Our Annual Women Helping Women luncheon brings together over 400 members of our community to raise important funds for the Women Helping Women program, managed by the Pardee Hospital Foundation.  This year’s luncheon will be held at Blue Ridge Community College in the Conference Hall.  Guests may arrive as early as 10:30 am to shop our Retail Row and mingle with other guests.  The luncheon will begin at 12 noon.

 This year, we celebrate 26 years of helping women in our community offset the costs of critical healthcare in times of need.

Our program will feature Kate Bowler, PhD, New York Times bestselling author, podcast host and a professor at Duke University. At age 35, she was unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, causing her to think in different terms about the research and beliefs she had been studying. She penned the New York Times bestselling memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved), which tells the story of her struggle to understand the personal and intellectual dimensions of the American belief that all tragedies are tests of character.