The Zonta Club of Berkshire County is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) club in District 1 of Zonta International.  We work toward empowering women worldwide through service and advocacy. We need your help.  We have not been able to raise all the funds needed to support all the local service projects and scholarships for the upcoming year due to the pandemic. We’re excited for a great success in empowering women in Berkshire County and beyond!

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Congratulations to OUR 2026 HONOREES:

• Divya Chaturvedi (Elizabeth Freeman Center);
• Lorena Dus (Berkshire Immigrant Center);
• Shela Levante (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts);
• Brenda Oppermann (U.S. Naval War College)
• Maria Rundle (Flying Cloud Institute).

WE HAVE CLOSED REGISTRATION BUT ARE TAKING A WAITING LIST. PLEASE EMAIL IF INTERESTED.

A Look Back: 2025 Women’s Day Honorees are joined by President Melendez and State Reps Tricia Farley-Bouvier and Leigh Davis.

Zonta Women’s Day Hall of Fame:

The next two Dinner Meetings following the women’s dinner will be held on the second Tuesday of April, May and June at Rare 297 Steakhouse in downtown Pittsfield. Dinner is $36 per person off a limited menu. Please note that advanced registration is required with payment in advance or at the door. These meetings will be Club working meetings where we set the course for our next biennium!

Period Project:  Thank you to everyone that helped assemble and package supplies in April, we donated 300  “period” kits to area schools, shelters and service centers.  Learn how you can help here!

Poinsettia Sales are a WRAP!  Thank you to all those who supported our poinsettia, cyclamen and wreath sale this holiday! Your support helps us to provide $6,000 in scholarships to Berkshire County young women.   Remember us in November 2026 to schedule your personal delivery to decorate your home, office or send lovely gifts.

LEARN ABOUT OUR DINNER MEETINGS  

Welcome to the The Zonta Club of Berkshire County.  We are a small organization of approximately 40 Berkshire County women working together to improve the lives of girls and women locally and worldwide, and part of the Zonta International federation.  We are a not-for-profit that is volunteer run and driven – we meet monthly to hear from compelling guest speakers, network and work on our service projects.  We are involved at many levels in our community and in our nation.

Here is a little bit of our mission:

We were founded in 1994, with the following goals:

• To provide service at the global and local level
• To improve the legal, political, economic, educational, health, and professional status of women
• To work for the advancement of understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of executives in business and the professions
• To promote justice and universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms
• To be united internationally to foster high ethical standards, to implement service programs and to provide mutual support and fellowship for members who service their communities, their nations and the universe.

In Berkshire County, the Zonta Club was part of the development of the following major annual events, which we continue to guide and support:

• The Period Project, Collecting for Women’s Dignity for local service centers & schools
• Suit Yourself Program with Goodwill Industries
• Real Women Essay Contest with Girls Inc, Brigham Center
• Holiday Giving to Families in Need
• Giving of Hygiene, Diapers and Toiletry supplies to those in need
• Charitable Donations to Organizations Building a better world for women & girls
• International Women’s Day Dinner Celebration

We work to raising funds for several major scholarships annually, including:

• The Young Women in Public Affairs Scholarship
• She Knows Where She’s Going Girls Inc. Scholarship
• Berkshire Graduate College Scholarship
• Jane M. Klaussman Women in Business
• Amelia Earhart Women in AeroSpace Fellowship.
• Women in STEM College Scholarship
• Young Girls in STEM (Girls Inc.) and STEAM (Flying Cloud) Sponsorships in Berkshire County

Our fundraisers are a lot of FUN!  Annually we host at least one Bunco Game Night and our major fundraiser is the Poinsettia holiday plant sale.

Our advocacy work includes:

• Creation of the high school ‘Just Say No to Sexual Assault’ poster contest
• The ‘Real Men of Berkshire County Just Say No’ calendar Fundraiser
• Work to pass legislation that protects and advances the rights of women in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, nationwide and worldwide.
• Passage of the No Child Marriage in Massachusetts Act
• Zonta Says Now to Climate Resiliency

 Click to order amazing, beautiful holiday gifts… poinsettia and cyclamen sale for a good cause (helping women thrive) and safely delivered anywhere in Berkshire County 12/1.