Many professional organizations are organized
around a theme such as women in business or sustainable business practices.
Choose one of the categories below:
Business Communities
Women Business Owners
Values-Based Social Change
Business
Communities:
BNI.com - Business
Network International is perhaps the best known professional networking
group, with chapters worldwide. Members gain the benefit of sales
tools, seminars, and the use of their entire chapter as a referral
base through weekly meetings.
PCMAonline.com
- The Professional Coaches and Mentors Association is a nonprofit
organization that serves business and organizational coaches and
mentors. Its mission is to challenge, inspire and educate its members
to develop the profession and help create successful practices.
There is an annual conference and local chapters throughout California
that meet monthly.
LinkedIn.com - LinkedIn is an online networking community that features referrals, recommendations, job postings, and more. My favorite feature is that once you post your resume, it will notify you of all the classmates and colleagues that attended the same places as you at the same time. It's a great way to find all the people that you've lost touch with over the years.
Women Business
Owners:
NAFE.com - The
National Association for Female Executives is one of the largest
women's professional association and the largest women business
owners' organization in the country, provides resources and services
- through education, networking, and public advocacy - to empower
its members to achieve career success and financial security
NAWBO.org -
The National Association of Women Business Owners helps women evolve
their businesses by sharing resources and providing a single voice
to shape economic and public policy. NAWBO's strength comes from
the diversity of its membership - all sizes from sole proprietorship
to hundreds of employees, every business industry from construction,
importers, and retailers to service providers, and in all areas
of the country.
WITI.com - The
mission of Women in Technology International is to empower women
worldwide to achieve unimagined possibilities and transformations
through technology, leadership, and economic prosperity. It offers
classes, resources, and regional networks.
eWomenNetwork.com
- eWomenNetwork is a resource for connecting and promoting women
and their businesses worldwide through online listings and local
chapters. They provide a comprehensive suite of marketing and promotion
services to help women achieve, succeed and prosper.
BABWnews.com
- Bay Area Business Women News provides both a news magazine and
an ezine for connecting women in commerce, community, and the arts
in the San Francisco area. Highlights are listings of job leads,
business opportunities, and advertising for women-owned businesses.
ConnectionsCa.com
- Connections is a San Francisco Bay Area-based nonprofit organization
that serves women through community service and education. It provides
a forum for women in business to network and support each other
for mutual success.
Values-Based
Social Change:
ThePresidioDialogues.org
- The Presidio Dialogues hosts regular public gatherings in the
San Francisco Bay Area intended to stimulate holistic thinking and
healthy lifestyles in the world of business. The programs bridge
the esoteric arenas of higher consciousness and human spirituality
with the pragmatic demands of commercial enterprise.
EECoM.net -
The Environmental Educational Council of Marin is a coalition of
businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations devoted to implementing
sound ecological practices and promoting environmental education
in Marin County, San Francisco Bay Area. Members meet regularly
to exchange information, share skills and develop new projects that
can be addressed collaboratively.
SVN.org - The
Social Venture Network is a nonprofit network committed to building
a just and sustainable world through business. SVN promotes new
models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable
business in the 21st century. They champion this effort through
initiatives, information services and forums that strengthen the
community and empower members to work together on behalf of their
shared vision.
SpiritAtWork.org
- The Association for Spirit at Work is a non-profit association
of people and organizations who are interested in the study and/or
practice of spirituality in the workplace. The mission of the Association
for Spirit at Work is to provide community, information, and education,
for those who are integrating their work and their spirituality
and for those who are called to support societal transformation
through organizational development and change. It offers chapters
worldwide.
SpiritInBusiness.org
- The mission of Spirit in Business is to connect leaders, entrepreneurs
and other change agents in a global community of inquiry, learning
and action, to release our creative power in the interest of our
enterprises and the whole. It works internationally through a network
of regional affiliates.
