NOTE: This interview with Director of Member Services, Stacy Bruce, was originally aired on the Hoosier Success Podcast on Tuesday, February 20th, 2024.
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NOTE: This interview with Director of Communications & Events, Kaytee Lorentzen, was originally aired on the Chamber Chat Podcast on Tuesday, February 20th, 2024.
NOTE: This interview with Director of the Chamber's Foundation & Internal Operations, Katie Sensabaugh, was originally aired by WFIU's Noon Edition on Friday, February 16th, 2024. Write up is by Nathan Moore. The Mill is once again hosting the Crossroads Pitch Competition. The Crossroads Pitch Competition is an annual competition that promotes some of the best entrepreneurs in Indiana. Winners of the competition receive investments to help further their business ideas.
The Crossroads competition began in 2017 and has gained many notable sponsors including Indiana University, who hosted last fall’s competition. Last fall’s competition winners featured two educational-based apps. One app called Pocket, a platform used to teach students band and orchestra, received $10,000 from the Flywheel Fund, a not-for-profit fund. The other winner, Integrate School, a curriculum building software, received $20,000. This year’s competition begins this Friday and applications are due by February 14. This week on Noon Edition, we will speak with experts about the Crossroads competition and Bloomington’s entrepreneur scene. Guests Katie Sensabaugh - Director of the Chamber's Foundation & Internal Operations for the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce Pat East - Executive Director of The Mill & Managing Partner of the Flywheel Fund Laurie McRobbie - One of the Judges of this Spring's Crossroads Pitch Competition Click the video to watch the Chamber Insider Update. Learn about some of our newest members, Bloomington Women in Leadership, and hear from our sponsor of this episode, Scott Shishman with Old National Bank to talk about 100 Cooks Who Care!
NOTE: This interview with the President & CEO, Eric Spoonmore, was originally aired by Bloomington's Voice Glass in the Afternoon on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024.
NOTE: This article that features an event co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, was published on January 22, 2024 in the Herald-Times. The League of Women Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County has invited state legislators representing any parts of Monroe, Brown, and Johnson counties to provide the public with an online legislative update.
The event, co-sponsored by the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, the League of Women Voters of Brown County, and the League of Women Voters of Johnson County, will be 9:30-11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, on Zoom. State legislators will report on their work and priorities for the current session of the Indiana General Assembly. They will first give brief updates on the workings of the Indiana legislative session to date and will then take questions from attendees. To sign up for the Zoom meeting, go to https://lwv-bmc.org/legis-updates. This is the first of three planned legislative updates sponsored by the Leagues and the Chamber on Zoom. Subsequent updates are set for Feb. 17 and March 2. All legislative updates are free and open to the public. Community Access Television Services through the Monroe County Public Library has been invited to record the events, with the video available on the CATS website shortly after each update. The work of the Indiana General Assembly can be followed on its website, http://iga.in.gov, which provides a wealth of information and offers the possibility to track the progress of individual bills. Click the video to watch the Chamber Insider Update. Learn about new developments with the City Council, the Chamber's Success School programming, specifically Reality Store® volunteer opportunities this semester, Business After Hours, and the first of the year mailing!
NOTE: This article that features The Chamber's President & CEO, Eric Spoonmore, was published on January 18, 2024 in the B Square Bulletin by Dave Askins. Photos are provided by B Square Bulletin. At its Wednesday afternoon meeting, Monroe County’s capital improvement board of managers (CIB) took the actions recommended by a three-member committee for moving ahead with the Monroe Convention Center expansion project.
One step was to authorize the issuance of an RFQ (request for qualifications) for a “construction manager as contractor” for the project. Interested firms will have three weeks to respond to the RFQ. The idea is for the three-member committee to winnow the respondents to a short-list by the next meeting of the CIB, which is now set for Feb. 14 at 3 p.m. The full board won’t be picking from the short list at that meeting, but could ratify the committee’s shortlisters. Also approved by the CIB at Wednesday’s meeting was the issuance of an RFQ for an owner’s representative. The idea is that none of the CIB members will have sufficient time to staff the project, and that role should be assigned to an owner’s rep. NOTE: This interview with the Director of Advocacy & Public Policy, Christopher Emge, was originally aired by The 812 podcast, hosted by Steve Volan, a daily show about the basic workings of city government in Bloomington, Indiana on Thursday, January 18th, 2024.
NOTE: This article that features The Chamber's event, Legislative Preview, was published on January 17, 2024 in the Herald-Times by Laura Lane. Photos are provided by Herald-Times. At the helm of a city with an unhoused population mired in mental health and substance abuse issues, Kerry Thomson asked a panel of state lawmakers last week what they will do about the statewide crisis.
“It cannot be addressed just at the local level,” the Bloomington mayor's written query stated. There was discussion of the challenges, but no answers offered when Thomson suggested the state lead the way toward healthcare and recovery instead of the criminal justice system for vulnerable people not receiving care. Last year, state lawmakers passed bills to boost funding for mental health services across the state. One increases funding to local mental health centers and another directs $100 million to mental health services. |
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