Having trouble viewing this email? View as Webpage ‌ ‌ ‌ November 9 - November 13 Tuesday, November 10 Membership Development Committee Virtual Meeting 2:00-3:00 p.m. Thursday, November 12 Breakfast Connection: Residential Real Estate Focused Virtual Event 7:45-9:00 a.m. Register Executive Committee Virtual Meeting 8:00-9:30 a.m. Female Founders Roundtable Virtual Event 12:45-2:30 p.m. Register Saturday, November 14 96th Annual Arlington Business Gala Virtual Event 6:30-9:00 p.m. VIEW EVENTS CALENDAR 96th Annual Arlington Business Gala Saturday, November 14 | 6:30-9:00 p.m.| Virtual Event Grand Sponsor This year's Silent Auction is now live! Online bidding closes on Monday, November 16 at 5:00 p.m. This auction is open to anyone, whether or not you are attending the Gala on November 14. Auctions items include tropical vacations (with extended booking timeframes!), restaurant gift certificates, hotel stays, gift baskets, and more! Important Information for Gala Attendees Before November 14, click this link to download the most recent version (5.3.1) of the Zoom app on your computer. When the Zoom Download Center opens in your web browser, download “Zoom Client for Meetings.” You will need the most recent version to access the breakout rooms for networking. Please be sure to update now & create a login to help with a quality experience. Ready to rock the virtual red carpet from the comfort of your own home? We are looking for participants on a first come first serve basis in the following categories: Most Unique and Quarantine Chic. Winners are eligible for a prize! If you would like to participate, please email Morgan Cooper, Communications Coordinator, at [email protected] with which category you’d like to enter. If you are a sponsor or attendee and have general questions, please email Olivia McKay, Operations Manager, at [email protected]. VIEW THE AUCTION Grand Sponsor Breakfast Connection: Residential Real Estate Focused Thursday, November 12 | 7:45-9:00 a.m. Virtual Event Promote your business before the workday even begins at our virtual Breakfast Connection: Residential Real Estate Focused on Thursday, November 12! Whether you work in real estate, banking, mortgage lending, construction, or other related area – or if you’re hoping to target any of these groups – this is the perfect event for you. Held virtually, this event focuses on roundtable power networking through virtual breakout rooms and will provide attendees the chance to share a 60 second pitch with their fellow participants. Time: 7:45 a.m. Zoom Opens 7:50-8:00 a.m. Brief Program 8:00-9:00 a.m. Virtual Speed Networking Registration: Members - $10 Prospective Members - $20 REGISTER Grand Sponsor Female Founders Roundtable Thursday, November 12 | 12:45-2:30 p.m. Virtual Event Join the Arlington Chamber of Commerce as we welcome Paty Funegra, Founder & CEO, of La Cocina VA. Paty's presentation, titled "Wonder Woman Is Not Coming", will inspire and motivate you. Paty's presentation, titled "Wonder Woman Is Not Coming", will inspire and motivate you. Find out how she started in a church basement and built a successful organization that now occupies a large new facility and continues the mission of giving back to the community. Paty is an immigrant woman who turned into a Global Social Impact Executive when she moved to the United States. Hear her transformational story, the most meaningful influences in her life, and the new challenges and big dreams she holds in her mind today and how she is planning on making them a reality. To be eligible you must be a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses. This includes any profession in which you are 100% personally responsible for any failure or success, and you have to run the business itself and acquire your own customers. Registration: Members - $20 Prospective Members - $40 REGISTER Comcast Unveils New Initiative for Small Businesses On October 13, Comcast unveiled a new initiative titled Comcast RISE that offers thousands of grants, equipment, marketing and tech resources to small businesses hit hardest by COVID-19. The title stands for “Representation, Investment, Strength and Empowerment. “Small businesses have always played an integral role in our nation’s growth and future. In the midst of the pandemic, these entrepreneurs provided many of the services and resources that keep our communities up and running,” said Comcast Advertising Chief Marketing Officer Maria Weaver. “We’re proud and humbled to support those hit hardest by the pandemic, and provide them with marketing and technology support at a time when they need it the most." The program will roll out in waves and started with U.S. based Black-owned small businesses. The next wave begins November 28, and all BIPOC business will be eligible to apply. LEARN MORE Interning for the Chamber Haley Boylan, Operations Intern, Arlington Chamber of Commerce I have been interning at the Arlington Chamber of Commerce for roughly three months. I applied through the college internship and job site called Handshake. I was first interested in the Chamber because of how perfectly it blended my interests of government and business together. 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