(Photo credit – Brett Rough, Aerotek)
Montgomery County, MD (October 4, 2017) – The Greater Bethesda, Gaithersburg-Germantown (GGCC), Greater Silver Spring (GSSCC), & Rockville Chambers of Commerce along with Leadership Montgomery’s (LM) Emerging Leaders said goodbye to summer and hello to Fall at its 4th Annual “Regional Young Professional Group Happy Hour” at Lucky Strike Bethesda on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
Emerging leaders from across the County attended the exclusive event in the hopes to make new connections or strengthen their existing ones. The Chambers and LM developed this event to meet the wants and needs of Millennial professionals and business owners.
In a report released by Nielsen it stated 92 percent of millennials believe that today’s professional groups provide great opportunities to network. Stemming from this report, GGCC Director of Events & Marketing, Laura Rowles, developed this event to bring five distinguished County organizations together, so emerging leaders of the professional community could gather for an evening of networking to further their career, strengthen their professional image, or just to meet fellow young professionals. And it worked; the number of attendees continues to strengthen every time the event is held.
“We talk about maintaining young professionals and getting them integrated in the community, this is one way we can do that,” said Marilyn Balcombe, Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce President & CEO. “Young professionals develop leadership, communication and organizational skills through practical experience, so it only makes sense for the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber to partner on this event. We may have a lot of similar opportunities and share a strong customer base, but engaging and empowering young professionals & developing the leaders of tomorrow is for the greater good of all the organizations involved. Besides it is great fun, great food, and great people.”
Due to the generosity of the attendees, half of the evening’s sales were donated to Habitat for Humanity Metro Maryland. Habitat works to provide affordable housing opportunities for low-income families in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties. This event raised $243 to support Hurricane rebuilding efforts in Texas & Florida. The unprecedented flooding and devastation across much of the South, forcing emergency evacuations and damaging thousands of homes and communities is unimaginable and heartbreaking. Habitat for Humanity is assessing shelter and housing needs caused by these storms and working to effectively respond to the disaster. Learn more about them at: www.habitatmm.org.
Learn more about the GGCC, at: www.ggchamber.org
Learn more about the GSSCC, at: http://www.gsscc.org
Learn more about the Rockville Chamber, at: www.rockvillechamber.org
Learn more about the Leadership Montgomery, at: www.leadershipmontgomerymd.org
Learn more about the Greater Bethesda Chamber, at: www.greaterbethesdachamber.org