RBA Offerings
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We offer numerous networking opportunities,
seminars and workshops that impact your bottom line.
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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.
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Our members also benefit from
member referral services, free publications, advertising
opportunities, regulatory updates, annual golf outing
and the RBA Expo.
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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.
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Al Samuels, President/CEO of the Rockland Business Association, introducing
RBA Chair Burt Steinberg and First Vice-Chair Jan Degenshein,
to the membership of The Business Council of NYS, at the group's Annual Meeting
at the Sagamore Hotel in Bolton Landing, NY
Samuels accepted the statewide organization's 2010 Chamber of the Year Platinum Award, the highest honor bestowed on group's like the RBA by The Business Council.
The RBA was chosen from over 60 organizations because of its accomplishments in the areas of Public Policy, legislative advocacy and innovative programs such as the Hospitality & Tourism Alliance, the Women's Forum and the Green Council.
Key Advocacy Issues for the Rockland Business Association
Learn more about the RBA and these key issues:
- Living Wage Movement
- Hotel Occupancy Tax
- Empire Zone Program
- Tappan Zee Bridge
- Property Tax Caps
- Employee Free Choice Act
- Health Care Reform
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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.