Grand Rapids Business Journal
Groups will guide chamber’s work and outreach, create peer networks, foster minority business growth, inclusion.
Courtesy Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce
(As seen on WZZM TV 13) The Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce has taken its diversity, equity and inclusion goals to the next level by creating three minority business councils.
The Grand Rapids Chamber hosted a virtual town hall last month introducing the Hispanic/Latino, Asian American and Black Minority Business Councils that will guide the chamber’s efforts to listen and deliver programming for minority business communities and foster minority business leadership, growth and belonging within the greater Grand Rapids area.
Grand Rapids Business Journal
Courtesy Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce
A business leader has an opportunity to be a community leader. A community leader has the ability to transform into a community trustee. A community trustee, coined by the Grand Rapids Chamber Leadership Grand Rapids (LGR) program, is someone who passionately works to create great community for all, through their decisions, actions and influence. They embrace the ideals of pluralism, diversity, advocacy and the responsibility of social capital while remaining committed to continuously learn, connect and lead.
Since its inception in 1986 Leadership Grand Rapids has cultivated over 1,000 community trustees that have brought together cross-sector leaders from diverse communities, industries and viewpoints in order to build strong relationships. This 10-month program is extremely powerful, as it tackles relevant, provocative and often divergent content in order to carve tangible pathways to change. While enga