MACCE serves as an advocate on issues affecting you and your community. We work on your behalf; we can assist in connecting you with your community's elected officals as well as provide input in regard to your legislative needs.

Our MACCE Council of Chambers program takes place every other month.  Topics and speakers are relative to the issues facing businesses and communities on a daily basis.  Past speakers have included representaives and leaders from the state house; elected officials representing individual communites; as well as national decision makers and more. (read more about below)

Don't have an in-house government affairs director?  No problem, allow MACCE to keep you updated and "in the loop" on issues relative to your chamber, your community and your Commonwealth.  The MACCE Legislative Report is prepared with your needs in mind. Use the following link to access the latest MACCE legislative update. You will be asked for your password to access the following report - SerlinHaley 

Once logged on to the site click the "Massachusetts" button on the left hand side.

To obtain login credentials you can email Tom O'Rourke at tom@nvcc.com.

MACCE extends its gratitude to our 2011 legislative program sponsor, SerlinHaley 

MACCE Council of Chambers

As an affiliate of the Massachusetts Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, the MACCE Council of Chambers provides member chambers with access to information and resources on critical public policy issues that impact chambers, their members, and their communities.  The MACCE Council of Chambers also serves as a forum for chambers of commerce to share information and collaborate on important advocacy issues.  Meetings of the MACCE Council of Chambers take place on a regular basis in Marlborough.  Topics and speakers are relative to the issues facing businesses and communities on a daily basis.  Past speakers have included representatives and leaders from the state house; elected officials representing individual communities; as well as national decision makers and more.

For more information, please contact any of the Co-Chairs of the MACCE Council of Chambers:

Jeannie Hebert, President & CEO
Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce
jhebert@blackstonevalley.org

Roy Nascimento, President & CEO
New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce
roy@newbedfordchamber.com

Thomas O’Rourke, President & CEO
Neponset Valley Chamber of Commerce
tom@nvcc.com

Need more legislative info:
Kelly Thompson Clark, CEO
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce
ktclark@cambridgechamber.org

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE US CHAMBER

Chamber friends,

Yesterday, the U.S. Chamber sent a letter to President Obama and the U.S. Congress urging their immediate action on six steps that can create millions of American jobs without increasing the deficit or expanding the government.  The plan is covered in an exclusive story by the AP and further promoted by a Tom Donohue op-ed in today’s Columbus Dispatch.

To help spur bipartisan action, the Chamber is running full-page ads in leading national publications, such as the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and inside the Beltway.  The Chamber’s jobs program is also being widely disseminated through earned media, social media, and our federation of grassroots business activists. Our goal is to mobilize the business community and the American public in support of achievable and practical private sector solutions to our nation’s serious economic challenges.

Some 25 million Americans are currently unemployed, underemployed, or have simply given up looking for work. To create jobs, the President and Congress must act now to reduce regulatory uncertainty, open new trading markets, help draw more visitors to our country, allow industry to produce more domestic energy, pass tax incentives to unlock job-creating capital, and spur private investments in infrastructure while reaffirming the government’s essential role in this critical endeavor.

Please join us in sending this urgent message to our national leaders. We encourage you to repurpose and distribute this week’s Tom Donohue column and video to your networks.  Thank you for your interest and support.

Please direct all comments or questions to teh following:

Geoffrey O'Hara                                                         
James DeChene
U.S. Chamber of Commerce                                     
One Davol Square, Suite 310                                   
Providence, RI 02903                                      
Phone: 401-831-8885