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Tag: Linda Baxter

Life In the Berkshires

Philanthropic group brings women together to raise money for underprivileged women and girls

This year’s program will share how women all over the world are fighting for environmental justice in their own countries and communities while recognizing that the impacts of climate change are not evenly distributed around the world, and they are different for women and men.

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on March 6, 2020
Business

Business Briefs: Women’s health initiative; $1M gift for Barrington Stage; new LitNet executive director; Greylock scholarships; Wheeler joins BMM

Literacy Network of South Berkshire welcomes Diane Rosenthal as executive director.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on January 24, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Amplifications: Q&A with Dining for Women’s Leslye Heilig

The organization formed in 2002 when retired nurse Marsha Wallace, a mother of four from Greenville, North Carolina, read an article about friends who met for potluck dinners and donated the money that would have been spent on restaurant meals.

by Rochelle O'Gorman
Posted on February 12, 2019
News

CHP partners with Fairview Hospital to add midwives to its OB-GYN services

CHP provides the only OB-GYN practice south of Lenox and works closely with Fairview Hospital to provide maternity and women’s health care in the community. Fairview is a great place to practice with a midwifery model.

by Edge Staff
Posted on March 12, 2018
Farm and Table

WHAT’S COOKIN’: Leslye Heilig’s chicken soup

Making dinner is not the only culinary activity in Heilig’s life. She and Linda Baxter, a retired nurse midwife, founded a local chapter of Dining for Women, a national organization with chapters all over America.

by Laurily Epstein
Posted on October 5, 2016
Life In the Berkshires

Philanthropic Berkshires: Dining for Women

An international organization, Dining for Women’s motto is “changing the world, one woman, one girl, one dinner at a time.”

by Laurily Epstein
Posted on December 16, 2015
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