“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
A Message from our Co-founder
“The Chamber’s mission is to facilitate international exchange and commerce in the spheres of education and business. We leverage our expertise and connections so our clients and partners can achieve their goals. Now in its second decade, Alhambra’s mission and services are creating greater interest from more places than ever before. I invite you to explore our site and see how we can help you.”
Mission
The Chamber promotes academic and commercial partnerships across the globe with the ultimate goal of fostering closer relations between the U.S. and emerging markets. The Chamber serves as a catalyst and force-multiplier for its clients and members, leveraging the collective experience, skills, and contacts of its world-class leadership team and advisors to develop and strengthen global partnerships.
The Chamber is fully dedicated to transforming vision into reality, offering a full range of customizable services to help its partners and clients achieve their global initiatives.
History & Overview
Envisioned and created in 2009 by Ambassador Sada Cumber (First Special U.S. Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation), Geoffrey Connor (former Texas Secretary of State), Jonathan Black (International Communications), and Anjum Malik (international businesswoman), the Alhambra U.S. Chamber promotes educational, commercial, and diplomatic connections, serving as a global partner to organizations, universities and other entities by offering:
Global Education and Leadership Training
Networking, Relationship Building, Advocacy
Business Development and Management
Strategic Planning
Branding and Reputation Enhancement
Higher Education Capacity Development
The Chamber’s structure, capacity, and connections are leveraged on behalf of its partners and clients in an effective, culturally sensitive and artful manner. It responds to the needs of its clients through the skillful delivery of services by a team trained to meet a wide range of logistical and implementation demands. Chamber professionals have the capability, the expertise, and the experience for engagements over variable periods of time, enabling the Chamber to help clients design and implement strategic initiatives. And, The Chamber’s network of contacts provides a global channel for promotion of its partnerships and the facilitation of client interests.
The development of successful programs and relationships in collaboration with and between partners has established the Chamber’s reputation as a provider of effective solutions to its clients.
The significance of the name “Alhambra”
Located in modern-day Granada, Spain, the Alhambra functioned historically as a royal palace-city during the reign of the Nasrid Dynasty (1232–1492). For a quarter of a millennium, under the patronage of the Nasrid Dynasty, Granada served as a rare place where Christian and Muslim civilizations came together, in a spirit of tolerance, to pursue commerce, science, and the arts. It is said, at one point, there were more books in Granada than in all of Europe combined. Today, five hundred years after the Nasrids ruled Granada, the Alhambra palace remains one of the world’s great artistic and architectural treasures. In recognition of its cultural value to humanity, UNESCO designated the palace a World Heritage Site in 1984. Seeking a name that embodies the historical spirit of Granada, we pay tribute to the legacy of the Alhambra and invoke its noble values by adopting the name of the Alhambra U.S. Chamber.