Greater Reading Chamber Alliance

Golden hour member mixer

Join Alvernia University’s Office of Graduate & Adult Education and GRCA members for a FREE member mix and mingle. Enjoy a summer evening on the beautiful outdoor Holleran Patio while networking and hearing about the Alvernia University/GRCA member benefit. The night will be filled with yard games, a fire pit, food, cocktails and great prize giveaways!

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Lunch&Learn: Employee Handbook workshop

Sign up for this Employee Handbook workshop and the attorneys from Barley Snyder will walk you through a sample handbook. After attending the session, you will receive a copy of the handbook to edit and create for your business.

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breakfast4success

Join the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA) as it hosts Breakfast4Success: Keys to Success. Speaker Tom Rhoads will examine how producing visible results requires prioritizing one’s self-awareness—dreaming, reflecting and getting real about self-sabotaging habits. Rhoads teaches people to lead with authenticity, intuition and emotional empowerment. As rational as we all think we are in our professional lives, he will contend that the key to success is something we can all feel when it’s right.

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Networking@night

Come and kick off summer with GRCA at Members 1st!  Help make summer a little sunnier for our community, and connect with other members over food and drinks. Bring food to donate to Helping Harvest and gather gently used clothes for Community Aid.

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Berks FBA expert panel

Berks FBA invites you to attend “Clarity of Roles & Accountability,” the No. 3 principle of “The 7 Principles of a Healthy Business,” presented by an expert panel.

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Latest edition of Commerce Quarterly

The Spring edition of Commerce Quarterly is here! Learn how BLiNK Studios trip to the farm turned into a new video offering and review the winners of the 2023 Business Excellence Awards.

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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.

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Our Work Adds Up

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members highlighted through marketing channels per month on average
$0.7M +
in loans facilitated
in 2022
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registered attendees to events in 2022

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June 1 2023, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT

Penn Street Market 2023

The Penn Street Market is an open-air, seasonal farmers market in the heart of downtown Reading, PA. The Market features local farm produce, fresh meats, baked goods, and more happening every Thursday from 10 AM to 2 PM June through September.    A central feature of the Penn Street Market are the weekly SNAP nutrition…

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June 1 2023, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EDT

Prep Your Life Panel: Things you need NOW – W2W June 2023

June 1 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT

Environmental Health & Safety Roundtable 2023

June 2 2023, 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

GRCA & PICPA Fiscal Policy Update 2023

June 5 2023, 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Intermediate Excel – June 2023

June 1 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT

Environmental Health & Safety Roundtable 2023

Join a group of your peers in a confidential quarterly lunch to proactively review current issues, regulations and other topics that effect you. This is for industry professionals to discuss, learn, and collaborate on environmental, health and safety policies and protocols to increase Greater Berks County businesses? efficiency and competitive edge.  2023 Roundtables will include…

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June 2 2023, 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

GRCA & PICPA Fiscal Policy Update 2023

June 6 2023, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Workplace Foundation Skills Training – Spring Cohort

June 7 2023, 7:30 AM – 9:30 AM EDT

Breakfast4Success – Keys to Success

June 8 2023, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EDT

De Mujer a Mujer Awards Celebration – June 2023 – CANCELLED

June 5 2023, 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Intermediate Excel – June 2023

The Intermediate Excel© course builds on the skills learned in Intro to Excel©. Participants will work on 11 practice examples throughout this 10-hour course and are certain to leave with a very good understanding of the more advanced features of working with a spreadsheet! Some functions that will be taught are working with logical formulas,…

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June 6 2023, 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Microsoft Outlook – June 2023

June 15 2023, 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Intro to Quickbooks – June 2023

June 19 2023, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM EDT

COURSERA ONLINE LEARNING – PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

June 19 2023, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM EDT

COURSERA ONLINE LEARNING – FINANCIAL ACUMEN PROGRAM

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