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FLORIDA BLACK CHAMBER PURPOSE AND MISSION: “Promoting Cultural Commerce throughout the Global Marketplace”!!!!! The primary marketing and operating platform of The Florida Black Chamber of Commerce is Virtual Environment Network of the Internet. The Florida Black Chamber was created as a state chamber to support the mission of the National Black Chamber, Washington, D.C. and act as a resource for minority chambers and economic development organizations in the State of Florida. The Florida Black Chamber’s primary focus is to be an advocate for African Americans, small disadvantaged minority businesses.
A major goal is to seek and create opportunities for minority owned businesses and community development organizations, by involving the community, as a whole in our effort. In the current economic climate ,it has become necessary for our role to be redefined as an emerging cultural power using technology to do business in the global marketplace. Our process and tools are organizing via the virtual realm and creating community market clusters and marketing them via ‘The Virtual Chamber of Commerce’ and ‘The Cultural Heritage MarketPlace’.
No resource should be discarded in our effort to create jobs and business opportunities. By combining the use of culture and technology as our economic and community development strategy, we believe, will guarantee our success in the global marketplace.
Proven Research: The Florida Black Chamber organized around the proven research of
how customers search for products, how they enter into the global marketplace, and the specific portals they choose to satisfy their searches. They seek and enter through portals or segments known as: “COMMERCE, CULTURE, COMMUNITY & EDUCATION”!!!
As a result of those findings, a collaborative effort was established that led to the creation
of the following departments and collaborative relationships to address disparities that are evident in our society and culture. These disparities show up as indicators of poverty an are used also to measure prosperity. Few organizations have the mandate to measure both. The Florida Black Chamber reorganized, formed partnerships, and created entities that will effectively address poverty and assist in creating wealth by educating our members and the communities we serve about proven methods, procedures and processes. We designed our departments within the chamber to be resources, based on the habits of our society in the
global marketplace. Our focus on addressing the needs of our members and partners, from the economic principle of “Cultural Commerce”, led to the Chamber organizational structure and
creating an alliance to foster “Cultural Commerce, Influence and Knowledge”:
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REBUILDING THE WALLS INITIATIVE
The Florida Black Chamber of Commerce is a network of professionals and leaders in business,
community development, education and activism; who are dedicated to rebuilding disadvantaged
communities in our state by creating virtual and community cultural business clusters that will promote economic and community development; and ‘jobs’. The ‘Rebuilding The Walls Initiative’
was developed as the catalyst for the movement to address poverty and disparity issues that
continue to plague our people and communities.
We seek partnerships; ‘for-profit and non-profits’, secular and non-secular. Only with our state’s
combined resources and knowledge, can the causes of poverty be eradicated and the middle
class expanded in all communities. We believe by focusing on our cultural heritage and the assets within our own communities, we as a people can move forward and develop a new leadership base that will guarantee our future prosperity. Our primary emphasis is E-Commerce and the Global Market Place!
The Florida Black Chamber will seek opportunities that facilitate cultural commerce, with
an emphasis on cultural heritage marketing, business and community development, and
promotion. This initiative also includes community cultural heritage preservation.
The Florida Black Chamber has assembled a cadre of professionals, who are experts in their fields
to assist us with this endeavor. Together with the assets of the National Black Chamber and other mainstream partners, we are confident that improvements can be made in the economic and social welfare of all of Florida’s citizens. We encourage you to review the presentation and information in our website and join us in our global venture.
