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
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?
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
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…
Sac Metro Chamber Pres & CEO Amanda Blackwood on the Vaccine Mandate
As our dedicated community leaders explore ways to protect each other, keep the economy open, and work to avoid another full or partial shutdown, today the Sacramento Metro Chamber -- along with a number of other chambers and business organizations -- has presented the attached letter to Mayor Darrell Steinberg…
Sac Metro Chamber Pres & CEO Amanda Blackwood on the Annual Cap to Cap Trip
A powerful and impactful advocacy program presented by the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Capitol-to-Capitol (or Cap-to-Cap) has been an institution for more than 50 years. After a pause in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the much-anticipated advocacy program is returning this fall when a local delegation will meet virtually…
Metro Chamber responds to Newsom’s California Comeback
When people point to what’s choking off opportunities for new business in California, high taxes and excessive regulations are two directions people often point in. If those are the problems, how can the state succeed long-term with them? And what can Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new plan to recruit businesses do…
Cap-to-Cap Returns!
Amanda Blackwood, President, Previews Cap-to-Cap Cap to Cap Sacramento, Calif. – a powerful and impactful advocacy program presented by the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Capitol-to-Capitol (or Cap-to-Cap) has been an institution for more than 50 years. After a pause in 2020 during the covid-19 pandemic, the much-anticipated advocacy program…
Metro Chamber Embraces Mental Health as a Business Issue
At the start of the pandemic, the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce launched a hotline for business owners to answer questions and provide support. “The confusion and the need for information was so critical, so we set up a series of tools, one of them being a hotline,” said Amanda Blackwood, president…
Sacramento County Asking Residents How To Spend Millions From American Rescue Plan
“There are hundreds of small businesses that have closed their doors at this point,” said Amanda Blackwood, President and CEO of Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Blackwood wants to see those dollars go towards struggling small businesses to help with technical assistance and funding needs.” Read more from CBS13…