Serving Bend, Redmond, Sisters, Sunriver and the wider Deschutes County business community since 1911.
Serving Central Oregon since 1911
More than nine hundred businesses belong to the Bend Chamber, from one-person practices to the region’s largest employers. We connect them to each other, equip them with practical help, and carry their case to city hall and to Salem.
912
member businesses across Deschutes County
118
programmes and events run last year
Why we exist
The Bend Chamber of Commerce exists to make it easier to run a business in Central Oregon: by connecting the people who do it, equipping them with practical help, and representing them where decisions get made.
That is the whole job. A sole proprietor pays $295 and gets a real seat. Our largest employers underwrite programmes they will never personally attend. The arrangement is deliberate, and it is how the Chamber stays worth belonging to.
900+
Member businesses across Deschutes County
1911
Founded as the Bend Commercial Club
118
Programmes, trainings and events run last year
700+
Leadership Bend graduates since 1998
What membership gets you
Not a list of everything we could offer. These are the three areas members tell us actually change how their year goes.
Events
Morning Roundtable every month, four signature gatherings a year, and training capped small enough to stay a conversation. We measure a session by what members changed afterwards.
Explore EventsAdvocacy
Housing, transportation, workforce and regulation. We read the agenda packets, publish our positions before the vote, and prepare members who want to testify themselves.
See our policy prioritiesResources
Step-by-step guides for permitting, hiring and cash flow. A webinar library you can watch at 9 pm. One-to-one advising with someone who reads your numbers properly.
Open the Resource HubNext on the calendar
The full calendar runs from monthly networking to a six-hundred-person summit. These are the next three.
Thu
September 10, 2026
The monthly meeting that most members treat as their standing appointment. Coffee, a two-minute introduction from everyone in the room, and a structured half hour of asks and offers.
Chamber Boardroom
Free for members, $20 for guests
Reserve a placeThu
September 17, 2026
A three-hour working session, laptops open, that ends with your chart of accounts cleaned up and a monthly close routine you will actually keep.
Chamber Training Room
$45 members, $95 non-members
Reserve a placeThu
September 24, 2026
The annual read on where the regional economy stands, with new employment, wage, permitting and visitor data released to the room before it goes anywhere else.
Riverhouse on the Deschutes
$65 members, $110 non-members
Reserve a placeAdvocacy
Our policy agenda is drafted by the policy council, opened for member comment for three weeks, then adopted by the board. Members know what we will argue before we argue it.
The Chamber supports zoning, permitting and financing reforms that increase the supply of housing priced for people earning Deschutes County wages.
The Chamber supports sustained, predictable transportation funding for the Highway 97 corridor and the local network that connects employment centres.
The Chamber supports investment in career technical education, registered apprenticeship and childcare capacity as core economic infrastructure.
The Chamber supports clear, proportionate regulation and opposes compliance burdens that scale badly for employers under fifty people.
Member spotlights
Sixteen categories, every listing with contact details, services and a member-to-member offer. The directory is the most visited part of this site.
Food and beverage
Roasting on Galveston since 2011, wholesale to half of Deschutes County.
Construction and trades
Commercial and multi-family building across Deschutes County since 1998.
Technology
Custom software and integration work for businesses that outgrew their spreadsheets.
In their words
Collected from the annual member survey and the follow-up calls we make eight weeks after every programme.
We joined for the directory and stayed for the advising. Anneke went through our pricing line by line and found we had been underquoting install work for two years. That conversation was worth more than a decade of dues.
Hollis Barnard
Owner, Barnard Flooring Co.
Small Business member since 2019
When the parking ordinance came up, Dev had already read the packet and knew what it meant for a restaurant with no lot. He walked three of us through testifying. The final version carried the change we asked for.
Ines Delacroix
Co-owner, Table Nine Kitchen
Growth member since 2021
I moved my practice here knowing nobody. I went to Morning Roundtable every month for a year. Roughly a third of my client base now traces back to somebody I met in that room.
Raj Somerville
Principal, Somerville Tax Advisory
Solo member since 2022
The workforce data briefing is the only place I can get wage bands for Deschutes County that are current enough to build a hiring budget from. We use it every planning cycle.
Danielle Okonjo
Chief Operating Officer, Summit Ridge Manufacturing
Cornerstone member since 2016
Latest from the Chamber
Ordinance 2026-14 passed in July with a change the Chamber and eleven downtown members asked for. Here is what it does, when it starts, and what a business on Wall Street should do about it.
Dev Whitaker, Vice President of Public Affairs · August 19, 2026 · 6 minute read
Membership runs from $225 a year for nonprofits to $5,500 for our largest employers. Most Bend businesses join at $545. The application takes about five minutes and Priya calls you within two business days.