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Wine, women and song. It’s hard to beat that combination!  On Sunday, January 23, more than 70 members of Portland-Vancouver area Dining for Women Chapters and their guests came together for a lovely late afternoon soiree with sweet and savory hors d’oeuvres, libations and the delightful musical duo of Cynthia Hoff, a DFW member, guitarist and singer, and Megan Moran, a talented violinist with the gift of improvisation. The event was held in the very comfortable coffee house in Portland’s historic Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church.

The holidays are the times to blaze brightly, inside and out!

Want a novel way to make your holiday gathering sparkle with a feel-good theme?  Dining for Women’s 6,000 members invite you to join them this month and host a "Potluck with Purpose" – a holiday gathering sure to warm your guests’ hearts as they support and shine a dazzlingly bright light on women and girls living in extreme poverty. 

When you host a holiday Dining for Women "Potluck with Purpose", you will join Dining for Women (www.diningforwomen.org) members already potlucking for good all across the United States this holiday season.

The holidays are the times to blaze brightly, inside and out!

Want a novel way to make your holiday gathering sparkle with a feel-good theme?  Dining for Women’s 6,000 members invite you to join them this month and host a "Potluck with Purpose" – a holiday gathering sure to warm your guests’ hearts as they support and shine a dazzlingly bright light on women and girls living in extreme poverty. 

When you host a holiday Dining for Women "Potluck with Purpose", you will join Dining for Women (www.diningforwomen.org) members already potlucking for good all across the United States this holiday season.

VOTE FOR GAYLE'S BESTSELLING BOOK IN GOODREADS COMPETITION!

Bestselling author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, our fabulous keynote speaker at DFW's summit last month, had some amazing things to say about Dining for Women:

Hyatt Regency Chicago is teaming with Dining for Women, to raise awareness and support for women and girls’ causes in the developing world, beginning with an Oct. 28 pumpkin-carving contest.

Many of us are here in San Jose hearing amazing stories, meeting amazing people, and getting more and more inspired to continue the work of Dining for Women:
to empower women and girls living in extreme poverty by funding programs that foster good health, education, and economic self‐sufficiency and to cultivate educational giving circles that inspire individuals to make a positive difference through the power of collective giving.

The following book review was written and provided by Elizabeth Howard.

Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman were jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for their peacebuilding efforts in Liberia and Yemen. The celebration of these remarkable women will shed light on the transformative power of women in the processes of peace and democracy.

The following guest post is from Holly Mosher, a documentary filmmaker.

Elizabeth Howard, Dining for Women Board member, attended the launch of Women, War & Peace at the Ford Foundation in New York last evening. The documentary, created by Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan and Gini Reticker will air as a five-part series on PBS channels beginning on October 11. The screening was of the last episode of the five part series, entitled “War Redefined.”

by Carolyn Mayers

Somalia is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Famine is rampant. Millions of people in that country, located in the horn of Africa, are on the brink of starvation. The UN estimates 29,000 children under the age of five have died in southern Somalia and 3.7 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across the country. Thousands have fled to Kenya and Ethiopia for help. There are heroes in Somalia who are working tirelessly in perilous situations to ease the suffering there.One such hero is Hawa Abdi, a Somali obstetrician and gynecologist who in 1983 established a one-room clinic near Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.

Blogger Carol Doane  joined DFW's  Vancouver, Washington Chapter and posted a summary of the July dinner, which raised $880. Forty people attended. "It was a wonderful evening, with lots of new women," Vancouver, WA-1 Chapter Leader Katlin Smith said.