This holiday season, join City Awake on a volunteer day program at Saint Francis House.
12/02/2022
7:00am - 3:00pm
St. Francis House
Join us to hear from Joelle Gamble, Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Labor and local leading experts on their projections for the financial year ahead.
12/07/2022
9:30am - 11:00am
InterContinental Boston
The BIMA Holiday Gala is the can't-miss networking event for professionals in the digital marketing and media community.
12/08/2022
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Artists For Humanity EpiCenter
Our Boston’s Future Leaders (BFL) program provides emerging leaders with a socially conscious and civically engaged leadership toolkit, as well as the opportunity to apply their knowledge through experiential assignments.
Join our Transformational DEI Certificate! Our comprehensive learning & development offerings are designed to connect and grow strong leaders who lead both inside and out of the office.
Our Women’s Leadership Program enables you to take your leadership to the next level by arming you with the most in-demand leadership toolkit.
Our Economic Inclusion Committee provides strategic support around research, policies, and programs that are focused on building equal opportunity.
We are developing an ecosystem of corporations and partners with the influence and buying power to transform economic inclusion for minority business enterprises (MBEs).
The Fierce Urgency of Now Festival brings Boston’s diverse young professionals together with business leaders, organizations and their peers to build connection, advance careers and ignite positive change.
09/14/2022 -
09/17/2022
Greater Boston
City Awake empowers young professionals in a variety of ways that encourages these rising leaders to stay invested in the region’s future success.
BIMA (the Boston Interactive Media Association) serves a vibrant community of like-minded professionals from agencies, brands, publishers, and ad-tech companies with business interests in the New England market.
For more than 25 years, the Chamber’s Women’s Network has connected female professionals of all background and career levels. Today, our Women’s Network is the largest in New England, strengthening the professional networks of women each year.
Through MITX (the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange), we’re building valuable connections between the people and ideas behind technology and its impact on the future of customer experiences, all to create a community that’s finding tomorrow’s solutions together.
We support small business through public policy initiatives, events designed to connect small businesses in Greater Boston to their peers and established business leaders, professional development offerings, and free small business advising.
Explore our mission and values to better understand how we are leading the business community forward.
Our member directory is your resource to discover, connect, and engage with Boston’s businesses from every industry and sector.
While formal business at the Massachusetts state legislature ended on July 31st, several outstanding policy issues important to the Chamber still await action. Both the House and Senate signaled a willingness to pass legislation during informal sessions, and the Chamber policy team continues to track bills and engage with elected officials and staff to ensure our members’ policy priorities remain part of those ongoing conversations. Below are a few pieces of legislation under consideration by the legislature this fall.
By far the largest outstanding bill still pending before the legislature is a major $4 billion economic development initiative that included a substantial tax reform package and significant investments in housing, the environment, economic development and recovery, and other areas prioritized by the Chamber. This legislation received unanimous approval in both branches, but a conference committee appointed to resolve differences between the House and Senate bills failed to agree to a final compromise prior to July 31st. Several key legislators expressed their intention to move a version of the bill forward during informal sessions, but it remains to be seen how much of the original bill will survive.
The economic development bill contained several major priorities of the Chamber, including tax relief for renters, families, low-income earners, and seniors, as well as reforming our archaic estate tax structure. However, the bill also contained numerous smaller, but still important, policy changes that impact the business community, such as extending and reforming the brownfields tax credit, encouraging municipalities to adopt starter home zoning, and critical funding for electric vehicle infrastructure. We continue to advocate for the bill to remain intact with these important provisions.
The state legislature adopted a Chamber sponsored special commission to research and study mobility pricing in Commonwealth as part of its transportation financing law passed in July. However, Governor Baker returned the provision with an amendment changing its membership, and the resulting bill awaits action by both the House and Senate.
As part of the FY23 budget debate, the House and Senate adopted a provision awarding the City of Boston a seat on the MBTA Board. The Chamber strongly supported this addition given the importance of public transit to Boston’s economic well-being. However, Governor Baker returned the provision with an amendment altering the appointment process to the Board. While the House adopted the amendment, the resulting bill awaits action by the Senate. Please contact the Chamber’s policy team with any questions or to discuss our ongoing advocacy efforts.
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