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Business and Professional Women respect the privacy of
our members and will not allow email information to be purchased
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Dear BPW Colleagues, |
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The Board is looking to continue to improve the programs and
meetings that we offer to our Members and guests. In so doing,
Members will be receiving shortly a brief survey in the US mail
requesting your feedback on our meetings, the format, analysis of
our past speakers along with recommendations on moving forward.
Please watch for this important survey, respond honestly, and make
any comments you think would be helpful in planning our 2009-2010
year.
I also want to bring to people's attention that we are looking for
Member's to serve on committees. For those of you that want to
have a more significant impact on the organization and want to
meet other Members at a more intimate level, this is a great way
to do it. Personally, I started as Secretary, moved up to serve as
President for 2 terms, Chaired the Program Committee for several
years and now am finishing up another term as President. It has
been a wonderful way to meet and work with other professional
women, and become acquainted with many others in the community.
This would not have been possible had I not taken such an active
role.
Be sure to review inside this edition, the advantages of
membership in the areas of Sponsorship, contributing articles for
the newsletter and advertising.
I look forward to hearing from you to talk about what you can do
to help support our organization and seeing you at our next
meeting.
Respectfully Submitted,
Susan Weidner Cooke, President
603-578-9899 X203
scooke@nefnashua.com
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BPW Nashua donates to My-Turn Nashua, NH - May 21, 2009 |
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The Greater Nashua Business and Professional Women's (BPW)
organization was pleased to make a donation of funds today to
My-Turn, Inc., a community- based non-profit youth development
agency working with 14 to 21 year-old in-school and out-of-school
youth who are considered to be "at risk" of dropping out of High
School or who have already done so. The NH Region of My Turn, Inc.
works with approximately 200 young people per year and offers
Programs to High School students at Nashua High Schools North and
South, Manchester High School Central and Dover High School as
well as the Out of School Program, which operates out of the
Greater Nashua Boys and Girls Club.
At the monthly BPW-Nashua luncheon, its President Susan Cooke
presented My-Turn Director of Programs, Brigitte Bowmar with a
check to help pay for GED exams for some of the young women in its
Out of School Youth Program which operates out of the Greater
Nashua Boys and Girls Club.
In the picture from left:
Susan Cooke, Greater Nashua BPW President
Brigitte Bowmar, My-Turn NH Region Director of Programs
Gillyen Demers, My-Turn GED Instructor
Toni Roberts, My-Turn GED Recipient
Kimberlie Hoffmann, Greater Nashua BPW Political Chairperson
Kym Feltovic, Greater Nashua BPW Member
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Notes from the Secretary |
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The Greater Nashua BPW Board met on April 23. The following topics
were discussed.
- In lieu of putting a Chapter membership list on our website,
we will create a LinkedIn group and invite all members to join.
- Membership Awards will be given out at the June meeting.
Anyone with a candidate for "Person in the Community who has
promoted Women in the Workplace" should contact Julia Manlogon.
- The Board voted to make Nashua Mayor, Donna Lee Lozeau an
Honorary Member of the Chapter.
- There are still positions open on the board for the
2009-2010 term as members who have served several consecutive
terms retire. The 2009 - 2010 term begins in July. Anyone
interested in participating is encouraged to contact Susan C. or
speak with any board member.
The next board meeting is May 28th. It will be held from 12 -
1:30 pm at New England Financial, 402 Amherst St, Suite 205,
Nashua, NH. All members are welcome. Please contact Susan Cooke at
603-578- 9899, ext 203 for more information.
Copies of the full meeting minutes are available. Please contact
susan@caesarsbrook.com.
Susan Dugdale, Recording Secretary
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Meeting Topics and Sponsors |
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June 2009 - "Emotional Intelligence: Enhancing Decisions,
Behavior and Performance", Sheryl Dutra, Dutra Associates, LLC.
Sponsorship Available
To recommend a speaker or to sponsor a meeting contact BPW
programs committee at programs@bpwnashua.com
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Committee Reports |
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Membership Committee
By Julia Manlogon
The Membership Committee is pleased to announce the following new
and renewing members.
New Member
Laura Aronson - Send Out Cards
Renewing Member
Cornelia Eschborn - Career and Life Planning Center
Brenda Hodgkiss - CPA
Membership Awards
Only one month left before the Membership Awards will be given
out. The Membership Committee has been busy keeping track of how
many guests members have brought to meetings and how many of those
guests have become members. In June, awards will be given out to
the winning members. An award will also be given to the newest
member that has been most active with BPW. Greater Nashua BPW will
recognize the woman who has been the member the longest and those
members who have a five year and ten year membership history. The
Committee will include a non-member award to be given to the woman
in the community that has promoted women in the workplace.
All members have been encouraged to participate by bringing guests
to every meeting.
Get your friends and colleagues to come to our May meeting. Time
is running out to be one of the award recipients.
Please contact Julia Manlogon, (Committee Chairperson membership@bpwnashua.com)
if you have any questions or concerns.
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Advertising! |
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There are three levels of advertising available; Gold, Silver
and Bronze.
To inquire please contact:
Barb Tremlett, The Holistic Self Care Center barbt@thehsccenter.com
603-883-1490
GOLD Only 3 Gold Packages available per year! Available on a
first come/first served basis.
Members Cost: $175.00
Gold Package Includes:
SILVER
Members Cost: $100.00
Non-Members Cost: $195.00 Including one year Membership
BRONZE - Monthly Ad
Members Only Cost: $50.00
Package Includes:
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Call For Sponsors |
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We are also lining up sponsors for next year. For just $50, you
will receive:
- 1 free lunch on the day of the Sponsorship
- 5 minutes to speak about your business to the entire group
- Half of a table to put products/brochures etc. about you and
your business
- Notice of your sponsorship in the BPW newsletter
- Opportunity at the meeting to hand out information,
products, samples, etc. to the attendees
- If desired, a chance to raffle off a product/service or gift
certificate, etc. with the proceeds to benefit Nashua BPW
If you are interested in a sponsorship, please contact next year's
Program Committee and we will work to match up your business with an
appropriate meeting and topic/speaker.
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BPW Nashua is a member of Nashua Chamber of Commerce! |
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The State of the State Address featuring Governor John Lynch is
June 18th! Sponsored by: Oracle
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel
2 Somerset Parkway, Nashua
Time: 7:30am-9:00am
Cost: $20 members/$30 non-members
Governor Lynch will be presenting his Annual State of the State
Address to the Greater Nashua business community at this event.
There have been some dramatic developments within our state during
the past legislative session, and Governor Lynch will be touching
on these, as well as the health of our state economy, at this
important event.
Please RSVP to the Chamber at 881-8333 or click on Calendar Events
above and register online!
Brown Bag Lunch hosted by Express Employment Professionals on
Generations in the Workforce
Date: Thursday, June 18th
Time: 12PM-1:30PM
Cost: FREE
Generations in the Workforce is a training program that identifies
the four generations of workers who are side-by-side in the
workplace for the first time in history. This program will help
you manage and work with Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation
Xers and Millennials.
As you know, BPW Nashua is a member of the Greater Nashua Chamber of
Commerce. It has recently come to our attention that this is a
limited membership. Our Chamber contact has forwarded their
official policy on member organizations and non-profits.
It is as follows: "For non-profit organization and membership
organizations with paid staff, the Chamber's membership benefits are
extended to all members of the paid staff. For non- profit
organizations and membership organizations without a paid staff, the
Chamber's membership benefits are extended to the organization's
Board of Directors only, for their term in office only. The
organization is requested to provide the Chamber with an up-to-date
listing of their Board on an annual basis." Please accept our
apologies for any confusion.
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Looking forward to seeing you on June 18th. |
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