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 …

The Purpose of the Group "It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." Author Unknown. In short, the purpose of this group is to help you break free from what holds you back (procrastination, perfectionism, self-doubt and fear) so you can achieve your career dreams. The group will provide thought-provoking and interactive workshops designed to help you set and achieve goals in various areas of your life. “Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and …

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 …

Welcome to the meetup site for Divorce and Relationship Recovery at Menlo Park Presbyterian Church (address and map). We offer this free program as a service to our community. In operation for over 30 years, it has an outstanding reputation as one of the best divorce support resources in the Bay Area. Divorce and Relationship Recovery (DR) is a safe place to heal your heart and to find support after experiencing a difficult divorce or the breakup of a significant relationship.  The trauma of a b …

Welcome! We are San Jose Mountain Biking Our group’s purpose is simple.  We want to get people out riding whenever and wherever possible.  As the Organizer of SJ Mtb, I’m dedicated to helping people get out on the bike more often.  I don’t care if you ride every day of the week or just a few times a month.  I don’t care if you only ride with us or if you ride with lots of different groups.  Mountain Biking for me isn’t a popularity contest, it’s a way of life.  We’re not out to have the most me …

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 …

The San Mateo Professional Alliance is a business strategy and networking leads club. The club provides each small business member with business networking opportunities to promote his or her business or profession in a friendly business referral networking atmosphere.  Our goal is very simple, to expand each member's business by promoting and marketing each other! To do this network marketing we meet every Wednesday for lunch to learn about each other's businesses and to exchange business leads …

We're a group of finance and accounting professionals who want to learn and share advanced Excel spreadsheet techniques used specifically for finance and accounting. Sponsored by the San Francisco chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants (SFIMA) - the local chapter of an international professional organization that awards the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation. For more information, please visit SFIMA at www.sfima.org.

If you are an accountant, bookkeeper, or entrepreneur, this is the group for you. We are the Future of Accounting, and we want to help you network, meet other awesome finance professionals, and stay on top of emerging technologies and trends in accounting.

West Valley College is offering programs and events around promoting small businesses and entrepreneurship.  Programs include classes designed to help first time entrepreneurs start new businesses, advanced courses to help existing businesses grow and succeed, and networking events to help small business owners develop connections and relationships to foster success. The courses are taught by seasoned entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley startup veterans, and specialists in a variety of areas including …

The 45+ Bay Area Savvy Singles Group is for fun-loving Singles in a certain age range (45+ - 65ish) to come together for fun and develop nice connections with others.  Perhaps a spark will ignite and a closer relationship develop.  If so, great.  If not, at least you've met another great friend...without feeling pressure to do anything you don't want to do. We are all here to enjoy each other's company at fun events......single we are today.....single we may not be forever.  Still, we can enjoy. …

Relay ForLife is a fun, family oriented, community-based event to Celebrate,Remember and Fight Back. We celebrate the lives of people who have battledcancer. The strength of survivors inspires others to continue their fight.We Remember loves ones lost to the disease. At Relay, people who have walkedalongside others battling cancer can grieve and find healing. We FightBack. We Relay because we have been touched by cancer and desperately wantto put an end to the disease. Thank you for making a com …

I started this group to create a connection for young moms in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you have young child(ren) and you want more ties in your life to people who relate to your story then this is for you. My aim for this group is for young moms and their children to be able to come together and just hang out, have play dates & some mom's nights out. I want to bring together all of us young mamas who share the common cause of raising our kids the best way we can while still being young spu …

Accounting & Tax Strategies discussions for Small Business Owners and other self-employed U.S. Government Study Concludes: Small Businesses Overpay the IRS by an Average of $11,638 How to pay less tax and take all the deductions we are entitled to and How to not take any deductions we are not entitled to and avoid paying thousands of dollars in tax penalties? We can’t count on our accountant to follow us everywhere keep books for us just like we don’t expecting our dentist to brush our teeth …

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 …

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 …

We will have regular sessions to go over how to pass the CPA We will have regular sessions to go over how to pass the CPA, CMA, CIA, CFA, and EA exams. We will support each others efforts with study sessions, webinars, and sharing tips on to be successful in passing these exams.

100 Committed Businesswomen Women Business Owners, Corporate Executives, Business Managers, Consultants... Are you looking for a way to grow your business and a group of likeminded women in business to make meaningful connections with? Then get to know your WON 100 sisters and friends and let us grow your business for you! WON 100 – Peninsula (Sister organization of Women Owned Networking SFBA) is for the businesswoman who is very serious about the growth of her business and who has a heart to e …

Have you tried every diet and weight loss scheme you ever heard of? Lost weight on them all, eh? And then found that you gained it back, and then some?? This group is designed to share ideas and acquire accountability partners to help you not only lose weight, but KEEP IT OFF! Each meet-up will have a specific topic of discussion regarding weight loss concepts and principles. The core principles will center around the cornerstones of: 1) Meal Planning 2) Exercise that you can live with 3) Appro …

I think joining a group can help with individual accountability, productivity and support. Are you a writer, an entrepreneur, a designer? What do you like/need to do on your laptop? Myself, I'm a blogger. I'm looking to form a group that can meet-up with their laptops in tow, have lunch or a snack, and get some work done as well. I'm a casual, low-stress, no drama kinda person, but I am asking that if you join this group, you understand my intention for forming it and some ground rules (that I h …

So I'm sitting in this three-day, 13-hour-a-day Landmark Education self-improvement seminar in San Francisco, and all I could think about was escaping through one of the (hermetically sealed) windows and making a dash for Nob Hill, the only thing resembling a steep incline in the area. It was during the dinner break during the final day of the seminar that I conspired with Paul Schutzman and Mai-Ling Garcia -- two of the very cool people with whom I'd made a connection during our three days of c …

If you want to share stories and opinions on a variety of topics, come to the weekly community event, Lifetree Café, at 3373 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. It's a comfortable place to talk and hang out in a casual, coffeehouse-like atmosphere, where there's something new and interesting every Sunday night, 7-8 pm. During each session, a brief video -- usually a personal story or eyewitness account of a historical event -- is used to launch our own conversation and storytelling at the intersection …

The purpose of this  mastermind meetup group for men in business is to create a forum for men that want to get real, grow themselves and their business.We believe that personal growth supports business growth. THIS GROUP IS NOT ANOTHER SUPERFICIAL NETWORKING GROUP THAT'S JUST ABOUT REFERRALS. While that may be a measure of success for many in most networking groups, in our Real Men Real Business Meet up, success for you may be a personal breakthrough that supports your career efforts, a new clie …

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 …

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.

It's the start of a new year! Would you like to have more joy and happiness in your life? This Happiness Project Meetup Group will meet 1x/month with the Purpose of helping us bring more joy and happiness into our lives and the lives of others by establishing personal objectives/resolutions and helping each other be accountable. THE CORE OF A"HAPPINESS PROJECT", as created by Gretchen Rubin, IS TO: -  identify elements of your life that you wish to change -  find concrete, measurable resolutions …

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 …

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 …