2019 Review

2019: A Year in Review

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Events

Thank you, Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce community, for helping us make 2019 a truly amazing year! With your support, we’ve grown our organization, experimented with new events, and expanded our reach in the community. Here’s to an amazing 2020! We look forward to sharing it with you.

133

New Members

59

Ribbon Cuttings

$18,000

Raised for Nonprofits

In 2019, the Longmont Area Chamber of Commere was able to expand not only our community, but the programs, events, and benefits we offer our community. While we have no intention of slowing down in 2020, we want to share with you some of our successes from this year:

  • Unity in the Community was a resounding success. With the move to a downtown outdoor venue, attendance increased from 1000 to 4000 people. The number of table/booth participants from 87 to over 100. Event sold out. We heard over and over again, “We really put the entire Community back in Unity in the Community.”
  • In only its second year of existence, Longmont Restaurant Week is now the largest restaurant event in Boulder County with 49 restaurants participating.
  • We also relaunched the young professionals’ program (Nexus) and increased educational classes for the entire business community.
  • The Chamber is one of only a handful of safety groups left in the state that qualifies to offer pooled workman’s comp insurance to its members. In fact, 65 of our members participate.
  • We have a new, dedicated office for the Boulder Small Business Development Center at the Chamber building. Now the SBDC can hold additional consulting sessions in Longmont.
  • The quality and timeliness of our communications have never been better. Our website is updated constantly. We added blog capabilities along with our event and sponsors’ videos, and of course Karen’s Corner. Members can now track the Chamber’s public policy work through the legislative session at LongmontChamber.org.
  • This year we made a serious commitment to Public Policy advocacy. Some of the issues we took positions on were Minimum Wage, Sales Tax Simplification and the Colorado Family Medical Leave Insurance Act as well as several local initiatives. Also, through the Northwest Chamber Alliance, we’ve supported such things as a Peak Rail Service study at RTD and funding for Highways 7 and 119. We really want to thank Stacy Corney, Scott Cook and the public policy committee for their hard work and dedication to this important responsibility we have as the voice of the Longmont Business Community.