SANTA MONICA
The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce advocates and represents business’ interests and issues facing the community.
When:
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Time:
11:45am – 1:00pm
Where:
The Viceroy
1819 Ocean Ave,
Santa Monica, CA 90401
When:
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Time:
11:45am – 1:15pm
Where:
General Assembly
1520 2nd Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
When:
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Time:
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Where:
Capital One Cafe
401 Broadway
Santa Monica, CA 90401
When:
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Time:
5:30pm – 7:30pm
Where:
Hotel Erwin
1697 Pacific Ave
Venice, CA 90291
When:
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Time:
11:00am – 4:00pm
Where:
Reed Park
1133 7th St
Santa Monica, CA 90403
When:
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Time:
5:00 pm-6:00 pm
Where:
SM Chamber Boardroom
1234 6th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
The best way to forge long-term business relationships is by working closely with people to accomplish goals that help the community. At committee meetings and events, you will have the opportunity to network and talk face-to-face with government officials, business owners, and community leaders.
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Buy Local Health & Fitness Festival
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Installation Dinner
Santa Monica Tech Council
The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce advocates and represents business’ interests and issues facing the community. We provide the environment to help our members prosper and succeed through a proactive working partnership with all levels of government and community organizations to achieve a healthy local economy and quality of life.
Mission, Purpose and Vision
Through our efforts in membership, economic development, and advocacy, we create the environment to help our members prosper and succeed.
Board Members
The Chamber’s Board of Directors consists of community leaders that help influence and support the Chamber’s strategies and initiatives.
Past Chairs
The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce acknowledges and thanks its former chairpersons for all of their dedication and service.
SANTA MONICA CHAMBER FOUNDATION
The Mission of the Santa Monica Chamber Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, is to provide educational opportunities through programs, funding, and mentorships that will improve the quality of education in our schools along with providing professional development opportunities to the business community.
Meet the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce Staff
Laurel Rosen
President/CEO
Gigi de Pourtales
Director of Events
Matt Stauffer
Executive Vice President of External Affairs
Susan Hojer
Director of Membership
Sam Morris
Marketing & Events Coordinator
Rhonda Dans
Executive AssistantThe Santa Monica Chamber offers businesses a local platform to tap into the power of an already established community of business owners and entrepreneurs. Members of the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce are a part of a community of over 800 member organizations.
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Santa Monica Chamber has afforded me the networking infrastructure that I just wouldn’t have found anywhere else. I’m grateful for the enormous lift it provided as I launched my new career in Santa Monica!
In addition to keeping me informed with all aspects of the City, The Chamber is a great medium for cultivating relationships with local businesses.
We support the Chamber to have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of people who are interested in making Santa Monica a better place to live, work, and play for residents, visitors, and businesses.
The chamber staff has been most helpful in getting my business built by being a wonderful liason on city and building matters.
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Santa Monica contains the best of the California coast, on the westside of Los Angeles, a diverse business economy and an unequalled quality of life for visitors and residents.
Accommodation Guide
There’s no end to the wonderful items and gifts you can find in many of Santa Monica’s world famous shopping districts.
Dining Guide
The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce presents a guide of the best restaurants, cafes, delivery, catering and coffee shops in Los Angeles.
Retail Guide
There’s no end to the wonderful items and gifts you can find in many of Santa Monica’s world famous shopping districts.
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The Chamber is proud to count many nonprofit organizations as its valued members.
Santa Monica’s independent and family-operated restaurants are under serious threat from Unite Here 11, a hotel union that is aggressively seeking to expand into local restaurants. The union has already sent picketers to Spitfire Grill , where none of those picketing were past or present Spitfire employees. The picketers used bullhorns at painfully loud volumes, hurting the ears of both servers and those dining outside. The protesters also scared away potential customers, robbing the restaurant of sales, and employees of their tips. The union even showed up uninvited at the home of an employee, you can view her testimony at a recent City Council hearing here.
It doesn’t have to be this way. This coercion and intimidation has been made possible by local policy decisions that have empowered Unite Here 11 to act in ways our community does not support. The first policy mistake was City Council’s decision in March of this year to eliminate noise ordinance protections on public space adjacent to commercial property between the hours of 7am and 10pm. Unite Here 11 claimed this was a free speech issue, but this is clearly false. Free speech rights protect speech content and the ability to speak (which we strongly support), they do not however provide an organization the right to use painfully loud noise as a tool of harassment to grow their membership. The second policy problem is the deceptively titled labor peace agreement requirement that the city is looking to impose on restaurants located on city property. We highly recommend you read former Mayor Nat Trives letter asking Santa Monicans to speak out on this issue.
You have the power to stop this. We ask that you join the residents, local workers, and family restaurant operators, who have signed the petition below, asking your City Councilmembers to stand up to Unite Here 11’s intimidation. We hope you will also keep this issue in mind when you vote for your Councilmembers in the 2018 election.
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The Chamber is your voice in ensuring the continued growth and vitality of our local economy.
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Santa Monica Alliance
Monday, June 4th at 4:00pm
Monday, July 2nd at 4:00pm
Monday, August 6th at 4:00pm
Monday, September 3rd at 4:00pm
Santa Monica
Chamber of Commerce
1234 6th Street, Suite 100
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone: (310) 393-9825
Fax: (310) 394-1868
info@smchamber.com
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