Chambers of commerce are business and community associations, generally incorporated as a 501(c)(6) corporation. Chambers of commerce are not part of local, state, or federal government, though chambers do often partner with government to accomplish the chamber mission.

This which you mention is US-centric, isn't it? --Jerome Potts 20:33, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

OH NO!!!! that dreaded "US-centrism" rears its ugly head again!!!!!!!68.13.155.153 (talk) 09:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Chambers of commerce are funded by membership dues as well as non-dues items such as events, sponsorships, grants, contracts, and sales of various products and services. The vast majority of chamber membership rolls are small businesses - businesses with fewer than 20 employees, on average.

Today’s chamber of commerce, rather than being narrowly focused on one particular industry, issue, cause, or activity, focus on a range of activities and support for both businesses and the broader communities.

[edit] External Links

According to the article, there are 13,000 chambers of commerce. It clearly doesn't make sense to have a list of all of them in the article, and the ones linked to here seem to be chosen at random. Unless there's a consensus against doing so, I'm going to remove all of the links to individual chambers. Geoffrey Spear 15:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Support. I agree it's unnecessary. 63.80.112.17 17:40, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks like this has become a problem again. I deleted all links to individual chambers. I deleted the "Examples" as well, as there can be no reasonable criteria for including one chamber over another. Category:Chambers of commerce has plenty of examples if needed.
--JKeene 20:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use of self-promotional sources

The two sources given for oldest/largest chambers are published by the organizations who are promoting themselves for the respective terms. For claims of this sort, a third-party source is preferred. Tedickey (talk) 09:18, 28 October 2009 (UTC)