“It isn’t going to happen to me. I am just a small business on the Western Slope.” This is a narrative that many businesses tell themselves every day regarding cyber-attacks, more specifically, ransomware. The fact is, if you are connected to the internet, you are at risk. The media has done many of us a…
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October 20th the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce partnered with numerous healthcare organizations throughout the Grand Valley and Colorado to provide relevant and timely healthcare topics for the 2021 Healthcare Summit. Topics included details on healthcare benefits, changing employment law and pandemic mandates, focusing on employee mental health, and the future of healthcare in…
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The past few years have been filled with new ideas, innovations, and pivots in order to keep our Mesa County business community afloat amongst new challenges throughout the nation and world. This year, more than ever, has presented opportunities to innovate, impact, and progress the cities, neighborhoods, and communities around us. The Grand Junction Area…
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Over the past couple of years, we have been talking about the Grand Junction Area Chamber being a “3C Chamber”. You’ve seen the billboards and the televisions ads, but as a refresher, the 3 C’s refer to the Chamber as: A Catalyst for Business Growth A Convener of Leaders and Influencers Who Make Things Happen…
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This past year has put a spotlight on the variety of ways that “healthcare” can impact your business. The pandemic has made employee health a critical part of keeping your businesses running. It wasn’t just the efforts to prevent virus spread that our employers had to balance, but also the mental fatigue of the uncertain…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has put business leaders in the challenging and unenviable position of making decisions about how to best support employees and the community at large as we navigate through the seemingly arbitrary and ever-changing business, regulatory, and public health landscape. Our local health care facilities are the site of protests against vaccination mandates…
Why Does the Grand Junction Chamber Endorse Candidates? The Chamber first began endorsing candidates for public office in 2008 and it has been somewhat controversial with some GJ Chamber members since that time. It is not unusual for Chambers to endorse candidates with a recent Western Association of Chamber Executives Association poll indicating about 30%…
Take a moment and reach out to say hello to these fellow local businesses. BrightStar Care of Grand Junction/Montrose 715 Horizon Dr, Ste 300 Grand Junction, CO 81506-8727 Stacie E. Jeffers – (970) 628-1241 https://www.brightstarcare.com/grand-junction-montrose Health Care/Home Health Care Chill Brands 1601 Riverfront Dr, Ste 201 Grand Junction, CO 81501-3838 David L. Ludlam – chill.com…
Helping Employers Address Labor Shortages Are you having a hard time hiring new employees? Are you seeing current employees becoming restless and looking for change? Pressure on the workforce is the top concern keeping our chamber members up at night. Hiring and retaining a skilled workforce can be difficult in the best of times and…
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Original article text and information sourced from the Colorado Sun As businesses attempted to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)quickly became a lifeline for many Mesa County Businesses. They join nearly half of the 200,000 PPP loans made to Colorado small businesses that had been forgiven as of July 1….