Metro-PAC Candidates win BIG in Key Races

By Metro Chamber|December 7, 2022

Metro-PAC Candidates win BIG in Key Races for Greater Sacramento Region Following the impacts of redistricting, term limits, and the retirement of numerous elected officials, this was a busy and incredibly important election year. With so much at stake for our region’s economy and quality of life – including the…

Metro Chamber Endorses Ballot Initiative to Compel City Action on Homelessness

By Admin|March 18, 2022

The Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce is putting its support behind a proposed ballot measure that would compel the city of Sacramento to take action on homelessness. “This is a triage method,” said Metro Chamber CEO Amanda Blackwood. “This is an emergency. We’ve got to treat this like an emergency.”…

Bob Swanson of Boutin Jones Inc. named as Chair of 2022 Board of Directors

By Admin|February 14, 2022

The Sacramento Metro Chamber has named Bob Swanson, Shareholder at Boutin Jones Inc. – one of Sacramento’s largest business law firms – as Chair of the 2022 Board of Directors. Swanson follows Dave Roughton, President & CEO of SAFE Credit Union, who served the Metro Chamber as Chair throughout 2021.…

Remote Work Is Here to Stay

By Admin|January 28, 2022

Even when the pandemic ends, many Capital Region workers won’t go back to five days a week at a cubicle. In a July–August 2021 survey by nonprofit regional civic organization Valley Vision, more than three-quarters of employers from six Capital Region counties who responded said they expected to have their…

Economic & Business Forecast for 2022

By Admin|January 7, 2022

Metro Chamber President & CEO Amanda Blackwood joined Fox40 morning news on January 4, 2022, to discuss key economic growth factors and forecasts for 2022 for the greater Sacramento region and our businesses. Watch the whole interview below: Metro Chamber

Prosperity Partnership seeks input on $100 million inclusive economic development grant proposal

By Admin|November 10, 2021

A coalition of economic development advocates in the Sacramento region is developing a big ask for state funding, and they’re looking for input on their proposal. Later this month, the Prosperity Partnership will launch the first of a series of online webinars featuring information about a $600 million grant program…

Ties That Bind: Strategies For Navigating Family-Run Business Leadership

By Admin|October 21, 2021

Complex interpersonal dynamics can cause added stress, anxiety and conflict at both home and work. Families can be stressful. So can businesses. And working in a family business? The stress compounds and multiplies. Read more about ten strategies for navigating business, family, and both at once, from Comstock’s Magazine, here.…

About 23% of Sacramento’s workforce may leave the region within three years, study finds

By Metro Chamber|September 9, 2021

About a quarter of 420 Sacramento area workers surveyed by the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and the University of California Davis Graduate School of Management said they may leave the Sacramento area within three years. Most of the people surveyed were full-time, Sacramento city-based workers in the education, nonprofit,…

COVID unemployment benefits are about to end in California. Will there be a rush for jobs?

By Metro Chamber|September 2, 2021

When an estimated 2 million Californians lose their unemployment benefits next week, concerns about health and child care are likely to keep many away from the job market. That’s the finding of experts around the country, who have identified a pattern in the roughly two dozen states that cut off…

Sac Metro Chamber Partners with SAFE Credit Union Launches Corporate Culture Indicators Survey & Debut Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training Modules

By Metro Chamber|August 31, 2021

The Sacramento Metro Chamber – in partnership with SAFE Credit Union – is proud to launch a corporate culture indicators survey and debut a series of diversity, equity and inclusion training modules that are free and available now for utilization by businesses throughout the Greater Sacramento region. The diversity, equity…