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Small Business Membership
Annual Dues $450
Small Business membership is created for businesses or organizations that seek to develop recognition in the French-American business community.
Membership rights reside with the company and not the employee of the company.
Benefits include:
Two (2) representatives are entitled to membership privileges.
One year complimentary subscription to France Magazine.
Events
- Invitation to and preferential rates for FACC WDC events.
On-line Membership Directory
- Access to and listing in the global online membership directory, hosted by the Union of French Chambers of Commerce Abroad (UCCIFE).
FACC WDC Website
- Annual feature article: opportunity to provide the journalistic content of feature articles (50 words or less) to be posted on the FACC WDC website once a year.
- Company logo with link to be posted on the FACC WDC website homepage.
- Additional advertising opportunities.
- Opportunity to post company employment openings on the FACC WDC website.
Leveraging the Small Business Membership
- May utilize the pre-approved FACC logo in corporate literature for the duration of the annual membership.
- Opportunity to sponsor FACC WDC business, cultural and social events.
- Opportunity to feature speakers at FACC WDC business events.
Services
- Opportunity to post corporate employment openings on the FACC WDC website.
- Company is eligible to host trainees, interns and VIEs on a J1 visa through the Chamber’s International Career Development Programs.
- Access to VIE candidate database.
FACC WDC Board
- One Small Business representative is eligible to serve as a Board Director.
Serge Bellanger, President of the FACC has departed
It is with great sadness and sense of loss that the French-American Chamber of Commerce of DC announces the death of, Serge Bellanger longstanding President of the French-American Chamber of Commerce. Serge was a great supporter of the reconstruction of the chapter of Washington DC, and he will be greatly missed in DC.
Mr. Bellanger was a pillar of the French-American community, a dedicated ambassador for strong French-American relations and a consummate professional, whose tireless work ethic, guiding wisdom and commitment to all of the many professional and philanthropic causes he supported will be sorely missed.
For thirty years, Serge Bellanger brought boundless energy to his positions as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC) in New York, President of the French-American Chamber of Commerce, the Union of French Chambers of Commerce and Industry Abroad as well as to the Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur, the Maison Française at Columbia University, the Grand Marnier Foundation and a variety of other volunteer positions. Mr. Bellanger was a Commander in the French Legion of Honor and National Order of Merit. To view Mr. Bellanger's complete biography, please click here.
Christine Lagarde, French Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment, and Anne-Marie Idrac, Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, have issued statements mourning the loss of Serge Bellanger and saluting his contributions to French-American relations. During his hospitalization, Mr. Bellanger asked FACC Vice President Stephen L. Dreyfuss to serve as acting President in his absence. The Executive Committee has asked Mr. Dreyfuss to continue in that role until the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors have designated Mr. Bellanger's permanent successor. The officers, directors, members and staff of the French-American Chamber of Commerce express their profound sympathy to Mr. Bellanger's wife, Danielle Bellanger, and pledge to continue his work to advance the cause of French-American cooperation.