Discover Our Non-Partisan Research Identifying Needs for the Future
The Florida Chamber Foundation is the business-led, solutions development and research organization, working in partnership with state business leaders to secure Florida’s future. The Foundation’s Six Pillars™ serve as a visioning platform for developing the first-ever long-term strategic plan for the state. The Foundation takes pride in producing and partnering on a number of important studies that have provided an intellectual framework for state policy.
- Florida Business & Economic Mid-Year Report (2024)
- State of Third-Grade Reading in Florida (2024)
- Florida Workforce Needs Study 2.0 (2024)
- Making Florida the National Leader for Mental Health and Well-Being (research led by the Florida Chamber Health Council) (2024)
- Untapped Potential in FL (2023)
- Florida Business & Economic Mid-Year Report (2023)
- Florida COVID-19 Impacts Study (2022)
- Florida Trade & Logistics 2030 Study (2022)
- Florida Workforce Needs Study (2021)
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Florida’s Small Businesses (2020)
- Florida Workforce 2030 (2020)
- Employability Skills Framework (2019)
- A Study of Employment of Floridians with a Disability (2019)
- The Florida 2030 Blueprint (2018)
- Less Poverty, More Prosperity: The Florida Fiscal Cliffs Report (2017)
- Florida Jobs 2030 (2017)
- A Strategic Look at Florida’s Medical Tourism Opportunities (2016)
- From Excuses to Excellence: Another Call to Action for Job Creators and Employers to Sustain Educational Accountability, Continue Boosting Student Learning and Close the Skills Gap (2016)
- Quantifying the Unemployment Rate for Workers with Disabilities in Florida (2016)
- Made for Trade: Florida Trade and Logistics Study 2.0 (2013)
- Small Business Lending Survey (2012)
- Florida Business Relocation Informational Summary (2012)
- Immigration and Florida’s Economy (2011)
- Florida Trade and Logistics Study Technical Report (April 2011)
- Florida Trade and Logistics Study (2010)
- Snapshot: The State of STEM in Florida (2010)
- Closing the Talent Gap (2010)
- New Cornerstone: Revisited (2007)
- New Cornerstone: Foundations for Florida’s 21st Century Economy (2003)
- Transportation Cornerstone Florida: Moving Florida’s Economy Into the 21st Century (1999)
- International Cornerstone Florida: Building a Crossroads Economy (1997)
- No More Excuses: What Business Must Do To Help Improve Florida’s Schools (1995)
- Enterprise Florida: Partnership for a Competitive Economy (1991)
- Crossroads: Designing Florida’s Tax Structure (1990)
- Cornerstone: Foundations for Economic Leadership (1989)
- Enterprise Florida: Growing the Future (1989)
Get Involved in the Research
For more information on how to get involved in our research projects, please contact our senior research economist Sheridan Morby at smorby@flchamber.com.