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BERKELEY

Membership Matters: Our Club has enjoyed vital growth, with a membership of approximately
twenty (20) members. We are enjoying the benefits of stability. We thank Manjul Batra for her
tireless commitment to membership. Our membership includes established, renewed, and new
members. We have a diversity of many businesses and professions. We experience the shared
interests of promoting the mission of our Federation.

We also added to our membership the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. This is a good resource
for promoting and marketing our Club. Mixers Events are one of the main tools of sharing.

Program Development: We provide programs and activities that are relevant to our theme
"Advocacy in Action". Our programs are related to specific topics of interest. We also attempt to
have programs that relate to monthly themes. We have engaged in presentations relating to Small
Business (Betty Allums); Spiritual Intelligence (Elisabeth Carrio). Our Mental Health presentation is
being rescheduled. For January, our speaker will be Cynthia Peterson, Executive Director of Com-
munity Solutions, Contra Costa County. The focus will be elements of Sexual Abuse. January is
Sexual Awareness-Harassment Month.

Coming Events: February: Black History Month. We will continue to share the knowledge and
legacy of the culture, through over four hundred years of struggles, and successes. March: Wom-
en's History Month, pending.
We are currently asking members to provide ideas for presentations. They are encouraged to
utilize their personal experience, or other resources.

Learning: Our Club encourages our members to join in other benefits of BPW, such as webinars,
workshops and conferences. Our conferences serves as a conduit between clubs, and dis-
tricts. Reports of compiled information are shared where ideas are exchanged, and recommenda-
tions are made. This is an excellent benefit of an educational learning tool. Members are encour-
aged to share this information with intent to make a powerful difference in the communities served.

Public Policy: This is an excellent learning benefit. We learn about specific details of pertinent
legislative issues. We follow the process by monitoring the status, through methods of assembly
or senate actions. BPW continues to keep the District informed about actions to be taken.

The Berkeley Club with its Membership Matters of vital growth, Program Development, and Learn-
ing, we are listening and having fun.

Patricia A. Daniels, President Berkeley Club

Erratum - Since the receipt of this report,
we were informed that the January event did
not take place.
M. Lee, Editor.

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