Chamber Updates  

 
Be sure to check out the new Farmville Area Chamber Website! If you would like your Login and Password information, contact Tory.

Post Your OWN Event
The new Chamber website is now live. Posting your events is now easier than ever! Go to the Calendar page on farmvilleareachamber.org
and start now!

The Farmville Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors is proud to announce that the  

2010-2011 Annual Report

is available for viewing on the Chamber website.

Please bring us your BROCHURES. Thank you to those members who have brought us brochures. They have been put to good use. 

 

Webdate Deadline
Deadline - Wednesday at 3 pm
Broadcast - Thursday morning 

Weekly Webdate Sponsorships  $45/month (or $500 per year - a savings of $45) to reach over 200 potential customers each week.    

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Chamber Contact Information:

Phone: 434-392-3939

Fax: 434-392-3818

 

tory@farmvilleareachamber.org 

 

  

www.farmvilleareachamber.org

 

       

To better promote the community and give greater value to our members, we are now asking Farmville Area Chamber of Commerce members to post links to our local community profiles on their own business website or social media site. This not only brings greater traffic to the community site, but also helps promote the local economy, business and tourism. You can assist by placing the link on your various business websites. Here is the link below, as well as the cover graphic. Please place this in a prominent position on your website.

Please direct your web master to use this reciprocal link in establishing a direct link to the following:  

www.villageprofile.com/virginia/farmville/

This simple link will help promote our community to new businesses as well as tourists visiting our area. Show your support for your Chamber and local community by helping promote the newest Chamber publication by placing this link on your website.

Thank you in advance for your support of the Chamber. Village Profile, Inc. provides these high-tech publications to promote the community and the economic future of our hometown. Thank you for the opportunity to serve your needs.

In preparation for the Summer Blockbuster Movie Schedule, we've gone Digital! You'll notice a brighter, crisper picture, along with super digital sound. We've also added RealD 3D technology to two theaters - giving Farmville the ultimate movie experience! You don't need to go out of town to experience the best movie technology!

We've also updated our concession stand with new candy selections and a Pepsi Chiller Machine for those hot summer days and nights!

The Children's Summer Movie Schedule continues in June and July 2012, and watch our website, sunchasecinema8.com and our Facebook page, Sunchase Cinema 8 for the latest news on upcoming attractions and exciting alternative programming.

The Downtown Film Series committee announces Season 15 of the award-winning Stars Under The Stars program.  Begun as a Leadership Farmville project in 1997, the Series has brought over 40 timeless motion pictures back to the big screen for the Farmville and surrounding communities.    

Spanning all film eras and genres, the movies are presented in the grassy outdoor venue of the Downtown Crute Stage and have included such classics as Rear Window, True Grit, Wizard of Oz, Grease, and many more.

The 15th Anniversary season kicks off on June 8 with Rock Hudson and Doris Day in the 1959 romantic comedy, Pillow Talk (Not Rated). On July 13, Gary Cooper is a retiring marshall who finds himself on his own as he faces down a vengence-seeking gang in the classic western, High Noon (Not Rated). And finally, finishing out our season on August 10 is Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in the Disney favorite, Mary Poppins (Rated G). 

Major sponsors for this year's film series include Central Virginia Regional Library, Putney Mechanical, Caryn's Bridals, Real Living Cornerstone, and Sweet Frog. Donations provided by Lib's Place and Pepsi. Special thanks to the Farmville Herald and the Town of Farmville.

Come join the fun at the Downtown Crute Stage, located on the corner of Main & Fourth Streets.  Parking is available on Main Street and in the municipal parking lot behind the court house.  Please note there is a NO PETS policy.

Admission is free, and popcorn, candy, and drinks will be available for sale.  In the event of rain, films will be shown the following evening. Programs begin at dusk, so be sure to bring your lawn chairs or blankets and enjoy the show!

For more information on the series, please visit: our Facebook page.

Building the Foundation

for Your New Business

Presented by Kim Ray, Business Analyst

Entrepreneurship is the American Dream.  Unfortunately, of the 1 million businesses started each year, most of them eventually fail. The one common theme may be a lack of planning.    If you are considering the possibility of starting a business, this free seminar will provide information that may help your business be among the 20 percent that survive and thrive. Prepare to start a successful business by evaluating your entrepreneurial abilities, marketing strategies, financial resources, legal form of organization and receive tips to prepare and present your business plan.

Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Time: 8:30AM-10:00AM

This seminar is FREE, registration is required!

By: Sen. Jerry Moran and Sen. Mark Warner and Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Chris Coons 

We are introducing bipartisan legislation, Startup Act 2.0 on Tuesday - to help jump-start the economy through the creation and growth of new businesses. We want to prove the critics wrong: Congress can get something done in an election year when we work together to strengthen the economy and create
jobs. 

Companies less than five years old have created nearly all net new U.S. jobs for almost three decades, according to Kauffman Foundation research, averaging roughly 3 million each year. Passing the JOBS Act in March was good news for the young companies now creating jobs. But entrepreneurs face additional challenges beyond access to capital. Startup Act 2.0 picks up where the JOBS Act left off - by helping entrepreneurs to succeed. 

Vital to any new business are the talented individuals who turn ideas into reality - including foreign-born entrepreneurs. More than a quarter of technology and engineering companies created in the U.S. between 1995 and 2005 had at least one key founder who was foreign-born, according to researchers at Duke and at the University of California, Berkeley. Yet current immigration policies have hurt U.S. efforts to compete in the global contest for entrepreneurial talent. 

Startup Act 2.0 creates an Entrepreneur's Visa for legal immigrants, so they can remain in the U.S., where their talent and ideas can fuel growth and create American jobs. It also creates a new STEM visa so that U.S.-educated foreign students who graduate with a master's or a doctorate in science, technology, engineering or mathematics can receive a green card and stay in this country, launch businesses and create jobs. 

Our plan also eliminates the per-country caps for employment-based immigrant visas - which hinder U.S. employers from recruiting the top-tier talent they need to succeed. U.S. future economic competitiveness depends on our
winning the global battle for talent. 

Another significant challenge facing startups is gaining access to enough capital to get off the ground. So our plan provides incentives to encourage investment in startup companies. 

Startup Act 2.0 will make permanent the exemption of capital gains taxes on the sale of certain small-business stock held for at least five years - so investors can provide financial stability at a critical juncture of firm growth. Our plan also creates a targeted research and development tax credit for young startups less than five years old and with less than $5 million in annual receipts. This research and development credit is designed to allow startups to offset employee taxes - freeing up resources to help these young companies expand and create jobs. 

Startup Act 2.0 also seeks to move taxpayer-funded university research more quickly to the marketplace, where it can propel economic growth. U.S. universities have historically been responsible for groundbreaking discoveries - spawning new industries and creating countless jobs. 

But not every institution is fully equipped to successfully mentor entrepreneurial researchers as they create new companies or work with industry to find innovative uses for the fruits of university-based research. Our proposal will use existing federal research-and-development funding to support university initiatives designed to bring cutting-edge research to the marketplace more quickly. 

Another obstacle facing new businesses is the expense and time required to comply with government regulations. Firms with fewer than 20 employees spend 36 percent more per employee to comply with federal regulations than larger firms, according to the Small Business Administration. Our bill requires all government agencies to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of all proposed "major rules" with an economic impact of $100 million or more. This new requirement will help determine the efficacy of the rule and its potential impact on the formation and growth of new businesses. 

Finally, Startup Act 2.0 will direct the Commerce Department to assess state and local policies that aid in the development of new businesses. Through the publication of reports on new business formation and the entrepreneurial environment, lawmakers will be better equipped to encourage entrepreneurship with the most successful policies. 

In the past 16 months, six countries have implemented new policies to encourage more entrepreneurship, innovation and job creation within their borders. The U.S. cannot afford to turn a blind eye to our competitors or use the coming elections as an excuse to delay action on an issue so critical to our economic future. 

Many of these bipartisan ideas are supported by President Barack Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. We look forward to working with the president and our colleagues to prove that conventional wisdom about Washington won't hold true this year.

Budget Committee and Commerce Committee. Sen.Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is on the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. Sen. Chris Coons (DDel.)Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) is on the Appropriations Committee and Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is on the is on the Budget Committee.

Tickets are available from:  

Any Farmville Jaycee member * All Benchmark Community Bank locations  

STEPS Corporate Office *  Online at www.STEPSWineFest.com 

2nd Annual
Southern Virginia Business Expo

  The Longwood University Small Business Development Center is proud to host its 2nd annual Business Expo on Wednesday, September 26, 2012.  Enjoy a full day of networking, motivational speakers, and numerous exhibitors.  This event will offer Southern Virginia small businesses resources for growth in:

• marketing
• financing
• sales skills
• leadership 
• management