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CHamber Impact
Chamber Offices
Impact • Developed healthcare marketing plan
CHAMBER
Impacted Economic Growth:
to drive Coweta’s growing role as a
healthcare destination
Opening Prosperity’s Front • Helped attract Piedmont Newnan
Hospital, Cancer Treatment Centers
Door for Coweta County of America, and HealthSouth
Rehabilitation Hospital to Coweta
• Earned state “Entrepreneur Friendly
As the largest business organization in Coweta County, the Community” designation for Coweta
Newnan-Coweta Chamber is recognized in the top 1 percent • Helped attract Yamaha, the county’s
of the nation as a 5-star designated Chamber and as the 2015 largest private employer, to Coweta
• Supported openings or expansions
National Chamber of the Year. for companies including Grenzebach,
private, non-profit, membership-driven organization comprised of more than 1,000 Kawasaki, Yokogawa and Yamaha
member companies, the Chamber is committed to building a strong local economy
and strengthening, enhancing and protecting business in Coweta County, and is
A leading the way over the threshold of Prosperity’s Front Door.
Impacted Talent Development:
• Headed the establishment of the Central • Developed a program that funds dual-
Educational Center enrolled Nurse Aide graduates for Certified
• Led successful E-SPLOST campaign for Nursing Assistant national testing
school system to ensure future funding • Assisted in attracting University of West
for capital programs Georgia and West Georgia Technical College
• Helped establish and launch the German to the community Candace Boothby
Apprenticeship program • Established Communities in Schools Newnan-Coweta Chamber President & CEO
4 www.newnancowetachamber.org • 770.253.2270