Photo courtesy of Sherry Clewell Photography

LEHIGH VALLEY, PA – The Chamber Nonprofit and Business Partners 12th Annual Collaboration Conference “Thriving Through Change” was held on Tuesday, April 8 at DeSales University from 7:30 – 11:30am.

The Event Featured Plenty of networking, breakfast, inspiration, breakout discussions and the 2025 Collaboration Award presented by Air Products.

Guest speakers included Dr. Teri Haddad – Phoebe, who talked about flexibility, Mike Stoudt – RKL discussed influence and David Robertson – Joshway spoke about understanding.

The event had over 30 sponsors and provided an opportunity for over 300 business leaders, nonprofit executives, staff and board members to come together, share challenges and opportunities and discuss how the community can learn and lean on each other to get through difficult times.

Shelley Brown, President & CEO, State Theatre Center for the Arts said “The State Theatre is thrilled that our Freddy Award program was selected as this year’s Collaboration Award by the Chamber. Thursday, May 22 will be the 23rd year that we and WFMZ will be honoring excellence in high school musical theatre. Every year the students remind us of the importance of the program, and receiving this honor is the icing on the cake! Thank you to the Chamber, Air Products, and our supporters for honoring us.”

About The Chamber

The Chamber’s mission is to improve the economy and quality of communities in the Lehigh Valley. Serving more than 5,000 businesses and members with more than than 280,000, the Chamber is the largest in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in the top six nationwide. Our thirty-plus affiliated chambers, councils and committees are On Every Main Street with more than 1,500 community focused volunteers who actively contribute, at the grass roots, to develop and achieve their respective and collective goals.