The Baldwin County Chamber Coalition supports the Keep Alabama Open campaign. Our local business owners and their employees have worked diligently to follow orders and best practices from officials and experts in order to keep customers and themselves safe; we must allow our businesses to continue earning a living and supporting their families. The Coalition stands by uniting hardworking Alabamians, protecting jobs, and safeguarding self-governance.
We encourage our members to visit the Keep Alabama Open website and download signs for your storefronts, offices, social media pages and websites.
Join National Apprenticeship Week 2020!
National Apprenticeship Week (NAW), now in its sixth year, is a nationwide celebration that gives businesses, communities, and educators the opportunity to showcase their apprenticeship programs and apprentices while providing valuable information to career seekers. NAW 2020 will be held November 8-14, 2020. Learn more here...
See the Gateway Initiative Industry Consortium Proclamation here...
MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday issued her fifteenth supplemental emergency proclamation containing an amended Safer at Home Order that includes a statewide mask requirement. Individuals will be required to wear a mask or other facial covering when in public and in close contact with other people, as described in the order. This amended order extends until August 31, 2020, at 5:00 p.m.
AlabamaWorks! and the Alabama Workforce Council (AWC) are pleased to announce the Governor’s Survey of Employer Competencies. This new tool will survey business owners in each sector and region of the state to assist the Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways (ACCCP) with identifying the current in-demand occupations and competencies, as well as the credentials of value aligned to those occupations.
Due to COVID19, the Gateway Initiative was forced into a full-time business advocacy role to provide vital information and resources to our investors to help them navigate to the “New Normal”.
As businesses have come back on-line, the Gateway Initiative has pivoted back to its mission of providing programming to accelerate business growth. An example of this programming is evident in the work we are doing with Plasmine Technology, Inc. in Bay Minette.
