What is GLI?
How do I benefit from membership?
What kinds of connections can I make?
What communications can I expect?
How will being a member help me save money?
Why does GLI do advocacy?
How does GLI help local businesses?
How does GLI help improve our community?
What is GLI?
Greater Louisville Inc. - The Metro Chamber of Commerce, is a membership-based business leadership organization. Our purpose is to transform the community and help our region achieve its vision of becoming the Idea Capital of the World, where imaginations and individuals thrive.
How do I benefit from membership?
Actually, you’re already benefiting! GLI’s enterprise, economic and community development efforts positively impact regional businesses everyday through new jobs, new investment and new opportunities for business growth. When you join the chamber, you become a part of those efforts through your civic engagement, thoughtful leadership and financial investment. In exchange, members have access to a wide array of business boosting benefits including cost savings, networking opportunities and insightful events and communications.
What kinds of connections can I make?
Tap into GLI’s “Network of Networks” - developed to connect our members with the right relationships and right solutions. Choose from a year-round calendar of networking opportunities and insightful events that feature a who’s who of region’s business and civic leaders. Business is all about who you know and GLI can help introduce you.
• How to Network
• Wake Up Wind Down
• Business at Breakfast
• Annual Meeting
• Celebration of Small Business
What communications can I expect?
Look forward to concise and insightful communications about business, community and member news.
• Greater Louisville LINK , bi-weekly electronic newsletter
• LINK: Event Edition, bi-weekly e-preview of upcoming events
• Government Affairs Updates and Legislative Action Alerts
• Event Invitations and Special Announcements
How will being a member help me save money?
As a GLI member you have access to a wide array of opportunities to save money on products and services that
you use everyday.
• GLI HealthSolutions
• FuelSolutions
• Try It Local
• Member Pricing (exclusive discounts on GLI products, publications and events)
Why does GLI do advocacy?
GLI works on behalf of our member businesses to advocate policies and legislation that positively impact our region’s future economic growth. As a GLI member, you will have increased access to leaders, increased information about issues and the opportunity to voice your opinion through a variety of public policy programs and services:
• Capitol Connection Luncheons
• Legislative Action Center
• D.C. Fly-In
• GLI Issue Advisory Committees
How does GLI help local businesses?
In addition to member benefits, GLI also helps local business through our economic and enterprise development efforts.
Economic Development - GLI’s team of economic development professionals can provide no cost consultative services to your company to assist with growth and expansion, workforce needs, sites and facilities and more. Whether your business is new to
the region or planning to expand existing local operations, you can leverage our extensive experience in business management consulting, community relations and project management.
• Business Expansion and Relocation
• Workforce Assistance
• Talent Attraction
• Demographics and Research
Enterprise Development - GLI has an entire division, ENTERPRISECORP, that helps entrepreneurs and business leaders finance and grow companies of all types and sizes. From developing Louisville’s entrepreneurial infrastructure to providing custom solutions directly to clients, ENTERPRISECORP is a one-stop-shop for the expert advice and funding opportunities companies need to reach the next level of performance.
• Growth Capital
• Technology Commercialization
• Business Advising
• Enterprise Angels
• Performance Roundtables