Chamber Membership
We provide members with the tools, savings and access to connections to build a better business.
Development
We lead the way in fostering business growth, employee retention and training, and talent attraction.
Advocacy
We are the beacon for pro-business policies. Guiding businesses to interact with lawmakers and engage their employees in advocacy work.
Events & Resources
We are the catalyst for creating meaningful business relationships through networking events, signature events, programming and more!
we are greater together
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 2022
“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, Chief Marketing Officer
Herbein + Company, Inc., Member since 1981
Event Calendar
Business Writing Like A Pro!
Business Writing Like A Pro! DESCRIPTION While communication technology has dramatically transformed how we communicate at work over the past 20 years, it is still important for employees to have a strong competency in professional writing so that our communications are effective and productive. This workshop is designed to help participants understand the obstacles that…
Expanding Your Talent Attraction Outreach
Regional Business Women’s Networking Mixer (Lancaster, York & Harrisburg)
RM Palmer – New Molding Line Assessment
Riverfront Federal Credit Union – Strengths Finders Workshop
Regional Business Women’s Networking Mixer (Lancaster, York & Harrisburg)
Join Women2Women and three other amazing women's organizations for the 2nd annual Regional Business Women’s Networking Mixer in Hershey! Get together with: Lancaster Chamber's Women in Business York County Economic Alliance's Women's Business Center Organization Harrisburg Regional Chamber Business Women This is the perfect place to meet women within and outside of Berks County to grow your…
Seeing the Future – FBA October 2023
Breakfast4Success – October 2023
Evening of Empowerment 2023 with Liz Murray: Homeless to Harvard
Coffee & Convos: Essentials of Networking
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace – Late Fall 2023
Are you ready to Stand Apart from the Crowd? Today, employees are confronted with never ending change and a lack of clarity as businesses position themselves for success in the post COVID-19 world. Emotional Intelligence is more important today than any time in the last 50 years. The Carnegie Institute of Technology found that…
Intro to Excel – October 2023
ESL for Rising Leaders
Supervisor Training Module 2: Managing Performance & Developing Employees – Fall 2023
Essentials of Effective Leadership – Fall 2023
From the Blog
Berks w2w living its mission
By Rachael Romig, Senior Director, Events & Special Programs, GRCA Berks Women2Women (W2W), a special program of the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance (GRCA), will be hosting keynote speaker Liz …
Gather more tools for your small business through GRCA programming
By Katie Johnsen, Events Coordinator, GRCA It takes years to build up expertise—years of trial and error, success and failure, highs and lows and hard work. Very few people see that work. By the time …
In the News
GRCA launching innovative talent attraction program
Connecting employers with prospective new Greater Reading residents just got easier with the launch of the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance’s (GRCA) Meet Greater Reading talent attraction program. The …