Advertising and Design Club of Canada
Events and Competitions in pre-press and printing. www.adesigncanada.com

American Business Women's Association
Union City-2nd Thursday 6pm Raddison Hotel
www.finch.com/SWABWA

Asian Business Association
San Francisco -Tom Chin (415) 285-6872
Silicon Valley -6:00 PM, 3rd Thursday, Ming's Villa, Palo Alto $25 Members, $25 Non-Members (650) 853-4404

Asian Business League
Doris Chew, Director (415) 788-4664

ASTD - American Society for Training and Development www.astd.org
Contra Costa County Chapter -5:30 p.m., Monthly Meeting, 3rd Tuesday, Crow Canyon Country Club, $24 Members, $29 Non-Members Christine Otone (925) 455-9630
Ontario, CAN Chapter www.ostd.ca/events
San Francisco Chapter 5:30 p.m. 2nd Wednesday, Fort Mason, Officer's Club, San Francisco (415) 664-8071
Silicon Valley Chapter 5:30 p.m., 2nd Tuesday, Ramada Inn Sunnyvale (415) 903-9312

Bay Area Angels
5:45 3rd Thursday; Spinnaker, Berkeley http://www.bayangels.com

Bay Area Forum
Economic Development for the Bay Area Sunne McPeak (415) 981-6600

Bay Area Integrated Marketing
www.baim.com Contact Michael Savod

Business Start-Up Kit Software
Sole Proprietor/Partnership; Corporation; Limited Liability $34.95 - $44.95 www.buskit.com

California Senate & Assembly Bills
www.leginfo.sen.ca.gov/

Canadian Business Management
Features the federal government's Small Business Handbook and directories on hundreds of support organizations and software programs. www.strategis.ic.gc.

Canadian Printing Industries Association
Representing employers in the printing and imaging  industries throughout Canada... www.capitalnet.com

Commonwealth Club
San Francisco Bay Area: Meetings are in various areas, call (415) 597-6700 www.commonwealthclub.org

Contra Costa Council
An economic force for the county dedicated to develop and retain businesses. (925) 944-8975 or check out their site www.cccouncil.org

Convention & Visitors Bureau
Golden Valley located in the Tri Valley of Contra Costa, Alameda and Silicon Valley, CA www.trivalleycvb.com
Sacramento: www.sacramentocvb.org
San Francisco : Mixers on the odd Month (415) 974-6900

Entrepreneur PR
A public relations agency for the startup and home-based business set. Search their copyright-free articles database for other small-business news items. www.iconpub.com

Filipino-American Chamber of Commerce
6:30 PM 4th Thursday Contact Leni Roman (925) 686-9846 or Jocelyn Maloles (925) 682-4430

Franchise Kit
Do-it-Yourself kit with all California requirements. Fax for more informaiton (704) 743-1799.

Golden State Capitol
Links entrepreneurs and venture capital www.goldencapital.net

Home Business Center
www.homebusiness.com

Home Office Association of America
www.hoaa.com

Human Resource Management - Human Resources Internet Guide
Human resource management internet guide, international HR website dedicated to human resource topics, analysis and HR-related links  www.btinternet.com

International Association of Business Communicators
8:30 am, Monthly Roundtable, 2nd Thursday, 44 Montgomery St 39th Floor - SF,
$10 Members, $20 Non-Members Francis Snider (415) 206-1072  X8910 www.iabc.com

International Association of Facilitators Group
Monthly Meeting (415) 229-5334 www.facilitators.com/

International Management Consultants
East Bay -3rd Monday Terry Stavropoulos, 925.560.0720, heliosqst@aol.com
Marin County -4th Friday Harry Chapman, CMC, 415.331.5188, hchapman@baconconsulting.net
Mid-Peninsula -4th Monday Jennifer Vessels, CMC, 650.361.1902 jvessels@nextstepgrowth.com
Monterey Bay -4th Monday Dave Hodgin, CMC, 831.438.1000 mypath@pacbell.net
Oakland/Berkeley -3rd Friday Jon Seidel, 510.530.6314 jseidel@edpci.com
Sacramento- 2nd Friday Will Small, CMC, 916.489.7232 wsmall3525@aol.com
San Francisco -4th Monday Cox Ferrall, CMC, FIMC, 415.956.5558 cox@coxcmc.com
San Mateo- 2nd Friday Richard Marks, 650.375.1805 solutions@richardmarks.com
Sonoma County -Lunch 1st Monday of even months Mary Luttrell, CMC, 707.542.2090 marylu@pacbell.net
South Bay- 3rd Monday Ian Jacobsen, CMC, FIMC, 408.244.6672 ian@jacobsenconsulting.com
Register on line for events www.imcnorcal.org

International Facilities Management
3rd Tuesday, East Bay; for more information or to purchase  tickets: dfleser@corovan.com  http://www.ifmaeb.org/
4th Wednesday,Silicon Valley  3-4:30pm   Santa Cruz:  Rosa's Restaurant: www.ifmasv.org/

International Small Business Consortium
www.isbc.com

IUniverse
A website designed to help you self-publish www.iuniverse

Kiwanis
http://www.kiwanis.org/magazine/00august/index.html

Library for Small Business
www.bizoffice.com/library/library.html

Lions
www.lionsclub.org

Media Alliance
Individuals who are involved in the media.www.mediaalliance.org

MPI
Meeting Professionals International  (415) 896-6447 www.mpiweb.org

MPN
Meeting Professionals Network  www.mpnetwork.com

National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE)
A lobbying organization composed of 320,000 self-employed and small independent business people. NASE offers a wide variety of resource materials including "Self Employed America, and provides a toll-free line called Shop Talk staffed by consultants who will answer questions pertaining to business concerns. (800) 232-NASE. www.nase.org

National Association of Female Executives
www.nafe.com

National Association of Independent Business
(615) 872-5800

National Association of Private Enterprise
www.nape.org

National Association of Small Business Investments
(202) 628-5055 www.nasbic.org

National Association of Small Business United
www.nsbu.org

NAWBO-National Association of Women Business Owners/Silicon Valley Chapter
6:30 2nd Thursday, Carla Cobb Davis, Executive Director (408) 268-8508
National Contact (301) 608-2590

National Business Association
(800) 465-0440

National Business League-NBL
Currently 127 chapters across the U.S., this federation has been working for nearly one hundred years to promote black and other minority business owners on Capitol Hill. (202) 737-4430

National Speakers Association-NSA
Through education and community, quality and professionalism in both speaking and business development, it is a platform for speaking. www.nsaspeaker

Northern California Chapter For newsletter info: Cecilia MacDonald (916) 965-6566 email: CecMac1@aol.comfor meeting information (650) 871-4220 www.nsanc.org

National Women's Business Owners Corporation
1100 Way Ave #830, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (561) 848-5066 www.wboc.org

Northern California Society of Association Executives-NCSAE
6:30pm; 3rd Thursdays; Monthly meetings of Association Executives (415) 764-4042 www.ncsae.org

Northern California Human Resources Charter - (415) 291-1922 - $20 Members, $25 Non
Contra Costa County -7:30 am, 4^th Thursday Scotts, Walnut Creek
Peninsula Chapter -7:30 am, 1^st Thursday, Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City
Peninsula Consultants Forum -7:00 am, 3^rd Wednesday, Café Helmut, Palo Alto
Marin Chapter Roundtable -12:00 am, 2^nd Tuesday, Fair Issac, 111 Smith Ranch Road, San Rafael
San Francisco -11:30 am, 3^rd Wednesday, Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco
Santa Clara Valley -7:00 am, 3^rd Wednesday, Café Helmut, Palo Alto
Technical Recruiters Forum -6:00 pm, 4^th Monday, Alumnae Resources, 120 Montgomery St #600

NOW
Helen Grieco, President 415 457-3575 www.canbw.org

Office.com
Information to help direct small businesses. www.office.com

Resume Services on the Internet
www.headhunter.com

Rotary International
www.rotary.org/

San Francisco Chapter of the Bay Area Cash Flow Association
12pm-4pm 2nd Sat; Randy Norris 925 830-9451; San Ramon Library

Self -Employment Development Initiatives
"Start a Business" to find a checklist of  steps. Includes program descriptions, news and links to other resources.
www.sedi.org/

Senior Corps of Retired Executives-S.C.O.R.E.
(800) score.org www.score.org

Small Business Administration
The largest small business lobbying organization, more than 600,000 members voice their concern to government. (615) 872-5800

Small Business Administration
Courses for entrepreneurs www.sbaonline.sba.gov
455 Market Street, 6th Fl, San Francisco, CA 94104; Gary Marshall (415) 744-6502
Canada: Explore issues such as evaluating business opportunities, marketing basics, financing, planning and regulatory factors.  www.sb.gov.bc.ca/smallbus/workshop/workshop.htm

Small Business Advancement
Resoruces for the advancement of small business owners primarily academic. www.sbaer.uca.edu

Small Business Advisor
www.isquare.com

Small Business Council of America
This organization seeks to prevent federal tax laws from overburdening small business owners. Members work together to support legislation to create important economic incentives. (301) 656-7603 .

Small Business Cources
www.headlight.com

Small Business Development Centers
National (703) 271-8700 www.aspdc-us.org
Oakland, CA: Napoleon Britt, 519 17th Street, Oakland, CA 510 893-4114
Concord, CA: Beverly Hamel, 2215 Bisso Lane, Concord, CA 94520 925 646-5088

Small Business Journal
For information preview their website: www.tsbj.org

Small Business Resource Center
Links to small business related sites  www.wav.org

Small Office/Home Office-SOHO
 www.soho.org

Society for Human Resource Management-SHRM Online
Includes news, features, discussion groups, products and services, and job openings. www.shrm.org

Speaker's News
For information preview their website: www.speakernet.org

Spirituality in the Law
5:30pm 3rd Tuesday Brian Ripley; 465 California St, #1222, San Francisco, CA 94104. 415 956-1908.

Springboard 2000
Venture Capital group that meets to review pre-IPO www.springboard2000.org

Starting a Business Primer
www.inreach.com/sbdc/book

Technology
Meetings for technology based companies to gather www.technoakland.com

Tool Kit
Material to start a home based business including designing websites and merchant accounts www.toolkit.cch.com

Tri-Valley Human Resources Association
11:30 Luncheon, 3rd Tuesday, Faz Restaurant, 5115 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton (925) 460-8800
RSVP Janet Bogen (510) 244-5425 ext 2, $16 Members, $21 Non-Members

Tri-Valley Convention & Visitor's Bureau
Quarterly Mixers (925) 846-8910 www.trivalleycvb.com

UC Berkeley's Entrepreneurial Forum
The forum meets at the Haas School of Business, generally the 4th Thursday at 6:00 for one hour of mixing followed by a one hour program. Form more information, go directly to their web site at their webstite haas.berkeley.edu/lester or call (510) 642-4255.

West Coast Business Academy
Sponsors workshops for entrepreneurs. Linda Chappo and Tom Marcoux (415) 826-1409

Women's Business Alliance
12-1:30 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, The Left Bank, Larkspur Dr, Debra Condren, Founder and Director (415) 459-7112 email: DrDebraC@aol.commailto:DrDebraC@aol.com

Working Solo
www.workingsolo.com

Young President's Organization
Presidents of companies with $6,000,000/annual sales and under 36 years old. www.ypo.org