2025 Women Helping Women Donors and Sponsors
Thank you to our generous sponsors and donors who helped the 27th Annual Women Helping Women event raise over $234,000! Your contribution ensures mental health services for women, children and families who are uninsured or underinsured.
Presenting Sponsor | $10,000
Sally Wallace, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Visionary Sponsor | $7,500
Carol Bodensteiner, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Leadership Sponsors | $5,000
Exclusive Sponsors | $5,000
Media Sponsor
Supporting Sponsors | $2,500
Pamela Bass-Bookey
Cultivating Compassion: The Dr. Richard Deming Foundation
Jann Freed and John Fisher
Foster Group
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Mary Gottschalk
Gateway Market and Cafe
Virginia Lauridsen, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Shirley Poertner
Polk County Board of Supervisors
Prairie Meadows
Linda Rullan
Rachel Stauffer
Stivers Ford Lincoln
Susan and Carl Voss, in honor of Jim Hayes
Marti Wade, in honor of Mary Gottschalk and Jim Hayes
West Bank
Michele and Steve Whitty
Willis Automotive
Sally Wood
Table Hosts | $1,500
Barbara Beatty
Patricia Boddy and Laura Sands
Connectify HR
Beth and Tim Coonan, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Dental Professionals
Des Moines University
Rachel Hardin and Anne Roth
Judy Akre Heseman
Trudy Holman Hurd
Debbie Hubbell
Hubbell Realty
Amber Juffer
Jennifer Lock Oman
Claudette and P.J. McDonald
D.J. Newlin
Mary M. Riche
Priscilla D. Sayeed
Nan Stubbs, in memory of Iola Tollakson
Karen Stuyvesant
Wells Fargo Advisors
Kim and Rich Willis
Special Friends – $1,000
Amega Garage Door
Connie Beasley
Joan Betts
Shayla From
Anonymous
Starr Hinrichs
Ann and Tom Holme
Joanie Houston
Andrea James
Martha James
Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines
Nancy Main
The Middleton Family
Brenda Mouw
Pauline and William Niebur
Barb and Andy Nish
Jill Oman
Lynsey Oster
Leigh OTool, in memory of Terri Henkels
Katie Patton
Kay Riley
Jackie Saunders
Susan Moritz Scharnberg
Karen Shaff and Steve Jayne
Rebecca Shaw, in honor of Vonnie Linnevold
Diana Sickles, in honor of Teri Hughes-Paulline
Laurie Betts Sloterdyk, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Barbara Stennes
Heather Stuyvesant, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Sarah Sullivan and Nicholas Bigelow, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
ChildServe
Zanzibar’s Coffee Adventure
Leader Plus – $500
Susan Ackelson
Beverly Apel
Stephanie Asklof
Bank of America
Margo and Don Blumenthal
Suzan Kelsey Brooks
Phyllis Cacciatore, in honor of Ellery Duke
Elizabeth Chrisinger, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Alicia and David Claypool
Concepts Cares
Christine Coons
Delta Dental of Iowa
Denise Essman, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Rachel Degen,
Explore Self & Soul
Peggy Fisher
Jane Fogg
Diane Glass and Jeff Means, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Sharon Goldford, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
GuideOne Foundation
Susan Hansen
Sarah Hayes, M.D.
Leslie Heimbach
Barbara L. Hein
Laura and Roger Jacobsen
Anne M. Kelly
Heidi Koll
Fritz Wehrenberg and Jennie LeGates
Reo Menning
Ann Michelson
Liz Neumann
Jeanne O’Halloran
Katie Gibson Overby
Donna L. Paulsen and Thomas E. Press
Allison Peet
Kendra Simmons
Terri Mork Speirs
Joan Stark
Mary Stuart
Elaine Van Dyck
Char Vukovich
Judy Winkelpleck
Leader – $250
Nancy Adrianse
Jacque Andrew, in honor of Carol Leech
Becky Anthony
Mary K Bartine
Mary Ann Beard
Brooke A. Benschoter, in honor of Mary Gottschalk and Roberta Yoder
Sandy Benson Johnson/Benson Family Foundation, in memory of Evelyn Adams Benson
Cathy Besh
Connie Boesen
Nancy Bone, in memory of Paula Duncan
Loy and Ellie Brooks, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Sue Caley
Marilyn Carroll, in memory of Diann Peyton
LaNae Ceryanec
Diane Child
Rhonda Clark-Leyda, in memory of Kent Zimmerman
Holly Craiger
Teresa Dayton
Suzanna de Baca
Cheri Doane
Ardene Downing, in honor of Connie Isaacson
Kelly Edmister
Jamie Fitzgerald
Allison and Jim Fleming
Robin Fortney, in memory of Sister Lisa Woodson Boughman
Linda Goeldner
Bonnie Green
Jan Hardin
Norma Hirsch
Dixie Hoekman
Teri and Greg Paulline
Julie Ingersoll
Linda Jennings
Joanne Johnson
Beth Stelle Jones
Maureen Keehnle
Connie Klug
Mary F. Kunkel
Christine Lewis
Cyril Mandelbaum, in honor of Mary Gottschalk
Sandy McClelland
Cathy McMullen and Don Worrell
Xan McNelly, in memory of Kent Zimmerman
Anne Merschman
Kurt and Melissa Ness, in memory of John Mease
Greg Nichols and Dawn Connet
Charlotte Noble
Laura Nydam, in honor of Mary Gottschalk and the late Kent Zimmerman
Noreen O’Shea
Marilyn Parsons
Sally Pederson
Susan Pogge
Judge Artis Reis
Wilma Richards
Susy Robinette
Helen Robinson
Katherine Safris
Nicky Schissel, in memory of Kent Zimmerman
Eliza Ovrom
Chris Sidwell
Sheila Starkovich Lingwall
Randi Stern
Hallie Still-Caris
Ellen Strachota
Matt and Erin Strawn
Joyce and Harold Templeman
Karen Unrau
Ann Victor
Sheri and Dick Vohs
Susan Vujnovich McRoberts
Marilyn Warling
Linda Weidmaier
Dee Willemsen
Jean Williams
Jane Wine
Roberta Yoder
Young Leaders- $125
Aura Baquero Cassab
Rachel Bruns
Maggie Glisan
Anonymous, in honor of Carol Bodensteiner
Ali Makris
Ann-Charlotte Meyer
Anna Nalean
Emily and Maeve Webb
Thank you to our supportive Committee & Underwriting Cabinet Members!
2025 Planning Committee
Stephanie Asklof
Cathy Besh
Kinzy Gillespie
Maggie Glisan
Cate Holec
Kelly Isaacson
Amber Juffer
Heidi Koll
Susannah Lautensleger
Leigh OTool
Nina Pack
Shirley Poertner
Kelly Sparks
Connie Wilson
Melissa Cano-Zelaya
2025 Underwriting Cabinet
Pamela Bass-Bookey
Laurie Betts Sloterdyk
Carol Bodensteiner
Beth Coonan
Jann Freed
Shayla From
Sharon Goldford
Rachel Hardin
Starr Hinrichs
Andrea James
Claudette McDonald
Katie Roth
Sarah Sullivan
Marti Wade
Sally Wallace