Rosie’s Place, a Boston-based community center for poor and homeless women, announced that it raised $1,015,000 at its recent luncheon.
Funny Women…Serious Business, held November 6 at the Thomas M. Menino Convention and Exhibition Center brought 1,400 supporters together to celebrate and support the vital work of Rosie’s Place, the first shelter for women in the United States. Retired WCVB 5 anchor Susan Wornick and WCVB’s Shayna Seymour co-hosted the afternoon with featured speaker Rachel Louise Snyder, an award-winning author and investigative journalist whose work explores the causes and consequences of the violence that impacts women. Her powerful memoir, Women We Buried, Women We Burned, recounts her own story of loss and survival.
This event was made possible through the support of Presenting Sponsors: Cherise and Robert Bransfield, Christina and Michael Gordon, G-P, Erin O’Connor Kent and Patrick Kent, Kristen and John Maxwell, Michele May and David Walt, Bob and Christa Murray, New Balance Foundation and Deb and Mark Pasculano and Leading Sponsors: Kathi Blair, Christy and Jay Cashman, Forest Foundation, Lee and Peter Frechette, The Gilson Family Foundation, Beth Edwards Harris, Highland Partners Charitable Fund, Linda and Joseph Hooley, Michelle and Lyle Knight, Jane and Joe Kringdon, The Madison Family, Pinkham Busny LLP and Lisa Wexler and Tom Monroe…