Our Club supports alumni success in our region through our rich calendar of business, cultural and embassy events, liaison with the School, focused Interest Groups, including Leads Council, and "Roundtables" (such as Green Business, Business of Government, Nonprofit, Health Care, National Defense & Homeland Security) - what special interests do you have?) and other valuable benefits.

Our major events include:

• the Annual Joseph Wharton Award Dinner, with the 40th held October 29. 2009, at the Park Hyatt, celebrated the Club's 41st Anniversary and the 41st to be held in Spring 2010:
• our periodic Conferences, such as The Green Business Summit (GBS) in 2008 that included  200+ attendees from 100+ companies, agencies and other organizations.
  
• Green Business Summit II: The Business Case for Green Investments, November 12, 2009 at the Morgan Lewis Law Offices near Metro Center in downtown DC, offered similar input from two top keynotes, Jeremy Rifkin, W'67, and Andrew Winston, plus Jim Dinegar, President & CEO of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, four panels (Clean Tech, Finance, Government Funds, Climate Change) with other expert speakers, and from other leaders who attended from the private and public sectors. This event was especially important, given American and global legislative, economic and business developments involving the green and sustainable economy, especially energy and CleanTech financing and other issues.
  
• Green Business Summit III: being planned for Fall 2010. If you're interested in being involved, please email us or discuss it at an upcoming Green Business Roundtable.

If you are a member of our fast growing Club (now nearly 700 members - one of the highest market penetrations of any Wharton Club in the world), you gain access to all this to keep your knowledge and contacts at the forefront:

• varied programs to keep your knowled, including many to which we invite members only 
• some of them free - in 2009 alone, over $500 worth of free programs
• others with discounts of $10 to $200+ per person for members (totaling hundreds to thousands in savings each year). 
• our members-only Online Directory and Job Board
• valuable networking and career-building opportunities

NEWS ON PROGRAMS: If you'd like to be kept informed of our many programs, please note that our emails to you will come from "emailwatch@omnimagnet.com," our Web host. So please be sure that you "whitelist" these emails, or they may wind up in your Spam folder, depriving you of valuable information.

If you are not a member, you are invited to join or renew now. Each year is a full 365 days, from the day you sign up. The longer your term, the more you save - and the more you benefit if you participate by attending and volunteering. You should keep your membership current to keep your tax-deductible rates even lower (our Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit). 

And consider Lifetime Membership, our top category, with the greatest benefits, or our President's Club, with Embassy receptions and briefings included for you and a guest, plus other special perks.

Joining and being engaged are among the best - and most enjoyable - ways for you to get more value from your Wharton degree and your life in the DC-Baltimore-Richmond region, as your fellow alumni have demonstrated and learned. Do you want to find out what they have to say about our value proposition? Just click here to find out!  Or come to an event, and ask them yourself. Call us at 301-365-8999, M-Sat 9 am-6 pm, if that's more convenient for you.