-Ready house calls
Med-Ready
Healthcare announces the
launch of a new division--the
company is bringing back
doctor house calls. The first
of its kind in the Sacramento
region, Med-Ready
House Calls is an innovative
program that combines modern
medicine with old-fashioned
service. | Details Sutter
Medical Center offers
community grants: Apply now
The Sutter Medical Center,
Sacramento seeks requests for
proposals for the 2010
Community Benefit Grants
Program. Applications and
information are
available online,
under Community Grants RFP
2010. Metro
Chamber members: Discounted
Grape & Gourmet tickets
available for you
As
a proud partner of the
California's Grape &
Gourmet event Thursday, July
9, the Metro Chamber has
received a special discount
ticket rate for Metro
Chamber members.
Tickets are
normally $50 in advance / $70
at the door / $100 VIP – As
a Metro Chamber member, you
will be given a discounted
ticket price of $35 with an
automatic upgrade to VIP
access.
To purchase
discount tickets,
visit this special
website and enter the
promo coupon code:
GG09SACMETRO at the top of the
page.
The event will be
held at the Sacramento
Convention Center. |
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Perspectives announces 2009 lineup
Speakers include former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long
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Perspectives, Sacramento’s premier speakers forum and business networking event, celebrates its 15th year of bringing phenomenal minds and talent to our region on Oct.
9.
Since 1995, the Metro Chamber has introduced the region’s business people to some of the world’s most influential and world-renowned leaders including President George H.W. Bush, Gen. Colin Powell, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Gov. Ann Richards, President Gerald Ford, Capt. Jim Lovell, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Perspectives was launched in celebration of the Metro Chamber’s 100th anniversary and century-long service to the community.
Annually drawing an audience of nearly 3,000 people, the day-long program is informative and creates first-class networking opportunities for business and civic leaders.
Complete
Perspectives 2009 Lineup:
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Condoleezza Rice:
Former Secretary of State
- Howie
Long: NFL Hall of Famer/Fox
Sports Analyst
- Jane
Bryant Quinn: Financial
Commentator/TV Host
- James
Bradley: Flags of Our
Fathers Author
- Guy
Kawasaki:
Author/Entrepreneur
- With
returning emcee, Tom
Sullivan: Fox News Radio
Host
Live
Speaker Announcement from Tom
Sullivan and
Metro Chamber's
Matthew R. Mahood on NewsTalk
1530 KFBK
See
How Your Business Can Be a
Perspectives Sponsor | Details
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Rocklin
Business walk visits 274 local businesses |
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Walk participants
Vice Mayor Scott
Yuill, Bernie Lenau
and Kristi Beard |
The
Metro Chamber partnered with
the Rocklin Area Chamber of Commerce, the City of Rocklin and Placer County
to find ways to support area businesses during these historically challenging times; never before has the need for this type of interaction been more imperative.
Fifty eight "walkers" visited 274 businesses today, including Rocklin vice mayor Scott Yuill and Rocklin councilmember Kathy Lund, as well as Jim Holmes and Robert Weygandt from the Placer County Board of Supervisors.
What resonated most among the participants was the Rocklin business community’s commitment to weathering the storm and meeting the challenges they face in the form of vacancies and slowed business. Business owners want their community to be successful and they want to personally be successful within their community. A full report will be ready for review in the weeks ahead.
The Metro Chamber's Business Walk brings together business and community leaders to visit businesses and ask three questions: How's business, what do you like about doing business in this area, and what can be done to improve business? From these questions, business and government agencies are able to act on requests and needs as part of the
Metro Pulse
program.
For more information about upcoming business walks
click here or join us for the Rancho Cordova Business Walk on Aug.
28 | Register
today!
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Sacramento region gears up for
"marine highway" system
Cargo to be shipped by barge between
Port of Oakland and Port of West Sacramento |
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Yeros of
Eco-Transport
outlines benefits of
shipping containers
by barge | Photo By Riverview
Media Photography |
| Capital
Public Radio
Interview of Port
Director Mike Luken
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Very soon, you will see barges loaded with containerized cargo sailing into the Port of West Sacramento. This movement of goods is called the “marine highway” and it will help bring hundreds of new jobs to the region while improving air quality and reducing highway congestion by taking more than 1 million truck trips off area roads.
More than 100 business and civic leaders heard details of the “marine highway” outlined during the Northern California World Trade Center’s annual State of the Sea Ports event, held June 25 in West Sacramento. |
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International
trade and commerce
lead the Vancouver economy
Study the Gateway to the Pacific- Aug. 19-22
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As the main western terminus for Canada’s transcontinental highway and rail routes, as well as host to the largest deep-water harbor on the west coast of the Americas, Vancouver is the Canadian gateway to the Pacific Rim. Combining its infrastructure strengths with a highly educated, multi-cultural workforce — the highest percentage of foreign-born residents of any city in the world — Vancouver has enjoyed tremendous recent growth in international business and trade.
Specifically Vancouver has Canada's largest and most diversified port, trading $75 billion in goods annually. It is home to a variety of different industries, including the mining, forest, biotech, film and software industries. While still being guided by sustainable land use plans, the region has been dynamic as an efficient, effective and integrated supply chain that connects business to one of the largest free trade zones in the world.
The time is NOW to learn how to affect your business and community by example- join community leaders in Vancouver Aug. 19-22.
Click here for more details.
Gain Regional and
International Visibility for
Your Business:
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International Study & Trade
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Metro Chamber Health Care and Biosciences
Impact Report to be released
July 17 Health Care Telemedicine breakfast
will launch critical industry sector impact report
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The Metro Chamber has partnered with our four local health systems, CHW/Mercy, Kaiser, Sutter and UC Davis, as well as Burger Rehabilitation and Western Health Advantage to evaluate the economic impact of the health care and bioscience professions on the region’s economy. As the largest private industry segment in our region, health care and biosciences have shown significant growth.
The incredible impact of their businesses will be revealed during the Metro Chamber-Sacramento Business Journal Health Care Breakfast on Friday, July 17.
The Telemedicine breakfast will also feature keynote speaker Sandra Shewry, founding president & CEO of the California Center for Connected Health, to explain how telemedicine can bolster modern health
care. Register
now!
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Cap-to-Cap Efforts Continue to be Effective
Rep. Doris Matsui Announces $1 Million for Local Youth Development
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Over the last four years the Workforce Development and Education Committee has supported a position at Cap-to-Cap to bring Department of Labor YouthBuild Grant funds to Sacramento. In January, the Sacramento Regional Conservation Corps submitted a grant proposal in partnership with the Sacramento Chapter of Rebuilding Together, a national non-profit, and on June 12th, Congresswoman Doris Matsui’s office announced that $1,099,137 was awarded to Sacramento Regional Conservation Corps to provide job training and educational opportunities for at-risk youth between the ages of 16 and 24.
“These federal funds will be used for public work and community development,” said Congresswoman Matsui. “This money is going exactly where it needs to go.”
The continued and cooperative effort of our community at Cap-to-Cap, and at the local and state levels, allows for big investments and projects to affect our region and our economy. For more information about the grant,
get details
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Leadership
Sacramento event
reconnects
more than 60 alums
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More than 60 people attended
the June 23 Leadership
Sacramento alumni happy hour at M!X Downtown! Special thanks to the alums who organized the event and to Mason Wong for not only providing us the space and appetizers for the event, but for also donating $100 to the 2009 class project!
If you are a program alum,
click here to join the Leadership Sacramento Alumni Group on Facebook and to be notified of the next alumni
event. |
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METRO
CHAMBER AFFILIATES &
PARTNERS
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Workshop
shows how government
contracting can come to you
If you are
looking for access as a
contractor/vendor to the
region's governmental
agencies, this
workshop is a must-attend.
Panelists from agencies like
SMUD, the county of
Sacramento, city of
Sacramento, Regional Transit,
state Department of
Governmental Services and the
Sacramento Housing &
Redevelopment Agency will
outline contracting
opportunities available to
small businesses.
For details on
this free
workshop and future dates, email
us.
SARTA's TechSurge Mixer
Thursday July 16; 5:30 - 8:00
p.m.
$20 SARTA Members $40 Non
Members | Details
Eat, Drink & Be Merry at Sacramento's Annual "Wine & Dine Week"
Spotlighting Sacramento's emerging restaurant scene and regional wine production, the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau
and the annual Grape & Gourmet event have partnered with almost 50 local restaurants to create "Wine & Dine
Week," scheduled for July 4
to July 12.
The event serves as a culinary warm-up to the annual Grape & Gourmet California state wine competition
(see bottom left for discount
ticket details). That event, which has previously been held at Cal Expo, will move downtown to the Sacramento Convention Center this year.
Wine & Dine Week will feature some of
Sacramento's best restaurants offering Prix Fixe menus that include wines paired with each course.
For more information, log onto
sacramentowineanddine.com.
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REGIONAL BUSINESS AGENDA |
METRO PULSE |
OUR NEW MEMBERS |
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The
Sacramento Metro Chamber is a catalyst in transforming
the Sacramento region into an international center for
commerce, learning, culture and recreation.
Learn more about what we're doing for business
in our
2009 Regional Business Agenda priorities |
Metro Pulse
is the region's business retention and expansion program designed to provide local
businesses with the information and resources to grow
and succeed. Get started now on solving challenges in
your business.
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self-assessment |
View a list
of recent new members to the Metro Chamber. If you
recognize familiar names, please contact those
businesses and welcome them aboard....and then
consider doing business with them!
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