NBWC
North Brooklyn Women's Collective
Statement
[01]This isn't another networking event. Real conversations, real collaborations, and a community that actually shows up, one North Brooklyn block at a time.
NBWC started with a simple idea: the most interesting women in Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Bushwick are already out here building. They just hadn't all met yet. The first gathering was a dozen people in a borrowed studio, most of whom had walked past each other on Manhattan Avenue for years without knowing what the other one did.
What grew from there wasn't a networking group. It was a fellowship: a set of people who answer each other's questions, show up to each other's openings, and send work across the table without keeping score.
Our storyMembership
[02]Events
[03]
How Membership Works
[04]Tell us what you do, what you'd bring, and who sent you. We answer inside two weeks, referral or not.
Apply to join
Show up
Membership is a verb. The directory is only as useful as the people willing to answer it, and the events only work if the room fills.
Give first
Referrals, introductions, and advice move before anyone asks for anything back. The people who get the most out of this are the ones who put the most in, and it isn't close.
Real over polished
We'd rather hear what went wrong last quarter than what's on your website. Nobody here needs the pitch. We need the actual problem, so we can help with it.
The directory is not a mailing list
Members' details are there so people can connect, never so anyone can broadcast. No bulk outreach, no cold pitching, no adding people to lists they didn't join.
Local means local
Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Bushwick. The radius is the point. It's what makes a coffee a real possibility instead of a scheduling problem.
Before & After
[06]
From passing each other
to finding each other
The first gathering was small and slightly awkward, the way first gatherings are. A dozen people in a borrowed studio. By the end of it, two people had agreed to work together and someone had found a bookkeeper. Drag the seam to compare then and now.
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[07]Questions & Contact
[08]Free to join. Read by a person, not scored by a form. You'll hear back within two weeks either way.
Apply to joinA person reads every message. We answer within a week, and we'd rather you asked than guessed.
ContactWe don't sell access to our members and we don't book venues. Tell us what you had in mind.
PartnershipsThe day-to-day conversation lives in our Facebook group, open to members and the merely curious alike.
Facebook group