ACC names 2023 Organization Partner of the Year

Reagan Gural, Alamance Chamber president and CEO, said the chamber is proud of its partnership with the college.

“We share the same values, and we both work to provide access, inclusion, collaboration, innovation, excellence, integrity and success for businesses,” Gural said.

Factors that resulted in the Alamance Chamber’s selection as ACC’s Organization Partner of the Year:

• The Alamance Chamber has a decades-long relationship with Alamance Community College. Several of its employees volunteer with ACC, and the college’s faculty and staff routinely partner over long periods of time on programs of benefit to both entities.
• The chamber engages ACC personnel in many of its initiatives and on advisory committees. It is a close partner to the college in the Career Accelerator Program and in the Eastern Triad Workforce Initiative.
• During the Biotechnology Center of Excellence equipment campaign, the chamber helped secure $100,000 from a closely related foundation.
• The chamber has helped many ACC employees to learn about the community and shares common workforce development goals with the college.
• The chamber helps recognize the ACC Faculty Member of the Year and encourages tours of the college by teachers and students from many local K-12 schools.
• Gural is an Alamance Community College alumna and represents ACC in a positive way.