BUSINESS SPEAKS | SEPTEMBER 10 + 11, 2019

All businesses needed! At Business Speaks discuss business challenges and share creative ideas with fellow business owners and managers in our community to help develop solutions to help create a strong economic future together!

Times:
Tuesday, September 10 -  8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Tuesday, September 10 -  4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday, September 11 -  8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Wednesday, September 11 -  4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Location:
Truckee Donner Public Utility District

JUST 90 MINUTES -- Meetings last just 90 minutes and will be professionally facilitated with a format designed to allow businesses to speak candidly, while fostering conversation that can lead to creative solutions.

ALL BUSINESSES WELCOME -- No membership necessary - storefronts, brick & mortar, home-based, non-profits, special districts -- all invited!

NETWORK with your business neighbors

MEETINGS ARE FREE!

About Business Speaks:

Business Speaks is a program of Truckee Tomorrow, a collaborative economic development initiative led by the Truckee Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Town of Truckee and public/private partners dedicated to creating a diverse, rising tide economy while maintaining and growing a vibrant, diverse middle class.

In January 2018, the Truckee Chamber launched Business Speaks, convening the business community at quarterly gatherings to identify the greatest challenges facing the local business community and develop creative solutions. Through the input of over 625 businesses over the course of 32 Business Speaks meetings, three projects were identified to tackle the issue of recruitment and retention, and address the overarching goal:

1 . Develop an Employer Co-op - designed to help employers find workers to fill jobs

2 . Growing Our Own - expanding on existing programs and identify creative opportunities for internships/apprenticeships

3 . Develop Truckee as an Entrepreneur Ecosystem - a long-term, forward-thinking approach to diversifying Truckee’s economy

All business owners, including home-based businesses, are invited to attend a meeting. All meetings are inclusive, you don’t need to be a Chamber member to attend. Meetings will last just 90 minutes and will be professionally facilitated with a format designed to allow businesses to speak candidly,  while fostering conversation that can lead to creative solutions.   Meetings will be held twice a year. Learn more about why you should attend with the Business Speaks FAQ.

Got Questions? Contact Us Here

NEWS & UPDATES -- Notes from all Business Speaks meetings

Mission:
The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem is intended to set a new social and economic
environment within which individual entrepreneurship can thrive. The Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem is intended to include a set of tools and services that can be used to expand
existing businesses, assist with the start-up of new businesses, or potentially attract new
businesses. Businesses and individuals seeking to do business in the community will achieve
improved access to resources, ideas, creative networks, incubators, technical assistance,
financing, and a culture that will give them a greater chance of success.

Want to Join the Project Team?
Contact us to join the team.

Project Team Meeting:
Wednesday, May 29⋅4:00 – 5:30 pm

View Project Presentations, Notes, Documents:
Project Presentations, Notes, and Documents

Updates:
Truckee Tomorrow's Entrepreneurial Project Team launched a comprehensive Business Climate Survey in February 2019 and collected 108 responses.
The survey collected qualitative and quantitative data on Truckee’s business sizes, sectors, resiliency, confidence, growth plans, hiring needs, greatest threats, skillset needs, capital plans, infrastructure needs, and existing or desired markets. This survey will be used as a baseline in year one for the Truckee Tomorrow Entrepreneurial Project Team and repeated every two years. Here are the survey results:

Mission:
Through the input of over 625 businesses over the course of 32 Business Speaks meetings, the Employer Co-Op/Truckee Jobs Collective - tools and resources designed to help employers find workers to fill jobs project team was formed. This project is the Truckee Jobs Collective is a multi-faceted solution to address the recruitment and retention issues in the Truckee area. This project will create a custom website combined with in-person collaboration sessions supported by dedicated staff to bring the business and employee communities together like never before. The website will consolidate disparate information for both employers and prospective employees facilitating faster and easier connections. The in-person collaboration sessions will facilitate develop deeper connections within the business community fostering new relationships, ideas, and improved recruitment and retention.

Want to Join the Project Team?
Contact us to join the team.

Project Team Meeting:
No project team meeting scheduled at this time.

View Project Presentations, Notes, Documents:
Project Presentations, Notes, and Documents

Updates:
Join Employers with their Employees for the next Truckee Jobs Collective Roundtable Meeting
Monday, June 17  4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Mission:
Expanding on existing Tahoe Truckee Unified School District and Sierra College programs and identify creative opportunities for internships/apprenticeships to help define / design / implement how we can collaborate/initiate/innovate to provide more opportunities for our students and members of our community in Truckee to engage in viable careers/jobs opportunities. 

Want to Join the Project Team?
Contact us to join the team.

Project Team Meeting:
Thursday, June 6 - 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

View Project Presentations, Notes, Documents:
Project Presentations, Notes, and Documents

Updates:
Stay tuned for updates soon.

Quality of Life Survey - Decreasing loyalty trends cause flight to competing towns and cities, in addition to painting a negative reputation with prospective residents and business owners. We will measure and track community sentiment about living in Truckee providing invaluable information to assist in understanding trends in our community’s feelings about the quality of life in Truckee. Are you interested in joining the team to help put Truckee Tomorrow ideas and plans into action? Join us now to become an investor.

LEARN MORE & SEE SURVEY RESULTS

Socio-Economic Metrics - Thanks to Truckee Tomorrow Phase II investors, in Summer of 2018 Truckee Chamber published a central repository for key socio-economic indicators. VIEW THE DASHBOARD.

These indicators are the first ever tracked baseline for Truckee, and are an outcome of feedback from the Quality of Life surveys, Business Speaks and Investor input.

Working collaboratively with districts, agencies, nonprofits, the private sector, and research groups, we identified, measured, and recorded key socioeconomic indicators - the source, methodology, frequency and other impacting conditions.

The DASHBOARD is valuable to business owners, the public sector as whole, and business investors who are considering Truckee to start a business and raise their family.

Truckee Tomorrow - Phase II

The Truckee Chamber of Commerce is dedicated to stepping up to the greatest challenges in our community, acting as:

Catalyst for business growth

Convener of leaders & influencers to get things done

Champion for a thriving community

The Truckee Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors recognized the need to identify real business issues as defined by our business community. As a result, Truckee Tomorrow-Phase II (an economic development initiative) was conceived, facilitated by, and is managed by the Truckee Chamber of Commerce in partnership with private investors and the Town of Truckee. This public/private partnership’s overarching goal is to create a diverse economy, while maintaining and growing a diverse, vibrant middle class.

In January 2018, the Truckee Chamber launched Business Speaks, convening the business community at quarterly gatherings to identify the greatest challenges facing the local business community and develop creative solutions. Through input from over 625 businesses over the course of 32 Business Speaks meetings, three projects were identified to tackle the issue of recruitment and retention, and address the overarching goal:

Develop an Employer Co-op - designed to help employers find workers to fill jobs

Growing Our Own- expanding on existing programs and identify creative opportunities for internships/apprenticeships

Develop Truckee as an Entrepreneur Ecosystem - a long-term, forward-thinking approach to diversifying Truckee’s economy.

The Trilogy of Economic Development Initiatives

In addition to the Business Speaks program, and projects in development as a result of those meetings, Truckee Tomorrow - Phase II includes:

Quality of Life surveys - annual surveys that measure and track community sentiment about living in Truckee

Socio-Economic Indicators - a central portal for key metrics that matter most to Truckee Citizens, in one easy place online, establishing baseline information to be measured annually to identify upward and downward trends that impact quality of life for Truckee citizens.

Truckee Tomorrow - Phase I:

Originating in 2010 on the heels of the recession, the Truckee Chamber of Commerce facilitated four community meetings to begin the dialogue of working together as a region to identify economic opportunities, challenges, and projects.

In 2013, a group of civic and community leaders were brought together to discuss economic development strategies to pursue. The group consensus was to pursue the creation of a Truckee brand and implementation of a place-based marketing effort that would create a centralized website providing live, work and play information. In 2015, upon securing funds from public and private investors, the Truckee Tomorrow economic development initiative began. In 2015, the Truckee brand, Base Camp for a Big Life, was developed with extensive community outreach and input. The new Truckee.com website focusing on economic, community and visitation launched shortly after in 2016.

Interested in joining the individuals and organizations that are creating and embracing change that will benefit our community for generations to come? Contact Lynn Saunders, President and CEO at lynn@truckee.com or 587-8808. JOIN US NOW TO BECOME AN INVESTOR.

Truckee Tomorrow Investors