Our Mission:

The mission of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce shall be to support an environment for the development and success of business within the Bowling Green area.
 

Our Vision:

The Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce is an essential investment for the future by continuously promoting education, and fostering the business climate to enhance the quality of life in our community.

Our Values:

The Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce is providing visionary leadership that is dedicated to six core values:

• We will act with fairness and integrity.
• We will professionally represent our Chamber as responsible citizens in the business communities that we serve.
• We will work as a team in our investor-based association of businesses, professional leaders, organizations and individuals.
• We will take leadership positions to promote responsible economic growth, employment opportunity, responsible government, excellence in education and quality of life.
• We will act fiscally responsible in all efforts and actions.
• We will hold the business needs of our investors to be our highest priority and will deliver high-quality and timely, cost effective programs, products and services that meet these needs.

ABOUT THE CHAMBER

The Bowling Green Chamber began with the Board of Trade that was formed in January 1905. In 1910 the Bowling Green Commercial Club was formed, and it wasn't until 1936 that the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce became incorporated and was chartered as a non-profit organization under the laws of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

The Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce is a voluntary organization of the business community uniting hundreds of business and professional firms, non-profit organizations and government entities, thereby creating a unique central organization working to improve business and build an even stronger community.

Supporting a healthy economic system is not the only function of the Chamber of Commerce. A healthy, growing community with a quality of life that contributes to companies and individuals who desire to work and live in Bowling Green is also an important ingredient of business success and expansion.

The Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce has grown to nearly 500 investors, with more than 90% of them being small businesses. The strength of the Chamber lies in attracting the greatest number of investors, creating a pool of resources from which can be drawn ideas, influence, legislative power, energy and finances.

The Chamber's membership elects a 27-member governing board. This board approves all of the Chamber's Project Teams and councils. Without the time, support and dedication of volunteers, the Chamber could not possibly serve the needs of its investors.

WHY JOIN THE BG CHAMBER?

Membership in your local Chamber of Commerce speaks positively about your business, according to the results of a national study by The Schapiro Group, an Atlanta-based market research firm. The study reveals that consumers are 63 percent more likely to do business with a company they believe is a member of the chamber.

Other findings include:
• When consumers know that a business is a chamber member, they are 44 percent more likely to think favorably about the business.

• Consumers who are told that a business is a chamber member are 51 percent more likely to be highly aware of it and 57 percent more likely to think positively of its local reputation.

• When business decision-makers believe that a business is a chamber member, they are 37 percent more likely to think favorably of the business, 51 percent more likely to be highly aware of it, 58 percent more likely to think positively of its local reputation and 59 percent more likely to buy goods and services from it.

• 82 percent of respondents believe that the chamber helps create jobs and promotes local economic development.

The study was sponsored by IBM, Administaff, Jim Blasingame and askjim.biz in cooperation with American Chamber of Commerce Executives, and was conducted by The Schapiro Group and coordinated by Market Street Services.