Memo to American Chambers of Commerce: Why Your Country Shouldn't Forget You
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Who helped build America while almost no one was watching? And why have we almost completely forgotten this? A new book helps explain what chambers did, why they did it, and why we shouldn’t forget them. The book is called: The Magicians of Main Street: America and its Chambers of Commerce, 1768-1945. An epilogue takes the story up to today. The author and our webinar host is Chris Mead, senior vice president of the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE). Mead will explain why chambers dreamed so much and reached so far – sometimes too far. But our country would be nothing like what it is if not for business organizations very much like yours. This is the very first webinar on this topic since the book was published and had its debut at the ACCE convention last month, where it was the talk of the attendees. Come learn about the pickup teams of business people who changed their communities and, occasionally, their nation and even the world.
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- 4. Memo to American Chambers of Commerce: Why Your Country Shouldn’t Forget You CHRI S MEAD SVP, AS SOCIAT ION OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE E X ECUT IVES S E PT EMBER 9, 2014 WEBINAR FOR WEBL INK INT ERNAT IONAL
- 5. Chris Mead Author of The Magicians of Main Street Senior Vice President, Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Executive Director, Community Growth Educational Foundation BA in English, Oberlin College MBA, Stanford University
- 6. A Race Through History 13 Reasons You’ve Been Forgotten 25 Things You Did Four Things You Can Do Today
- 7. 13 Reasons People Forget What Chambers Have Done 1. Shared credit 2. Shared achievements 3. Individuals get the limelight; Napoleon v. his troops 4. Starting but not always finishing things 5. “Rich boy makes good” seen as boring 6. Business people best known for their business successes 7. “It was inevitable."
- 8. 13 Reasons People Forget What Chambers Have Done (Continued) 8. A sea of nonprofits 9. “Just local” 10. No clear ideology 11. Neither saints nor villains 12. Based on something you can’t touch 13. Sometimes overshadowed by the U.S. Chamber
- 9. 25 Things You Did 25 Things That Local, Regional, or State Chambers: Thought up Started Funded Helped get funding for Sustained through years of lobbying and support Or otherwise helped make happen.
- 10. Support of Washington and Hamilton in Effort to Avert War with England in 1795
- 11. Slight Mistake in the Mississippi Valley, 1873-78
- 12. “The Lion of the Vigilantes”
- 13. The Fight Against “Free Silver,” 1870s - 1896
- 14. New York City Subway System
- 15. Spreading of Commission and City Manager Systems of Local Government
- 16. U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912
- 17. Federal Reserve System, 1913
- 18. Community Chests and Reforming Charities
- 19. Miss America Pageant, 1921
- 20. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, 1921
- 21. The Spirit of St. Louis, 1927
- 22. Bad for Business
- 23. National Cherry Blossom Festival, 1934
- 24. Hoover Dam, 1936
- 25. The First American Superhighway, 1940
- 26. Grand Coulee Dam, 1942
- 28. Stars and the Walk of Fame, 1960
- 30. First Major Voucher Program for Schools, 1992
- 31. Setting Up Hundreds of Airports
- 32. Helping Site and Support Dozens of Military Bases
- 33. Starting (or Occasionally Snatching) Scores of Colleges and Universities
- 34. The Olympics
- 35. And that’s only the Cliff Notes version Chambers are an indelible part of American life, culture, and history Take out chambers from our past and the country would be almost unrecognizable
- 36. Four Things You Can Do Today 1. Learn what your chamber has done. 2. Learn what other chambers have done. 3. Explore what this means for your chamber today. 4. Tell your members and the public.
- 37. Questions/contacts Chris Mead, SVP ACCE (703) 998-3545 cmead@ace.org Magicians of Main Street available on Amazon.com ($29.95 plus shipping/handling). More information at: www.magiciansofmainstreet.com
- 38. Just 1 Question: We appreciate your feedback!
- 39. Thanks for joining us!