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.
The Center for Women in Business (CWB) promotes and empowers women business leaders to achieve their personal and professional goals by increasing opportunities for women to serve on corporate boards and in the C-suite; mentoring women in the early stages of their careers or re-entering the workforce; and building a network of women entrepreneurs to encourage peer-to-peer networking, education, and professional growth. CWB@Uschamber.com.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the foundation is dedicated to strengthening America’s long-term competitiveness and presents a broad range of programs that promote a greater understanding of economic and public affairs issues. Current programs include:
Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC)
The Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) addresses societal issues that affect business, including globalization, community development, disaster response, and more.
FUTURE OF BUSINESS
The Forum for Innovation provides research and insight into the emerging issues impacting the free enterprise system and the business community.
Hiring our Heroes: Business Steps Up Hiring Our Heroes (HOH) is a nationwide initiative to help veterans and military spouses find meaningful employment.
Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW)
The Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW) promotes rigorous educational standards and effective job training systems to preserve the strength of America’s greatest economic resource, its workforce.
Institute for Organization Management (IOM)
Institute for Organization Management (IOM) is a professional development program designed for nonprofit management.
STATES AND CITIES
Enterprising States and Cities examines and presents a comprehensive look at how cities and states position themselves for economic growth and investing in the future.
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.
Native American Enteprise Initiative
The Native American Enterprise Initiative seeks to build on the Chamber’s record of success and advocacy by focusing on the unique economic issues confronting tribal business entities and Native American-owned enterprises.
Free Enterprise Network Web Portals
The U.S. Chamber is expanding the reach of the business community by collaborating with our members to create and expand advocacy programs through the Free Enterprise Network.
Through this member benefit, we will team up with you to develop a customized advocacy website unique to your organization or company. The Free Enterprise Network enables you to customize your advocacy site with your organization or company brand, top issues, and select advocacy tools. You can also make updates and edits on the back-end through our state-of-the-art Content Management System. View the advocacy site features or take a tour today.
Washington Fly-In Policy Briefing
Organize a delegation from your community to take advantage of the Fly-in Policy Briefing Program. Hear the inside scoop on hot issues and policies affecting the business community. Delegations consist of business owners, corporate executives, and local business and community leaders in groups as small as five to ones as large as a hundred. These groups receive a front-row seat at a program tailored specifically to their business priorities as have access to top U.S. Chamber policy and advocacy experts. Request your policy briefing now: flyin@uschamber.com.
National Security & Emergency Preparedness
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.