LGBTQ Business/Professional Networking Event Celebrating Hospitality

LGBTQ Business/Professional Networking Event Celebrates LGBTQ-owned Inns & B&Bs Providing Extraordinary Berkshire Hospitality
3rd Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30pm
LOCATION TBA

CELEBRATING LGBTQ BUSINESSES PROVIDING EXTRAORDINARY BERKSHIRE HOSPITALITY: The September Berkshire LGBTQ Business & Professional Networking Event will celebrate these and other LGBTQ-owned businesses that are providing incredible Berkshire Hospitality and bringing visitors to many of the other LGBTQ-owned businesses in the region:

• Alander Boutique Lodge (Copake, NY)
• The Barrington (Bed & Breakfast) (Great Barrington, MA)
• Devonfield Inn (Lee, MA)
• Dollhaus Berkshires (Bed & Brunch) (Pittsfield, MA)
• Filomena (Bed & Breakfast) (West Stockbridge, MA)
• Goldenrod Country Inn (Worthington, MA)
• Inn at Kenmore Hall (Richmond, MA)
  

HOSPITALITY PANEL: We will hear from a panel of hospitality business owners briefly about:

1) What factors have contributed to their success

2) What challenges they have been juggling, what is working, & what help they may want

3) What they will be offering in the fall they are excited about

SEEKING HOSPITALITY PANELISTS & BUSINESS OWNERS: Please SEND US A NOTE if you'd like to serve on the hospitality panel or if you know of other LGBTQ-owed hospitality businesses in the Greater Berkshire Region that we should invite.

OCTOBER HARVEST NETWORKING EVENT: Please note at our October Networking Event on 10/21 we will be celebrating the many LGBTQ-owned businesses who provide extraordinary local foods & beverages and the harvest of hospitality and community they foster. Please send us a note if you'd like to serve on our local food & beverage havest panel at that event on 10/21 or if you know of local LGBTQ-owned food & beveragte businesses we should invite.

NETWORKING: And we will invite all the business owners in attendance to briefly introduct yourself and your business and talk about what you will be offering this fall that other business owners should know about, as well as any help you would like from the network of LGBTQ business & professional leaders. By learning more about one another, we can make better referrals to our customers & colleagues about your business.

SEND US A NOTE IF YOUR LGBTQ-OWNED BUSINESS WOULD LIKE TO HOST A NETWORKING EVENT: if your Berkshire-based queer-owned business would like to host a monthly networking event in November, December, or January, please email Angie Montalvo-Greene & email Bart Church

WESTERN MASS LGBTQ BUSINESS & NETWORKING EVENTS: Mass LGBT Chamber of Commerce & Q-MoB also offer a monthly LGBTQ Business & Professional Networking Event in the Pioneer Valley

SPONSORS: This event is jointly sponsored by Mass LGBT Chamber of Commerce, Q-MoB, and Berkshire Magazine. Co-sponsors are grateful to several grants from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Berkshire Health Systems, and Homestead Foundation that underwrite part of the costs of offering this monthly networking event and the development of the new Western Mass Rainbow Pages, a comprehensive directory of LGBTQ-owned & welcoming businesses, professionals, community organizations, and resources.

“In this time of tumultuous change, it’s vital that our local LGBTQ+ business owners and professionals come together to support one another and work in solidarity with our many allied businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations to create opportunity and community," said Q-MoB Executive Director Bart Church.

THANK YOUS: The Co-sponsoring organizations are grateful to the following organizations for their strong support of the Berkshire LGBTQ Business, Professional & Community Leaders Networking Series:

• One Berkshire for all their support of new and established LGBTQ businesses in the Berkshires
• Berkshire Magazine's LGBTQ Guide, which remains the most comprehensive listing of LGBTQ businesses and organizations in the Berkshires

REACHING US DAY OF THE EVENT: If you have trouble finding us, will be late, or need to cancel the day of the event, please call/text Bart at 413-344-8162