CCW is: A forum of exchange for ideas to improve one's business and community by getting linked

Nov 13 2008: Meet at the Chester County Art Association 6-8 pm

Feb 19 2009: Meet at the Wyndham House, Bryn Mawr College 6-8 pm

March 5 2009: "Meet and Greet", Red Rose Inn, West Grove, PA 6-8 pm.

May 14 2009: Meet at Faunbrook Bed & Breakfast 6-8 pm for the 6th Anniversary Celebration of CCW

July 10 2009: Annual Women Only Golf Outing WOGO! 2009

October 14 2009:Reality, Recession, Recycling

March 17 2010: St. Patrick's Day! Share your Irish history through tales, stories and jokes. If you're not Irish, come and have fun anyway! Guinness on tap.BYOB. 6:00 pm Gilmore's Restaurant, in West Chester, PA.

June 23 2010: 7th Anniversary Celebration

July 23 2010: WOGO! 2010

Meeting & event costs go to support the CCW "sister" and the MM Power Scholarship Fund which provides $1,000 scholarships to women majoring in the sciences or business at West Chester University (WCU) or to women clients at the PA Home of the Sparrow who enroll in a certificate or degree program at WCU.

Membership

Cost is $40 per year:

Get's you listed on this website

Get's you invited to CCW's linked clubs and events

This does not include meeting fee costs which is a minimum of $10, and may be more depending on the venue

Print out and mail application and $40 membership fee payable to CCW. Mail to Bronwyn Martin, PO Box 389, Kennett Square PA 19348.

CCW Application

If you'd like your organisation to be Linked with CCW please contact Bronwyn Martin at 610-453-7215

CCW no longer has an affiliation with NAFE

Chester County Women (CCW) began in 2003. Bronwyn Martin’s experiences in networking groups were all similar: receive business cards from a lot of people who suggested that you needed them and should do business with them.  But who were these people? So, the idea for CCW came from the idea to start a group for women business leaders, both employees and employers, where there is greater interaction between the women attending the meetings  as well as to have a greater connection with our community. Martin believes stronger relationships and  a stronger commitment to the community will be built if one hears and learns more about each other in the networking group.  Hence, the tagline for CCW became Leadership, Diversity, Community. From 2003 to 2008 CCW meetings included a guest speaker that was asked to develop discussion with and among the women attending the meetings. Many times the group would have to break into smaller groups to do a project as instructed by the guest speaker.  Appetizers and beverages were donated by either a local organization or a CCW member wanting to get visibility for their business. Meetings were scheduled in the evenings because Martin believes that successful business women will work hard all day and may not take a lunch networking break that, with travel, can take 2 hours or longer.

Martin had no problem in getting women to be board members, all of whom understood the positioning of CCW and were eager to see CCW’s success. Janet Shockley, Roberta Perry, Stacey Schiele, Christina Valocchi, Melissa Hawes, and Patrice Gaul were instrumental in this success.

In 2007 Martin started Chester County Business Leaders in the Community, or CCBLC. CCBLC was a test pilot to see if even smaller group meetings were more beneficial to strengthening relationships as well as provide a base to southern Chester County business women. CCBLC met in Martin’s office in Kennett Square, PA as an early morning coffee group. In July 2008, the 4th annual CCW golf outing became WOGO!2008 to celebrate CCBLC’s first anniversary. WOGO=women only golf outing. The WOGO each year is to symbolize that women too can go out and talk business on the golf course. The outing also encourages women who have never played before, to join the cause, which raises money for the MM Power Scholarship Fund. This fund is through the West Chester University (WCU) Foundation and the fund gives $1,000 scholarships to women majoring in the sciences or in business and who are matriculating at WCU.

In 2008 Martin started the Greater Philadelphia Business Leaders in the Community, or GPBLC, now meeting in the evening over dinner at various restaurants in Center City, Philadelphia.  Based exactly on CCBLC’s format, meetings were roundtable discussions on a current subject.  GPBLC also included a Women and Money series, to openly and comfortably discuss money issues, an often difficult topic for women to discuss. Martin asked Phyllis Mufson to jointly lead these money discussions.

With encouragement from Pat Buchanan, CCW underwent a rejuvenation in 2008 resulting in a change in CCW’s logo and tagline. The tagline Get Linked! represents how through being linked with each other, there are a lot of connections that can be of help to each other: “the power of one is increased by being linked with many.”

The format of the 3 groups changed again in 2010. Martin says that “in 2008 and 2009 a lot has happened in the global economy and affected everyone. People’s belief system of what is important and what is extraneous has shifted. Over the past 2 years I have learned that women enjoy meeting in small groups even more and over food and drink."

Who We Are

WE ARE SUCCESFUL LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 

CCW is about Group Power: the power of one is increased by being linked with many

Bronwyn L. Martin, PhD, MBA is :

Founder of CCW 2003, CCBLC 2007 and GPBLC 2008

Bronwyn is the:

• 2007 recipient of the SBA Women in Business Champion Award
• 2006-2009 qualified member of the Million Dollar Round Table  www.mdrt.org
• 2008-2009 Philadelphia Women of Accomplishment http://www.philawyp.com/
• 2008 recipient of the PA 50 Best Women in Business

    

 

 

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Bronwyn Martin (l) and Linda Swain (r) from Moms on the Move on NBC.