Celebrating Leadership – and Service

First, the celebration: please join us for our 26th Annual Foundation Celebration, a signature event honoring those who serve our community with heart. This year we recognize our 2025 HERBIE Award winners: Roxanne Sanchez of Nine Lives Thrift and Bremer Bank, represented by newly retired President and CEO, Jeanne Crain.
 
Your Chamber’s charitable foundation plays a vital role in serving the broader community by standing in the gap—connecting employer needs with community opportunity, and investing in leadership development. We need your support to continue this work!
You can help by:

• Registering to attend
• Donating a Silent Auction item
• Sponsoring the event (email me directly for details)

 
Second, your insight is needed: the Federal Reserve’s Community Advisory Board is seeking input, and I’d love your feedback on two questions:

1. How are you or your community being impacted by tariffs or changes to immigration policy?
2. What changes are you seeing in household budgets for low- and moderate-income families?

 
Please feel free to email me directly with your thoughts.  I’ll be combining and anonymizing any input I share.
 
Thanks for all you do—and I hope to see you at the luncheon!
 
See you in the trenches,
B

Chamber Check-in 7/08/25