Harvard Circle of Women and Rent the Runway to cohost "A Night Out with Eleganza"

On Thursday, March 31st, the Harvard Circle of Women chapter and startup Rent the Runway will be cohosting "A Night Out with Eleganza," a preview fashion show and date auction. There will also be a silent auction featuring a Milly Dress, a Joan Hornig Necklace, and Rent the Runway Credit and Stylist Service. 

Circle of Women is excited to partner with both Rent the Runway and Eleganza in fundraising for an amazing cause!


Rent the Runway Promo Code: Harvard15, good for $15 off orders of $75

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon at Harvard: March 23, 2011

On Wednesday, March 23rd at 7pm, author Gayle Tzemach Lemmon will be at the Harvard Co-Op Bookstore for a discussion about her book, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe. 

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon worked as a journalist for nearly 10 years covering presidential politics and as a producer with the ABC News Political Unit and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. In 2004, she left ABC News to earn her MBA at Harvard, where she began writing about women entrepreneurs in war zones including Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Her reporting on entrepreneurs in these countries has been published by the New York Times, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, CNN.com, and the Daily Beast, as well as The World Bank and Harvard Business School.

The Dressmaker is PEOPLE Magazine's “Pick of the Week” with a four-star review.

“This book is guaranteed to move you—and to show you a side of Afghanistan few ever see.” – Angelina Jolie

Learn more about Ms. Lemmon's work and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana at http://www.gaylelemmon.com/. 

WNY Girls School Coalition: Project Educate hosts fashion show

On Saturday, March 19, the WNY Girls' School Coalition hosted their annual fashion show and fundraiser at Harry's Harbour Place Grille in Buffalo, NY. The WNY Girls' Schools Coalition began in 2002 as an alliance of girls from Nardin Academy, Buffalo Seminary, Holy Angels Academy and Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart. Over the past nine years, they have been able to raise over $44,000. This annual fashion show is the Coalition's largest fundraiser, and is their largest event in the chapter's history. This year's event showcased both American and Middle Eastern fashions. Area designers showcased their work, with the help of models from participating high schools. Ali Eagen, Anatomy designer and proprietor, shared twenty of her own looks. Local community-driven line "bi-cuz" by Park School junior Dylan Weiss shared fifteen outfits, along with work by Buffalo Seminary senior Riley Featherston. Additionally, ten traditional Islamic outfits were shared by a local family. All proceeds from the fashion in show will go towards labs and bathrooms at Project Keiri Reki, a Circle of Women School in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. Stay tuned for pictures and updates from the event! 


Congratulations to the girls of the WNY Girls' School Coalition for putting on such an inspiring event! 

For more information about the Project Educate Fashion Show, please visit: 
http://thegoodneighborhood.com/2011/03/15/project-educate-fashion-show-sends-proceeds-to-pakistan/
http://www.buffalorising.com/2011/03/fashion-show-to-benefit-girls-education-in-the-middle-east.html

Circle of Women's venture 'Skywater' takes 1st place in Princeton Green Business Plan Competition

On Saturday, February 26th, Circle of Women's sustainability venture 'Skywater' was awarded 1st place in the Princeton Green Business Plan Competition and recieved $7,600 in start-up funds. The Skywater team includes Alexandra Douwes '11, Jennifer Keeley '11, Kait Mauritz '11, Janelle Morris '11, and Genevieve Ryan '11.

In addition to Circle of Women's mission to build exceptional schools for girls, Skywater aims to make Project Ullapara in Bangladesh self–sustainable and revenue-generating by implementing a rainwater collection and distribution program. By designing our school with a building plan suitable for rainwater collection, we will be able to harvest rainwater, store it, and sell it to local businesses, banks, and service centers that are in need of a constant water supply. The profits made by selling this water will be put directly back into the school with the goal of achieving sustainability in three years. This venture is a part of the evolving model of Circle of Women, which encourages innovation and efforts towards sustainability and would address a very crucial concern of water quality in Bangladesh.

We are very honored to be awarded 1st place in this competition and are excited to start developing Skywater as Project Ullapara progresses.

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