Top 3 Reasons to join ASWA East Bay: Build a REAL Network! Facebook and Linkedin are great ways of keeping track of the contacts you already know. However, they are not a great way to build a larger circle of powerful women who can help you in your career and life. ASWA is a growing network of East Bay Accounting and Finance Women who want to help each other and learn from each other. Learn something New! Every single meeting has an informational topic with a speaker. Even when the topic has be …

Meeting other fabulous and fun girlfriends to hang out with! New in town, make new friends. Happy Oakland/East Bay girlfriends, women's social. Girls just wanna have fun. Join our circle of genuine 20s and 30s females, and let's have a good time! We are fun loving girlfriends. We have big hearts filled with passion and love! We are ladies who enjoy cocktails, girls night out, dancing, music, happy hour, and having fun in life! We are professional women with substance Who are willing to make a di …

This is a happy hour group for any professional, holistic female in their 30's and 40's who enjoy life and meeting other fabulous, interesting women who love to chat on everything and anything over a glass of wine! I love meeting new people, traveling, cooking, hiking, skiing, bike riding, shopping, yoga and art. I have recently moved to Rockridge from Sydney, Australia with my husband and loving it so far. Looking forward to meeting you all!

We are a social and arts community of Asian Pacific Islander queer women and transfolks in the South Bay. We come together as Lesbian, Bi/Multi, Queer women, Trans & Gender Non-Conforming folks of Asian Pacific Islander ethnicities and have FUN. We go hiking, watch movies, have potlucks, go out to eat, go dancing, paddling/kayaking, visit museums, etc. If you are of mixed/West/South/East/Southeast Asian and/or Pacific Islander heritage AND are Trans/Queer woman/Lesbian, come up to one of our mee …

Legacy. Leadership. Lifetime. The East Bay Women's Network (EBWN) was founded in 1989 with the mission to create a meeting space "where professional business women gather for support and share ideas to foster success." Over the last 24 years, we have supported success in women from all walks of life: 1- women with careers in corporate America; 2- professional business women; 3- women starting their own small business; 4- entrepreneurial women; 5- women in non-profit organizations... Our goal has …

If you’re like me, you are a single/divorced/or widowed, professional 40+ woman who works 40+ hours during the week and has little time (or energy for that matter) to develop friendships with other woman. I try to plan outings on the weekends – shopping, movies, hikes, festivals, Sunday coffee etc., and while I enjoy my own company it would be nice to share the experience(s) with a friend or two. So, I thought that creating “Weekend Friends” would be a great idea for women like me living in the …

What is BraveHeart Women? BraveHeart Women is a global community that encourages connection, expression and prosperity. Our purpose is to inspire women to Be more, Create more and Collaborate more. Why Should I Join the BraveHeart Women Global Community? The Vision of BraveHeart Women Global Community is to bring together an ever expanding circle of women who are called to Be. Create. Collaborate. To Be a prosperous expression of who we are is our personal purpose. To Create prosperity while emb …

I started this group to meet other women interested in portraiture (more geared toward editorial and commercial type) and lighting who want to get together to practice shooting, have fun, and provide a network of people with similar photographic interests who can help/learn from each other. You should join if you are a student, aspiring professional, or professional photographer with a working knowledge of exposure, shooting in manual, own a dslr of some kind and are 21+. Meetups will be mainly …

Sponsored by the Living Arts Counseling Center Single and Searching: A Group for Women Are you a powerful, independent woman*? Do you long for intimacy with a committed partner? Workshops and groups where you can: Get dating support Get clear on what you want in a partner Get rid of old baggage There is nothing wrong with you. You deserve love just as you are. *Women of all sexual orientations, genderqueer, transgender, people of color, and all ages and stages of life and dating are welcome. …

Alameda / East Bay Successful Thinkers meets for lunch at Pasta Pelican Waterfront Restaurant in Alameda, every Thursday at 11:30 am. After networking your way through the crowd, enjoy a delicious meal while learning the latest in business strategies and applications. Surround yourself with motivated business men and women dedicated to helping move your business forward. This unique networking concept is open to all professions and requires no membership fees or dues. Join us for lunch, become e …

This is a group for women of African Descent 40 years of age and older who love women. It's for anyone new to the Bay Area or not.  If you're looking for a way to meet women close to your age group for friendship and socialization. I started this group because many of my friends over the age of 40 have shared their desire to meet other women 40 and over who share similar interest in dining out, dancing, game nights, potlucks, spa days, wine tasting, plays, musicals, concerts, retreats, traveling …

Calling all the cool lesbos, queers and homos in Oakland to come hang with us. We are a bunch of cool women that are focused on not getting caught up with any of the lesbian scene drama, staying on top of their shit and kicking ass towards a better self. We do everything from Pain and Champagne, to Rihanna concerts, to Speed Dating workouts and other shenanigans we come up with.

We invite you to meet vibrant, ambitious and fun people at events in Oakland or the San Francisco East Bay Area ranging from casual get together's to professional business networking events. We provide a place to meet new people and make connections while helping each other significantly grow our businesses through quality LEADS. The purpose of Oakland LEADS is to assist you in getting good referrals that will expand your business success. Our goal is very simple, to expand each member's busines …

Good morning African American web professionals. If you professionally develop code, media, content, or strategy for the web, please come and join us for a networking waffle breakfast.

This meet-up site is an events and meetings site for Bay Area Believers.  It will serve as a community site for  Bay Area Singles & Professionals events, BACC Singles & Profs.,  Housechurch Happenings, and a unified communication board. Please feel free to email the organizer and suggest ideas!  Open to everyone. Motive:  1 Thessalonians 2:8 We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.

The East Bay Series (EBS) takes place monthly (except for August and December) on a Wednesday evening at locations convenient to those who live and work in the East Bay, Tri-Valley and beyond in the Capital Corridor and Central Valley. The EBS theme is “real-life stories of entrepreneurial success,” reflecting how we use real-life experiences to give you practical recommendations with great take-away value. The format is a moderated panel discussion, typically with between three and five members …

Attempts to dismiss the legitimacy of Butch-Femme as an identity will not be tolerated. Femmes? How do you spot them? This is something Butches have been trying to figure out for some time! This site is for women who DO IDENTIFY. Who are We? What is Butch-Femme? Butch-Femme is about being yourself Exploring and realizing your unique sexuality and your natural gender and/or identity. Embracing Butch-Femme, in whatever form you feel comfortable, is celebrating who you are. JOIN this group if you …

Outdoor Afro is a community that reconnects African-Americans with natural spaces and one another through recreational activities such as camping, hiking, biking, birding, fishing, gardening, skiing — and more! Outdoor Afro uses social media to create interest communities, events, and to partner with regional and national organizations that support diverse participation in the Great Outdoors. Here is where you can start locally connecting with people who share your outdoor interests!

We are Latinas in the East Bay interested in friendship, socializing, networking and supporting each other. Open to all who are new to the bay, those who were born and raised here, and everything in between.  This group is for those who want to expand their circle of friends with other Latinas who can share and relate to their life experiences, goals and interests.

A dance group for lesbians (and those who love them) who dance or want to learn to dance to Latin music -- Salsa, Rhumba, Cha Cha, Merengue and more!!!!!!!!!!!

This group is for the lesbian friendly community interested in group activities such as bike riding, ferry riding then bike riding, bike riding to meet for lunch, small dog walks, movie matinee's, movie nights, holiday parties, super bowl parties, road trips, Fun Train to Reno, etc. Members are encouraged to suggest meet up activities. Please provide suggestions to the organizer before posting. Prefer meet ups that do not involve nightclubs. This group is not sponsored. Donations are appreciated …

Bay Area Black Singles provides opportunities for Black singles to meet each other for love, friendship and companionship. If you wish to participate in fun-filled events and adventurous activities while meeting Black singles from your area, then you've come to the right group. Social events and activities are purposefully organized to increase your chances of meeting that "special someone," while you in turn help build up a positive community that focuses on the individual needs and personal go …

If you have attended, are currently attending, or are a supporter of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, this is a group for you. Of the 105 recognized HBCU's, we have over 25 active HBCU alumni chapters represented, and we are looking to add more members and to be a hub for HBCU Alumni activities in the Bay Area. The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Alumni Coalition serves as the guiding force of the HBCU alumni chapters in Northern California through scholarship and fundr …

Connect with members of the black community in Oakland on key social and political issues. The Black Organizing Project is an African American, member-led organization in the city of Oakland, CA. We focus on political education and membership development in order to create a powerful black collective of voters, activists and community leaders. If you're a member of Oakland's black community who would like to make positive contributions to the struggle for racial justice; would like to learn more …

Are you a budding or experienced entrepreneur? Pitch Mixer is guided by the principle that ideas don't flourish as meta-thought, rather they gain momentum out in the open, with support of evaluations, feedback, and iteration by resourceful people. Pitch Mixer engages the East Bay  startup community by running monthly entrepreneur forums where entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas to a judging panel who will evaluate the idea and provide feedback and recommendations based on the quality of the pitc …