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2024 Membership Form
As the “The Gateway” to the Berkshires, the Lee Chamber provides visitors with their first collection of information about what to do and see. Our mission is to promote our local businesses within that information and to advance the economic, civic, and social welfare of Lee and the Berkshire region. The Lee Chamber of Commerce works to support and foster community prosperity.
Our tactics to achieve this include:
- Creating and promoting events that bring people to Lee
- Providing a forum for the economic needs of those doing business in Lee and represents those interests as a unified group
- Working in collaboration with town government and acting as a liaison to the businesses of Lee to secure funding for marketing and town programming
- Offering marketing opportunities for small businesses as a collaborative effort.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration among our local businesses, between businesses and other educational, cultural and regional partners
- Connect businesses, both existing and emerging, with information and other resources to help them succeed
- Promoting friendship and cooperation within the business community
For more membership benefits, please see below. Click the button below to join now.
– To pay by check, mail form with check payment to: Lee Chamber, P.O.Box 345, Lee, MA 01238
You may join the Lee Chamber at any time during the year!
DEADLINE FOR INCLUSION IN THE BROCHURE: Applications are due February 16, 2024.
ADVERTISING AND SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR FOR CHAMBER MEMBERS
Lee Chamber Membership Brochure: Advertisements (January/February)
Website Advertising: Throughout the year, on a monthly basis
Lee Beautification Program: Sponsorships available (March, April)
Video Advertising in Chamber Information Booth: Throughout the season, on a monthly basis (May – October)
Lee Chamber Golf Open: Sponsorship & Program advertising available (June); donation of raffle items
Lee Founders Weekend: Sponsorship available for weekend evemts, parade, and entertainment (August); donation of raffle items [2024 Lee Founders Weekend is Sept 20-22]
Annual Meeting & Awards Banquet: Sponsorship & Program advertising available (November)
Holiday Décor: Sponsorships available (November)
Benefits of membership:
- Free listing, with images and your logo, on the Lee Chamber website which receieves over 1.2 million hits per year, with more than 5,000 users per day during the peak season.
- Your business listing on the Chamber website contains a hot link to your website.
- Free listing in our Lee Chamber Brochure – 10,000 copies are distributed throughout Berkshire County, Northwest CT, the Albany NY area, by Berkshire Brochure Display, and at Lee Premium Outlets.
- Free event posting and news-sharing on the Lee Chamber Facebook and Instagram page.
- Free participation in Lee Founders Weekend, including advertising in our promotional materials.
- Free promotion of your events and news in the Lee Chamber of Commerce’s monthly e-newsletter.
- Enjoy exposure to new business contacts and community leaders through Chamber events.
- Lee Chamber Information Booth – Prominent display space in the information booth for your rack cards, menus, brochures or business cards.
- Representation of your business by our volunteers, who are in attendance at the Information Booth six hours per day, six days a week in season.
- Over 6,000 potential customers visited the Booth last year: from 40 states and more than 30 foreign nations.
Who can be a Chamber member?
- Any reputable person, firm, professional association, corporation, partnership or legal entity having interests consistent with the above objectives is eligible to apply for membership
What is our Mission?
- The Lee Chamber of Commerce works to support and foster community prosperity. Our purposes and objectives shall be to promote and advance the economic, civic, and social welfare of Lee and the Berkshire region.
The Chamber provides a forum for the economic need sof those doing business in Lee and represents htose interests as a unified group; promotes friendship and cooperation within the business community;
- The Chamber works in collaboration with town government and the Lee Development Corporation; Offers additional marketing opportunities for small businesses as a collaborative effort.
- Why it’s great to be “The Gateway” to the Berkshires! Strategically located at Exit 2 of the Mass. Pike, thousands of visitors, second home-owners, and residents come to the town every day, all year round. Every vehicle brings potential customers to our scenic river valley.
Current Programming of the Lee Chamber
- Lee Founders Weekend and Taste of Lee – September 20-22, 2024
- Downtown Holiday Lamp Post Décor
- Community Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Church Park.
- Town Beautification Program – install and manage the hanging flower baskets on Main Street and maintain town’s pocket parks during the summer
- Christmas tree lighting and Angel Remembrance Ceremony
- Regular “business after hours” events to aid in business networking
- Annual Chamber Golf Open – raising funds for College Scholarships for Lee residents (High School graduates)