News from the chamber

If you are reopening your business, you have a partner. The Smart Restart Guide is available at the Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce.

The purpose of this resource is to provide businesses with the best known guidance to ensure consumer confidence, promote community health, and protect you and your employees as your reopen your business in the age of COVID-19.

 

These recommendations come from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), with additional guidance from local public and environmental health professionals. There are specific measures businesses of all types can take to aid in a safe, thoughtful reopening. The recommendations in each industry category support the overall goal of opening businesses in a way that protects employees and customers from exposure to COVID-19 and helps prevent the spread of the virus. Key to success will be adequate supplies for employees and customers such as soap, disinfectant, hand sanitizer, paper towels, tissues, face masks, gloves, etc.

 

Here at your Chamber, we’re doing everything possible to support all of our members, and the entire business community. Please don’t hesitate to reach out and let me know if there are specific connections or resources we can provide to you. Download the Smart Restart Guide at the chamber website.

 

What are you doing to keep your workplace safe?

 

We want to help get the word out about your business and what you’re doing to keep your customers and employees safe. Email us and let us know … what procedures do you have in place? Do you have new hours? etc. Include photos of your business if you’d like as well. We plan to feature on social media our member businesses and what you’re doing to keep others safe.

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The Wake Forest Area Chamber continues to be the voice of business in Wake Forest and northern Wake County. Now, more than ever, we need your support. If your annual membership renewal is due now or is approaching, it may be the time to switch to monthly payments. It’s a easy process, requiring one simple enrollment form. Once completed, we’ll convert your membership and you’ll pay nothing until June 15th.

During these challenging times, there is strength in community. Stay with us! Fill out the form and submit it to Nancy@wakeforestchamber.org, or call her at 919-556-1519 for assistance.

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Darren Smith at Wake Forest Awards & Engraving has begun making face shields and donating them to those who need them, like local emergency management and healthcare organizations. He’s also made some for restaurants like Milton’s Pizza. Contact Darren for details.

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The Wake Forest Area Chamber of Commerce is replacing visits and meetings with a number of webinars and Takeout Tuesdays when members can order take-out from a local restaurant and then join other members via computer for some virtual networking.

Check it all out to see what will help you.

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While we’ve had to cancel all of our events for the month of March and April, your Chamber is continuing to work hard for you. Please let us know how we can help. Is your business still open, but with modifications? We’re happy to post that on our social media channels. Are you involved in helping the community through this pandemic? Tell us, and we’ll share it! Looking for specific resources to get you through this challenge? Check our Member Directory for a fellow Chamber member who can help you out, or email us and we might know the perfect person or business to assist you. We are in this together, and we want to help!

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