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Higher Education Leadership Council
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Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce
Events Calendar
Each week the Chamber events will be listed on www.plymouthchamber.com. The button below will direct you to the full listing of events. Please contact the Chamber at 508.830.1620 if you are in need of your login information to register.
You MUST register in advance for all Chamber events.
Workshop-Upcoming Selling Strategies for Non-Sales Professionals
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Women Mean Business Luncheon- Tavern on the Wharf
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Business After Hours- NorthEast Community Bank
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Workshop-Hot Button Employment Law Topics of 2015 & Forward
Friday, February 26, 2016
Workshop-Workforce Training Fund Info Session
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Workshop-Rock Your Business With SBA
Thursday, April 21, 2016
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Ambassador Spotlight
A Chamber Ambassador is an official representative of the Chamber of Commerce, a front-line volunteer. Please join us in welcoming our newest Ambassadors!
Owner of Plymouth Open Doors Yoga Studio, " Free Your Body, Free your Mind"
Located in West Plymouth Plaza
Taking her first yoga class seven years ago changed Meg's life. At first it was finding more strength and flexibility in the physical sense, but as her practice grew, Meg realized the overall value of "Free Your Bogy, Free Your Mind". Through breath and postures, one experiences a feeling of overall balance, tranquility and kindness. This starts from within, so you can then share this experience with others. Yoga will improve your physical strength, release toxins, increase your energy and help you live healthier everyday!
Following her heart and love of the ocean, Meg moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts from Rochester, New York. The business community was extremely welcoming, with The Chamber of Commerce providing opportunities to be actively involved.
Plymouth Open Doors has the best qualified instructors with unique personalities that shine when they guide you through a class. We offer classes for beginners through advance and heat from moderate to HOT!! All first time students enjoy 3 classes for $20. Visit our website at Open Doors Yoga, click Plymouth, pick a class and come visit!
Our hearts and doors are always open!
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 The Story of Mel's Bracelets
Our mission is to empower people touched by cancer through education, patient support and research.
What Does Mel's Bracelet™ Mean To You?
To the people that wear one it's more than just a bracelet, it's a story... what's yours?
Mel Simmons exuded life. She brought her energy into every room she ever entered, every life she ever touched. Mel loved people and took them as they were, on their terms. Mel was diagnosed in 2000 with breast cancer. Her initial biopsy showed 24 nodes positive for breast cancer. Mel entered every drug protocol offered which resulted in her having to take a year off from work, leaving her both physically and financially drained - but never without her legendary humor and spirit. As a 38 year Boston based flight attendant for Delta Air Lines, Mel had many colleagues who would bring Mel handfuls of colorful bracelets from abroad. Mel loved them and delighted in giving them away to hospital staff and patients. Patients arrived for chemotherapy treatments to find beautiful bracelet gifts from Mel on their chairs.
Shortly after Mel passed away, those who received the bracelets as gifts began wearing them in her honor. Mel´s Bracelet™ has become an icon for friendship, support, love, community and solidarity that started with one person and has grown to include many other people's touching stories. A group of her friends decided to offer the bracelets for a donation to fund the research and support that helped Mel survive for five years after her diagnosis. In just one year, Mel's friends raised $1,000,000 and donated the funds to the Massachusetts General Cancer Center in her honor. The Friends of Mel Foundation continues to grow.
Digital Ambassadors
Want to help spread the word online about the Friends of Mel Foundation? You can be a Digital Ambassador by signing up here and we'll send you a regular update with specific ways to help. Contact our Coordinator: [email protected]
Contact:
Pauline Alighieri
200 Ledgewood Place, Suite 101
Rockland MA 02370
781-
878-8639
 Colonial Life
Our Company Helping America's Workers for 75 Years
For 75 years, Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company has had one mission: to help America's workers preserve and protect the vitally important things they work so hard to build.
Headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, we offer a wide range of financial protection options, helping more than 3 million people in nearly 80,000 companies. In addition to our personal benefits counseling expertise, we're a pioneer of payroll deduction and innovator of enrollment technology. Our end-to-end capabilities and commitment to going above and beyond enable us to provide unmatched customer service.
With more than 10,000 sales representatives and more than 1,000 home office professionals, we're here to help during life's most challenging times
Today, we continue to add innovative enrollment technologies and options. After 75 years of business, we remain dedicated to our mission of finding ways to help America's workers when they face unexpected events and challenging times.
The Strength of a Leader Consistent, Profitable Financial Performance
When choosing an insurance company, you want a provider that is both stable and financially sound. You can count on that with Colonial Life. We have a long history, but we're high on standards and innovation - and we'll work tirelessly to continue to provide our customers the very best.
We take pride in the overall financial strength of our company and our:
- Nearly 80,000 business accounts and 3 million policyholders nationwide.
- In-force premium of $1.3 billion.1
- Annual sales of more than $361 million.1
- Consistently strong industry ratings, strong investment portfolio and long-term profitable growth.
- 34 first-place awards from brokers in the last eight consecutive years for products, service and innovation from the Benefits Selling Readers' Choice Awards.2
We're committed to providing affordable insurance products to meet our customers' needs, and we're dedicated to meeting our financial commitments.
What Can We Do for You? Peace of Mind When You Need It Most
At Colonial Life, we help you protect all that you've worked to build. During challenging times, our voluntary benefits can help provide financial security. We're there to help every step of the way - with convenient, professional service.
Protect Your Way of Life Our Voluntary Benefits Can Help
You've worked hard to build a life that you and your family love. We work hard to help you protect it - even when challenging times get in the way. Our personal insurance products offer protection in three key areas:
- Wellness - We promote healthier lifestyles and preventive measures by offering benefits for certain wellness and health screening tests.
- Medical - Get help with the direct medical costs of qualifying accidents and sicknesses.
- Financial - We assist with the indirect, out-of-pocket costs of qualifying accidents and sicknesses - the costs that major medical insurance typically doesn't pay.
1-to-1 Benefits Counseling We Can Help You Better Understand Your Benefits
In today's world of complex benefits, it's important to know your options so you can make the choices that best fit your lifestyle and budget. That's why we train our benefit counselors to talk with employees 1-to-1. This way, they can help you understand your benefits and where you may need additional coverage.
Our benefit counselors help simplify the entire benefits process, and they take this responsibility seriously. They provide a private consultation to help you understand how each benefit election impacts your paycheck. They can:
- Simplify complex benefit concepts.
- Answer your questions.
- Walk you through the enrollment process.
Through our post-enrollment surveys, we ask employees to rate their 1-to-1 benefits counseling sessions. Employees give our benefit counselors high marks for explaining all of their options and not just selling insurance. We're told time and again that these 1-to-1 meetings improve their benefits knowledge, call us today!
Contact:
Contact:
Colonial Life - Ruel Insurance Agency
PO Box 494
Mattapoisett MA 02739
508- 758-6644
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Community Events Calendar
Do you have an event, workshop, road race, festival, art showing, etc. that is open to the public? If so, please be sure to submit your events to the Chamber Community Event Calendar today!
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Chamber Photo Gallery
Enjoy photos from our most recent Business After Hours, Women Mean Business Luncheon, Ribbon Cuttings and more!!
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Denise A. Maccaferri , Denise Maccaferri Photography
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Job Posting Board
Fill your company's job openings with the right candidate.
Chamber members can post jobs at no charge as part of their membership. Non-members can post for a fee of $60.00 for one month.
Click here to insert a job posting on our new site.
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Member News Postings
Did you receive an award, or add a new member to your firm? Are you moving offices, or acquire a new product? If you have any news to share, share it on our News board.
*Please Note* If you would like your news or announcement in our weekly newsletter in addition to our online site, please email
[email protected] for newsletter submissions. Submissions for the newsletter must be received by 1:00pm on Thursdays.
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GREEN Chamber Certified If your business has taken steps to REDUCE, REUSE, and REPLENISH resources while helping to protect the environment in addition to maintaining a cost effective GREEN operation you should register today!
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Business Education Center
The Business Education Center provides one on one counseling for small business owners with existing businesses or assistance for budding entrepreneurs with dreams of small business ownership. We offer group small business workshops and programs that can help any type of business or organization. Many of these programs are free of charge.
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SPACES ARE SELLING OUT FAST!!
6ft tables are now sold out!
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Chamber Member News & Events
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Feb 6th, TAKE 5 STEPS TOWARD YOUR BEST LIFE at 3 Daughters Jewelry-
Three Daughters Jewelry Presents Grace Tail author, Anne Jolles
Author Book Signing: 2-5pm
PLYMOUTH, MA - 3 Daughters Jewelry is hosting Anne Jolles, author of Grace Trail, on Saturday, February 6th from 2-5pm. 3 Daughters is located on the Plymouth Waterfront at 108 Water Street, Plymouth, MA.
Newly released in 2016, Anne's newest novel is currently available to the public as part of the Downtown Plymouth First Saturday Event. Anne Jolles will introduce Grace Trail - WALK, WANDER, WONDER and share the excitement of how the GRACE process came into being. 5 Steps Toward Your Better Life. Hear Anne speak on Gratitude, Release, Accept, Challenge and Embrace. Anne is a coach who supports a mix of personal and business clients who are committed to increasing life satisfaction, creating success, and obtaining a great quality of life and relationships at home, work and play. Ann will be available to autograph books at 3 Daughters on Saturday, February 6th 2-5pm. Come hear of her adventures and prepare yourself for the walk of a lifetime!
Joan Lyons is the owner of 3 Daughters Jewelry and believes that everyone is unique, and your jewelry and fashion reflects this individuality - let this event inspire you from the inside out!
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Get in the race to beat cancer with
Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth
It's time to join in the race against cancer. Teams of walkers and volunteers are needed to participate in the 2016 Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth, which takes place on Friday and Saturday, June 17 and 18, at Carver Middle School.
Benefitting the American Cancer Society, this important community fundraiser helps cancer survivors and their families. Teams "walk around the clock" to raise money that goes toward programs, research and medicine to aid those with cancer.
In the process, everyone celebrates the advances made in the fight against cancer and honors those that have been lost to this terrible disease.
The Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth includes Survivors and Caregivers Laps, Survivors Reception, Luminaria Ceremony with 5,000-plus candles, music by a DJ, games, decorated campsites, contests, drawings, auctions, live performances and demonstrations, food, ice cream, and much more.
Teams can sign up now and begin fundraising for the Relay For Life by registering online at www.relayforlife.org/gtrplymouthma. Volunteers are also needed to plan and assist with running the event.
The Relay For Life of Greater Plymouth will be held June 17 and 18 at Carver Middle School. Last year, 500 walkers and 100 cancer survivors participated in this important fundraiser to stop cancer. The event covers the towns of Plymouth, Carver, Kingston and Plympton.
For details about the 2016 Relay For Life, contact Lisa Jensen at [email protected] or 781-831-4937, or go to the local website at www.relayforlife.org/gtrplymouthma.
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The 14th Annual Jordan's Polar Plunge to benefit the Jordan Hospital Club Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth
PLYMOUTH, MA-
TheJordan Hospital Club, a volunteer organization dedicated to promoting "excellence in health care, right here in our community" is sponsoring the 14th Annual Jordan's Polar Plunge on Saturday, March 5, at Nelson Memorial Park in Plymouth. Over the years this fundraiser has enjoyed incredibly broad community support, while also being a fun, family-friendly day at the beach, with costumes, food, and music.
Funds from the Polar Plunge will go to the JHC Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth, and this year the plan is to purchase two vein finders; to underwrite continuing education programs for nursing and other JHC Cancer Center staff; and to help fund the Patients' Assistance Fund.
Over the past 13 years the Polar Plunge has donated more than $1.2 million to the JHC Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth, and most recently the Plunge has helped to fund: the purchase of "smart" IV pumps for Chemotherapy; the renovation of the Chemotherapy rooms; and for the past two years, the funding for clinical trials at the Cancer Center.
WHAT:
The 14th Annual Jordan Hospital Club Polar Plunge
WHEN:
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Registration: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Plunge: 12:00 pm
Post-Plunge Celebration and Awards: 12:30 pm
WHERE:
Nelson Memorial Park, Plymouth, MA. Parking is available in the Town lots along Water
Street.
The goal of the JHC Polar Plunge is to support a valuable community resource. The Jordan Hospital Club Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth provides high-quality care in a comfortable and convenient setting to area residents facing life-changing diagnoses. One of the few treatment centers south of Boston that offers both chemotherapy and radiation therapy, the Cancer Center offers patients access to a multidisciplinary team of medical and radiation oncologists, surgeons, nurses, radiation therapists, nutritionists, pharmacists, lab technicians and social workers.
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MS Excel for the Workplace: Part One
Thurs. 2/11-3/10/2016; 6-8pm, 4 sessions (no class 2/18)
Location: Cape Cod Community College at Plymouth North High School, 41 Obery Street, Plymouth
Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful and versatile business tools. This course will help students familiarize themselves with basic functions, formulas, commands and keystrokes. Students will learn the basics of creating and using spreadsheets to increase their workplace productivity. Learn more at:
http://www.capecod.edu/web/about-us/locations/plymouth-north/non-credit#MSExcelIntro
or call The Center for Corporate and Professional Education at Cape Cod Community College at 508-375-5010.
Managing Generations in the Workplace
Thursdays 2/18-3/10/2016; 1-4pm, 4 sessions
Location: Cape Cod Community College, Hyannis Center, 540 Main Street, Hyannis
Discover the Current Motivations of Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Yers and What Messages They Value. Explore the characteristics of the different generations in the workplace and develop an understanding of how to effectively manage this diverse group of professionals. This series will help senior leadership, managers and supervisors identify practical, how-to tips and techniques for managing Boomers, Gen Xers, and Gen Yers in the workplace. Learn more at:
http://www.capecod.edu/web/ccpe/courses#ManagingGenerations
or call The Center for Corporate and Professional Education at Cape Cod Community College at 508-375-5010.
Mindfulness Meditation for Professionals
Wed. 2/24-3/16/2016; 5:30-7pm, 4 sessions
Location: Cape Cod Community College at Plymouth North High School, 41 Obery Street, Plymouth
Bring mindfulness to work with you! Consider what it might mean to be a mindful professional. Learn effective ways to deal with workplace stress and increase greater job satisfaction. Are you interested in becoming more engaged, aware, and present in your day to day professional life? Learn more at:
http://www.capecod.edu/web/about-us/locations/plymouth-north/non-credit#Mindfulness
or call The Center for Corporate and Professional Education at Cape Cod Community College at 508-375-5010.
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Dining, Arts and Entertainment
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Winter Date Night
Sundays / Mondays / Tuesdays
2 for $50
Bottles of Wine ( Pick 1)
Cockatoo Ridge Shiraz
Wild Hare Cabernet
Cockatoo Ridge Pinot Grigio
Brownstone Chardonnay
Starters (Pick Two)
Side Garden Salad
Soup of the Day
Bruschetta
Spanakopita
Calamari Diavolo
Entrees (Pick Two)
Steak Tips
Tender Marinated certified Angus sirloin tips served with rice pilaf and seasonal vegetables
Pork Tenderloin
Sauteed in a parsley butter sauce and served with spinach over mashed potatoes
Baked Haddock
Prepared with seasoned breadcrumbs, lemon, butter, garlic and herbs. Served with mashed potato and seasonal vegetable
Piato Thaniella
Marinated chicken breast breaded and sautéed in a wild mushroom cream sauce with spinach served over three cheese mashed
Served with rice pilaf and seasonal vegetables
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Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce 134 Court Street Plymouth, MA 02360 P: 508.830.1620 F: 508.830.1621 www.plymouthchamber.com Please send all newsletter submissions to Bob Nolet no later than 1:00pm on Thursdays. [email protected]
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