Woman of the Year:
Presented annually, the Woman of the Year Award is given to a Flagler County woman who is typifies the image of today’s working woman. The honoree is a person who has achieved stature in her chosen profession, a business owner or has recently retired but continues to share herself with the community. Well-known community activists, these women have worked diligently to make their community a better place in through volunteering, while maintaining a working relationship with the community at large. Past honorees include: Donna Tofal of Re/Max Oceanside in Flagler Beach; Lee Stokes, Property Management of Flagler Beach; Shirley Newton, Educator of Palm Coast and Mary Stetler of Cypress Coquina Bank, Flagler Beach Branch.

“Heat Up Your Business Climate” Seminar Series:
This educational workplace seminar series has been presented to the Flagler County Community for the last four years. The series is the three-time winner of the prestigious Shuhi Award from BPW/Florida, which recognizes this seminar series as an education environment that stimulates initiative, self-education,   re-training, while providing news skills and adopting new attitudes. In 2006, the series received the “Excellence in Advocacy” award from BPW/USA, which recognizes a major project conducted by a BPW local organization across the United States that offers education and training opportunities that increases public awareness of workplace issues, linking together working women and diverse groups and benefits the community.

Designed for the Flagler County business community, featured topics have covered Leadership, Communications, Change and Perspective. The 2007 topic is: “Excellence ... Your Path To Success!” The series offers training on workplace issues in a concise, half-day format. The series is economically priced for all business owners, employees and students alike, saving both time and money for all. This workplace series is a community-service project.

Hawg Callin’:
When it comes to raising funds for the BPW/Florida Education Foundation, it’s a matter of having fun. Hawg Callin’ is the event where members come together to support young women attending Florida state university that need scholarship assistance. The Foundation builds Scholarship Houses onthese campuses where students may live in group houses, share responsibilities and learn valuable life-lessons on becoming self-sufficient and responsible. There are four Scholarship Houses built, and a fifth now in the planning stages. When originally started back in 1952, each BPW member was given a piggy bank to save her change for this house building project. Each Spring the piggies are called to a special event called the “Hawg Callin” where money is collected for the Foundation. In Flagler County, this event is usually a casual picnic with members enjoying fellowship as well as the installation of the new officers for the upcoming year.