| Join the Women’s Business Alliance on August 22 for our Retail Therapy Social. Sip wine. Shop local. Give back. Feel good. It’s all happening from 5 to 8 p.m. at The Sutherland. Bring your girlfriends for a fun night out. This event is open to the public and all are invited to attend!
Retail Therapy is a way to showcase our member businesses while raising money for local nonprofits. You can enjoy sipping wine while shopping, our members get marketing exposure and our nonprofit partners receive a portion of the sales. Everyone wins at Retail Therapy. How does it work? A $20 advance donation ($25 at the door) gives you entry to the the event and one beverage ticket. Raffle tickets are $1 each and there are plenty of prizes to go around including gift cards to many of our shopping partners. The wine is provided by POUR Bar Services and there will be light hors d’oeuvres. At checkout, you’ll choose one of three charities to support with your purchase. The charities to choose from are: O Lord Help Us which mentors and empowers women to be who they are created to be. They provide meetings, mentor groups and an employment program for young women who have aged out of foster care. Cancer Shucks contributes to families dealing with cancer in Wake Forest and surrounding communities, assisting in ways that affect the family’s day-to-day ability to maintain order in their home as well as their lives, i.e. providing meals, cleaning homes, yard maintenance, transportation, etc. Hope House is a place of hope and assistance to children in the Wake Forest Community. Begun in 2011 as a vision of Dr. Enoch and Minister Marion Holloway, Hope House’s primary mission is to reach the youth and help them improve their life skills educationally, socially and spiritually. The shopping partners include Vitzsie Boutique, Glam at Galleria, Lily Mae’s Boutique & Gifts, Arrow Tree Boutique, Help Me Rhonda Interior LLC, Beautiful Chaos Mobile Boutique, My Fashion Sherpa, Style House Designs and The Nesting Spot. * * * * The chamber’s Senior Lifestyle Expo is returning in September. This year’s event is presented by Atlantic Tire & Service and will be held on two days. Mark your calendar and plan to join us Monday, Sept. 9, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and Tuesday, Sept. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Richland Creek Community Church. Registration is now open and booths are being snapped up quickly. Only a few sponsorships remain. We also have standard and premium booths, food booths and nonprofit booths available. See the booth registration packet on the chamber website. * * * * The Town of Wake Forest is updating its sign ordinance to make it easier to understand and use. The draft includes adding some areas where signs will be permitted and taking out some areas where signs may not be permitted. The town welcomes input regarding the UDO Sign Ordinance. The current version can be viewed online at https://www.wakeforestnc.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/planning/udo/ch-11-signs-amended-09-18-2018.pdf The ordinance will be ready for the Aug. 6 public hearing and for adoption on Aug. 20. |
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Connect with Wake Forest’s top influencers, explore your leadership skills and discover diverse avenues to make a difference in your community by participating in the 2019-2020 Leadership Wake Forest Program.
Participants meet once a month from September through May for interactive sessions, panel discussions and forums. On-site tours and hands-on activities are a component of the program which is then capped off with a group community project. The result? Well-rounded, informed leaders.
Go to the chamber website for more information and to apply.
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The Wake Forest Chamber Foundation’s Career Readiness Academy needs multiple facilitators and speakers to lead sessions and provide career readiness training to local high school students. The program runs from September through March 2020.
There will be an information session about how to host an intern on July 25 from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at the chamber office.
Go to the chamber website to find the foundation and review the facilitation responsibilities as well as other pertinent information about the program. Thank you in advance for your support.
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The Wake Forest Chamber’s Community Raffle is back for its second year! Presented by Edward Jones, the raffle will benefit the Alzheimer’s Association of Eastern North Carolina, the Wake Forest Chamber and other community civic groups and nonprofits.
Tickets are $50 each and only 1,500 tickets will be sold. A total of $15,000 in prizes will be awarded. The top prize is $10,000 cash. Other prizes include: $3,000 cash, a $1,000 lottery ticket basket, a $500 lottery ticket basket and $500 cash.
The special promotion is buy 3 tickets, get one free. Tickets may be purchased at the Wake Forest Chamber at 350 South White Street, from a chamber board member or ambassador, or online at https://go.rallyup.com/wfcommunityraffle.
You do not need to be present to win but you must be 18 years or older to buy a ticket. Winning tickets will be drawn August 15, 2019 during Business After Hours.
