Upcoming Events
Grow. Thrive. Repeat. Your Growth Blueprint: From First Win to Repeat Success
March 17 | 8:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Accelerating growth through strategy, relationships, and proven execution.
Grow. Thrive. Repeat. is a signature SBII growth experience that brings together emerging and scaling small businesses with respected business pillars and employers of choice across Gwinnett, the region, and the state. These seasoned business leaders—recognized for building high-performing organizations—share how they have repeatedly grown, scaled, and sustained business success over time.
Through candid storytelling and facilitated conversation, participants gain insight into leadership, culture, systems, and decision-making required to build durable enterprises. The session also integrates trusted professional partners who unpack the business of business—including finance, talent, legal, operations, and strategy—providing practical guidance founders can apply immediately.
Partner Impact: Sponsors engage directly with growth-ready businesses while supporting the transfer of proven business practices that drive job creation, operational excellence, and long-term economic stability across the region.
Rock the Range
September 25 | 4:30 – 8 p.m.
Relationships create opportunity.
Rock the Range introduces small business owners to golf as a powerful business development and relationship-building tool. Designed for both beginners and non-golfers, the experience demystifies the game while showing how golf functions as a strategic environment for networking, trust-building, and deal-making.
Attendees learn the language of golf, course etiquette, and how to network confidently on and off the course, while engaging with legacy business leaders, corporate partners, and community stakeholders. The evening also features a small business pitch competition, providing founders with visibility, feedback, and real-time exposure to decision-makers. The experience concludes with upscale bites and curated networking, reinforcing authentic connections that extend beyond the event.
Partner Impact: Investors and sponsors gain elevated brand visibility, relationship capital, and direct access to growth-oriented businesses—while supporting professional development, deal-flow readiness, and a more inclusive business networking culture across Gwinnett.
Honoring Legacies, Empowering Leaders
November 11 | 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Where family-owned dynasties share wisdom and shape future leaders.
Honoring Legacies. Empowering Leaders. is a signature SBII experience spotlighting multi-generational Gwinnett County Chamber family-owned businesses whose growth has been shaped by strong leadership, intentional succession planning, and deep community roots. These respected business families share authentic stories of how generations entered the business, navigated family dynamics, and scaled successful enterprises while preserving values and vision.
In addition to succession, wills, trusts, governance, and leadership development, legacy leaders also reflect on the role the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce played in their growth—from advocacy and relationships to market access and leadership development. As trusted employers and economic anchors, they share how community and civic engagement became a natural extension of business leadership, positioning their companies as key stakeholders in Gwinnett County’s economic development.
Through intentional storytelling and dialogue, participants gain rare insight into building businesses that endure—financially, relationally, and civically—while preparing the next generation to lead with purpose and responsibility.
Partner Impact: Sponsors align with legacy preservation, leadership continuity, and community-centered economic development—supporting businesses that create jobs, steward wealth across generations, and actively contribute to the long-term prosperity of Gwinnett County and the region.
Power of Impact Gala
December 4 | 6 – 9 p.m.
Celebrating those who power small business growth.
The Power of Impact Gala is GCF’s premier annual fundraising and recognition event and the culminating celebration of the Small Business Impact Institute (SBII). The evening brings together small businesses, legacy leaders, corporate partners, investors, and community stakeholders to honor the progress, partnerships, and people driving Gwinnett’s small business ecosystem forward.
The Gala recognizes SBII cohort businesses that accelerated through GCF programs, celebrating their growth, resilience, and commitment to building scalable, employer-of-choice enterprises. It also honors legacy business leaders and community champions who boldly stepped forward to serve as mentors, partners, and guides—the shoulders upon which the next generation of leaders is standing.
Through storytelling, recognition, and connection, the Power of Impact Gala highlights the outcomes and relationships that fuel SBII programming and expand economic opportunity across Gwinnett County and the region.
Partner Impact: Sponsors receive elevated visibility, curated relationship access, and alignment with a mission-driven platform that transforms investment into measurable economic growth, leadership development, and long-term community impact.
