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Money-Saving Merger

As membership falls, chambers join.

by James Leonard

posted 3/4/2010

When Jesse Bernstein became president of the Ann Arbor Area Chamber of Commerce in 2006, it had between 1,300 and 1,400 members--a figure he aimed to double: "My goal was to get to 2,800 to 3,000 members as quickly as possible."

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