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What is Houston Restaurant Weeks? Houston Restaurant Weeks is the largest annual fundraiser for America’s largest food bank, the Houston Food Bank. The now month-long charity dining extravaganza features specially priced lunches, brunches and dinners at restaurants...

A member of Conroe’s banking community was honored with the 2022 Athena Award by the Conroe Lake Conroe Area Chamber of Commerce. With a whole lot of playful hesitation at giving up her 2021 title, Carol Gooch finally relinquished her term and named Natalie Saikowski...

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today was named number one in the nation for cancer care in U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-23 “Best Hospitals” rankings. The institution has been one of the nation’s top two hospitals for cancer care since the...

A new Houston restaurant will be able to expand courtesy of a $1 million venture capital investment. The Savory Fund selected Houston Vietnamese restaurant Saigon Hustle as the winner of its Million Dollar Restaurant Launch competition. Read Full Article...

Cybersecurity is getting increased scrutiny from boards across industries, as the threat of breaches and other online security-related issues pose significant risks. According to IT Governance, 95 security incidents around the globe compromised almost 66 million...

Texas tax-free weekend is approaching, which means in the midst of a hot summer heat wave, Houston parents and their kids will need to hit pause on those weekend trips to Galveston to focus on back to school sale items. With some Houston public schools opening as...

When I was two months pregnant with my second child, I started a new business selling promotional products to businesses in my city. I already owned a consulting business at the time and had a lot of international clients, but it required a week of travel each...

The Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected women around the nation. Many women have left the workforce due to childcare demands, stress, low pay and a lack of opportunities. In many cases, Covid has amplified the burden felt by women. Many employers have...

Raven Watson, President/CEO,  AtWork Personnel I had the wonderful pleasure of attending the 2022 10,000 Small Businesses Summit in Washington, DC! As a 10KSB alumni I was interviewed by CNN and other media outlets to advocate for small businesses. We met with our...

There is no script for first ladies in wartime, and so Olena Zelenska is writing her own. The wife of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a longtime comedy writer, always preferred to stay behind the scenes, while her husband, a comedian turned politician whose...

Mayor Sylvester Turner, City of Houston in Partnership with Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Harris County Precinct One announces Gun Buyback. In partnership with the Houston Police Department, officers will conduct a Gun Buy Back Operation in the parking lot of Wheeler...

Tired but triumphant after trekking to the top of Mount Fuji, 91-year-old mountain climber Hulda Crooks returned from Japan on Thursday saying the secret of her success was ″to take care of yourself when you’re young.″ Read Full Article (apnews.com)

Digital Women recently announced the finalists for the new edition of the Digital Women Awards, which are held annually with the aim of celebrating the work of inspiring women who are making an impact through the digital world. The Women's Champion recognition honors...

Heidi Cooley remembers her very first Crocs: a bright-yellow pair she got in 2007 around the time the hole-filled shoes first gained traction. She also remembers how people reacted nearly a decade later, when in 2016 she told everyone her plans to join the company’s...

A coterie of Ambassadors and Board Members from the Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce welcomed Medical Director Dr. Anita Beneke, M.D. and Tracy Allely, BSN. RN and owner of River Oaks Drip Spa , an IV Vitamin Infusion Spa and Cryotherapy Center to the...

After two public voting rounds that narrow down the best companies in Houston, Reliant was named the top electricity provider in the Houston Chronicle’s 2022 Best of the Best Awards. “We’re proud to power Texans and serve our community,” said GHWCC Board Member Susan...

Companies are asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to tweak its proposed climate-disclosure rule to give deal makers enough time to report information about acquired companies. Executives and lawyers said they worry the proposal, which would force public...

Ageism is a type of bias toward people of a certain age. Younger and older people can be targets for ageism in their everyday lives. Speaking out against ageism is a powerful way to stop the bias. Read Full Article (webmd.com)  

Texas Southern University and NASA Johnson Space Center signed a Space Act Agreement that will expand opportunities for education, workforce development, and research. Under the agreement, TSU and NASA will work collaboratively to facilitate joint research, technology...

After the last two years of pandemic, economic collapse, and the she-cession, it’s time to return to a topic near and dear to this columns’ heart: entrepreneurship. There is nothing that warms said heart quite as much as the idea of a bunch of ambitious young women...

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, less than a quarter of the workforce worked remotely on a regular basis. Many companies have relied on existing technology infrastructure to respond to the immediate need to support an increasing number of remote workers. Read Full...

This year, we celebrate a decade of PwC’s Women in Work Index. The report gives us an opportunity to reflect on the very real impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s lives, jobs, economic prosperity, and broader wellbeing; and importantly to look towards the...

The U.S. Mint will begin circulating quarters honoring five women this year as part of a four-year series celebrating contributions women have made to the United States. Among the diverse group of women being honored are a celebrated poet and civil rights activist,...

The 2022 Investing in Women Code report gives us some promising signs that there is real impact in the targeted data collection, transparency, and active interventions to drive female entrepreneurship that are undertaken by Code signatories. Read Full Article...

Houston gymnast Simone Biles will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden at the White House next week. The 25-year-old Biles, who was born in Ohio but moved to the Houston suburb of Spring when she was 3, is considered one of the most dominant...

Researchers found that rooms with plants have less dust and mold than rooms without any foliage. Leaves and other parts of the plants act as natural filters to catch allergens and other airborne particles. Common low-light houseplants like Chinese evergreen or the...

GHWCC Interns Camila Hernandez, The University of Texas - Austin  Bersi Negash, University of Houston and Chelsea McGruder, Lamar University  "Although it is only my second week as an intern here at the Greater Houston Womens Chamber of Commerce, I feel as if I have...

Governor Greg Abbott announces the Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities' (GCPD) winners of the 2022 Barbara Jordan Media Awards (BJMA) for media content created in 2021. The BJMA program was established in 1982 to recognize the respectful, accurate...

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