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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: Nov 1, 2021

5:30 – 7:30 PM | Zoom
Please join us for our November meeting, featuring 2 speakers from 18 Degrees, speaking about the current status of child care in the Berkshires. Our speakers will address the challenges moving forward to make child care more available on both a local and systemic levels, and what we as professionals can do to promote positive changes in the vital industry. They will also share data from around the region with details of a new pilot program happening at 18 Degrees. We hope you can join us for this important meeting.

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Welcome to Berkshire BPW!

Bringing Professional Women Together

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

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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?

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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?

October, 2021: Letter from the President

October 15, 2021

Dear Berkshire BPW members and friends, October is such a beautiful time to live in the Berkshires. Every Autumn, the foliage and scenery remind me just how lucky we are to live in such a...

Berkshire Business and Professional Women’s 2021 Woman of Achievement Gala raises $29,000 for local scholarships

October 4, 2021

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (Oct. 4, 2021) — The Berkshire Business and Professional Women’s 2021 Woman of Achievement Gala raised $29,000 in funds for local scholarships at its annual event held in l...

September, 2021: Letter from the Vice President

September 14, 2021

Dear Berkshire BPW members and friends, For many of us, September means new beginnings. Summer vacations wind down, students return to school, days are shorter, and nights are cooler. I h...

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."

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