GWA Chamber of Commerce
Join the Chamber or Renew a Membership
The GWA Chamber is a membership driven enterprise consisting of an association of interested parties working collaboratively together to further the general interests and common goals of the organization, with activities directed at the improvement of general business and economic conditions while helping to facilitate a suitable quality of life across the communities served. See the GWA Chamber member value proposition. Members may include corporations, small businesses, not-for-profit organizations, municipal organizations, other types of organizations, professionals and interested individuals.
The GWA Chamber of Commerce offers an online membership option for securing your annual membership, supporting both renewals and new members.
Annual Membership Descriptions
The GWA Chamber offers a variety of Annual Membership Categories with benefits options designed to help best fit the organization type and business needs of each member: Membership categories include:
- PREMIER Memberships provide an affordable and comprehensive value package available for ALL types of organizations including leadership benefits and various sponsor listings.
- CORPORATE Memberships support "For-Profit" organizations with >= 20 employees and may include leadership benefits as desired.
- BUSINESS Memberships support "For-Profit" organizations with < 20 employees and may include leadership benefits as desired.
- PARTNER Memberships support Nonprofit organizations, municipalities, school districts, churches, and other organizations, may include leadership benefits as desired.
- FRIEND Memberships are contributory memberships specifically for individuals.
A comparison chart of the GWA Chamber membership categories and associated benefits is provided below to help determine which category and associated benefits best fits the member's business needs.
Online Membership Processing
The GWA Chamber utilizes well-established third-party applications to securely and affordably manage memberships and payment processing. Zeffy is a free membership management and fundraising platform designed specifically for nonprofit organizations. GWA Chamber Commerce members may choose to contribute to the Zeffy platform or not, that is an individual choice and not required for GWA Chamber membership . Zeffy uses industry best practices in keeping any data collected secure and private. Stripe is a global leader in secure online transactions around the world and is used as the payment processor for this form.
Select the desired membership and the remainder of the Membership Form will be presented to collect contact, payment and other pertinent information. Note that the Member is referred to as the "buyer" in the membership form and that there is an option for automatic annual renewals if desired. If you do not want to separately support the Zeffy Platform simply select the custom amount in the Zeffy contribution request and set the amount to zero, otherwise select the desired contribution amount. For online form submissions, you will receive a confirmation email thanking you for registering as a member of the GWA Chamber, this email will contain a transaction receipt and access to an e-ticket with your summary membership details.
If an offline method of membership processing is desired, please contact the GWA Chamber by email at membership@gwachamber.org and a PDF version of the membership invoice will be provided.
Thank you for your support of the GWA Chamber of Commerce, enabling the Chamber to help promote and stimulate business prosperity, economic development and community vitality.