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ComNetworkNY: LOCAL Happy Hour
Come join your friends and colleagues for a ComNet NY Local gathering to reconnect with fellow communicators and welcome in the warmer weather and longer days.
Join us for happy hour snacks and a glass or two of whatever strikes your fancy and catch-up with friends old and new.
ComNetworkCHICAGO: Spring Happy Hour
Come join us for a fun and casual evening at Randolph Tavern! Network with fellow communication professionals, share ideas, and unwind after a long day of work. This in-person event is a great opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals in the sector. Don't miss out on this chance to relax, socialize, and enjoy some drinks in a laid-back setting. We look forward to seeing you there!
ComNetworkNEW ENGLAND: Networking for Maine Communications Professionals
Join our gathering in Portland, Maine! On May 9 at 4pm-6:30pm, Maine-area communications professionals will gather at:
Rising Tide Brewing
103 Fox St, Portland
East Room
Complimentary appetizers will be served.
ComNetworkLA: Spring Social
Join us on Wednesday, May 29th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm for an evening of connecting, networking and mingling with fellow communications professionals.
This is a free event to reconnect with colleagues, share ideas, and celebrate the spring season.
ComNetworkDETROIT: Storytelling & Narrative
On Wednesday April 24 from 3:30-5pm, we’ll gather at The Skillman Foundation in Detroit to connect and converse.
This event is for communications professionals who are interested in talking about storytelling and narrative.
We’ll cover: What is a narrative? How does it relate to communications strategies? Where does storytelling fit in?
ComNetworkNEW ENGLAND: Boston-Area Networking Event
Join fellow Boston-area communications professionals for an informal networking event. Drinks and appetizers are on us!*
This casual, open-invitation networking opportunity is for any area communications professional, especially those in the social sector doing communications-for-good. This gathering is free to attend.
ComNetworkDENVER: Happy Hour
Join us for a fun evening with fellow Colorado communicators at BurnDown on South Broadway. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new in your career - this is a great opportunity to connect with fellow coms professionals working at nonprofits, foundations and agencies. Enjoy some good conversation, networking and shared learning. Every attendee receives a drink ticket - so your first drink is on us!
ComNetworkDC: Spring Happy Hour sponsored by Social Driver
Join us for ComNetworkDC's in-person happy hour on Wednesday, April 17 sponsored and hosted by Social Driver at their downtown D.C. office!
ComNetworkPDX: Spring Happy Hour
Join us for the ComNetworkPORTLAND (ComNetPDX) Happy Hour—an evening of connection, collaboration, and camaraderie.
ComNetworkSEATTLE at the Gates Foundation Discovery Center
Join us for an in-person happy hour jointly hosted by ComNetworkSEATTLE and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Discovery Center. This will be an opportunity to mix and mingle with other local communications professionals, and tour the Discovery Center’s recently opened exhibition: A Better Way to Go: Toilet and the Future of Sanitation.
ComNetworkATL Meet Up
Join us for the ComNetworkAtlanta Meet Up—an evening of connection and collaboration with fellow communicators (storytellers, strategists, designers, researchers, producers, and community builders and more) who believe in the power of communications for good!
ComNetworkPDX: Spring Tree Planting
Join ComNetworkPDX and Friends of Trees to get your hands dirty for a difference. We'll be sprucing up Gateway Green Park with native trees and shrubs, while building meaningful connections with one another.
ComNetworkCHICAGO: Combatting Disinformation: Media, Democracy, Data, AI, and You
In today's digital age, disinformation poses a significant challenge to communicators in the social impact sector. Now, more than ever, it is essential for us to know one another and to strengthen our network. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with experts, share your insights, and be part of the solution.
ComNetworkSF Bay Area: Networking Reception
Do you want to chat about what you're working on and find your new "kitchen cabinet" of communications colleagues? Would you like to reunite with friends you haven't seen in a while? Or simply relax and enjoy a snack and a drink with others in the world of mission-driven communications?
ComNetworkDETROIT: What’s Your Comms Word for 2024?
Calling all Southeast Michigan nonprofit communications professionals! You’re invited to join ComNetwork Detroit for our first gathering of 2024!
Come enjoy coffee, bagels, networking time and an informal discussion and table conversations around the prompt, “What’s your 2024 comms word of the year?”
ComNetworkCHICAGO: February Happy Hour
Happy Hour and Arcade Games at Emporium Logan Square.
Drinks and game tokens will be pay your own way. While the event is free to attend, please register so that we have an idea of how many people will attend. When you arrive at Emporium, look out for ComNet folks at an open table.
ComNetworkNY: Coffee & Connect: Communicating With Staff
Dear ComNet New Yorkers,
It’s a new year in New York City! Let’s gather and learn with our fellow communications-for-good colleagues.
Join us Thursday, February 1 from 8:30–10 a.m. at Carnegie Corporation in Midtown Manhattan for breakfast, networking, and a conversation about why staff should be your first and most important audience.
ComNetworkDC: Winter Happy Hour
Enjoy the Network, learn from fellow communicators, explore new job opportunities, and find out how to engage with ComNetworkDC at this free event.
Registration is not required, but will help us with the planning. Kindly R.S.V.P by January 15.
ComNetworkLA Holiday Gathering
You are invited to join our ComNetwork Los Angeles community for a holiday gathering! This is free event to connect, network, and mingle with communications professionals. And, first round of drinks are on us!
ComNetworkSEATTLE Re-launch Party
ComNetworkSEATTLE invites you to the first networking event of the season! Join us at Elsom Cellars to meet and mingle with other Seattle-area communicators and learn more about what is on the horizon.
ComNetworkCHI's Summer Happy Hour
This happy hour is open to anyone: ComNet members, your friends, colleagues, anyone interested in meeting and hanging out with like-minded folks in the Comms for Good space. All are welcome :).
Look for ComNet friends at an open table!
ComNetworkDC: Summer Happy Hour
Mark your calendars for ComNetworkDC's in-person happy hour on August 16 in Columbia Heights/Petworth area in Washington, D.C.
We will gather in a semi-outdoor space (with a covered roof) at Sonny's Pizza.
Network with this amazing community, learn from fellow communicators, explore job opportunities, and find out how to engage with the Communications Network.
ComNetworkSEATTLE Housing and Homelessness Communicators Happy Hour
ComNetwork Seattle LOCAL Leaders Erik Houser and Anne Martens are organizing a hosted happy hour for any communicator in the region who works on housing and homelessness.
ComNetworkLA Virtual Gathering
You are invited to join our ComNetwork Los Angeles community for a virtual gathering!
ComNetworkCHI's "Welcome Back" Happy Hour!
Is it too late to say “Happy New Year?” We don’t think so. Welcome to 2023!
We’re looking forward to a year of building community and expanding our network of mission-driven communicators. For our first event of the year, we’re hosting a happy hour at Time Out Market Chicago at 5:30 PM on Wednesday, March 28.