• Sunoco selects Plymouth Meeting company Crompco to manage compliance

    Sunoco selects Plymouth Meeting company Crompco to manage compliance

    Crompco LLC, a leading Underground Storage Tank (UST) Compliance Testing and Compliance Management company, has entered into an agreement with Sunoco LP (Sunoco) to assist in maintaining environmental compliance at the more than 1,100 retail sites where Sunoco supplies fuel. Under the terms of the agreement, Crompco and its experienced team of professionals will manage adherence…

  • GVF welcomes new partner Qlik

    GVF welcomes new partner Qlik

     GVF, a non-profit dedicated to improving transportation and infrastructure throughout the region is pleased to announce that Qlik has joined its diverse list of partners. Qlik is a software company founded in 1993, based in King of Prussia. Qlik helps organizations around the world move faster, work smarter, and lead the way forward with an end-to-end solution for getting…

  • VFTCB’s president honored with Main Line Chamber Nonprofit CEO of the Year Award

    VFTCB’s president honored with Main Line Chamber Nonprofit CEO of the Year Award

    The Valley Forge Tourism & Convention Board’s (VFTCB) President & CEO, Mike Bowman, was recognized with the Main Line Chamber’s Nonprofit CEO of the Year Award, according to a press release. Bowman received the award during Thursday’s Celebration of Business Leadership event at the Desmond Hotel in Malvern. [uam_ad id=”54865″] “This award is a direct…

  • PCCD grants to assist Women’s Center of Montgomery County and other agencies

    PCCD grants to assist Women’s Center of Montgomery County and other agencies

    State Rep. Steve McCarter, D-Montgomery, announced several state grants through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquencyawarded to agencies within Montgomery County, including a substantial grant to the Women’s Center of Montgomery County in Elkins Park. The statewide funding through the PCCD is designated to help improve the justice system and to make communities safer for all…

  • Philadelphia Eagles executives hold educational workshop at Variety – the Children’s Charity of the Delaware Valley

    Philadelphia Eagles executives hold educational workshop at Variety – the Children’s Charity of the Delaware Valley

    Executives from the Philadelphia Eagles were on site at Variety – the Children’s Charity of the Delaware Valley this past Wednesday, June 12th to hold an educational workshop for staff members in advance of Variety’s first day of camp. F rank Gumienny, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Norman Vossschulte, Director of Fan Experience,…

  • Montgomery Bar Association Diversity Committee hosts a ‘Day in Court’

    Montgomery Bar Association Diversity Committee hosts a ‘Day in Court’

    The MBA’s Diversity Committee hosted the eighth annual Day in Court program on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at the Montgomery County Courthouse. 63 students from Abington Junior High School’s VIBE and IMAGINE program participated in this year’s event. In the morning, the Honorable Wendy G. Rothstein welcomed the group of students into her courtroom to observe live court proceedings.…

  • 100 years young, Green Valley Country Club still as lush as ever

    100 years young, Green Valley Country Club still as lush as ever

    Almost one hundred years ago, on Dec. 8, 1919, 150 men met in a local hotel hotel to discuss putting together a golf club in the Philadelphia area, writes Eric Schucht for jewishexponent.com. Just sixteen months after the meeting took place, Green Valley County Club was born. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Ken Dash, president of Green Valley…

  • New $13 million John James Audubon Center unveiled

    New $13 million John James Audubon Center unveiled

    The John James Audubon Center (The Audubon Center), in partnership with Montgomery County and the National Audubon Society, celebrated the grand opening of a new 18,000-square-foot museum and nature-based facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony June 4. A $13 million project, The Audubon Center expansion is funded through the County, a Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program…

  • MontCo Anti-Hunger Network brings understanding of ethnic diversity to area food pantries

    MontCo Anti-Hunger Network brings understanding of ethnic diversity to area food pantries

    MontCo Anti-Hunger Network (MAHN) convened a group of 30 service providers and representatives from partner organizations to explore ways to make food pantries more welcoming to ethnically diverse community residents. “Our food pantry members are in the business of helping people keep their families fed. A big part of doing that well means understanding and…

  • Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania moves to Norristown

    Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania moves to Norristown

    The Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania has been headquartered in Philadelphia for more than 200 years, since 1784, writes Kristin E. Holmes for philly.com. The diocese represents five counties across the Philadelphia area and is home to 40,000 parishioners. The diocese announced they will move their base to the suburbs this fall, to a church in…

  • Be a Hero to a Hero: Register for Saturday’s 12th Annual Walk for Wounded, Warriors 5K Run

    Be a Hero to a Hero: Register for Saturday’s 12th Annual Walk for Wounded, Warriors 5K Run

    Pennsylvania’s 12th Annual Walk for the Wounded & Warriors 5K Run is set for Saturday, May 18 from 9 AM-3 PM at Rose Tree Park in Media. This event has grown bigger every year and benefits Operation First Response (OFR), which has given financial assistance to more than 19,600 wounded veterans in need of aid…

  • National Women’s Hall of Fame recipient Dr. Temple Grandin to speak at Society of Professional Women

    National Women’s Hall of Fame recipient Dr. Temple Grandin to speak at Society of Professional Women

    The Society of Professional Women (SPW), a program of The Main Line Chamber of Commerce, will host its Trademark Event with Dr. Temple Grandin on Thursday, June 13th at DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton in King of Prussia from 11am-1:30pm. In her upcoming presentation “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds,” Dr. Grandin will cover different ways in which people think…

  • Power Your Potential Montgomery County Women’s Conference attendees donate to PA Workwear’s Program

    Power Your Potential Montgomery County Women’s Conference attendees donate to PA Workwear’s Program

    The 4th annual Power Your Potential Montgomery County Women’s Conference was held on March 28, 2019 at Normandy Farm Hotel & Conference Center. The event, hosted by The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Montgomery was attended by over 260 women business professionals for a day of networking, inspiration and empowerment. Merck & Co, Inc. was…

  • Living Beyond Breast Cancer to host annual yoga event Reach and Raise on May 19

    Living Beyond Breast Cancer to host annual yoga event Reach and Raise on May 19

    Each of the estimated 2,000 women, men and children who will convene on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Sunday morning, May 19, 2019 for Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s (LBBC) 18th Annual Reach & Raise yoga event has a personal reason for being there. For Toni Buck, 70, of Sellersville, PA, it’s being on the steps for…

  • Washington Memorial Chapel plans Women’s Suffrage Commemoration

    Washington Memorial Chapel plans Women’s Suffrage Commemoration

    The Washington Memorial Heritage has revealed plans for a Women’s Suffrage Centennial commemoration. The Washington Memorial Heritage is a non-profit part of Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge. The commemoration is slated for August of 2020 and will be centered around the Chapel’s Justice Bell, which marks the passing of the 19th Amendment, granting women…

  • NRG awards Special Olympics Montgomery County with $100K donation

    NRG awards Special Olympics Montgomery County with $100K donation

    NRG surprised Special Olympics Montgomery County today with a $100,000 check, the top donation in the company’s spring NRG Gives campaign. The nonprofit, which is the local chapter of the international organization, conducts training and Olympic-styled competitions in 18 sports for individuals with intellectual disabilities, or significant developmental disabilities, at various venues within the county,…

  • Pat Ciarrocchi shared her moving stories at Tasty Talk; $1,500 raised for Gaudenzia Addiction Programs

    Pat Ciarrocchi shared her moving stories at Tasty Talk; $1,500 raised for Gaudenzia Addiction Programs

    Pat Ciarrocchi, former CBS3 Eyewitness News anchor, shared her inspirational stories with more than 130 guests in Yangming banquet room on April 24. Tasty Talks founder and host Michelle Leonard welcomed an audience which included authors, fashion designers, publishers, acclaimed chefs, successful entrepreneurs, and media celebrities. Ciarrocchi’s Tasty Talk raised more than $1,500 in support of Gaudenzia…

  • Children volunteers take to their communities for WSFS Bank’s annual Take Your Children to the Community week

    Children volunteers take to their communities for WSFS Bank’s annual Take Your Children to the Community week

    Over 100 WSFS and Beneficial Bank Associates and their children participated in the sixth annual “Take Your Children to the Community Week,” WSFS Bank’s spin on the national, “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.” The annual week of community service is coordinated with not-for-profit organizations throughout the Bank’s combined footprint in Delaware, Southeastern…