Research & Programs
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 [email protected].