Join the Chamber or Renew a Membership
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The GWA Chamber of Commerce is pleased to offer an online method for securing your membership and/or an annual sponsorship supporting both renewals and new members.
GWA Chamber Annual Sponsors are showcased across the region and beyond, increasing the visibility and awareness of your business.
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Get premium exposure with Sponsor Listings on the Chamber's digital platforms
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Be recognized as a pillar of the community, raise your business profile by supporting the social well-being of the GWA Chamber, local communities and their citizens
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Gain new business and public connections
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Build positive business credibility
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Expand organization and brand recognition
Sponsor Listings acknowledge your contribution with a business statement or slogan, business location, contact information and a logo or other image linked to your business' online platform.
GWA Chamber of Commerce Memberships
The GWA Chamber is pleased to offer a variety of Annual Membership categories designed to help best fit the needs of each member. A Leadership Option is available for organizational memberships that provides a set of enhanced value opportunities (see the comparison table for details).
The following annual memberships are offered:
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Premium Memberships provide an affordable and comprehensive value package available for all categories of organizations and includes the Leadership Option and various sponsor listings.
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Corporate Memberships are designed to support "For-Proft" organizations with 20 or more employees and may include the Leadership Option.
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Business Memberships are designed to support "For-Profit" organizations with fewer that 20 employees and may include the Leadership Option.
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Partner Memberships are designed to support Nonprofit organizations, municipalities, school districts and churches, and may include the Leadership Option.
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Friend Memberships are contributory memberships specifically for individuals.
Annual Sponsorships are available to all organizational members and showcase these members across the region and beyond, increasing the visibility and awareness of the member organization. Get premium exposure with Sponsor Listings on the Chamber's digital platforms as described in the comparison table.
The following annual sponsorships are offered.
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Business Directory Sponsorship provides a premium listing on the GWA Chamber's broad online index of businesses (more than 140 listings) that serve the GWA Chamber of Commerce communities and other organizations. Premium listings are prominently presented at the top of a Directory category, with an organization-specific graphic for connectivity to the organization's website or other online presence.
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Programs Sponsorship promotes and supports a variety of GWA Chamber programs towards achievement of its established mission, including Community Benefits Programs (i.e., local academic scholarship programs), and Economic & Community Development Programs.
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GWA Chamber Gold Card Sponsorship provides the opportunity to distribute the GWA Chamber Gold Card helping connect businesses and communities through multiple GWA Chamber online services, which are easily accessible anytime and from anywhere.
A comparison chart of the GWA Chamber membership categories is provided below to help determine which category best fits the member's needs.
Online Membership Processing
The GWA Chamber utilizes well-established third-party applications to securely and affordably manage memberships and payment processing. Zeffy is a free membership management and fundraising platform designed specifically for nonprofit organizations. Zeffy's business model generates revenue from separate contributions, GWA Chamber Commerce members may choose to contribute to the Zeffy platform or not, that is an individual choice and not required for GWA Chamber membership . Zeffy uses industry best practices (physical, electronic and procedural) in keeping any data collected secure and private. Zeffy uses Stripe as the payment processor for its forms, Stripe is a global leader in secure online transactions safely accepting debit and credit cards around the world.
Select the desired membership and the remainder of the Membership Form will be presented to collect contact, payment and other pertinent information. Note that the Member is referred to as the "buyer" in the membership form and that there is an option for automatic annual renewals if desired. If you do not want to separately support the Zeffy Platform simply select the custom amount in the Zeffy contribution request and set the amount to zero, otherwise select the desired contribution amount. If an offline method of processing the membership is desired, please contact the GWA Chamber by email at info@gwachamber.org.
Thank you for your support of the GWA Chamber of Commerce, enabling the Chamber to help promote and stimulate business prosperity, economic development and community vitality.