2026 Women Helping Women Donors and Sponsors
Thank you to our generous sponsors and donors who helped the 28th Annual Women Helping Women event raise over $230,000! Your contribution ensures mental health services for women, children and families who are uninsured or underinsured.
Presenting Sponsor | $10,000
Sally Wallace
Leadership Sponsors | $5,000
Carol Bodensteiner, in honor of Jeriann Ritter
Rusty Hubbell
La Donna Matthes
Terri Vaughan, in honor of Suzanna de Baca
Susan and Carl Voss, in honor of Suzanna de Baca
Michele and Steve Whitty
Kathi Zimpleman
Media Sponsor
Supporting Sponsors | $2,500
Pamela Bass-Bookey
Body Wisdom Massage Therapy School
Cultivating Compassion: The Dr. Richard Deming Foundation
Jann Freed and John Fisher
Foster Group
Gateway Market and Cafe
Mary Gottschalk, in honor of Suzanna de Baca
Charlotte and Fred Hubbell
Iowa Radiology
Shirley Poertner
Polk County Board of Supervisors
Prairie Meadows
Rachel Stauffer
Stivers Ford Lincoln
Wells Fargo Advisors
Connie Wimer
Sally Wood
Floral Sponsor
Boesen the Florist
Table Hosts | $1,500
Susan Ackelson
Barbara Beatty
Broadlawns Medical Center
Carrier Access, Inc.
Central Presbyterian Church
Roxanne Barton Conlin
Suzanna de Baca
Delta Dental of Iowa
Des Moines University
Amy Doyle
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Judy Akre Heseman
Debbie Hubbell
Hubbell Realty
Trudy Holman Hurd
Claudette and P.J. McDonald
Navigate Wellbeing Solutions
D.J. Newlin
Tom Polking
Mary M. Riche
Kay Riley
Linda Rullan
Sticks Inc. & Rachel Eubank, in honor of Amy Putney Koenig
Karen Stuyvesant
Eric and Niki Swanson
Kim and Rich Willis
Zanzibar’s Coffee Adventure
Special Friends – $1,000
Connie Beasley
Joan Betts
Childserve
Christine Coons
Nora and Dave Everett
Kathy Fehrman
Jim and Sarah Hayes
Leslie Heimbach
Starr Hinrichs
Ann and Tom Holme
Joanie Houston
Kate Juelfs
Melissa Ness and Cynde Cronin
Pauline and William Niebur
Cynthia O’Brien
Jill Oman
Lynsey Oster
Leigh OTool, in memory of Terri Henkels
Katie Patton
Sharon and James Rasmussen
Jackie Saunders, in memory of Gail Stilwill
Susan Moritz Scharnberg
Karen Shaff and Steve Jayne
Rebecca Shaw
Heather Stuyvesant, in honor of Amy Putney Koenig
Sarah Sullivan and Nicholas Bigelow
Leader Plus – $500
Stephanie Asklof
Brooke Benschoter, in honor of Roberta Yoder
Sandy Benson Johnson/Benson Family Foundation, in memory of Evelyn Adams Benson
Margo Blumenthal, in honor of Suzanna de Baca
Suzan Kelsey Brooks
Alicia and David Claypool
Concepts Cares
Rachel Degen, in honor of Amy Putney Koenig
Sondra Eddings
Kevin Frey
Shayla From
Diane Glass and Jeff Means, in honor of Eileen Burtle
Barbara L. Hein
Norma Hirsch
Laura and Roger Jacobsen
Linda Jennings
Anne M. Kelly
Mary Kramer, in memory of Lee Miller
Nancy Main
Cyril Mandelbaum
Lorraine May
Andy McGuire
Cathy McMullen and Don Worrell
Reo Menning
Jeanne O’Halloran
Donna L. Paulsen and Tom E. Press
Allison Peet
Judge Artis Reis
Susy Robinette
Brenda and Jaey Sedlacek
Jackie Seibert
Terri Mork Speirs
Mary Stuart
Char Vukovich
Linda Weidmaier
Meg and Patrick Whitty
Dee Willemsen
Judy Winkelpleck
Roberta and Reg Yoder
Leaders – $250
Nancy Adrianse
Becky Anthony, in honor of Jeriann Ritter
Mary Ann Beard
Carrie Bening, in memory of Linda Vernon Jones
Kristen Benge
Connie Boesen
Nancy Bone
Darca Boom
Rachel Bruns
Marilyn Carroll
Mollie Cooney
Teresa Dayton
Christine Dietz, in memory of Isabel Dietz
Kelly Edmister
Karen Engman
Denise Essman, in memory of Allen Essman
Peggy Fisher
Jamie and Julie Fitzgerald
Ann Flood, in honor of Karla and Mark Minear
Robin Fortney, in memory of Lisa Woodson Baughman
Sandra Githens
Linda Goeldner
Sharon Goldford, in honor of Suzanna de Baca
Kimberly Graham, in honor of Rebecca Shaw
Bonnie Green
Courtney Greene, in honor of Jeriann Ritter
Happy at Home Consulting
Jan Hardin
Victoria L. Herring
Audra Hiebert
Jennifer Keen Hilmes
Dixie Hoekman
Dr. Alexandra Hubbell
Connie Isaacson, in honor of Suzanna de Baca
Joanne Johnson
Maureen Keehnle
Mary K. Kelly
Mary F. Kunkel
Christine Lewis
Robbie G. Malm
Mary Lee Madison, in honor of Kimberly & Nia Madison
Sally Pederson
Susan Pogge
Susan Vujnovich McRoberts
The Middleton Family
Wilma Richards
Helen Robinson
Jackie Romp
Mary Boote Roth
Pam Schoffner, in honor of Shirley Poertner
Kendra D. Simmons
Kimberly Shadur
Sheila Starkovich Lingwall
Ellen Strachota
Cheryl Sypal
Joyce and Harold Templeman
Marsha Ternus
Karent Unrau
Elaine Van Dyck
Marti Wade
Deb Wiley and John Schmidt, in honor of Mary Riche
Jean Williams
Emily Williams-Bouska, in honor of Suzanna de Baca
Eleanor Zeff
Young Leaders – $125
Mary Helen Grace and David Grace
Sarah Heuertz
Jenna Knox, in honor of Suzanna de Baca
Emily and Maeve Webb
Ali Markis
All updates as of 5/14/26
Thank you to our supportive Committee & Underwriting Cabinet Members!
2026 Planning Committee
Kinzy Gillespie, Co-Chair
Susannah Lautensleger, Co-Chair
Amy Cownie
Audra Hiebert
Starr Hinrichs
Cate Holec
Kelly Isaacson
Sydney Marshman
Mary McCarthy
Leigh OTool
Shirley Poertner
Connie Wilson
2026 Underwriting Cabinet
Carol Bodensteiner
Amy Doyle
Jamie Fitzgerald
Jann Freed
Claudette McDonald
Tom Polking
Laurie Betts Sloterdyk
Sarah Sullivan
Susan Voss
Michele Whitty