Lunch To Feature Cokie Roberts

Thu., Feb. 3, 2000

From Staff Reports

The Women Helping Women Fund has announced that Cokie Roberts will be the keynote speaker for its eighth annual luncheon this spring.

The organization was recognized by the 1999 Inland Northwest Philanthropy Awards as the region’s Outstanding Nonprofit.

Roberts is the chief congressional analyst for ABC News and co-anchor with Sam Donaldson of their weekly review show. Roberts also serves as news analyst for National Public Radio. She writes a syndicated column and wrote the book “We Are Our Mother’s Daughters.”

Founded in 1992, the Women Helping Women Fund is designed to raise money for women’s and children’s causes.

The fund has raised $1.3 million, which has gone to 85 programs in Spokane County, providing assistance to 30,000 women and children in need, according to Mary Perdue, president of the organization.

The 1999 luncheon sold out, with more than 2,100 in attendance and raised $270,000.

This year’s luncheon is on May 15 at the Spokane Convention Center. For more information, call the Women Helping Women Fund office at 328-8285 or e-mail: wehelp@whwfspokane.org.

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