A Message from the President/CEO
We’re Celebrating 100 Years! Welcome to our 2022 Business Plan issue of the Chamber Voice of Business newsletter. This is your quick-guide to our 3-Year Strategic Plan and its supporting 2022 Program of Work for each of the Chamber’s divisions. I hope you take time to read it; you’ll get to know your Chamber better and learn why our mission-work benefits you and the Rogers-Lowell Area. Did you know that 2022 is our Centennial Celebration? Throughout the year, the Chamber will celebrate the past, present and what’s next for our exciting future. For 100 years we’ve been bringing people together to grow business, activate leaders and build community. This is our Mission as well as our passion and inspires everything we do to ensure the Rogers-Lowell area is a great place to visit, live, invest, work, and play. As we move out of the pandemic and into our new normal, all of us should be comforted by the fact that our business community arrived on the other side of this health crisis better and stronger than ever. This is a sign of renewed hope because small businesses represent the best of free enterprise and are the economic lifeblood of our local and national economy. They bring prosperity and innovation to our community and help stimulate economic growth by creating jobs. We take our roles as a leader of the business community, community partner and good neighbor very seriously. Our alliances with the Northwest Arkansas Council, the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other organizations allow us opportunities to have a voice at the table. That means your “voice” is represented where it matters most. Your role as our partner is to communicate with us your needs and priorities based upon your unique perspective and what you deal with daily. As an organization that represents business, we’re only as good as the feedback and communications we receive from our members. You are the Chamber. Your continued support for our mission-work’s five key focus areas – Community Development, Advocacy & Government Affairs, Small Business & Entrepreneurial Development, Economic Development and Destination Marketing & Management – helps us on our journey to be the best of the best as a region, as a state, and as a community. Thank you for your membership investment. We hope you’ll celebrate our birthday with us this year!
Raymond Burns President/CEO
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