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The Vermont Chamber of Commerce is a private, not-for-profit business organization with more than 1,500 members. Our members employ more than 45,000 people. Together, employers and employees give Vermont its well-deserved reputation for providing high quality products and services to world wide customers.

Membership in the Vermont Chamber of Commerce varies depending upon the size and type of your business.  To determine how much you would pay for Vermont Chamber membership, please refer to the chart at the right. 

If you would like to invest in the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, please download and print the Vermont Chamber Membership Enrollment form by clicking on the link below (Reading this file requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you may download for free from adobe.com). (Reading this file requires Adobe Acrobat Reader,which you may download for free from adobe.com).

Vermont Chamber Membership Enrollment Form 2008

Our Mission
To create an economic climate conducive to business growth and preservation of the Vermont quality of life. Business growth occurs when we have financially healthy businesses. The results are more jobs, better paying jobs, and more revenues for state services.

Legislative Advocacy
We are the voice of Vermont business. As your personal business advocacy team, we will:
• Support and introduce legislation to help your business
• Turn away law and policy that will elevate your business costs
• Maintain constant vigilance on your behalf
• Enhance your bottom line – we want you to prosper and profit
• Offer you access to the decision-makers whose laws and policy influence your business
• Request for updates/surveys as warranted or requested by legislators
• Leverage the collective voices of our employer members
• Increase our influence at the State House through each and every membership
• Relate your opinion and testify accordingly
We are member-driven.

 Resources & Development
Need help with any existing law or regulation? Have a business question? Call us! We’ll find the answer or put you in touch with someone who can. We keep you in touch through the following resources:
•Legislative Updates: weekly during legislative session: weekly during legislative session
•Business Vermont: monthly email newsletter
•Vermont Connections: mailed quarterly and inserted in Vermont Business Magazine
•Vermont Prosperity Project gives your employees the information and tools to make it to the polls and cast an informed vote (www.vermontprosperity.org)
•Conference calls on hot topics with Vermont Leaders
•Member Days: during session, tour the State House, attend a committee meeting and a press conference with the Governor, lunch is on us
•ServSafe classes and materials
•International Business Council: promotes international exporting activities by Vermont companies, and coordinates trade mission of Vermont business people to Taiwan and China

 General Member Marketing
•Vermont Sourcebook (business, relocation and membership directory): a great resource combining our membership directory with valuable information about the state. This annual publication goes out to all of our member businesses and is also distributed to real estate offices, banks, higher education admission offices and other key locations around the state. Membership includes three listings: alphabetical, by category with a business description, and by location.
•Companies offering member-to-member discounts receive additional marketing exposure

 Member-to-Member Discounts
•Do business with community-caring, like-minded businesses
•Save substantially on products and services you are using now

 Networking/Events
We host several high-profile events each year – you are invited!
•Legislative lunch with Vermont Governor and elected leaders, January
•Vermont Centennial Business Awards Reception, March
•Taste of Vermont Legislative Reception, March
•Business & Industry EXPO featuring 200 exhibitors 3,000 attendees, great speakers and programs, and silent auction, May
•Deane C. Davis Outstanding Business Award; Exporter of the Year Award (May)
•Vermont Chamber Annual Meeting, September
•Citizen of the Year Award Dinner, late fall
•Best Places to Work in Vermont Awards Reception, late fall
•Vermont Hospitality EXPO, November, including Borden Avery Innkeeper Award, Restaurateur of the Year, Bed & Breakfast Operator of the Year, Allied Member of the Year, as presented by the Vermont Hospitality Council

 The Vermont Hospitality Council of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce
The largest hospitality organization in the state, offering you quality marketing, industry resources, and comprehensive training and career development programs through our national affiliates.
•National Restaurant Association membership
•National restaurant advocacy
•ServSafe program
•American Hotel & Lodging Association (additional dues required)
•National lodging advocacy
•Prescription drug program

 Marketing Opportunities
•Vermont Chamber web site receives in excess of 60,000 unique visits per month.
•Listing & display advertising opportunities in the following publications:
•Vermont Vacation Guide – 200,000 printed copies
•Vermont Winter Vacation Guide – 100,000 printed copies
•Vermont Country Inns and B&Bs brochure – 100,000 printed copies
•Representation at national travel industry events ("Big E," NTA, ABA, etc.)
•Partnerships with Vermont Tourism Network, Vermont Farms! Association, Vermont Attractions Association, and the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing

 Our Beginnings
Dating back to 1912, James P. Taylor was one of the founders of the Greater Vermont Association and helped expand the association into the Vermont State Chamber of Commerce (VSCC) in 1922. Taylor was the organization’s Secretary from 1912 until his death in 1949.

Taylor founded the Long Trail, pushed for improved roads that were paid for by gasoline taxes, and lobbied for a consitutional amendment vis the VSCC’s Anto-Deverision drive so gasoline and motor vehicle feel could not be diverted for programs other than highway purposes.

In the late 1930's, the VSCC educated the public on the necessity of cleaning up rivers and lakes contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. It was the leader in getting sewage disposal plants built throughout the state in the 1940's.