Latrobe Business & Professional Women
Our Mission & Vision
To achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information.
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT
Our motto, “To achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education, and information” epitomizes our theme for 2024/25 – Believe in the Possibilities. Many years ago there were very few possibilities for women, and those that stepped out, well, they were frowned upon.
We have come so far from those days, and it’s thanks to organizations such as the Business and Professional Women. The possibilities for women now are endless, in business, family, ministry, career, in a variety of fields of study, not to talk about social acceptance. What is your possibility? What is something you’ve been wanting to do for some time but have held back because you thought it wasn’t a possibility?
Imagine the possibilities for the young women we present with scholarships each year!. How far can they go? Think along the lines of medical research, space exploration, or engineering, to name but a few!
Latrobe BPW is way more than a women’s networking group. It is a true sisterhood of like-minded women who are there to support other women, both within the group and in the community. The fellowship between the women of the group is phenomenal! No matter if you are a member or not, you know someone will reach out with assistance or guidance. Through community involvement, volunteering, fundraising activities and charitable donations, we strive to give back to the women of Latrobe, Derry and Unity Township area, an area that we call home!
I invite you to step out of the box and Believe in the Possibilities! Share your ideas with your friends and encourage them to do the same.
Barbara
BPW Collect
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Keep us, Oh God, from pettiness.
Let us be large in though, in word, in deed.
Let us be done with fault-finding and
leave off self-seeking.
May we put away all pretense
and meet each other face to face
without self-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgment
and always generous.
Let us take time for all things;
Make us to grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach us to put into action our better impulses,
straight-forward and unafraid.
Grant that we may realize it is the little things
that create differences, that in the big things
of life, we are at one.
And may we strive to touch and to know
the great, common human heart of us all.
And Oh Lord God, let us forget not to be kind.