Welcome to Dynamic Professionals Business Group!  We understand that there are many business groups to choose from, and we appreciate your interest in our organization!   It is our intent to provide relaxed and non-pressured monthly Gatherings for the Portland Metro business community  The focus and primiary goals of our Events are:   CREATE AND MAINTAIN AN ENCOURAGING AND MOTIVATIONAL ATMOSPHERE      Our monthly Gatherings are primarily about relaxed mingling .  As we celebrated our 3rd anni …

Sales Professionals of Portland will grow as an association of accomplished sales and marketing professionals that recognize the advantage of building and nurturing relationships with their peers. Events will be organized socially, and occasionally for fund-raising in the area as the group dictates and expresses interest. Stay tuned for the group's inaugural event, coming soon!

JobGroup empowers professionals to effectively manage their careers by promoting networking, volunteerism, and job search skills.  We routinely hold 2-3 events per week.  Events include targeted networking mixers, job search seminars, and community outreach.

Meet other single professionals near you! Have you ever tried speed dating?? Experience the very functional 6-minute speed dating sessions. (As shown the movies Hitch, 40 Year Old Virgin, and TV shows Sex & the City, Oprah, Today, Jay Leno) Events are based on the incredibly hot, new, & exciting way for singles to meet other singles. Rather than wasting time hanging out in a bar or going on long uncomfortable blind dates, we give single professionals the ability to meet up to twelve eligible si …

The Portland Hispanic Professionals Network brings us together and helps you create those key personal connections! It was founded with the purpose of providing a venue where Hispanics from all professional backgrounds come together to meet like minded individuals from similar cultures, form social bonds and help each other develop in their carriers. Gatherings are once a month at a local hot spot. At each one of them we feature members and also organizations that have something special to share …

I wanted to create a group in Vancouver that attracts non-flakey professional women. For the benefit of the group, I am only looking for members who are committed to attending meetings, developing relationships with the other women in the group and eventually, once trust is developed, seek to provide referrals to others in the group when appropriate. If you are a professional working in Vancouver and are willing to commit to meeting once every three weeks, this may be a great fit. If you are …

Meet with other local Asian Professionals to network and discuss the unique perspective that belongs to business people who share an Asian descent.

Want to improve your pronunciation and your accent? Interested in meeting new friends from diverse international backgrounds? Want to do fun things in Portland while improving your English conversation skills? Our group is a fun, safe, and free way to get tips from a professional accent reduction instructor, meet and make friends, and practice and improve your accent. At every event members get tips on reducing their accents, meet new friends, and find time to practice and have fun. All …

This group is for PSU's Professional Development Center's meetings, events and activities such as the Digital Marketing Strategies quarterly breakfasts, HR's breakfasts and other program events and open houses

When it comes to building a business, no matter what type of business, it all comes down to connecting with people, connecting with your community, connecting with your clients and future clients. Oregon Networking Professionals was created to provide a low-cost, casual yet structured venue to connect … to build your business one handshake at a time.

PINOT is a Thursday afternoon real estate industry networking group for Brokers and other industry professionals that enjoy winery tours and happy hours and want a midweek respit. Wine Tours will be in an 8-person van with a designated driver. The goal for each van on tour will be 5 real estate brokers and 3 other real estate professionals. Only one representative from each supporting profession will be in each van of 8. If you work in Portland as a real estate professional, like wine and having …

The Portland Metropolitan Photographers’ Association is your local, non-profit, volunteer run association dedicated to supporting local professional photographers and promoting excellence in photography.  We are the local affiliate for the Professional Photographers of America (PPA).  The Association was begun in 1987 by nine founding members and continues as one of the most active Associations of Photographers in the Northwest with over 100 active members.  Dues are only $45 a year and, of cour …

Business Professionals today need a vast array of tools and abilities to be successful.  The business world is literally transforming around us and staying or becoming successful is getting ever more challenging!  Our work has become even more difficult with the changing definitions and criteria for success including health, wealth, happiness, community support, changing forms of business, new business strategies and so much more. Whether you are a career professional, a manager or executive, se …

Welcome to your resource for finding meaningful events and opportunities in Portland!  Meet other professionals from different industries at a diverse range of events, attend lectures, share events with your colleagues and clients. Take part in connecting with Portland.  Please share your business ideas, tips, strategies and events with the community. Is there something missing from the calendar?  Would you like to host an event? Email me lets talk and lets make this a resource for every profess …

Finding Meaning in Medicine is a support group originally created by Rachel Naomi Remen for health care professionals.   "There seems to be a deep river of meaning that runs beneath the events of our daily lives … especially in the lives of physicians. Through these groups we have found a very simple way of tapping into this river, and we are witnessing profound results. Most doctors have rich and unusual experiences, but have never had the opportunity or the encouragement to reflect upon them o …

This was created to spur more networking and social opportunities for young people involved with the local nonprofit community