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The West Sacramento Chamber presents the
Project Pride Initiative
- Vision 2010 -
The mission for the West Sacramento
Chamber of Commerce is to create, promote and maintain a
favorable economic climate and quality of life for its
members and the community at large.
Economic Development
To achieve
sustainable economic growth by building a diverse economy
and employment base to provide opportunity and prosperity
for our residents, businesses, entrepreneurs, and community
through strong cohesive local and regional collaboration.Goals
- Develop and maintain a competitive business climate
- Work with the City to develop recruitment documents
evaluating a business model for economic success
- Participate in identifying and promoting, new and
expanded opportunities
- Land Use Issues – business displacement or
relocation issues related to Land use
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Business Advocacy
To provide the
leadership to ensure West Sacramento is a "Pro-Business"
community.Goals
- Identify ways the Chamber can assist, promote, and
support its Members in the changing business climate
- Represent the interests of our constituency to
government
- Identify and address issues impacting our Members
and the business community at large
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Building Community Pride
To work with both
existing and new businesses and residents to unify and
promote pride in our communityGoals
- Community Image – Educate the community to enhance
pride in our accomplishments, respect for our history,
and build excitement about our future Communicate the
vision and changes of our community within the region
- Appearance – working with the business community,
the City and residents to enhance all aspects of our
community
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Education
Support a full range
of educational opportunities throughout our communityGoals
- Provide educational seminars for the Business
Community
- Work with the Washington Unified School District on
the school district’s reorganization to improve academic
performance
- Work with Washington Unified School District to
provide Vo-Tech Educational programs
- Encourage workforce training programs to train or
retrain residents for continually evolving employment
sector
- Provide mentors to the elementary schools
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Membership and Communications
To retain and enhance
Chamber’s leadership by expanding and retaining Members. To
communicate goals and accomplishments of the organization to
the Membership, the City and residents.Goals
- Maintain a Membership retention of 91.5% annually
- Increase new Member revenue by 100% in 2008
- Develop a Project Pride website
- Develop and execute a Public Relations strategy
- Review and enhance Member Benefits
- Develop process of communicating to business
community and residents activities and accomplishments
of Project Pride
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