Hot coffee and hot networking. Brewing Up Business is fun, fast . . . and you get a muffin.

Warwick Melrose Hotel: Business Exchange Network is the Chamber's closed category business referral program. Create lasting professional relationships and grow your business with BEN.

Warwick Melrose Hotel: Business Exchange Network is the Chamber's closed category business referral program. Create lasting professional relationships and grow your business with BEN.

The Business Exchange Network, BEN, is expanding. The most popular and successful program of the North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce is adding a morning group. The new morning BEN will meet at the Warwick Melrose Hotel from 8:00 ? 9:30 AM on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month, beginning on January 12, 2012.?

The Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Leadership Education & Advocacy Program (GLBT LEAP), a scholarship & leadership development organization created by the North Texas GLBT Chamber, is currently accepting scholarship applications. In this, LEAP?s first-ever scholarship award cycle, up to $7,500 in educational assistance will be granted.



All Texas residents who are beginning or continuing an undergraduate course of study or certificate program in January 2012 may apply.?

Tony Vedda, President and CEO of the North Texas Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Chamber of Commerce has become the first leader of a GLBT chamber organization to receive the Institute for Organization Management (IOM) designation.



?The Chamber?s Board of Directors is committed to having the very best leadership for the benefit of our members and our community,? said attorney Lorie Burch who serves as the Board Chair of the North Texas GLBT Chamber. ?We are extremely proud of Tony?