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Monday, January 5, 2009 VOLUME 1 ISSUE 355  
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Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce

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Strategic Business Units

Regional Entrepreneurship, spearheaded by the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce, provides programs, activities, and educational opportunities for business owners and those answering the call for entrepreneurship throughout the Central Florida Region.

Regional Research
and Resolves,
led by myregion.org, examines the demographics and trends that are shaping our region and identifys the issues and challenges that affect the future, turning ideas into results.

Regional Leadership, maximizing the thirty year history of Leadership Orlando, utilizes tested curricula and relationship building techniques to educate, encourage, cultivate and recruit emerging leaders for the Central Florida Region.

Regional Public Policy Advocacy, moving important dialog about issues and candidates to the public arena enabling political leaders and voters to make informed decisions about the future of Central Florida is guided by BusinessForce.

Regional Transportation
To help solve our regional transportation problems, the Central Florida Partnership has created the Transportation Corridors “Task Force”  to advocate and communicate the “community and business imperative” of a comprehensive, integrated multi-modal regional transportation system.

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Central Florida Partnership Taps Leadership for BusinessForce
Michael Ketchum<br>President<br>BusinessForce Experience and Talent working for the Central Florida Region.
At the Central Florida Partnership’s Board of Directors meeting in December, President and CEO Jacob V. Stuart, formally announced that Michael Ketchum will, effective immediately, assume the role as President of BusinessForce, the political action arm of the Partnership.  Ketchum has served in highly visible positions under Stuart’s leadership; but now has been deservedly elevated to lead this business unit of the Partnership.

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Perspectives – Banking on Improvement
Throughout 2008, the chief executives across the Central Florida Region have shared their views on a variety of issues and topics in the monthly business news magazine, FirstMonday. Republished here for our Every Monday readers, we invite you to take a look at their thoughts.
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Ideas to Results
Hielema Enrolls in Leadership Orlando
Leslie Hielema<br>President<br>Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerc As you are aware, the Chamber has a New President, charting a New Direction for a New Chamber. On November 3, Leslie Hielema “took the helm” of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce, one of the four lines of business of the Central Florida Partnership.
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CVB Chief Optimistic About Future
Gary C. Sain<br>President & CEO<br>Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau In a recent message to his members and the community, Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau President/CEO, Gary C. Sain, shared inspirational thoughts about our region and its opportunities for the future.
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Focusing on What Matters Most
Welcome New Members!
We are proud to welcome new members for December to the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce. Members are listed in three categories: Regional Board of Advisors, Chamber Trustees, and Small Business. We encourage you to review the following listings to see if there are goods and services provided by these new members that would be of value to you and your business.
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See You at So Social!
Forget what you’ve heard: business and pleasure can mix – just as they do every week at So Social events. So Social has brought the business community together and helped improve the Orlando economy one week at a time.
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ABC News Correspondent Lynn Sherr to Address United Way Women’s Leadership Luncheon on Jan. 22
 
 
 
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