About RBA — General Background Information

Mission

The Rockland Business Association mission is to educate, inform, and provide beneficial services to members and actively represent, promote and support the business community of Rockland County.

RBA is the "voice" of business in Rockland County

• Not for profit membership organization

• Incorporated in 1967

• Headquarters are located at
  One Blue Hill Plaza, Pearl River, New York

• Organization serves the entire Rockland County business community as well as many firms in The Hudson Valley and New Jersey wishing to do business in Rockland.

With more than 1,000 member businesses, our services and benefits target the needs of various sectors of our community including the manufacturing, financial and service industries.

• We offer numerous networking opportunities, seminars and workshops that impact your bottom line.

• Our monthly General Membership Meetings have offered a number of influential and powerful leaders as keynote speakers including: New York's Gov. George Pataki; U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton; New York's Education Commissioner, Richard Mills; Bobby Kennedy Jr. and others. Celebrity Annual Dinner speakers have included Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Ed Koch and Yankee Skipper Joe Torre.

• Our members also benefit from member referral services, free publications, advertising opportunities, regulatory updates, annual golf outing and the RBA B-to-B Bridging Borders Expo.

• The Rockland Business Association is an advocacy organization, promoting business friendly legislation and supporting the elimination of legislation that is onerous to the business community. We are proud to say that we have been most effective in preventing the adoption of a number of regulations which may have resulted in a huge cost to some of our member firms.

• Corporate Partners enable us to generate the initiatives necessary to ensure sound growth and economic development in Rockland County. Corporate partnerships are essential in maintaining and increasing our visibility, thereby strengthening our effectiveness in advancing our business agenda.