Ainsworth Area Chamber of Commerce builds on a long tradition of promoting the commercial interests of this region in North Central Nebraska. The varied memberships reflect retail trade, farmers, ranchers, organizations, and individuals who what to do their part in promoting the business community. The Chamber office located in the North Central Development Center building is the center of activities, visitors, phone calls,  emails, and organizational meetings making the Chamber Office a community center. Close cooperation with the North Central Development Center facilitates chamber awareness of economic growth and welfare of the region.

The Ainsworth Area Chamber keeps this spirit alive, by hosting and participating in several community events:

• January can be a month of snow, ice and plunging temperatures, local sportsmen take advantage of this by ice-fishing on the lakes south of Ainsworth. North of Ainsworth, however, the Polar Bear festival is held at the Niobrara River and the Meadville Store. The Brown County Arts Council host the visiting actor/director team from Missoula Children’s Theatre every other year during the first week in January. Some fifty to sixty children grades K-l2 have the opportunity to audition, train and perform a major musical.

• February quite often is when the Chamber helps the local community college, Northeast Community College at Norfolk, NE, hold community non-credit courses, such as basic computer skills, yoga, water aerobics, and craft type classes. The Chamber/NCDC meeting room provides a location for many of these activities.

• March is the month for the annual Merchants Garage Sale, fantastic bargains can be found as participating merchants open their stores and bring items to sell at reduced prices.

• April is a big month for the Chamber, it starts with Radio Takeover Day of the local KBRB radio station.  Chamber members man the radio station during the day and use this opportunity to conduct a community auction of items donated from Chamber members as well as a membership promotion opportunity. This is a good fund raiser and promotional activity for the business community. April is time for the annual Chamber Membership Banquet and Awards Night. Each year the chamber recognizes a youth, a volunteer, and a businessperson of the year, as well as the outgoing chamber directors, past-president, and new Chamber Board Members are elected. The Lions Club hosts the All Sports Banquet where Ainsworth High School athletes receive recognition. 

• May is a full month of events, school activities wrap up for the summer and high school graduation takes place on the 3rd Sunday of May. The sand hills start to green up and become alive with a myriad of wild flowers, many ranchers congregate at each other’s place as they work the spring calves and ready them for summer pasture. The migration of the thousands of birds can be witnessed over the sand hills. Summer baseball and softball start, and the swimming pool opens over Memorial Day weekend. A flurry of agriculture practices take place, irrigation canals are once again filled and the yards and gardens of the city provide a show of natural beauty. The Brown County Arts Council sponsors the annual Fine Arts Awards Night where high school students in a variety of fine arts activities receive recognition. 

• June is a busy tourist month for the lodging places in Ainsworth. The Ranch Expo takes place in Bassett, Alumni Banquet is held in Ainsworth and the chamber sponsored “Middle of Nowhere” parade takes place on the last Saturday of June. The Johnstown Bible Rodeo Camp is held at the Brown County Fair Grounds in the neighboring village of Johnstown. 

• July is well know to all for the Annual Carnival Days hosted by the Chamber. Beautiful yards are recognized by the Chamber awarding a “Yard of the Week” for several weeks. August is a busy month getting our youngsters ready for “back to school”… Chamber’s annual “Arts in the Park” and city wide garage sales take place.

• October fall is here! Many local churches hold annual community dinners and bazaars. The Chamber hosts the Scare Crow Festival and Ainsworth High School Homecoming Parade is also a usual late September or early October event.  Deer, turkey, and water fowl hunters visit the area to seek their limit from the plentiful game that abounds in the surrounding area.

• November is the kickoff for the Christmas shopping season, through the approximate four week Christmas Bucks promotion the Chamber distributes a total of $2,000 to lucky shoppers who have their slip drawn from the weekly entrants. Those lucky winners receive the amount of their slip back in the form of chamber checks (to be spent locally with participating chamber members). 

• December spirit is abundant with various decorations, restaurants are busy with annual Christmas Dinner parties for a variety of businesses and organizations, the Ainsworth Lions Club hold their annual family Christmas Party and delivers fruit baskets to some of the community’s elderly. Senior Center hosts a craft fair and soup dinner and lighting of the City Christmas lights takes place. The Chamber hosts the annual Wild Game/Fish Feed contest, as well as, Santa visiting Cottonwood Villa for all the young at heart and held in conjunction with the Women’s Club community Christmas pageant.