A theme has been chosen for our 2023 Touchstone Award Ceremony! Join us for a night of celebration. 

Touchstone Registration: https://swepweb.com/event-5319696

Touchstone Sponsorship: https://swepweb.com/event-5270488

Do you have an interest in public speaking or know someone who would be an interesting person to have for a guest speaker at a future SWEP event? 

Is your company doing something amazing that our members should hear about?

SWEP is looking for speakers and topics of interest for our spring and summer technical speaking events.   If you have an idea, email us at info@swepweb.com!

SWEP GP is looking for volunteers interested in these roles or committees:

• Executive Board Members (beginning January 2024)
• Touchstone Awards Committee Chair/Co-Chair
• Membership Committee volunteers
• Website maintenance volunteer
• Contact us if you are interested in any other committee or volunteer role!

If you are interested in serving on our board, please send your resume and email notice of interest to our Executive Committee at info@swepweb.com

You are cordially invited to
The Society of Women Environmental Professionals
of Greater Philadelphia’s
25th Annual Touchstone Award Reception
on Thursday, October 6^th from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
at the Philander Chase Knox Estate
at Valley Forge National Park

Get SWEPt Away: Resiliency in Industry

A Night Honoring Eileen Snyder

Ms. Snyder, a recognized leader in environmental technical consulting, is a Regional Technical Coordinator at Alpha Analytical. Ms. Snyder has spent over 40 years dedicated to supporting project chemists and remediation professionals to meet regulatory and technical requirements and project data quality objectives.

We will also recognize our 2022 Grant and Scholarship winners and our 2021 Touchstone recipient, Jennifer Gresh. We will celebrate with a cocktail hour and hors d'oeuvres followed by the presentations and a light dinner. 

Don't forget,
nominations for the Touchstone Award 
are due on 8/12/22!

Please do your part to help us recognize a woman who has contributed to an environmental field of practice, including government, private industry, and non-profit sectors, and whose contributions reflect the mission statement of SWEP.
https://www.swepweb.com/touchstone-award-nomination

Get SWEP’d Away: Resiliency in Industry 

Join us for a night of celebration!

The SWEP GP 2022 Touchstones Award Reception will be held on October 6th at the Historic Philander Chase Knox Estate at Valley Forge National Park!

We will celebrate our 2022 Touchstone recipient (nominations due by 8/12/22), 2022 Grant and Scholarship winners, and recognize our 2021 Touchstone recipient, Jen Gresh with Verdantas.

To attend the event, please register at https://www.swepweb.com/event-4913246. Don't miss out on the early registration discount!

To sponsor the event please click here: https://www.swepweb.com/event-4860680 

To volunteer to help with this extraordinary event, please contact us at programs@swepweb.com. 

SWEP is excited to announce the availability of small grants for the 2022 year of up to $4,500. 

Each year, SWEP Greater Philadelphia awards grants to help fund organizations or programs that creatively address a locally-defined need to create, enhance, restore, or protect the natural environment or to provide environmental awareness through educational sessions, with particular emphasis on encouraging girls and/or women in the sciences, engineering, or environmental fields. SWEP presents these grants to encourage girls and/or women to pursue fields focused in STEM. 

To be eligible for a grant, applicants and projects must be located within the Greater Philadelphia Area, which includes southeastern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware and southern New Jersey. 

The Deadline to submit an application is Friday, April 1, 2022.

For more information, and to submit your application, please see the following link for details: https://forms.gle/JUnWk2iLQef12kXz8

If you have any questions, please email laurel.klein@gza.com or swep.scholar.phila@gmail.com.

Join SWEP GP LinkedIn and connect with even more professional and local events!  View job postings available from our SWEP GP member organizations, learn about events outside of SWEP's own and share your thoughts on industry updates!

Join now and connect- https://www.linkedin.com/company/swep-of-greater-philadelphia

Check our LinkedIn page and website for more information on how to apply for our 2022 Scholarships and Grants.  Laurel Klein is our new Committee Chair and is excited to share our 2022 opportunities with you!

Scholarships and Grants

SWEP Greater Philadelphia would like to recognize our 2022 Officer, Director, and Committee leadership changes.  Visit our "About Us" pages to view those in new positions.

Additionally, we would like to say a big THANK YOU to our outgoing volunteers who so generously gave of their time.  SWEP GP would not be the successful organization it is, without volunteers like you!

Thank you to Kristin Weiler (Alpha Analytical), Yolanda Pagano (MillerKnoll), Ann Smith (Eurofins QC), and Jennifer Waters (Urban Engineers), for your time, insight, and passion for SWEP.