Presented by Women Helping Women Fund

2025 Give Like a Woman

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Registration ends Wednesday, 05/14/2025 11:59pm PDT

 

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Your Ticket Includes Admission to...

  • 2:30 PM - Doors Open 
    • This will be a packed event! To accommodate for the crowd, doors will open at 2:30 PM. Arrive early to beat the rush.
  •  3:00 PM - Mingle and Meet Grantees
    • Snack on some appetizers, snap a photo in the photo booth, and find your table.
    • Back by popular demand, each of our grantees will have a table in the lobby before the program. This is your chance to learn more about their work and complete your philanthropy passport to be entered into our prize drawing!
  • 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Program
    • We are excited to hear from keynote speaker, Mariana Atencio! Mariana is a Peabody award-winning journalist, best-selling author, viral speaker, and television host. She will be taking the stage to discuss staying in control of your authenticity, and fostering resiliency and belonging no matter the circumstances. 

About Our Speaker

Mariana is a Peabody award-winning journalist, best-selling author, viral speaker and television host. 

Originally from Venezuela, she graduated from Merici High School and received a journalism degree from Universidad Católica. She also attended Choate Rosemary Hall, London School of Economics, UCLA and Georgetown University. 

When the government of Hugo Chávez shut down independent media outlets in her home country, she participated in student protests for democracy. After being assaulted in an armed robbery, Mariana fled to the United States when she received a scholarship to get her Masters degree in broadcasting from Columbia University’s Journalism School.

Over the course of 10 years, she became an anchor at Univision and a national correspondent at NBC and MSNBC. Mariana is known for her boots on the ground, engaging and empathic field work.  She has interviewed Pope Francis, President Biden and the King of Spain, among others. Her journey is featured on the award-winning HBO series “Habla” and People Magazine called her storytelling platform “a media empire”.

Her TEDx talk “What makes YOU special?” is one of the top 10 most watched on YouTube. Doubling down on her message, she wrote her best-selling memoir “Perfectly You” and has become one of the most sought-after speakers in the industry.

Meet Our Grantees

100% of the ticket sales for Give Like a Woman will support these nonprofits:

  • College Success Foundation: A national nonprofit organization that helps underserved, low-income students achieve their dream of a college education through a proven model of success.
  • Embrace Washington: Provides, support to children in foster care by raising awareness of vulnerable children's needs, identifying how to meet those needs by connecting individuals and organizations to serve the foster care community.
  • Family Promise of Spokane: Connects homeless families with those in their own neighborhood, increasing support networks and reinforcing the skills needed to maintain housing.
  • Joya Child & Family Development: Provides pediatric therapy provider serving children 0-3 in Spokane County. They offer occupational, physical and speech therapy together with special education services.
  • Lumen Public School: A high school that provides high academic standards, a specialized early learning center, and wrap-around supports to meet the layered needs of teen parents.
  • Maddie's Place: Provides medical care in a nurturing environment for substance-exposed infants, all while providing loving wraparound support for their caregivers.
  • Manzanita House: Embraces, equips, and empowers immigrants through access to culturally informed essential services, and facilitates connections to grow deeper roots and thrive.
  • Partners with Families & Children: A social safety net for abused and neglected children with the capability to provide holistic supportive family services to all families across the Inland Northwest.
  • Pre-Employment Preparation Program: Helping disadvantaged and underemployed individuals overcome barriers to successful employment in the building trades.
  • Shades of Motherhood Network: Ensuring every Black mother and mother of an infant of color has a high-quality, culturally relevant childbirth experience.
  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Spokane County: Offering a wide range of services designed to support the growth and development of young people in our community.
  • The Jonah Project: Serving survivors of sex trafficking and at-risk youth through preventative education, direct advocacy, and emergency relocation.
  • Thrive International: Providing temporary refugee housing, education, and empowerment programs to move refugees from surviving to thriving.
  • Vanessa Behan: Provides emergency respite care for children ages birth through 12 when their family is experiencing stress or a crisis.
  • Volunteers of America Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho: Provides vital comprehensive services to homeless pregnant and parenting teens and young women with their children.
  • Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen: Provides a vital safety net that fills nutritional gaps for women and children in need while fostering dignity and respect.
  • Women Healing and Empowering Network: Provides healing and empowerment through support services in the areas of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and related abuse.
  • YWCA Spokane: Helping women, children, and families to overcome social, economic, racial, and personal barriers to accomplish their goals and achieve healthier and more fulfilling lives.