Why Join
Why Join the Boundary Country Regional Chamber of Commerce
More opportunities to network, more chances to collaborate, more reach. You’ll get regular updates on opportunities, events and projects of special appeal to you.
As a member of the BCRCC, you will have access to our leveraged benefits and insurance plan. Chambers across the nation work together, on scale, to provide quality packages at affordable rates for our members.
Benefits Include
- Reduced rates for goods and services offered by Boundary Country and British Columbia chamber of commerce members;
- Preferred rates on value-added programs offered through the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
- Boundary Country Regional is a new chamber of commerce — our benefits list is growing with our membership.
Did You Know?
- As a Boundary Country Regional Chamber of Commerce member your membership automatically gives you membership to the B.C. Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce!
- Membership is renewed yearly, and membership dues are reasonable — from $50 to $500 per year. Membership dues are classified as business expenses and are tax deductible.
Membership Information
More opportunities to network, more chances to collaborate, more reach. These are just some of the reasons to join the Boundary Country Regional Chamber of Commerce. As a chamber member, you’ll get regular updates on opportunities, events and projects of special appeal to you.
Join the Boundary Country Regional Chamber of Commerce and get benefits at the regional, provincial and national levels. As a chamber member here, you’ll also have access to regional, provincial and national levels of benefits offered to members of the British Columbia Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
What We Do
We build business and community awareness
We share business, relocation, visitor and community information. We promote businesses and communities with publications, events, advertising and publicity. We create opportunities for members to promote their organizations and businesses collectively. We organize networking opportunities and support community events.
How this helps you: It increases awareness about your business, gives you better marketing options and helps you avoid duplicating marketing effort
We market and promote
We coordinate Boundary Country marketing at the regional level. This increases cost effectiveness for our members. We play a key role in the region’s marketing efforts to attract visitors, participants in arts, cultural and sporting events and group tours.
How this helps you: More marketing, under a unified brand, helps you focus on your business and leave the higher-level strategics to us.
We advocate
We engage businesses in issues of government relations, education, infrastructure, taxation, workforce development and quality of life. Engaging businesses in these ways works to strengthen our communities.
We provide members the opportunity to speak in a unified voice and offer a unique perspective as leaders and advocates for business and the community.
We take business issues to the provincial level through a grassroots policy development process focused on developing healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities.
How this helps you: You learn how to enhance your business and lifestyle and how to leverage your influence.
We create regional alliances
We engage businesses in issues of government relations, education, infrastructure, taxation, workforce development and quality of life. Engaging businesses in these ways works to strengthen our communities.
We create regional alliances that lead to effective, mutually-beneficial collaborations. This allows us to develop regional initiatives that lead to increased funding opportunities.
How this helps you: You can benefit from collaborating and from accessing outside funding.
Boundary Rural Business Support Program
Are you trying to grow your business? Wish you could have an extra set of eyes and brains focused in on help you get to the next level? Good news, we’re here to help! Better news, we’re here to do it free of charge!
If you could use help with:
- Strategy
- Digital Marketing / Social Media
- Digital tools
- Business planning
- Website / SEO
- Finding staff
- Access to funding / grants
- Access to more learning opportunities
- Networking
- Finding a particular skill set
- Something else related to your business? Give us a shout we can probably help with that.
The Rural Business Support Program will:
- Listen and learn your business
- Assess your needs
- Create an action plan to move you forward
- Offer new ideas and a helping hand in executing the plan
- Recommend local service providers who can help
- Direct you to available / appropriate grants / finding sources
- Connect you with other business in the region
- Provide access to resources to assist your business
Rural Business Advisor - Andrew Zwicker
Andrew is a driven, creative and entrepreneurial minded professional with a long history of getting people excited and engaged in new ideas and converting that excitement into action.
With a career spent largely in the marketing, business development and small business world, Andrew is passionate about growing small business and has an unusual love of writing business plans / strategies.
Press Release:
Boundary Chamber names rural community advisor – Grand Forks Gazette
QUESTIONS:
Reach out and get in touch with Andrew for more info on the program and how we can help your business grow.
CONTACT:
About Boundary Country Regional Chamber of Commerce (BCRCC)
Our Vision:
Staff:
- Bronwen Bird
(Executive Director) - Andrew Zwicker
(Rural Business Advisor/Forest Impact Recovery Advisor) - Erin Slade
(Administrative Assistant)
Board of Directors:
- Wendy McCulloch
(Chair, Community Futures BC) - Shaun Alquiline (Co-Chair, GEM Theatre)
- Amber Esovoloff
(Treasurer, Work n’Play Clothing) - Peter Spa (Riviera RV)
- Adam Barber (Save On Foods)
- Craig Ekstrand
(Grand Forks Credit Union) - Kendall Ballentine
(Windsor Hotel Greenwood) - Kayla Sebastian
(Wooden Spoon Bistro/The Bar)
Our Mission Statement
To build a strong business network that is focused on promoting the assets in Boundary Country. By working together we can develop a vibrant, healthy, and sustainable region by strengthening businesses, contributing to community development, and promoting tourism in our area.