Upward of 300 people came to Hubbard Park to run, walk, support, and volunteer at a 5K hosted by the University of Iowa organizations: Women in Business, or WIB, Women in Health, or WIH, and the Society of Women Engineers, or SWE.
The park, filled with catering by Everbowl and Traveling Tom’s Coffee, raised more than $6,000 for Women in Business on March 29. All proceeds will be donated to the Iowa Women’s Foundation.
A portion of the profits made by SWE will be donated to the SWE’s Financial Need Scholarship Fund, and the remainder will support the SWEekend Club benefit. Forty percent of the funds raised by Women in Health will be donated to the Emma Goldman Clinic, while the remaining 60 percent will go to Women in Healthcare to further their mission to support women in the healthcare field…