Welcome to Coastal Women's Forum. CWF (Coastal Women's Forum) is an organization that provides women with business and professional networking opportunities. With monthly meetings offering dinner or lunch venues, we can accommodate busy schedules. Dinner and lunch programs offer a variety of speakers on local and regional interests. We promote self-development through our programs, presentations and discussions on business related topics.
Coastal Women’s Forum provides an opportunity for business and professional women to meet periodically to enjoy, learn from, and support one another. The group promotes self-development through networking and enhancement of business and professional acumen among women in this community through programs, presentations, discussions on business and related topics, and via personal contacts. Members are career women and women who have been involved in or anticipate a career in business, professional, or public life.
As we explained in the April newsletter, the new website will have many new features to simplify membership registrations, event RSVP's, membership payments and more. As an active member your membership information has already been transferred over to the new site. However, there are a couple of things we need you to do in order for you to take full advantage of the new features. It should only take a few moments to complete. Let's do it today!
Registration for Members: 1. Click Sign In in the top right hand corner under the button that says Join Group. (If you received this email, you are an active member and are already in our database so do NOT click Join Group)
2. A small sign-in window will pop up. Click on the link Create an Account to come to a new page.
3. Fill out the form with your name and using the email address that this email was sent to (this is important!) in order to create your private account by setting a password. This is your personal password so please make sure you can remember it. If you use a different email address to register you will create a duplicate account and won't be able to access the information already added to your profile. If you need to change the email address you can do that once you are logged in.
4. You will be asked to confirm your email address and finalize the registration process by checking your email and clicking the link provided.
5. You will now be able to access the member directory and your personal profile. You can edit your personal information, add a photo and browse other member's profiles and all other pages on our new site.
From now on you will be able to make your meeting registrations directly through our website, view our calendar of events, browse our photo gallery, and make your annual membership payment safely and quickly by credit card through PayPal. All in one place!
If you are a brand new member and would like to join, please do so by clicking JOIN GROUP and follow the instructions. We are happy to have you!
Keep in mind that this is a new process for all of us and we are doing our best to make it as efficient and easy for everyone. If you run into any problems or have questions let us know by sending an email to CoastalWomensForum+Admins@groupspaces.com. One of our website administrators will get back to you as soon as possible.
CWF encourages education by offering $750 college scholarship
Coastal Women’s Forum is pleased to announce a $750 college scholarship award. The unrestricted scholarship is available for one young woman residing in Craven County and graduating in the spring of 2012 from a local high school, private school or home school who meets the criteria.
CWF, a non-profit women’s organization formed in 1987, promotes self-development through networking, encouragement and education. This academic scholarship is a partnership that works in our community. It is important to support the next generation of women in New Bern and encourage their education.
Application Criteria:
Be a female resident of Craven County, graduating in 2012
Have a grade point average of 3.2
Submit a completed application to the school guidance office or appropriate representative no later March 25, 2012.
Check shall be made payable to student for discretionary college expenses. Application Process:
The applicant shall submit a complete Coastal Women’s Forum application form, a recent photo, essay and two letters of recommendation.
The guidance office or appropriate representative shall forward all the materials to the Scholarship Chairperson of CWF no later than April 4, 2012.
