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Berkshire Business and Professional Women (BBPW) provides professional and personal development and networking opportunities for working women from diverse fields

NEXT MEETING: Trivia and Music Bingo

Join us on June 7 for an evening of Trivia and Music Bingo!

Bob Heck Entertainment is an award-winning DJ and entertainment company located in Pittsfield. On top of providing music and entertainment at weddings and other special events throughout the Berkshires, Bob Heck Entertainment has hosted its popular trivia and music bingo shows in bars and restaurants locally for over a decade. See you there!

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Career Advancement Scholarships Available!

For over 30 years, Berkshire BPW has supported the careers of local women through the Career Advancement Scholarship Program. The goal of this scholarship is to help women in Berkshire County further their careers by alleviating the financial barriers associated with pursuing education, training, and credentials.

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Welcome to Berkshire BPW!

Bringing Professional Women Together

We empower women to engage, learn and share at our monthly events.

Join Us for our next Gathering of Women

View our schedule of networking dinners and RSVP for our next gathering.

Interested in Berkshire BPW Membership?

When you join Berkshire BPW, you are investing in yourself and other women in the Berkshires.

Why is the Berkshire BPW such a valuable local resource?

Read what our members and guests have to say

What We Do

We Have Over 50 Years Of Experience!

Facilitate Personal and Professional Networking

Through our monthly gatherings, we connect, we share, we laugh, and we learn. All of which builds our personal and professional connections.

Provide Informative Programs at Monthly Dinner Meetings

Each month we work to provide interesting and fun programing. Our programs are fun, educational, interesting, and inspiring.

Recognize Outstanding Women

We love our community and we love supporting women. Since 1965, we have been honoring a local woman and all she does for our community in the Berkshires at our Woman of Achievement Awards Dinner.

Provide Local Scholarships

Our Woman of Achievement Awards dinner is our largest fund raising event supporting our Berkshire BPW Scholarship Program, which provides career advancement scholarships to working women residing in Berkshire County.

Instill Lasting Friendships

And we mean this!

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What's New at Berkshire BPW?

May, 2021: Letter From The President

May 14, 2021

Dear Berkshire BPW members and friends, What a great week for me, having our family together after a very long while for Mother’s Day, now that we are fully vaccinated! My daughter an...

April, 2021: Letter From The President

April 18, 2021

Dear Berkshire BPW members and friends, I am writing as the snow once again falls in Vermont and in the Berkshires. It certainly is a lot more dreamlike in December than on April 16th! Last...

Kate Lauzon, Co-Chair Programs, shares her success story!

March 15, 2021

BBPW scholarship recipient ... to a college graduate ... to a new career ...in the year of Covid-19. In September of 2019, I had received a scholarship from BBPW in my last year of colleg...

What Our Members Say...

"What value about BBPW is the advocacy and education, great group support and teamwork, networking and wonderful committees."

"BBPW is a tremendous networking platform. At my first meeting I met many new women from the Berkshires who I instantly connected with and have forged working relationships and friendship."

"As a longtime member of BBPW (and a family history that goes back 60 years!) I have always valued the friendships, networking and advocacy for the rights of working women."

"It is great to be in a room with such talented and caring women who are doing good in the community: impacting change and taking active leadership roles."

"I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting all of the women in this group. They are very welcoming and encouraging. I recommend for new and old to any business professional."