UPPER VALLEY BUSINESS ALLIANCE
EIN 84-3255631 · Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues (S41)
What they do
THE MISSION of THE UPPER VALLEY BUSINESS ALLIANCE is to PROMOTE THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT and PROSPERITY of THE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE, INCLUDING HANOVER, LEBANON, ENFIELD, PLAINFIELD, CANAAN and GRANTHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE AS WELL AS NORWICH, VERMONT. THE ORGANIZATION is A MEMBERSHIP-BASED ORGANIZATION and SERVES AS THE REGIONAL CHAMBER of COMMERCE. THE ORGANIZATION OVERSEES and COMMUNICATES PROPOSED STATE and LOCAL LEGISLATION and ORDINANCES, PROMOTES OUR REGION AS A TOURISM DESTINATION and PROVIDES MARKETING of THE AREA, INTERACTS WITH LOCAL EMPLOYERS to PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES for ONGOING EDUCATION, and WORKS WITH BUSINESSES and LOCAL GOVERNMENT to PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE GROWHT and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT of AREA TOWNS.
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Reported spending amounts
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Leadership and board
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Board and leadership roster (25)
JOHN SCOTTTREASURER
W JAY SIMMSTREASURER (THRU JUNE 2025)
TIM MCNAMARADIRECTOR
STACEY DAMERONDIRECTOR
SHAUN MULHOLLANDDIRECTOR (THRU JUNE 2025)
SCOTT YOUNGCHAIR
SAMANTHA DAVIDSON-GREENDIRECTOR
ROB HOUSEMANDIRECTOR
PETER GLENSHAWDIRECTOR (THRU MARCH 2025)
MIKE BURNHAMDIRECTOR
KEVIN PURCELLDIRECTOR (THRU MARCH 2025)
KERRY ARTMANDIRECTOR
KERRI A RIGASDIRECTOR
ALEX TORPEYDIRECTOR (THRU MARCH 2025)
JENNIFER SNYDERDIRECTOR (THRU MARCH 2025)
JEFFREY CHUDIRECTOR
JEFF MARKSDIRECTOR
JEFF ACKERDIRECTOR
HEATHER DRINANDIRECTOR
EMMANUEL AJAVONDIRECTOR
EDWARD MORRISDIRECTOR
DAVID BARRETTEDIRECTOR
BRIAN MOSESDIRECTOR
ANDREW HOSMERDIRECTOR
ALISON CHISOLMVICE-PRESIDENT (THRU MARCH 2025)
About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2021
- Location
- 377 N MAIN STREET, WEST LEBANON, NH 03784
- County
- Grafton
- In care of
- JOHN N SCOTT
- Primary officer
- JOHN N SCOTT, TREASURER
How to reach them
Filing and classification
- Latest tax year
- 2025
- Tax period began
- January 1, 2025
- Return type
- 990
- Tax preparer
- TSS ADVISORS LLC
- NTEE classification
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues (S41)
- IRS tax category
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues