TOGETHER WOMEN RISE

Together Women Rise (FORMERLY DINING FOR WOMEN)

2nd Tuesdays evenings, location varies.

The chapter enjoys a meal together; it may be in someone’s home or at church. Members share camaraderie and learn about that month’s featured grantees through videos, educational documents, and presentations, as well as free and open discussion. The money raised each month goes to fund the featured and sustained grantees, as well as support the entire mission of Together Women Rise. We meet on the 2nd Tuesdays in the evening (location varies).

NEXT MEETING: October 10, 2023 at the home of Joyce Smith

For the second consecutive year, Together Women Rise has earned the prestigious 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, the largest independent charity evaluating service in the world! This year, our rating soared from an already impressive 91 to an outstanding 99/100! Charity Navigator is now using more up-to-date information from Together Women Rise, and our commitment to financial stewardship is paying off, with improvements in our administrative ratio, liabilities to assets, and working capital. 

We’re also proud to announce that we’ve once again received the top, Platinum Seal of Transparency with Candid (formerly GuideStar). 

We have a chapter of this great organization that has been meeting at First Congo for more than 10 years. All women of our church and community are invited to attend our meetings (approximately 6–8 a year) on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Next month. we are meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 10 at the home of Joyce Smith. We try to have social time, dinner and a short program about our monthly grantee.

Please feel free to contact Laurel Seidelman at lseidelman@comcast.net for more complete information.

Click below for more information on Together Women Rise.

ABOUT OUR NEW NAME, TAGLINE & LOGO: These were designed to honor our organization’s past, to highlight our powerful community and impact on women and girls globally, and to set us up for even greater impact in the future.

This new name and tagline more clearly communicate who we are and what we stand for. The word “Together” is front and center in our new name because our chapters are the foundation of our organization and gathering together in our chapters lies at the root of our impact.

Our new tagline — Collective action for global gender equality — centers our mission and how we aim to get there: by harnessing the power of coming together to make a difference.

Contact: Laurel Seidelman, lseidelman@comcast.net

The Together Women Rise Chapter supported by our church received national recognition of our 10th Anniversary in 2020: “Every time your chapter meets, you are harnessing the collective power of women and girls which brings us all together in recognition of our common humanity. Thank you for your time, your creativity and your dedication to your chapter, our grantees and Together Women Rise (formerly Dining for Women).” 

Together Woman Rise (TWR) is a global giving circle that funds grassroots projects working in developing countries to fight gender inequality. TWR celebrates the power of the individual to see an injustice and act to change it; to see need and act to fill it. We are deeply involved in the grantees we support and the problems we seek to address.

Our education component is equally as important as our fundraising. We envision a world where the lives of women and girls have been transformed and extreme poverty has been reduced. Together Women Rise connects people in creative, powerful ways that assure gender equality.