The Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce is the third largest business organization north of Sacramento, a regional Chamber, representing around 650 businesses and their 17,000 employees in Marysville, Yuba City, Wheatland, Live Oak, and other towns in the counties of Yuba and Sutter, California.

The goal of the Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce is to focus on its four core competencies; business retention and expansion, community building, legislative advocacy, and membership services.

Business Retention and Expansion - creating a strong local economy

• Shop Local activities - festivals, media campaigns, educational efforts
• Create and maintain the area's tourism website, visityubasutter , for visitor and community event information
• Multiple tourism/visitor related publications created, maintained, updated and re-printed including a Farmstands Tour , a Historic Marysville Walking Tour, a Historic Homes of Yuba City Tour , a tourism video , and a Historic Lankmarks and Sites brochure , distributed by the thousands throughout the region and across the country
• Partnerships, affiliations, and lead role in startup of organizations formed to specialize in economic development including the Yuba Sutter Economic Development Corporation and the Yuba College Small Business Development Center.
• Workforce Development Awards program - the Chamber has been granting from $13-$20 thousand in cash awards annually to those intending to improve their skills and work in the Yuba-Sutter area.
• The Chamber's membership dues in the Yuba-Sutter-Colusa Employer Advisory Council keep that organization operating, and membership extends to Yuba-Sutter Chamber of Commerce members. Workshops to increase your business knowledge.
• Hundreds of local businesses are listed on this website (many utilizing a description of their business) which is visited thousands of times a month. Members - have you checked your listing for its advertising potential?

Community Building

• Relocation information and packet
• City/county maps at low cost
• Business and community resource and referral - the Chamber answers thousands of questions about the community over the course of a year on a broad range of subjects, particularly about community events and government offices. Many people call the Chamber when they don't know who to call!
• The Chamber honors with awards a civic entrepreneur, a non-profit, and a service organization each year at a lavish gala, along with businesses who go the extra mile for the community.
  
• This support of special events (which create new dollars, sales tax revenue, and return visitors) is extended by way of the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date community events calendar in town, visityubasutter.
• Leadership training - the LEAD Yuba^Sutter program has trained dozens of community leaders who daily give back to the community in more ways than any of us can imagine.
• The Chamber's affiliations with other local organizations through membership stretch the impact of membership dues by strengthening those organizations.

Legislative Advocacy

• Government Affairs Committee - meets monthly to take up issues affecting the business community
• Legislative Lunch Series - meet your representatives, hear what they have to say on current topics
• Candidates forums - hear local candidates' ideas and opinions
• Through member dues, the Chamber has paid for a membership in the United States Chamber of Commerce, increasing its incredible leverage for business in national governmental affairs, since around 1932
  
• Likewise, membership dues pay for your Chamber's membership in the California Chamber of Commerce , and its activities at the state level

The Chamber believes each and every membership service is an effort toward business retention and expansion. You can increase the value of your membership by using these services frequently and participating in these programs. Browse our website thoroughly, or ask the Chamber's Membership Director, Shaylene Minard Lewelling , to walk you through the various ways you can make your membership work for you. Direct member benefits more than cover the cost of Chamber membership!

Membership Services

• Exclusive member referral
• Advertising and promotion opportunities Membership page
• Networking opportunities Membership page
• Discounts for members offered by members Member to Member (M2M) discounts
• Weekly e-newsletter archiving on our website

Mission Statement: To create and promote a community climate where businesses are productive and profitable.