Sponsored Events and Support Projects

The Chamber is involved in a number of activities and community events throughout the year that are designed to build community pride (while gaining exposure for the Chamber and its members). The Chamber also provides a great deal of additional information and resources to visitors and residents of the Springfield area in a number of other ways:

• Provide Christmas decoration for the City of Springfield with the help of the Pieschel Foundation and fund raisers.
• Participate in local Riverside Day Parade - promote Riverside Day Queen contest.
• Springfield float appears in area celebrations.
• Hotline to pass along pertinent information to businesses
• Provides information for phone inquiries that are very broad based.
• Participates in creating and funding the Springfield Brochure and distributes them locally and in area brochure racks.
• Provides "First Dollar" plaques and "Chamber Member" plaques to businesses
• An Annual meeting/dinner/entertainment is held in January - All chamber members invited.
• The Chamber is a member of Bridging Brown County. Secretary attends these meetings.
• 
  New
• Member of the Southwest Minnesota Chamber Executives (meet quarterly in New Ulm)
• Advertised in the Southern Minnesota Tourism Guide (145,000) are printed and distributed in major newspapers in surrounding states and by the Minnesota Office of Tourism.