September 2023
Friday, September 29, 2023 — Saturday, September 30, 2023 – 20th Anniversary Celebration in Chicago
Time: 5:30 to 7:30 pm CT (Friday)
12 to 4 pm CT (Saturday)
Location: Loyola University’s School of Law, Chicago IL
Connect with other Together Women Rise members, meet our CEO Beverley Francis-Gibson, learn about the impact we have made over the past 20 years and our exciting plans for the future!
Additional speakers include:
- Dr. Geeta Mehta, co-founder of Asia Initiatives, Together Women Rise grantee
- Cat Lukach, Director of Development for MUSO, a Together Women Rise grantee
- Susan Davis, Director of Partnerships, Segal Family Foundation
We will kick off the weekend on Friday night with a reception at the BMO Tower in downtown Chicago from 5:30 to 7:30 pm CT. Wine, soft drinks, and light snacks will be provided.
Saturday’s event will be from 12 to 4 pm at the Loyola University School of Law (25 East Pearson St). There will be lunch, speakers, entertainment, raffles, and a social hour.
October 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 – Monthly Webinar
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Guest Speakers: Richa Hingorani, Global Program Director, and Nasreen Samad, Pakistan Program Manager—Girl Rising
October Featured Grantee: Girl Rising
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
REGISTER HERE
Tuesday, October 17 – Together Women Rise Advocacy Group With RESULTS: Monthly Webinar
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
Saturday, October 21, 2023 — 20th Anniversary Event in Phoenix
Time: 11am to 2pm MST
Location: Mountain View Lutheran Church, Phoenix AZ
Please join us for a special gathering to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Together Women Rise. We will explore the bright future of our organization and hear from inspiring speakers including Together Women Rise CEO Beverley Francis-Gibson and Second Mile Haiti Program Director Amy Syres. This will be a great opportunity to meet and enjoy the camaraderie of other members across the region. The event is open to all, so please bring a friend, and feel free to forward this invitation to anyone who may be interested in joining us. We can’t wait to welcome you!
REGISTER HERE
November 2023
Wednesday, November 1 – Book Club
Book: Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World
Author: Eliza Reid
Summary: Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman—but why?
For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that enables its society to make such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world’s first female president to passing legislation specifically designed to help even the playing field at work and at home?
The answer is found in the country’s sprakkar, an ancient Icelandic word meaning extraordinary or outstanding women.
Time: Noon ET
Thursday, November 2, 2023 – Monthly Webinar
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Guest Speakers: TBD
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
REGISTER HERE
Saturday, November 4, 2023 — 20th Anniversary Event in Washington DC
Location: American University Washington College of Law
Claudio Grossman Hall, Yuma Building
4100 Yuma Street
Washington, DC 20016
Planned speakers include Beverley Francis-Gibson, CEO of Together Women Rise and Gary Barker, President and CEO of Equimundo, one of our 2023 Transformation Partnerships. We will also host a panel with representatives of three of our former Featured Grants recipients: Street Child US, Amman Imman: Water is Life, and the Women’s Microfinance Initiative.
REGISTER HERE
Tuesday, November 14 – Together Women Rise Advocacy Group With RESULTS: Monthly Webinar
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5 pm PT
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
December 2023
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 – Monthly Webinar
Time: 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Guest Speakers: TBD
This event is free, but registration is required. All are welcome!
REGISTER HERE
Tuesday, December 12 – Together Women Rise Advocacy Group With RESULTS: Monthly Webinar
Time: 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm PT
How to Join: Sign up here for the Advocacy Chapter With RESULTS. Once you have signed up for the chapter, we will email you the meeting links directly.
January 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024 – Book Club
Book: Nervous Conditions
Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga
Summary: A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women’s rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft negotiation of race, class, gender and cultural change, it dramatizes the ‘nervousness’ of the ‘postcolonial’ conditions that bedevil us still. In Tambu and the women of her family, we African women see ourselves, whether at home or displaced, doing daily battle with our changing world with a mixture of tenacity, bewilderment and grace.
Time: 8 pm ET
April 2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 – Book Club
Book: Guardians of the Trees
Author: Kinari Webb. Kinari is also the founder of Rise past grantee Health in Harmony!
Summary: Full of hope and optimism, Kinari Webb takes us on an exhilarating, galvanizing journey across the world, sharing her passion for the natural world and for humanity. In our current moment of crisis, Guardians of the Trees is an essential roadmap for moving forward and the inspiring story of one woman’s quest to heal the world.
When Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local communities, she realized that their need to pay for expensive healthcare led directly to the rampant logging, which in turn imperiled their health and safety even further. Webb realized her true calling was at the intersection of medicine and conservation.
After graduating with honors from the Yale School of Medicine, Webb returned to Borneo, listening to local communities about their solutions for how to both protect the rainforests and improve their lives.
Time: 8 pm ET