Programs
Whether you're looking to enhance your leadership role in your business community or within your organization, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has programs to help you meet your objectives.
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Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC)
Over the last 50 years, the U.S. capital markets have been the most attractive and best performing in the world, and this has provided the United States with tremendous economic advantages. Unfortunately, more than three years after the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, companies and markets face an environment with changing rules, shifting advice, new layers of cost, and duplicative compliance and bureaucracy. The Center's mission is simple: foster investment and growth in the U.S. economy and ensure the long-term viability and health of our capital markets.
Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC)
BCLC's mission is to advance the positive role of business in society. BCLC works with leaders from business, government, and non-governmental organizations to address and act on shared goals.
National Chamber Foundation (NCF)
The National Chamber Foundation is the U.S. Chamber's independent, non-profit public policy think tank. We strive to provide service to policymakers and members by bringing them the highest level of discussion on cutting-edge issues.
Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW)
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is working to ensure that businesses have access--today and tomorrow--to an educated and skilled workforce. Its Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW) serves as the primary bridge between the business and education communities.
Institute for 21st Century Energy
The purpose of the U.S. Chamber Institute for 21st Century Energy is to unify energy stakeholders and policymakers behind a common strategy to ensure that America's supply of fuel and power is adequate, stable, and affordable, while protecting national security, and improving the environment.
Let's Rebuild America
The Chamber will put money, people, research, programs, and strong political action around a sustained, long-term campaign to rebuild the economic platform of our nation. We will employ every resource at our disposal-our policy expertise, our lobbying clout, our grassroots capabilities, and our communications channels.
The Global Intellectual Property Center
To meet the serious criminal and policy threats facing innovators, IP-based industries, and consumers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce created the Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC), which is leading a worldwide effort against the assault on IP.
Institute for Legal Reform (ILR)
The mission of the Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) is to reduce excessive and frivolous litigation while restoring fairness and balance to the nation's civil justice system by promoting civil justice reform through legislative, political, judicial and educational activities at both the national and local levels.
National Chamber Litigation Center (NCLC)
The National Chamber Litigation Center (NCLC), the public-policy law firm of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, plays a major role in shaping public policy on important legal questions of national concern to American business while achieving long-range improvements in the legal system.
ORGANIZATIONAL & BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Institute for Organization Management (IOM)
Institute for Organization Management is the U.S. Chamber's four-year advanced education program for nonprofit professionals. For nearly 90 years, association and chamber leaders from around the country have taken advantage of this unique environment to expand their professional network, and to gain passion and insight into the nonprofit industry. Graduates receive the IOM designation upon completion.
VoteForBusiness Grassroots Network
VoteforBusiness.com is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's legislative and political action center. Through the site, users can receive in depth information on important legislative issues, contact members of Congress on those issues, and learn more about their elected officials. Additionally, the VoteForBusiness Portal Program is a member benefit that provides organizations with their own customized advocacy Web portal. To learn more, visit http://www.voteforbusiness.com/
Homeland Security
American business has a multifaceted stake in a strong national defense and a homeland security policy that safeguards Americans while also protecting their mobility, their freedom and their way of life. If terrorism or the threat of it chokes off our ability to move people and goods in a global economy, we will pay a tremendous price in growth and prosperity.
International Division
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce improves the ability of U.S. businesses to compete in the global marketplace by providing its members valuable tools and resources, as well as cutting-edge events that bring world leaders to our members.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
The Center for International Private Enterprise is an independent, non-profit affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. As one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, CIPE promotes democratic and market-oriented economic reform by working directly with the private sector in developing countries.
TradeRoots
Trade helps America and the world grow. Most businesses -- small and large -- know this. The challenge is to make sure that Washington and the rest of the country does too. TradeRoots is a sustained, national trade education program dedicated to building grassroots support for trade in the U.S. Congress and to stopping anti-trade protectionism.
Global Regulatory Cooperation Project The Chamber's Global Regulatory Cooperation Project (GRC) seeks to develop new strategies that promote market-oriented policies with foreign governments. The business community must work together to look beyond tariffs and non-tariff border measures and adopt a holistic approach that captures the many different types of In-Country Barriers (ICBs) that impede trade.
Whether you're looking to enhance your leadership role in your business community or within your organization, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has programs to help you meet your objectives.