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You are invited to join us as OneVoice for Housing

I am excited to invite our membership to be part of something that matters, advocating for housing options in our community.  As you know the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce is deeply committed to inspiring housing solutions for our community.  We lead NoCo Housing NOW!, are a founding member of OneVoice for Housing and work tirelessly to make sure policy makers understand the impact of their actions on the affordability and supply of housi...

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Guest Author Series: PSD Senior & ACE Student Hiring Fair

PSD is proud to offer an exciting opportunity for businesses to tap into the next generation of talent! Nicholas Peterson, Community and Business Development Coordinator, and Emilie Ring, Integrated Services Coach, are excited to pioneer a new and innovative approach to connect graduating high school seniors who intend to immediately enter the workforce with regional businesses in need of employees. The PSD Senior & ACE student hiring fair will take place on Wednesday, April 10th at the Foot...

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GUEST AUTHOR SERIES: Fort Collins Symphony Signature Concert Magnificent Mozart – Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”

The Fort Collins Symphony is celebrating its 100th anniversary of performing great music for the audiences of Northern Colorado. Our Signature Concerts are presented the first Saturday of October, November, February, March, and the second weekend of May. SC #4 comes up this Saturday, March 2, and features an eclectic mix of music stemming from the 18th century to contemporary. "Magnificent Mozart " will feature the final symphony of the musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Subtitled "Jupiter"...

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119th Annual Celebration

We are incredibly excited to kick off the new year with our Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Celebration.  We offer to our business community a two-part experience to learn about what the Chamber accomplished in 2023, where we are headed in 2024 and how we are celebrating community leaders.

Our first experience is our Online Event on Wednesday, February 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 9:20 a.m.  We invite all of our business community members to register here for the experience and to joi...

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Economic Insights From the Chamber

It’s time again for our monthly update to the Economic Tracker Update. Your Fort Collins Area Chamber, working with other economic development and business support organizations across the region created a tool to track the economic recovery in Northern Colorado. This valuable resource is a set of indicators that represent critical aspects of the Larimer and Weld County economies, is based on data that is accessible in a useable format and is updated frequently with little lag time. The Eco...

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Guest Author Series: Boys & Girls Club of Larimer County Embodies Season of Giving

I absolutely love Fort Collins during the holidays! The downtown lights and carriage rides, our Gardens on Spring Creek turning into a winter wonderland, and the way our community comes together to support children and families in need. This month, Boys & Girls Clubs of Larimer County (BGCLC) collected 945 gifts from 15 different businesses and individuals to ensure that every youth who attends the Club was celebrated during our holiday parties. We also supported 42 families, or 169 individu...

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Regionalism

Northern Colorado is among the most spectacular locales for starting a business, raising a family, and developing personal relationships that sustain us in myriad ways.  We are truly fortunate in being able to share in the prosperity that emanates from such an inspirational setting.  Should there be any wonder why others are attracted to our region, just as so many have before us?  Rather than cloaking our treasure in protectionism, we have been entrusted with the obligation to assure future ...

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Building Community: Professional Development

Last week the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce launched our inaugural cohort of A Pint of Professional Development. 35 emerging professionals were selected to participate in this content-driven professional development course.

The class consists of enthusiastic, eager professionals investing in themselves by expanding their understanding of 4 topic areas. With content presented by Dr. Erica Michalski of Strategically Authentic, our participants are learning about the following topics:

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Take Action to Retain Worker, Employer Flexibility

Your Chamber is an unabashed advocate for business-friendly policy, solutions, and opportunities across the region.  With the start of the 74th Regular Session of the Colorado General Assembly, we've already seen a number of bills that have been introduced that will dramatically impact you and your business.  We will share insight into those bills and more throughout the session. Unfortunately, we start this year with a call to action to Retain Worker, Employer Flexibility.

HB23-1118 (writt...

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Election Day is Right Around the Corner

We released our final ballot recommendations to our membership in today's edition of the SmartBrief Weekly (October 11, 2022).

The November 2022 ballot will include 11 state issues and three local issues.  The state issues include three that propose changes to the Colorado Constitution which require a 55% approval rate to become law (denoted as “Amendment”) with the balance of the items proposing changes to state statute which require a simple majority. Six state items have been placed o...

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