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, "Roundtables" (such as Green Business, Business of Government, Nonprofit, Health Care, National Defense & Homeland Security), plus our Women's Interest Group - what special interests do you have?) and other valuable benefits.

Our major events include:

• the 40th Annual Joseph Wharton Award Dinner, Fall 2009, at the Park Hyatt, celebrating notables TBA, as well as notable recipients honored in the past, and the Club's 41st Anniversary
• our periodic Conferences, such as The Green Business Summit (GBS) last year that included pre- and post-conf receptions, all meals, breaks, materials - 3 keynotes, nearly 50 speakers, 14 sessions, 200+ attendees from 100+ companies, agencies and other organizations. This year GBS2 on July 20 at the North Bethesda Conference Center is part of the two-day Transition to Sustainability - click here for more information on this year's exciting program, where we expect even more attendees, and the event is likely to attract a capacity, high-caliber audience, with more outstanding speakers

If you are a member of our fast growing Club (now over 700 members - one of the highest market penetrations of any Wharton Club in the world), you have access to varied programs, including many to which we invite members only - some of them free - and others with discounts of $10 to $200+ for members. You can also access our members-only Online Directory and Job Board, plus valuable networking and career-building opportunities to keep your contacts and knowledge at the forefront.To access these valuable benefits and more, you should keep your membership current.

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 "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. 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.

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.