On September 10, your Chamber will be honoring Rosemary Kowalski, founder of The RK Group, with our esteemed Pathfinder Award. Recipients of this prestigious award truly exhibit innovative methods that greatly improve the welfare and livelihood of ...
As San Antonio’s oldest and largest pro-business organization, the Chamber adamantly opposes municipally mandated pay and benefits and believes businesses should have the right to determine the benefits they offer their employees. Earlier this ...
Be a part of our community and join us for our 41st annual SA to DC trip scheduled for February 4-7, 2019! For 40 years, San Antonio business, military, and community leaders have advocated on behalf of the needs of this great city and its residents ...
Last week, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee got an exclusive tour of TransGuide, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Intelligent Transportation System, and saw firsthand how traffic is monitored 24 hours a day, ...
As San Antonio endeavors to become the City of Tomorrow, what must local leaders do to prepare for this fast approaching future? The members of Leadership San Antonio Class 43, commemoratively nicknamed LSA300, took on this complex and ...
Your Chamber’s Military Affairs Council was honored to visit Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston to take a behind the scenes tour of U.S. Army South’s PANAMAX 2018, the U.S. Southern Command’s largest joint military training ...
On Monday, August 27, 2018, CPS Energy is hosting an Information Session for community members interested in serving as a trusted Board Member. Applications for the Southwest Quadrant 4 vacancy are available now. The event will begin with an open ...
On Wednesday, your San Antonio Chamber of Commerce testified before the San Antonio River Authority (SARA) Board of Directors in support of their proposed FY 2018/19 budget and the associated rate. The tax rate would increase from 1.73 cents per ...
On Monday, Chamber members got a preview of the City of San Antonio’s proposed $2.8 billion 2019 budget from City Manager Sheryl Sculley. The budget was adopted by City Council at A-Session on Thursday, August 9, 2018.The budget is divided ...
The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce joined more than 20 businesses and business-focused organizations in filing an amicus (friend of the court) brief in support of efforts to protect the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) ...
Calling all Leadership San Antonio alumni: We need you!!! LSA is seeking energetic, creative, and connected mentors to serve as Steering Committee members for next year’s class – LSA 44. As a Steering Committee member, it will be your ...
In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower founded Sister Cities International as a network that would promote peace and prosperity by creating bonds between people from different communities around the world. The national membership organization ...
From August 16 to September 1, SpeakUp San Antonio will be hosting the 2018 Community Days. This series of meetups will give attendees the chance to learn about the proposed Fiscal Year 2019 budget. Those who attend will also have the opportunity to ...
The votes are in! Republican candidate Pete Flores and Democratic candidate Pete Gallego are heading to a run-off election to represent Texas Senate District 19, a district that spans from San Antonio to Pecos, touching 17 counties. Flores secured ...
Nearly 200 business and community leaders gathered at the La Villita Ballroom in the Marriott Plaza for Part 3 of our highly anticipated Congressional Series, featuring U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and moderated by the Chamber’s 2018 ...
The San Antonio City Council is set to vote next week on whether the signatures collected on a petition to initiate an Earned Paid Sick Time Ordinance are valid. A grassroots coalition of activists, called Working Texans for Paid Sick Time, ...
The race for Texas Congressional District 21 is heating up and getting national attention as Chip Roy (R) and Joseph Kopser (D) are vying for a seat to replace long-standing Congressman Lamar Smith. In an effort to help engage and inform our members ...
The San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce are pleased to announce the Co-Chairs of the 2019 class of Leadership San Antonio (LSA) are Laura Cabanilla, Vice President Community Relations, Community ...
On Saturday, July 21st, the Mayor’s Housing Policy Task Force presented recommendations to City Council, volunteers, and city staff after nearly one year of work. The Task Force was created in 2017 to address the challenges that San Antonio ...
Monika Gomez is originally from Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated from Metro Tech High School a Career and Technical school where she completed a two-year construction concentration program. During her times in high school she was a State Officer and ...
The Leadership San Antonio (LSA) 300 Community Service Team was thrilled to lead LSA 300 through a day of giving back to the community. The class spent the day engaged in various service projects, beginning with a collection of food donations for ...
Please join UTSA for the opening reception for their newest exhibit, San Antonio 1860s-1990s A Photographic Chronology from UTSA Special Collections on Friday, August 3rd, at 6:00 p.m. at the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures | 801 E. Cesar Chavez ...
The South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH) unanimously selected Ms. Brenda Mascorro as its next Executive Director. She succeeds Founding Executive Director Bill Hubbard.“In the last three years SARAH has created community ...
On Wednesday, July 18, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce hosted the design team tasked with interpreting the Alamo Master Plan approved by the City Council in 2017. More than 40 members joined the briefing, led by Assistant City Manager Lori ...
Over 200 community leaders and military officials were in attendance Wednesday for a Change of Command and Command Reassignment Ceremony at the Gateway Club on Lackland AFB. The ceremony marked a significant day in the history of 24th Air Force, as ...
Bexar County was hit was with unfortunate news this week when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a non-attainment designation for not meeting national ozone standards. A non-attainment area is an area considered to have air quality ...
This week, the NAACP is holding their national convention here in San Antonio, As part of the convention, the Chamber and many local businesses participated in Tuesday’s Diversity Career Fair, which was a great success, free and open to ...
Alfonso Zenteno is one of four interns working at the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce this summer. Alfonso was born in Philadelphia and lived in Mexico and San Diego before finishing up his last three years of high school at Keystone here in San ...
Lucas Miller was born and raised in San Antonio. He graduated from Brandeis High School in 2015 and will start his senior year this fall at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is an Economics major with a Psychology minor with ...
A months-long process has come to an exciting conclusion with the announcement that our regional partners in the state’s capital will become the center for the Army’s modernization efforts. In early summer, when the Pentagon narrowed its ...