Company Profile
Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE)
Company Overview
Mission
ACCE's mission is to support and develop chamber professionals to lead businesses and their communities.
To accomplish this mission, ACCE creates quality professional development-from core competencies, to strategic problem solving, to visionary leadership. The association meets the needs of its members in all stages of growth and from all sizes of chambers. ACCE provides the tools executives need to improve the management and operations of their chambers, including identifying and analyzing the trends affecting our nation' communities, establishing benchmarking studies, and sharing best practices. Through its chamber-crafted benefits plans, career advancement support, salary benchmarking and retirement planning, ACCE also enhances the economic well being of its members.
Vision
Our vision is to be the organization of choice for chamber professionals.
ACCE strives to provide a national network, as well as unique chamber-centric services, that chambers turn to when dealing with daily challenges. ACCE is an indispensable resource and the acknowledged leader in the professional, personal and career development of chamber professionals, all the while adhering to the highest standards of professional excellence and integrity.
The new mission and vision were adopted by ACCE's board of directors in early 2006. The new phrasing captures our changing membership composition, now involving representatives from every chamber management discipline. It also incorporates the themes discovered during the extensive research we conducted for the National Chamber Image Campaign.
Company History
Founded in 1914 by 50 chamber administrators who met in Cincinnati, the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) began as the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries (NACOS). "Secretary" was a common term for a chamber executive back then. NACOS was headquartered in Washington, D.C., and had 176 members. Ten years later membership exceeded 1,000. In 1948 NACOS officially became the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, and in 2014 ACCE was renamed to better describe its mission and character: the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. Today, ACCE is headquartered in Alexandria, Va., and represents 1,300 chambers employing 7,000 staff throughout North America.