AFWA is "Education, Inspiration, Networking and Fun" and is a member-driven organization. We increase your technical knowledge, skills and abilities, help in keeping members abreast in their field of expertise and provide career management, transition guidance and assistance. Our benefits include: • Business contacts locally and across the country • Personal and professional support • Scholarships for new and returning students and displaced homemakers • Job referral network • Leadership opportu …

This is a networking group for advertising account planners, strategists, market researchers and marketing professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the counterpart to the LinkedIn group.

A group for those interested in learning actionable best practices for improving startup operations. We cover a diverse range of topics, including startup accounting, cash management, runway management, budgeting, tax compliance, legal issues, equity agreements, banking management, business insurance, employee benefits, people management, vendor relations, investor relations, business process automation, lean startup methodologies, operations technology, and much more. Any startup founder who is …

The Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank promotes and facilitates the use of Time instead of money in the exchange of goods and services. The foundation of the Timebank is a free, open source online directory, reputation and accounting system. These exchanges help develop stronger, more resilient connections between individuals and community service organizations which participate in them, by improving communication and the distribution of skills and resources among our participants. We work to …

This group is for anyone interested in discussing how to use QuickBooks.

I’m an aspiring entrepreneur looking to form a group of like-minded individuals also interested in starting their own businesses. While I currently have a job I’m happy at, ultimately I know I want to start a business, and it’s time to hunker down and start really taking the steps to get there! Let’s get together to: • Learn about each other’s ventures (not necessarily spilling the beans about super-specific business ideas; just knowing what each person is motivated by and interested in, althoug …

Join MeetUp group organizer and Entrust Group representative Bill St. John in learning about how to invest in alternative assets with your self-directed IRA. Learn from educational talks with leaders and peers who are making similar investment choices. Find out about their successes and failures with self-direction while learning how to conduct your own due diligence before leaping into a new investment with your self-directed IRA or tax-deferred account. Background on the Self-Directed IRA The …

I've been creating and teaching spreadsheet and word processing classes since Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect first came out. For the last couple of years I've been a Volunteer Instructor for Excel In Accounting, another Bay Area Meetup Group that teaches advanced functions and features in Microsoft Excel. I'm starting this group to help people who are new to Microsoft Office or would like to improve their level of expertise in order use Excel and Microsoft Office more efficiently and accurately! In …

Come together to: - create the life you want for yourself! - figure out what is important for YOU and then make it happen! If you are interested in this exciting future, come join one of the two upcoming meetings, after which there will be ample opportunity to keep these conversations and commitments going armed with tools and skills.

We are Access/Excel users and developers and are looking to spread the word about how some fancy tricks in Microsoft Excel (VBA Functions, automation) and a few power user procedures Microsoft Access can improve your work performance, take a load off your mind, fingers and eyes and turn nightmares into dreams with the click of a mouse. We will have free lessons and discussion about solutions.  It's a great way to network with other data professionals and learn how to use some of the advanced fun …

Like coding? Want to interact with and learn more from other baller coders? Got an internet connection and a Google Hangouts account? Wow, you rock - it's time for you to get pairing! In this group you'll meet friendly peers to connect, hack, and collaborate with. We meet virtually at least once a week: Why try pair programming if you haven't before? Learn new tricks and skills Teach others and improve your communication ability Get feedback and insight on things you're making Make new friends …

Professional networking for health providers and allied services. *Meet and become familiar with diverse health professionals and their practices. *Discuss & critique marketing and business development tools ranging from new media, to traditional media, to in-person opportunities. *Assist in developing public education opportunities for members. *Discuss practice management and networking in an integrative health setting *Explore developments in electronic medical records, HIPAA, and legal …

**you must be 21 years old to play, IDs will be checked*** I have created this group as I have found it difficult to find small SNG or tournaments to enter with slow blind structures and reasonable buy ins. I am going to be hosting a monthly $40 SNG in San Rafael. I am looking for other people to host to add to the schedule. My end goal is to have an event once a week. Leadership: I look at this as a non-profit organization. I look at myself as CEO and Founder as I am paying the $144.00/year i …

This is a group for people who are trying to cope with the fallout of the current recession. Whether you lost your job or are otherwise struggling economically, it can be difficult to stay hopeful and motivated. Yet hope and motivation are the very things needed to help land a new job, or positively change your situation. This group provides support, information, and accountability for those who need a little help getting motivated in their job search. Group meetings will offer support such as …

We seek to mobilize digital citizens with tools and concepts for the public interest. Our goal is to tackle the biggest issues the world and our local communities face today. People of all levels of skill and knowledge are invited. Our group exists to give space for the types of discussions that both inform our understandings and vocabularies around digital and network technology, as well as to be creative and do or make things that hold those in power accountable, give voice to those without, i …

Do you feel a sense of calling or life purpose? Are you confused about what direction to go in or how your purpose wants to be expressed in the world? Do you need focus and clarity around your life work? Join this 8 week group to clarify your life purpose and life path! I know so many people who express that they are confused and distressed about what they are doing with their lives. They have a deep sense of purpose, but feel like they are not on their path. I am offering this 8 week class to h …

Bay Area Friends (BAF) is a social group for people with genital herpes (HSV1, HSV2) who live in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. With @ 3000 members (combining our Meetup and Yahoo Groups), we are one of the largest Herpes social groups in the USA. We welcome everyone over 18 who is interested in making new friends, sharing fun activities together, and meeting others who share our surprisingly common situation. BAF has NO DUES, NO officers, NO social directors and NO budget. Instead, we rely …

You are welcome here. We invite anyone and everyone dealing with divorce or broken relationships - past, present, or possibly in the future. Every Wednesday during June and July (except July 3) we will meet from 7pm to 9pm. We'll start with a session of the acclaimed "Boundaries" book/video series by Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend (learn more). After that, we meet in small support groups. We emphasize a safe, confidential, respectful setting. Copies of the "Boundaries" book are available at …

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 …

Are you self-identified as masculine of center  (butch, trans, FTM, cisgendered male, male, stud, aggressive/AG, dom, macha, tomboi, trans-masculine etc.) and are also interested in creating a band of brothers that helps you stay accountable to your purpose and goals, get clarity in your life, challenge as well as support you? Then this is the group. This group is open to female and male people who self-identify as masculine of center. There is no litmus test to join. If you want to join and exp …

Writing Poetry!!! Let's share our poetry so that we can fine tune it and get it out there for publication. New additions to the group, as of June 7 2009, which are in-development: 1. website http://www.poetswanted.com 2. twitter account for quick updates on events, etc. - http://www.twitter.com/poetswanted 3. community blog: http://poetswanted.blogspot.com/ 4. Organizer's poems, haiku blog/tweets: http://www.fishridingabike.com/poetry.html

The San Francisco chapter of the National Association of Business Economics (SFNABE) provides a forum for professionals with an interest in economics to share information and ideas. SFNABE is open to those with an interest in economics and in the applications of business economic tools. SFNABE was chartered by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) in 1988. The Chapter conducts monthly meetings featuring speakers and discussion of business and economic trends in the Bay Area, the …

ANNOUNCEMENT: We've moved all our meetup scheduling to Crohnology. Please sign up for an account on Crohnology at Crohnology.com/join to see and join our ongoing meetups for people with Crohn's & Colitis in the San Francisco Bay Area. You won't find most new meetups posted here, instead find us on Crohnology. Crohnology is an information sharing network for people with Crohn's & Colitis, that allows us to share our health and treatment histories so we can all learn from one another, try diets an …

A lot of startups nowadays go by a very common model: there are 2-3 co-founders, have a seed round, hire more people, make money, Series A, more people, etc... I would like to explore the topic of how a startup "alliance" can be formed in the early days, before any of the startups have even begun coding (ones that are in the ideation phase). Possibly gathering 5-20 co-founders who all join the alliance, they may have different ideas. The strategy would be they collectively decided which idea see …

This meetup is exclusively for singles who are open minded to meeting new friends, companions and the possibly of a significant other.  Our agenda will be to enjoy a good meal, in good company , at one of the hundreds of eating establishments in the Bay Area, on a weekly basis.  We will also hold meetups in the East Bay and Sonoma County. There is no hurried agenda , no pressure.  Just a casual dinner and relaxing atmosphere for singles to open and connect.   Dont think we are just about dinner, …

The focus will be a bit broader but focused on employment for experienced -Software Engineers -Sales Engineers -Enterprise Account Executives -Product marketing -PR and Public Relations for Enterprise Software, PR, SaaS and Telecom. -CPA's (Audit and Taxation) This group is open to both experienced employees and recruiters. Let me know if you would be interested in being an assistant organizer. Here are my current openings https://www.jobscore.com/jobs/marcusronaldi/list

Skyline Community Church is pleased to be a part of the United Church of Christ (UCC). The UCC embraces a theological heritage that affirms the Bible as the authoritative witness to the Word of God, the creeds of the ecumenical councils, and the confessions of the Reformation. We seek a balance between freedom of conscience and accountability to the apostolic faith. The UCC’s “God is Still Speaking” campaign seeks to promote messages of unconditional welcome and inclusion, illustrating UCC’s …

Welcome to Bay Area Social! The purpose of our meetup is to make new friends, have good times and support the arts, charities and local businesses.  What makes our meetup so extraordinary?  Our members!  We have a core group of loyal Bay Area Socialites who continue to build community through regular attendance.  Think carefully about joining our meetup.  Only do so if you intend to participate!  Adding new faces into the mix keeps the group dynamic. Past events have included: **Dining Out (slee …