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Events & Resources
We are the catalyst for creating meaningful business relationships through networking events, signature events, programming and more!
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We are the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance. We provide businesses with the resources they need to build, grow and thrive. Making connections, advocating for free enterprise and developing our community is our business.
Our Work Adds Up
in 2021
“Engaging with W2W was one of my best personal and professional decisions. W2W leverages the power of the Chamber network to help women influencers, entrepreneurs, and business and community leaders support women in the workforce. The W2W experience has helped me grow by expanding my horizons, and I know our Herbein team has benefited from the initiative’s wide-ranging programming, particularly as we recently implemented our women’s initiative.”
Amy B. Klatt, MBA, Marketing Director
Herbein + Company, Inc., Member since 1981
Event Calendar
Intro to Excel – August 2022
Program Objective: This course is designed to give participants basic skills to work with Excel functions and create various simple spreadsheets. Course Outline: Basic layout of the Excel worksheet Entering Data & Numbers The 4 mouse components of a cell Selecting Cells & Ranges Creating a series of text, numbers or dates Saving the Workbook…
Lean In Circle Information Session – 2022
Penn Street Market 2022
Berks Alliance Community Forum: Berks Nature and The Nature Place
Intermediate Excel – August 2022
Lean In Circle Information Session – 2022
Lean In Circles are a unique Leadership Development opportunity for women professionals. These facilitator-led groups are comprised of 12 to 14 women coming together to learn, grow and support each other in an atmosphere of confidentiality and trust. It's a unique model for female professionals. Curriculum is provided by the Lean In Foundation, founded by…
Berks FBA All in the Family Gathering 2022: Unique Snacks
Networking@Night – Ethosource
Evening of Empowerment 2022 with Keynote Marissa Orr
2022 Manufacturing Summit
Intermediate Excel – August 2022
Program Objective: Participants will learn how to create more advanced Charts, database functions, logical formulas, creating Range Names, and working with large spreadsheets more efficiently. Course Outline: Various methods of selecting cells Creating Range Names Absolute Reference Working with Logical formulas Conditional formatting Inserting Comments Track Changes – the snitch report! Working & Printing…
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Lead Worker Certificate Program AM – Fall 2022
Lead Worker Certificate Program PM – Fall 2022
Supervisor Training Module 1: Principles of Supervision – Fall 2022
From the Blog
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In the News
GRCA Staffer Appointed to PACP Board of Directors
Reading, PA – The Greater Reading Chamber Alliance is pleased to announce the unanimous appointment of Katie Hetherington Cunfer, Director of Government & Community Relations, to the Pennsylvania …