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Annual
Fundraising Dinner
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Welcome to an
unforgettable evening!
6:00 Welcome Reception & Cocktails
Silent Auction
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Program
Guest Speaker LCDR Laurie Coffey
Close of Silent Auction
How we have impacted
the lives of women and girls
in our community.…
LIFE: Powered by YOU
Empowerment workshops for
at-risk middle school girls to help
them take charge of their lives.
Preserving
independence for
elderly women
A volunteer support
program providing
transportation,
appointment help,
shopping, and light
housekeeping to allow
elderly women to stay
in their homes.
Meg Lowman Treetops Camp
A week-long camp to inspire
girls of limited opportunity to
seek careers in biology.
Funding for women to participate in training seminars
and classes to help them transition out of poverty.
Shoot
Like a
Girl!
Elmira
College
Women’s
Hockey Team
Financial aid for girls participating in
youth ice hockey
building skills and confidence in girls guided
by strong role models.
Medication
Lab Expenses
Satisfying women’s health
needs in Steuben, Chemung
and Schuyler counties.
Women’s Breast Health
Program
Community classes in breast health, preventive health
education and care from a certified lymph therapist, Reiki
master, and lymphedema and oncology massage specialist.
A program supporting the
needs of teen mothers.
Not by Bread Alone
Women’s Health & Beauty Products
A program that provides basic
hair and skin care items, nail
polish, sanitary supplies, etc.
Necessary items that, by law,
a food pantry cannot purchase
and clients cannot buy with
food stamps.
Painted Post Food Pantry
Lost But
Not Forgotten
Grief Program
Education and the use of
creativity as a means to
express difficult emotions
for at-risk teenage girls who
have suffered a recent loss.
Step Out and Stop the Violence
Promoting awareness of the
immediate and long term impact of
domestic violence.
Self-Defense for
Young Women
Martial arts/self-defense training
for young women 10 yrs and up.
Girls learn to be aware of their
surroundings, make safe choices,
and defend themselves.
Grants for
Continuing
Education
Grants of up to $500 to continue a woman’s education
or to support her return to school to gain new skills.
Over 50 awarded since the start of the Fund for Women!
Grants for
Continuing
Education
Grants have helped women with:
Nursing student equipment – scrubs, stethoscopes,
blood pressure cuffs
Camera equipment for a sign language video
College tuition
Music education
Textbooks
Transportation to get to school
Grants for Continuing
Education
2013 Awards
Ceremony
Janet’s Fund
Emergency Grants for Women
Grants have helped women with:
Repair of a hot-water heater for a home-bound elder
Rent after the loss of a bread-winner
Appropriate clothing for a teen girl missing gym class
Clearing a medical debt to avoid default
Materials for a wheelchair accessible home ramp so a
disabled women could leave the hospital
Paying a security deposit so a single mother could
move her family into a new apartment
Patricia Murphy Young
Memorial Fund for
Community Nursing
Barriers to Care
Grants for women who face challenges
affecting their breast cancer treatment,
such as transportation, child care, elder
care, nutrition, prosthetics or other
non-medical barriers to care.
Welcome to an
unforgettable evening!
Made possible by the
generous support of
our sponsors.
Thank you
Platinum Sponsors!
Science & Technology
Dr. Joseph Miller & Ms. Rachel Wood
Thank you
Gold Sponsors!
Human Resources
Corporate Development
Thank you
Silver Sponsors!
John G. Ullman
& Associates, Inc.
Human Resources
Thank you
Program Sponsor!
Thank you
Welcome Sponsors!
Thank you to our
other business sponsors!
Lieutenant Commander Laurie Coffey
with thanks from the Fund for Women . . .
a Southern Tier keepsake donated by
FFW Founder Mary Beth Conwell,
owner of Ray Jewelers in Elmira
Celebrate Women!
Fund for Women Mother’s Day Appeal
Special Honor Gifts to the Endowment
Kenneth Carlton
Elisabeth Corveleyn
Richard & Jane Fastiggi
Kim Frock
Penny Gregg
Vivian Gernand
Catherine Liles
Christine Sharkey
Pamela Yunis
In memory of Ann Carlton
In honor of Nancy Corveleyn
In honor of Deborah Arkus
In honor of Mary Lou Frock
In honor of Lee Baldwin
In memory of Patricia Murphy Young
In memory of Violet P. Brosey
In honor of Shirley Badia
In memory of Shirley Hodge Gould
In memory of Barbara Chapman-Yunis
Celebrate Women!
Fund for Women Mother’s Day Appeal
Celebration and Sisterhood Gifts
Donna Andrews
Nancy L. E. Andrews
Gail Baity
Gail Bellohusen
In memory of Louise Sedlak
In memory of Janet Lee Andrews
In memory of Louise Baille Andrews
In honor of Mary Rose Cherock
In honor of Marilyn Mekus
In honor of Jennifer Tarnoski
In honor of Nicole Lee West
In honor of Rachel Wood
In memory of Ruth D. Owens
In memory of Jackie Douglas
In memory of Robbie Owens
In memory of Rosalee Baity
In memory of Helen Kuczka
In honor of Bellohusen family women
Celebrate Women!
Fund for Women Mother’s Day Appeal
Celebration and Sisterhood Gifts
Suzanne Blowers
Susan Cadel
Eleanor Cicerchi
Megan Collins
Joanne Coombs
Patricia Dann
Michele Donegan
In honor of Rouletta Blowers
In honor of Elizabeeth Blowers-Nyman
In memory of Margaret Schreiber
In memory of Eleanor Cauffiel Rutledge
In memory of Betty Cauffiel Tomb
In honor of Jessen Donlon
In honor of Patricia Smith
In honor of Carolyn Gridley
In honor of Carrie Jean Dininny
In honor of Karen Taft
In honor of Ruth Tilson
In honor of Laura Coombs
In honor of Patricia Haughey
Celebrate Women!
Fund for Women Mother’s Day Appeal
Celebration and Sisterhood Gifts
Katherine Douglas
Carey Gillis
Susan Heine
Sandra Herron
Amy Irvine
Judy Jeffers-Landry
Sarah Kostera
In memory of Dr. Patricia Bartholomew
In memory of Betsy Larkin
In honor of Pat Procak
In honor of Penny Gregg
In memory of Hertha Rockwell
In memory of Bertha Dann
In honor of Debra Kerr
In honor of Eva Irvine
In memory of Amy Bartle
In memory of Alice Irvine
In memory of Dorothy Thompson
In honor of Carol Jeffers
In memory of Nellie S. Conley
Celebrate Women!
Fund for Women Mother’s Day Appeal
Celebration and Sisterhood Gifts
Sherri Kriel
Pamela Lally
Kathryn Littleton
Shu Hua Lu
Catherine Mack
Miriam Martinez
Judith McIntosh
Jane Muuse
In memory of Helen Chilson
In memory of Patty K. Black
In honor of all mothers
In memory of Evelyn Dooley
In honor of Clara Cappas
In honor of Dana Hines
In honor of Kathy Stickler
In honor of Krista Niles-Updyke
In honor of Suzanne Neidrich
In honor of Jennifer Fulton
In honor of Angie Mustico-Hanrahan
Celebrate Women!
Fund for Women Mother’s Day Appeal
Celebration and Sisterhood Gifts
Kaye Newbury
In memory of Faith Newbury Ranck
In memory of Martha Newbury Duncan
In memory of Sara Bitto Borrelli
In memory of Priscilla Newbury
Ann Nicholson
In honor of Susan S. Hoobler
In honor of Jennifer S. Corbey
In honor of Judy Sphon
In memory of Cecelia S. Halke
In memory of Anna L. Sphon
Ellen O’Hare
In memory of Martha Barnes
Jyll Painter
In honor of Diane Kaysa
Susie Palombo
In memory of Mary Force
Penelope Parker-O’Sullivan In memory of Mary Colacecchi
Celebrate Women!
Fund for Women Mother’s Day Appeal
Celebration and Sisterhood Gifts
Michelle Pastel
Susan Peck
Theresa Ponader
Jacqueline Pope
Missy Rittenhouse
Amy Schwartz
Charlene Secondo
In memory of Darlene Evans
In memory of Bea Pastel
In memory of Pamela R. Schotte
In honor of Martha Ponader
In memory of Mary LaManna–Colacecchi
In honor of Ann Marie Toole
In honor of Eleanor Sementilli
In honor of Debra Hollasch
In honor of Harriet Schwartz
In honor of Debra Schwartz
In honor of Diane Murray
In honor of Diane Legendre
In memory of Hilda Younge
Celebrate Women!
Fund for Women Mother’s Day Appeal
Celebration and Sisterhood Gifts
Christy Sisson
Penny Tanneberger
Davida Telehany
Kristine West
Ristiina Wigg
Kenneth Wilson
In memory of Nancy Darling
In memory of Connie Sisson Peters
In honor of Imogene S. Hyde
In memory of Victoria Tanneberger
In memory of Barbara Yunis
In memory of Anna Telehany
In memory of Ann Marie Rossi
In memory of Myrtle Ball
In memory of Mae Theisen
In memory of Phyllis Wigg
In memory of Ruth R. Wilson
A beautiful way to pay tribute to a woman in your life...
Daffodils planted in Sperr Park in honor of
2013 Mother’s Day Appeal honorees
are now in bloom!