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Asia Initiatives, BlinkNow Foundation, coronavirus, covid-19, global pandemic, grantee, grantees, health and safety, India, Nepal, Nepal Youth Foundation, OneHeart Worldwide

Nepal Hit by Second Wave of COVID-19: Updates from Our Grantees

The news reports out of India over the past few months have been heart-breaking as the country has experienced a disastrous, second COVID-19 outbreak, resulting in over 400,000 new cases daily at its peak. Now, Nepal is suffering a similar fate with a devastating second wave of COVID-19. Latest reports are that Nepal is considering declaring a health emergency as the virus rampages across its country. BlinkNow Foundation, a Together Women Rise grantee, recently posted on its Facebook page that the number of COVID-19 cases in Nepal has increased over 2000% in the past month. BlinkNow also states that nearly 65 per cent of COVID-19 tests in their region have been positive. Details

Together Women Rise

Best Practices, Chapters

chapter health, chapter leaders, chapters, coronavirus, covid-19, health and safety, sharing best practices

Ways to Jump-Start your Chapter!

Pictured above: It was a joyous occasion when the CA, Thousand Oaks-1 chapter – fully vaccinated – met in person again after a long absence.

You had an active and thriving chapter … meeting regularly, fully engaged. And then COVID struck and social distancing began. You put your chapter meetings on hold, fully intending to restart when it was safe to do so again. What you thought would be a brief hiatus turned into months and months, and now here we are one year later. How do you get things going again? Details

Jun 25, 2020

Leslye Heilig, Co-Chair of Together Women Rise Advocacy Group with RESULTS

Advocacy

advocacy, coronavirus, covid-19, foreign assistance, global pandemic, health and safety, world health organization

Raise Your Voices for a Global Response to the Global Pandemic

June has been a very busy month for our DFW Advocacy Chapter with RESULTS. On June 17, we had our chapter’s monthly webinar and learned about giving an “EPIC Laser Talk” when talking with our members of Congress. The EPIC format is used effectively by our partner, RESULTS, and stands for: Engage, Problem, Illustrate or Inform, and Call to Action. Details

May 27, 2020

Beth Ellen Holimon, President & CEO

Chapters, For chapters, For leaders, For members, Together Women Rise

connection, coronavirus, covid-19, finances, health and safety

President’s Update

Dining for Women is a little different than it was three months ago, isn’t it? We have had live conversations with over a dozen grantee representatives and hundreds of members on our weekly virtual meetings. We have grantees who have modified their projects or budgets when we made our funds flexible so they could meet their most urgent needs. Our Advocacy Chapter, which started just a month before the shutdown, has been growing its impact every month. We impacted a congressperson’s decision to sign onto important legislation and have had letters to editors published all over the country! We have more than 100 chapters meeting virtually now – a transition that took only TWO MONTHS! Details

May 6, 2020

Beth Ellen Holimon, President & CEO

Best Practices, Chapters, Grantees, Together Women Rise

chapter health, chapters, connection, coronavirus, covid-19, grant management, health and safety

Grants Management in Unpredictable Times

Dear DFW Friend:

Recently, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged governments around the world to put women and girls at the center of their efforts to recover from COVID-19. He stated that COVID-19 could “reverse the limited progress that has been made on gender equality and women’s rights globally”. While we know that women and girls are disproportionately impacted in every crisis, these words were particularly sobering for me. Details

Apr 13, 2020

Beth Ellen Holimon, President & CEO

Chapters, Communications, For chapters, For leaders, For members, News, Together Women Rise

connection, coronavirus, covid-19, finances, health and safety

DFW’s Coronavirus Response Plan

Dear DFW Friend:

I wish I could check in with each of you personally to see how you are doing! I hope that you and your family are staying home and staying safe, but also staying connected during these isolating times. Details

Mar 17, 2020

Beth Ellen Holimon, President & CEO

Chapters, For chapters, For leaders, For members, News, Together Women Rise

connection, coronavirus, covid-19, health and safety, virtual meetings

DFW Virtual Chapter Meetings Will Begin this Week

Our hearts go out to the people who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic here in the U.S. and all around the world, especially those who have lost loved ones. We appreciate the healthcare workers, local communities, and governments who are on the frontlines of caring for people and containing this virus. I want to share with you some steps that Dining for Women is taking as a result of this unprecedented situation.
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Mar 12, 2020

Beth Ellen Holimon, President & CEO

Chapters, For chapters, For leaders, For members, News, Together Women Rise

coronavirus, covid-19, health and safety

DFW Statement on Coronavirus Outbreak

Dining for Women has been closely monitoring the coronavirus outbreak here in the U.S. and globally, and we are following the guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). In everything we do, our top priority is the health and safety of you, our members, our staff, family members, and communities. Details