PRESIDENT'S CORNER: PARTNERS
Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur, home-based business or part of a larger firm, a partnership with the Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce is very beneficial to you.
The flier above gives information on an opportunity to participate in one of the Chamber's networking events. It's this Thursday, at 5:00 p.m. at Thunder Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, located at 1425 W. Main Street. AND IT'S FREE TO ALL CHAMBER MEMBERS. That means, if your company is a Chamber member, ALL of your employees are welcome to attend free.
The Bartow Chamber gives you the tools like the one above in which you can network with your peers. Other tools in the Chamber's wheelhouse include opportunities to learn more about best business practices, learn how to take advantage of marketing strategies available only to Chamber businesses, and more!
The Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce is the third largest Chamber in Polk County, and it represents more than 550 businesses of all sizes and at all stages of maturity.
So, whether the Chamber is helping existing businesses to grow, recruiting new companies to the area, striving to help establish a world-class workforce, or advocating for business-friendly government, it is also working to fulfill its mission of promoting business and economic development for the benefit of our community.
Jump in with both feet, the more you become involved, the more benefit you'll receive from your membership.
UNTIL NEXT WEEK,
CLINT EDWARDS, PRES.
NEW MEMBERS
Retail Stores
Indigo Moon
Mark & Deanine Mulpagano
165 E. Main Street
Bartow, FL 33830
(863) 224-7758
Website
Government-County
Polk County Clerk of Court
Stacy Butterfield
255 N. Broadway Ave.
Bartow, FL 33830
(863) 534-4525
Website
Child Care Services
C&J Performing Arts Institute & Learning Center
Shayla Jones
301 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Bartow, FL 33830
(863) 519-0341
Recruiter – US Army
United States Army
Staff Sergeant Richard Williams
936 Eagle Ridge Mall Dr.
Lake Wales, FL 33859
(863) 679-3106
WANT US TO TEXT YOU ABOUT EVENTS?
Free TEXT ME!
Chamber Members:
We are offering a new feature of your membership, absolutely free to you! If you would like to get a text message about upcoming events, call or email Barbara Adamson, Chamber Membership Services Director, today! barbara@bartowchamber.com or 863-533-7125.
MEMBERSHIP MILESTONES
40 YEARS
Edwards Professional Alarms & Video, Inc.
20 YEARS
IBS at Bartow High School
15 YEARS
American Legion Post 3
10 YEARS
Southern Homes of Polk County, Inc.
5 YEARS
James E. Stephens Elementary
EMERGING LEADER AWARDS SET FOR AUG. 15
Polk Emerging Leaders Awards
Tuesday, August 15, 2017, 6:00 PM
Bartow Civic Center
2250 Floral Ave, Bartow, FL 33830
The annual Polk Emerging Leaders Awards will once again be a collaborative event of the three young professional groups in Polk County. Continuing a new era of collaboration and blurring the east/west dividing line, the awards have been established to annually recognize five young professionals between 21- 42 who have made significant contributions and commitment to the Polk County community.
Who will be named this year? Click here for more information:
http://www.winterhavenchamber.com/polk-emerging-leaders-awa…
SEE YOU THEN!
HELLO BARTOW! MEMBERS PARTICIPATE FOR FREE
ROI ALERT TO ALL MEMBERS!
We've established a new perk to your membership. Now, as a member of the Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce, you may include a promotional item for your business in the HELLO BARTOW! welcome baskets for new residents. PARTICIPATION IS FREE OF CHARGE! If you are interested, contact Barbara Adamson, Membership Director, (863) 533-7125, or reply to this email.
CHAMBER QUARTERLY HAS 40K READERSHIP
Reserve your space now in the Fall Chamber Quarterly Magazine and hand your business card out to more than 40,000 readers for only $85 per issue. Call Barbara Adamson at 863-533-7125 for more information.
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AUGUST BUSINESS: TB&K Outsource
Left to right: Chamber Membership Services
Director Barbara Adamson; Lacy Wooten, Branch Office Administrator and Shane Nelson, CFP, AAMS.
August Chamber Business of the Month:
Edward Jones - Shane Nelson
1490 North Wilson Avenue, Bartow, FL 33830
(863) 533-6606 • shane.nelson@edwardjones.com
www.edwardjones.com
As an Edward Jones client, you’ll work with a dedicated financial advisor who spends time listening to you, explaining recommendations, answering questions and helping you plot the right course. We know financial decisions can be complicated, but they’re important. That’s why we believe every question deserves a thoughtful answer. Don’t take our word for it. Contact Shane Nelson, your local financial advisor, to see the difference personal attention makes.
WANT TO FIND OUT HOW TO BECOME
THE BUSINESS OF THE MONTH?
Contact Barbara Adamson, Membership Services,
863-533-7125 or email
barbara@bartowchamber.com
RIBBON CUTTING: C and J
What a great concept - teaching children Performing Arts at their Daycare Center. Look at those happy children, it's working! Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting celebrated the opening of C&J's Performing Arts Institute and Learning Center, located at 301 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Bartow. For more information, call the Center at 863-519-0341.
ENGAGE STUFF THE BUS HAS BEGUN
Did you know there were more than 3300 homeless students in Polk County for the school year of 2016-2017?
Join us and help needy school students during STUFF THE BUS, now until August 18. The Chamber runs its campaign a little longer than other organizations to provide a second wave of supplies to schools after they have begun. This year, the Bartow Police Department is partnering up with us in this outreach to the community. Drop off your school supplies for homeless students today! Stuff The Bus is a Hearth Project outreach for Polk County Schools. Thanks to ENGAGE Chamber Young Professionals, Leadership Bartow XVII, DeeDee Yost Wright and the School Board for championing this project.
ENGAGE Young Professionals' Stuff The Bus is coming up! School supplies will be collected for Polk Schools' "Hearth Project," which supplies school supplies to homeless children. Be sure to drop supplies off to the Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce from Now through August 18 and help homeless students have the supplies they need for school.
CHAMBER EVENTS
(All meetings are in the Chamber Boardroom unless otherwise noted.)
Now through August 18
ENGAGE STUFF THE BUS BEGINS
Bring School Supplies to the Chamber For Homeless Kids!
AUGUST
Thursday, August 10
CAPITAL CITY QUARTERLY PUBLISHED
Thursday, August 10, 5:00 p.m.
THUNDER CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAM FUN THURSDAY
1425 W. Main Street, Bartow
Tuesday, August 15, 6:00 p.m.
EMERGING LEADERS AWARDS
Bartow Civic Center
Friday, August 18, noon
ENGAGE SOCIAL MEDIA LUNCH & LEARN
FIPR Conference Room
Friday, August 18, 6:00 p.m.
FRIDAY FEST: BARTOW IDOL!
Downtown Bartow
Wednesday, August 23, 1:30 p.m.
DIPLOMAT BIRTHDAY PARTY
Happy Birthday Mary Tomlinson!
SEE OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS LISTED ON YOUR CHAMBER WEBSITE
2017 DIVERSITY LUNCHEON
Diversity Luncheon To Feature
Dr. Richard Harris
Bartow’s annual C.C. Corbett Diversity Awards are presented yearly during the Bartow Community Relations Committee’s (CRC) Diversity Luncheon on the third Wednesday in September, in celebration of Bartow’s Multicultural Awareness Month. The event begins at noon at Bartow Civic Center. Guest speaker is Dr. Richard Harris of Southeastern University.
Awards are given to a business or organization and an individual who have shown a commitment to diversity in the City of Bartow, or in surrounding communities, through mentoring, outreach initiatives, or other activities that advance the goal of inclusion.
Tickets for the luncheon are $12 each and may be purchased from the Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce, 510 North Broadway.
The C.C. Corbett award winners are traditionally announced by the CRC Co-Chairs. “Before the passing of our friend and former Chairman, C.C. Corbett, it was his desire and the desire of the Community Relations Committee to recognize an individual and a business or organization that made it a priority to promote diversity in our community,” Mrs. Gloria Washington, CRC Co-chair, said at the last event. “The City of Bartow and the Community Relations Committee will continue to honor C.C.’s dedication to diversity by awarding the C.C. Corbett Diversity Awards.”
Two awards are given each year: one to an individual and one to a business or organization honoring them for promoting unity within the Greater Bartow area.
Past winners include:
2016
Ken Riley and Bartow Police Department
2015
Melony Bell and Church Service Center
2014
J.J. Corbett & TiAnViCa Riding Academy
2013
Joyce Thurman and Mosaic
2012
George Long and Bartow Youth Football
2011
Sharon Casey and Polk County Sheriff’s Office
2010
Fred Murphy and Flanders Precisionnaire
2009
Leo Longworth and Peterson’s Cleaners
2008
Larry Madrid and Fred’s Southern Kitchen
2007
C. C. Corbett (posthumously) and Board of County Commissioners, Clerk of Courts
An online form to sign up as a Sponsor or to get individual tickets available by clicking on the link below.
NEW AMBASSADOR: MARY ANN HARRELL
The AMBASSADORS inducted a new member into its ranks. Mary Ann Harrell earned the points she needed to be designated as AMBASSADOR for the Chamber. Mary Ann received the coveted red jacket on August 2 during a luncheon with fellow AMBASSADORS and DELEGATES. AMBASSADORS are the goodwill members of the Chamber who assist with signing up new members, welcoming attendees to Chamber events, and helping facilitate ribbon-cuttings for new or renovated businesses. Left to right are Chamber Executive Director Jeff Clark, Mary Jordan, Sharon Casey, Carla Meeks, Gail Smith, Sandy Dobbertean, Mary Ann Harrell, Marie Wilmot, Connie Brown, Freda Ridgway, Tina Spath, Len Jordan, and Chamber Membership Director Barbara Adamson.
EMPOWERING WOMEN EVENT SEPT. 8
SCORE OFFERS EMPOWERING WOMEN EVENT
Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, 7:30 a.m. registration - 3:00 p.m.
at Polk State College, Lakeland Campus
3425 Winter Lake Road. Cost $40, Corp. Table, $279
Empowering Women with Leadership Strategies, Powerful Presentations and more. Keynote speaker is Dr. Susan MacManus, USF Distinguished Professor, Columnist, Author & TV Analyst. J Lenora Bresler, President of NAWBO - How Women are Different - with panel participation. Light breakfast and lunch included. Registration required.
REGISTER HERE!
BLOOD DRIVE DAY AT CHAMBER
BLOOD DRIVE DAY AT CHAMBER IS SEPT. 8
The Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce has partnered with Spath Jewelers and the Bartow Police Department to offer a OneBlood BLOOD DRIVE DAY. All donors will receive a FREE OneBlood T-shirt and a wellness checkup including blood pressure, temperature, iron count and cholesterol screening.
Spath Jewelers is offering a beautiful men's Fossil watch for a drawing that day. Anyone who attempts to give blood will be entered in the drawing. Call the Chamber to RSVP, 533-7125, or email virginia@bartowchamber.com.
DON'T MISS FORTRESS FITNESS FOR SEPT.!
This is a great time of exercise for the whole family! Marie Wilmot, local fitness guru, has designed a program for the Chamber to help the community get fit! Find out what types of exercise suit your needs by coming out to Fort Blount Park on the second Saturday of each month at 9:00 a.m., beginning in September, 2017. You can experience a different kind of exercise in each class. It's a blast!
MEMBER MICRONEWS
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES MARKET AUG. 12
Main Street Bartow, Inc.’s next monthly Antiques & Collectibles Market will be on Saturday, August 12, with new hours - from 9:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M., along Main Street in downtown Bartow.
Booth spaces are $15.00 each during the summer months, and they can be reserved by contacting Irene at 863-646-0644 or the Main Street Bartow office at 863-519-0508. The Antiques & Collectibles Market features a variety of antiques, collectibles, vintage, and retro items and is held the second Saturday of each month.
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