Welcome to The Bottom Line: Collaboration! This monthly issue includes stories from the Springfield Chamber and around our community, highlighting recent programs, new partnerships, local happenings, advocacy in action, and all the valuable content you’ve come to expect in The Bottom Line. Inside the Issue Featured Content Member Profiles Business News Chamber News and Programs Advocacy

We post on a monthly basis to reflect the most current new and renewed members of the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce, Oregon. Welcome to our new members! Thank you to our renewed members!

The Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce brought together employers, healthcare leaders, nonprofits, and community partners for its latest Chamber Roundtable – Care, Coverage & Compliance: Preparing Employers for OHP Changes, a discussion on how recent federal policy changes may impact Oregon’s healthcare landscape. The Chamber’s Senior Director of Advocacy & Economic Development, Paige Walters, opened the program by emphasizing how ...

Following eight months of civic leadership development, the 2025-2026 Leadership Eugene-Springfield (LES) cohort recently graduated from the Springfield Chamber and Eugene Chamber‘s joint program. 32 participants were honored by Chamber staff, community members, Springfield Mayor Sean VanGordon, and Eugene Mayor Kaarin Knudson at the graduation ceremony. This celebration commemorated the participants’ impressive accomplishments in the program, including completing group projects ...

The energy was unmistakable as the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce’s 2026 State of Business program kicked off at 7:00am on May 21st. Business leaders, nonprofit reps, and public sector officials packed the sun-drenched lobby of the University of Oregon‘s Ford Alumni Center for the networking portion of the program, connecting over coffee and pastries. As nearly 200 people took ...

Guest writer and Lane Community College student Megan Steber offers her perspective as a mid-career student on two programs that have created important opportunities: Mentor Connect, a partnership between the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, Onward Eugene, and Lane Community College that pairs students with business professionals; and Student Access Pass, a Springfield Chamber program that allows students access to business ...