Your Chamber: Supporting Business and Enhancing a City

portagechamber-logoThe Portage Chamber of Commerce will always be a means of support to our great city’s business world. What makes our chamber very special is the support our chamber members give to so many worthwhile causes and quality of life activities.

Your chamber was asked to join a special program to provide support for a very needy group of young people. The Back Pack Program which many of our members have already donated funds to, provides food for Portage students who might otherwise go without the food they need every weekend for 40 weeks. In September, when your chamber joined a group of volunteers, 90 children were bringing a back pack of food home every Friday. That number is now 146 children thanks to many of our members saying, “I will help”.

With almost 60% of the 8,500 students on free and reduced lunch, the need is great and thanks to you, the help is on the way.

Our chamber is also touching the lives of many of our citizens, and I am happy to say, many seniors with our Music in the Park series. The generosity of our members will provide the funds to have between 13 and 15 concerts this summer, the most ever! We are now getting audiences that exceed 200 people for some shows and a great crowd at all shows.

Finally, our chamber has become a major partner in guaranteeing success for the Portage Township Education Foundation. Attendance at their spring event and support of this fundraiser and their annual raffle is allowing the foundation to turn ideas in reality for our teachers and students.

Thanks to our members, we are touching the lives of people from eight to eighty-eight in our great city.

Thank you to our entire chamber for all that you do.