The following committees are serving the Chamber this year:<\/p>\n
Membership & Membership Incentives<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mandate:\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>To increase membership, encourage participation & promote benefits.<\/p>\n Events, Promotion & Communications<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mandate:\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Provide recognition to local businesses through ongoing and special activities, and to provide support to the business community through special speakers or seminars and to plan the annual dinner, as well as the Business Gala at which winners of Non-Profit Organization of the Year, New Business of the Year and Business of the Year are announced.\u00a0 The speaker for the annual meeting should be a native person of St. Stephen.\u00a0 To promote both businesses and lifestyle in order to develop and maintain community potentials (Ex:\u00a0 Christmas Promotion).<\/p>\n Educational & Professional Development<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mandate:\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>To strengthen the links between the business community and the private sector training organizations and educators (Ex:\u00a0 Choose and award $2000 Chamber Scholarship).<\/p>\n Finance<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mandate:\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Provide financial leadership, organization, and administration in an effort to assist the organization in attaining financial soundness.\u00a0 Further, it will proactively seek opportunities to strengthen its financial position and improve its ability to provide assistance to its members.\u00a0 Through the Treasurer it will report to the Board of Directors in an accurate and timely manner on subjects such as budget, financial position, cash flow and other financial analysis as required.<\/p>\n Advocacy & Policy<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mandate:\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>Keep abreast of government, social and environmental issues and activities, to bring to the attention of the Chamber where Chamber involvement would be appropriate and make any recommendations for action and position by the Chamber.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Committees for 2025-2026 The following committees are serving the Chamber this year: Membership & Membership Incentives \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mandate:\u00a0 To increase membership, encourage participation & promote benefits. Events, Promotion & Communications \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mandate:\u00a0 Provide recognition to local businesses through ongoing and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ststephenchamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ststephenchamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ststephenchamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ststephenchamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ststephenchamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ststephenchamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4338,"href":"https:\/\/ststephenchamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/4338"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ststephenchamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ststephenchamber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}