Greater Boca Raton Chamber Receives National Recognition as Outstanding Non-Profit
BOCA RATON — The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce has been chosen as this year’s recipient for the prestigious Outstanding Non-Profit Organization award given by The SCORE Foundation and sponsored by the Office Depot Foundation.
SCORE, whose members mentor America’s small businesses, serves over 350,000 clients annually and honors their most successful clients at The SCORE Foundation’s 4th Annual SCORE Awards Gala celebrating excellence on Thursday, August 16th in New Orleans, LA. The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce was honored at the event for demonstrating unique vision, innovation and achievement as an Outstanding Non-Profit Organization.
“The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce is a prime example of organizations that are doing great work supporting entrepreneurship in their community,” said SCORE CEO Ken Yancey. “Programs like Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) have built a strong foundation for future small businesses.”
Yancey added: “I applaud the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce for working with our SCORE South Palm Beach chapter to help maximize the success of small businesses in their community.”
SCORE Foundation President Mark Dobosz said, “We are proud to recognize the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce for enabling the young people in their community to join with established business people to become successful while seizing the opportunities for leadership, networking, innovative business programs, education, and giving back to the community.”
Since 1964, SCORE has helped more than 9 million aspiring entrepreneurs. Each year, SCORE provides small business mentoring and workshops to more than 375,000 new and growing small businesses. More than 13,000 business experts volunteer as mentors in 364 chapters serving local communities with entrepreneur education to help grow 1 million small businesses.
The mission of The SCORE Foundation is to support and leverage the work of SCORE by soliciting, investing and managing resources for the benefit of SCORE. Learn more about The SCORE Foundation at www.scorefoundation.org.
