Tracy Weatherby joined Second Harvest of Silicon Valley in 2018 as VP of Strategy and Advocacy. In this role, Tracy helps coordinate strategy across the food bank and her team works to leverage government programs to ensure that students in need have access to school and summer meals. The department also advocates for policies to reduce hunger.
Margaret Nyamumbo will tell us about her company, Kahawa 1893, which works directly with farmers, empowers women, and commits to transparency, with the goal of sharing the wealth.
Join us as we review 2020 and look toward 2021. We'll share updates from committees, report financial results and present recommendations for consideration by the membership. We'll also take a vote on the 2021 Board of Directors. Your input and feedback will be essential so this is a must-attend meeting for every active member.
Since I've not always had the best experiences in a book club, I thought I would design one that I would want to participate in. I could read the book I wanted. Everyone talking would have read the book they have an opinion about, and I’d get some great recommendations in a variety of book genres and authors.
Danielle Cohen is a charter member of the 100 Women Charitable Foundation which was founded in 2006 by a small group of friends. Their objective was to get 100 women to donate $100 that would be given out as grants to local nonprofits supporting under-served populations in the areas of education, family, and health & wellness.
We are women over 55. We will be seen for who we are. We are dynamic, involved, contributing, powerful, desirable, and vital. We will be included in the highest levels of decision making, planning, forecasting. We will be revered as indispensable matriarchs of our families.
Margaret Abe-Koga led the City of Mountain View (California) as mayor through the many challenges of 2020. But it was not her first time leading in a crisis. She was appointed mayor by her fellow city council members in 2009, during the Great Recession. Margaret will come talk to us about leadership in the face of national and global disasters.
Let's get together to discuss this issue further whether you do a webinar or not. Our session will give us Sisters a more intimate setting for this dialogue.
Imagine starting a new business during a global pandemic, the year you turn 80 years old—and exceeding your wildest aspirations by achieving of $500k income in the first nine months. Join us to talk with Rachel about how it all unfolded with grace and ease.
Charlene Murray will tell us about the principles of regenerative farming and how she embraces them on her 2.5 acres just outside the Almaden Valley of San Jose.
Seems like we are making great progress in returning to some sort of “normal", or at least being able to do things like we used to do before COVID-19. Like going on vacation and eating out. Please join me to chat about our thoughts on this new world we're re-entering.
African-American journalist Ida B. Wells was the first to call attention to the epidemic of lynching with her pamphlet, Southern Horrors, published in 1892. Terry Baum tells the story of the life of this courageous activist, a founding member of the NAACP, through historic photos and illustrations.
