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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”