Please join us for another wonderful Sisterhood of Super Women luncheon on Sunday May 20th from noon – 2pm.
This month’s charity of choice is The Pete Chavez Boxing Foundation, a non-profit youth intervention/prevention program dedicated to keep kids off the street by providing a safe, positive haven for them to train and compete in the sport of amateur boxing. The gym was recently vandalized and we’re asking that you please consider a monetary donation to help the gym with repairs and continuing it’s important work in the community. To see the CBS 5 News report about the vandalism please click news story.
Sylvia’s La Canasta on 7th Avenue in Phoenix will host our luncheon with a Mexican buffet for $12 per person, which includes tea or soft drink.
Cricket the “pencil whisperer” will also raffle another one of her amazing pieces of art, inspired by the Chavez Boxing Foundation.
Please click RSVP by May 18th if you are attending so we have enough food for everyone!
A BIG thank you to Peggy Marshall, Katie Marshall & Jodie Wilson for hosting the April SOSW luncheon. The wine pairing and harps in the garden atmosphere was a rousing success. Special thanks to Joyce Bueker for opening her beautiful home to us to benefit the Harp Foundation. We raised nearly $1,000 for this outstanding organization!
Thank you also to the Juniper Well Ranch Vineyard & Winery and Phoenix Wine for donating the wine at our April luncheon and to Linda who helped pour! Thanks also to Brenda Williams for donating the Tastefully Simple Food!
Please join us Sunday April 15, 2012 for another awesome Sisterhood of Super Women luncheon from 12 – 2pm.
The “Wine Pairing & Harps in the Garden” event will benefit The Harp Foundation, which promotes wellness by providing unique instrumental harp music in therapeutic settings and for individuals with special needs.
The luncheon will be hosted by Peggy Marshall, Katie Marshall and Jodie Wilson at Joyce Bueker’s home located at 5752 N. 2nd Avenue, Phoenix 85013.
Experience beautiful harp music while you learn how to keep your flavors in balance by pairing your food iwth a great bottle of wine.
$12 per person/pay at the door.
Please click RSVP by April 13, 2012.
Thank you to Debra Lee Murrow for hosting a wonderful March luncheon to benefit SWAN (Someone Worth Accepting Now) and its effort to purchase The Butterfly House, a home for victims and survivors of domestic violence. We helped raise more than $250 towards their goal.
Special thanks to Cricket Fosnaugh, Vangie Wilson, Kalyn with Think Positive Apparel, Cave Creek Tap Haus and Debra Murrow for their generous raffle donations!
And thank you to Cave Creek Tap Hausfor hosting us with their delicious food!
Please join us on Sunday March 11 from noon – 2pm for another SUPER Sisterhood of Super Women luncheon!
This month’s hostess is Debra Lee Murrow of COLOR Me Art Spa who has chosen SWAN (Someone Worth Accepting Now)as this month’s charity of choice. SWAN is a grassroots organization with the mission of supporting victims and survivors of domestic violence. Please join us to learn more about this important organization and the Butterfly House. They are requesting monetary donations to help buy a home for families affected by domestic violence.
We will gather for lunch at the Cave Creek Tap Haus on Cave Creek Road (13 miles north of the 101 Cave Creek exit).
We’ll also have items for sale from ColorMe Art & Think Positive Apparel so come ready to shop.
Raffle items will include ColorMe Art gifts; an original piece of art from Cricket Fosnaugh AKA The Pencil Whisperer; a Think Positive t-shirt; and gift certificate for a haircut and style by Vangie Wilson at Rumors Salon, Scottsdale.
Please click RSVP by Friday March 9th, if you are attending. See you there!
A BIG thank you to Lisa Pozzoni for hosting our February luncheon. We gathered and supported St. Joseph the Worker, which helps homeless, low-income and other disadvantaged individuals in their efforts to become self-sufficient through quality employment. Thanks for all of your monetary and in-kind donations – we collected $500 in cash and $105 in gift cards for SJW!
Special thanks to America’s Taco Shop for the catering the outstanding food!
Please join us for the February Sisterhood of Super women luncheon on Sunday February 12th from 12 – 2pm!
Our hostess this month is Lisa Pozzoni who’s chosen St. Joseph the Worker as our charity of choice.
SJW is a small, privately funded organization that provides resources and assistance to homeless, low-income and other disadvantaged individuals in their efforts to become self-sufficient through quality employment.
SJW asks that you please consider bringing a gift card donation to Wal-Mart, Fry’s, Target or Payless Shoes in any amount or a cash contribution to help in their charitable efforts.
We will be gathering at the SJW Human Services Campus in downtown Phoenix located at 1125 W. Jackson St., Phoenix 85007.
Lunch is $12 – 13 per person (cash or check accepted), provided by America’s Taco Shop.
Please click HERE to RSVP for accurate catering head count by Feb 8th.
Thanks to Alana Roberts & Cheryl Gillmore for hosting a terrific January Sisterhood of Super Women luncheon.
We gathered at Gabriel’s Angels to support the organization which provides healing pet therapy to at-risk children. Together we donated enough money to serve five children for a year and enough photo albums, stickers, photo paper and misc office supplies to help the organization continue to run smoothly.
Thank you to Kiss the Cook for providing a delicious luncheon & Gabriel’s Angels founder Pam Gaber for enlightening us to the beauty of what she brings to the community through Gabriel’s Angels.
Special thanks to Kathryn Henneman for raffling her beautiful artwork and Cheryl Gillmore for raffling her wonderful book & CD of poetry.
Please join us Sunday January 15, 2012 from 12 – 2pm for another fantastic Sisterhood of Super Women luncheon!
We will be gathering at Gabriel’s Angels, Inc., a non-profit that delivers healing pet therapy to at-risk children, nurturing their emotional development and enhancing the quality of their lives forever.
Gabriel’s Angels is also our January charity of choice.
The following is a list of items Gabriel’s Angels is asking you to consider donating.
Special thanks to Alana Roberts and Cheryl Gillmore for hosting this month’s luncheon and to Gabriel’s Angels founder Pam Gaber who will join us to talk about the wonderful work your support will enable the organization to continue.
Lunch is $12 per person (CASH ONLY, PLEASE) provided by Kiss the Cook.
$1 raffles of an art piece and poetry book and CD will benefit Gabriel’s Angels & the SOSW charitable causes.
Please allow extra time due to Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon traffic that day.
Click RSVP by Thursday, January 12, 2012.
A BIG thank you to Colleen Katz for hosting our December 2011 luncheon at the beautiful HEALing House to benefit HEAL (Happily Ever After League, supporting moms during their post surgery and cancer recovery).
HEAL founder & director Lauren Daniels moved us with the difference she is making in the community & Deni Austin inspired us with her courage!
Your canned good donations helped stock the HEALing House pantry for thankful families and your gift card donations benefited the HEALing House teen holiday party.
Thanks also to Marla and her Licensed to Bling boutique merchandise that helped raised money for HEAL and to Main Course for the delicious catered lunch.
Please join us for the December Sisterhood of Super Women luncheon!
SUNDAY DECEMBER 4, 2011
12 – 2:30pm
HEALing House – 4458 E. Sharon Drive, Phoenix 85032 (480)661-9353 or (480)748-1474 (provides monthly social outings & outreach for HEAL families)
Hosted by: Colleen Katz
Charity of Choice: HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE (HEAL) – non profit organization created to provide financial support to moms during their post surgery and recovery from cancer.
Special guests: Lauren Daniels, Founder & Director of HEAL & Deni Austin, HEAL recipient.
Requested donations: canned food for HEALing House pantry and/or gift cards for HEAL teen holiday party Dec. 17th.
Licensed to Bling boutique will sell clothing, jewelry & handbags with a portion of the proceeds going to HEAL, along with raffle & silent auction items to help benefit the SOSW charitable fund.
Lunch: $17, includes beverage, wine & dessert – provided by Main Course, a division of M Culinary concepts and Michaels Restaurant.
Please click RSVP by Friday December 2nd.
You’re invited to a very special Sisterhood of Super Women luncheon celebrating you and all the wonderful giving you’ve been doing all year!
Please join us Sunday November 13, 2011 from noon – 2pm at 20Lounge Nail Bar & Boutique in Scottsdale.
20Lounge will offer discounted manicures ($20) and pedicures ($30) between 11am and 3pm so please contact Vangie Wilson at VWilson@20lounge.com to make your appointment by November 7th.
Brow specialist Jo Jo Carmello is also going to be available for shaping your “windows to the soul” if you’re interested. Please also schedule an appointment through Vangie @ VWilson@20lounge.com
Licensed massage therapist Patricia Utter will offer chair massages for a donation benefiting the SOSW charitable fund.
$1 raffle tickets will buy you the chance to win a FABULOUS 20Lounge gift basket.
Gold Events USA will join us to BUY your unused jewelry! (See the “what we buy” flier below) Not only will YOU go home with cash but the company will donate 20% of its profit to the SOSW charitable fund.
Then, you can take your earnings & buy NEW jewelry if you choose. Kimberle Schumann will sell fantastic Premiere Design Jewelry with 50% going to the SOSW charitable fund.
Lunch is $8 and it includes dessert & wine!
Please click RSVP by Friday November 11 to attend.
 Gold Events USA "What We Buy" list" Special thanks to Avondale Mayor Marie Lopez Rogers for “hosting” our October luncheon and the wonderful food & service at Raul’s Original Mexican Restaurant.
Mayor Rogers chose Mapendo New Horizons as the October charity of choice. It’s an organization in Avondale that gives help and hope to vulnerable survivors of physical, psychological, and social trauma in Africa by ensuring them easy access to health care, protection and security. We were blessed to hear Rose Mapendo’s inspirational story of surviving the genocide and together, we raised nearly $500 for her ongoing mission to empower other women, such as herself.
Check out the Gazette Girlz blog about the SOSW October luncheon!
Thank you also to Nanette, Cheryl & Jodie for selling their respective jewelry, books & magazine with proceeds benefiting the SOSW charitable fund and to Vangie Wilson for donating the fabulous Rumors cut and color raffle prize!
DON’T FORGET TO ORDER: Sisterhood of Super Women T-Shirts, Baseball Caps, Charity Charm bracelets & Coffee Mugs are available for purchase NOW. Please click on the “Merchandise” link at the top of this homepage for information.
Please save the date for the October Sisterhood of Super Women luncheon!
Sunday October 9, 2011
12pm – 2pm
Raul’s Original Mexican Restaurant
1109 N. Dysart Road, Avondale, 85323
Buffet lunch – $12 per person.
We are honored to have Avondale Mayor Marie Lopez Rogers, hosting this month’s luncheon. She has chosen as her charity of choice: Mapendo New Horizons, an organization in Avondale that gives help and hope to vulnerable survivors of physical, psychological, and social trauma in Africa by ensuring them easy access to health care, protection and security.
We will pass the “Hope Jar” to help Mapendo New Horizons continue it’s efforts, with a special presentation by Rose Mapendo, who will speak about her mission to empower other women, such as herself, who survived the genocide as well as other gender-based violence or discrimination.
Donor tax receipts will be provided.
Please click RSVP by October 7th if you can join us.
Our October luncheon will include a raffle for gift certificate for a cut & color at Rumors Salon ($140 value). Tickets are just $1 each with all proceeds benefiting the SOSW charitable fund.
Also at the October luncheon: Cheryl Gillmore will be selling her two books: a novel & collection of Poems. They are $14.95 each with $5 of each sale going to the SOSW charitable causes.
Nanette Bowles will also sell Lia Sophia jewelry at the October luncheon with 50% of the sales going to the SOSW charitable causes.
Sisterhood of Super Women T-Shirts, Baseball Caps, Charity Charm bracelets & Coffee Mugs are available for purchase NOW. Please click on the “Merchandise” link at the top of this homepage for information.
Special thanks to Sherry Butler & Jodi Polanski for an amazing September luncheon. We raised nearly $400 for the Lost Our Home Pet Foundation, signed up some prospective volunteers and fosters and even got the ball rolling on a pet adoption!
Thank you Spike’s Treats for opening their doggie boutique to us and to Classic Cuisine Inc. for catering the delicious lunch.
Please join us for another super luncheon Sunday September 18, 2011 from noon – 2pm at Spike’s Treats (Plaza Fountainside/12645 N. Saguaro Blvd., STE 14) in Fountain Hills. (480)634-4449.
This month’s luncheon “hosts” Sherry butler and Jodi Polanski have selected Lost Our Home Pet Foundation as September’s charity of choice.
LOH is a nonprofit group of real estate professionals who rescue pets abandoned due to foreclosures or other financial hardships. We will pass the “Hope Jar” at the luncheon for monetary donations of any kind to help support veterinary care for the animals. Or they’re requesting donations of pet food, particularly cat food.
LOH will also raffle two pet-related items and sell a couple of purses with all proceeds benefiting their cause.
Lunch is $13 per person, catered by Classic Cuisine Inc:
Southwestern Chicken Pasta Salad w/fruit & pecans, Cole Slaw, Foccacia Bread, Fruit Cobbler, Iced Tea/Water.
and – THE SOSW CHARITY BANDS ARE HERE! They are for sale at the luncheon in pink & black for $9 each or go the “merchandise” tab at the top of this page for info about how to order them via mail.
Please click here to RSVP to the September luncheon by Friday September 15th.
Thanks to Angie Mortemore for a wonderfully moving August luncheon at 1130 Restaurant in Phoenix. We raised more than $300 in cash and gift cards for the Jewish Family & Children’s Service Youth in Transition program.
A big thank you as well to Angie, Vangie, Debra, Kathleen & Jodie for their sales & raffle donations to the SOSW fund!
Please join us on Sunday August 21, 2011 from noon – 2pm at 1130 the Restaurant, Arizona Center (455 N. 3rd St., #1130, Phoenix). $3 garage parking w/validated ticket or free on the street.
Lunch is $14 (choice of Reuben sandwich w/fries, Chicken sandwich w/fries or Salmon salad w/bread plus beverage (does not include tax or gratuity).
This month’s hostesss, Angie Mortemore, has selected the Jewish Family & Children’s Service “Youth in Transition” program as our charity of choice. They are requesting donations of gift cards to movie theaters, haircuts or retails stores like Walmart (anything applicable to children).
This month we will raffle-off two items to benefit the Sisterhood of Super Women:
1. An autographed copy of actress Eva Longoria’s new cookbook “Eva’s Kitchen: Cooking with Love for Family and Friends”
2. A gift certificate for a 1 hour facial at 20Lounge Salon & Nail Spa ($90 value)
Super Woman Jodie Wilson will also sell copies of her magazine Discover The Phoenix Region for $2 each with $1 benefiting the Sisterhood of Super Women.
Please RSVP by Friday August 19th.
A very big thank you to Cindy Hunt for hosting our July Super Women luncheon at Sojourner Center, our July charity of choice. We were deeply moved and educated by what we learned about domestic violence. The Sisterhood of Super Women proudly donated $1,074 to Sojourner Center in in-kind donations and cash.
Special thanks also to those who provided items for sale and raffle to benefit the Sisterhood. We raised $400 to continue our mission!
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I am a Super Woman.
It’s taken me a long time to admit and embrace that. But let's be honest, women - we’re master multitaskers, often carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders. We juggle career and family, try to get involved in our community - maybe squeeze in some social time - and still find time to fuel our passion for various causes and charities that need our help.
We’re so used to doing it all that, if you’re like me, you'd often end up beating yourself up at the end of the day for missing something – rather than applauding the fact that you achieved a lot.
Nearly two years ago I started experiencing that overwhelming sense of stretching myself too thin. I brought it up during one of my motivational speeches and was comforted by a large number of women who told me afterward, they felt the same way!
So I started thinking: we’ve grown up hearing about Super Man – and not nearly enough about Super Woman. Super – not because we have extraordinary powers – but because we do super things that tend to fall under the radar because we’re either not conditioned to tooting our own horns – or we make it look so effortless, few people notice.
That’s when the idea came to me: why not pick one Sunday a month – where every super woman I know –and every super woman they know (and so on, and so on) could get together over lunch and spend two hours sharing our passions, celebrating our achievements, and inspiring and embracing each other for the super things we do? Then, take it a step further by tapping into our collective desire to give back to our community by picking a different charity each month to support through cash or in-kind donations.
Plus, we would pledge to only gather in locally-owned businesses or restaurants so we’re not only keeping part of the dollars we spend in the community, but we’re also recognizing and giving our business to local entrepreneurs.
That is how I came to found the Sisterhood of Super Women. If you go to our website you’ll see the nearly two dozen charities and causes we’ve supported with 50 thousand-plus pounds of donated goods and $5,000+ dollars in cash, or the two dozen different restaurants, caterers galleries and boutiques we’ve supported with our lunches and purchases.
Little did I know my small idea would turn into something so incredibly big! I know, because organizations like Childhelp tell us. 50 years ago, Sara O'Meara and Yvonne Fedderson founded Childhelp to protect children and families from child abuse. These two super women recently hosted one of our luncheons at their Valley headquarters and opened their hearts to us about their mission and how we could help. And boy did we come through! We raised and donated $1,000 that day to help these ladies continue with their child-saving efforts.
We are women from all walks of life; CEOs, writers, mothers, lawyers – you name it – with one common thread: a passion for women helping women succeed and celebrate our super selves.
To join us, fill out the information on our Contact Us page.
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