Connect – Empower – Engage

Welcome to the brand spankin’ new Boise Young Professionals (BYP) Web site! We invite you to poke around and take a look at the cool new features of our fully integrated and up-to-date home on the Web. Social networking integration. Check. Brand-correct look and feel. You bet. Cool as all get out. Absolutely.

Take a few minutes to connect with us on popular social networking sites (located just to the right of this paragraph) and meet other young professionals in the Boise area. Follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook group and fan page,  join our group with LinkedIn and check out blog posts about local happenings and events.  Also, if you’re already signed up as a member of BYP you can join the b|social (custom Ning site) group and create a profile, blog, and connect with your peers. Try it out.

If you’re saying, “WOW, what a cool site! Who created it?” Let me introduce the brains and brawn behind this masterful web creation, Dave Quintana of Defiant Interactive. Thank you, Dave!! If you run into him around town make sure to tell him your thoughts on our new site.

We will continue to develop content and add information to our new site, so stay tuned for more! In the mean time, check out our rotating header and events page for upcoming events and happenings by the Boise Young Professionals!

All the best,

Ben Quintana

Director, Public Relations & Leadership Development
Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce
bquintana@boisechamber.org
208-472-5212

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Additional info about BYP

If you live in the Boise Valley and are looking to make a difference in the community, make life-long business and social connections or develop your career skills, then you’ve come to the right place. On October 24, 2006 the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce launched a new program called Boise Young Professionals (BYP) to target the young, talented, future workforce of the surrounding Boise area. BYP was created to be an inclusive group designed to attract, develop and retain talent in the region.

So who are these “young professionals (YPs)”? BYP is mainly comprised  of the 21-40 year old population, but is open to any “young thinking” or “young-at-heart” professional. BYP is a collection of entrepreneurs, non-profit workers, bankers, attorneys, engineers, artists, and just about any profession in the surrounding Boise community. BYP has grown to an organization of over 750 members that represent more than 400 different companies.

The goal of BYP is to “connect, empower and engage” YPs by providing business & social networking, professional & leadership development and community & civic involvement opportunities in the area.

To contact BYP, please call us at the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce offices at 208-472-5258 or email info@boiseyp.org.