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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
National summit for women comes to Civana BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor
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omen enjoy collaborating with other hardworking women. At the KNOW Women Summit, presented by PNC Bank, women can connect, engage and learn from powerful businesswomen from across the country. The two-and-a-half day summit created by KNOW Women runs Thursday, October 21, to Saturday, October 23, at Civana Spa and Resort. “KNOW Women started in 2017 right here in Phoenix, Arizona, as a concept for a resource guide that showcases women to know and do business with,” says Sarah Benken, founder and CEO of KNOW Women. “It was a vetted guide called the KNOW Book where we selected and vetted and approved women from all different industries,
all different ages, all different races to be part of this resource guide to showcase the amazing dynamic women who are doing big things in their industry as well as in the community.” Published in February 2018, the first KNOW Book profiled 130 women. By June of that year, there were 176 nominations for the next book. “I really just did this for my community because I wanted to meet and show the community all of these dynamic women that were in our cities, in our backyards doing big things,” the serial entrepreneur says. Following the launch party of the first KNOW Book, Benken realized she needed to go beyond a book and create a community. “I knew I wanted to be aligned with high-achieving women,” Benken says. “Women who were busy and juggling work and home, and really I wanted a place to let
my hair down and be seen, so I created it.” KNOW Women is working on its fifth Phoenix volume, and the organization has expanded to 15 other cities across North America. “By the end of 2018, we launched four additional publications: Raleigh, North Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina, where I’m from; Tampa, Florida; and Calgary, Canada,” Benken says. “We have local markets that host these KNOW Books, and we really launched in conjunction with that, along with memberships for women who want to align with our mission of women supporting women. We’ve also just expanded to becoming a full-service media company where we’ve got a podcast and we publish 16 articles a month on our KNOW Women’s site,
ans,” Rearley said. “They weren’t treated right when they came home. I want them all to now we care.” Fourteen years ago, she heard about Wreaths Across America and its annual wreath-laying ceremonies. She helped place the wreaths at the first ceremony she attended. It was so moving, she had to share it with her peers in the Paradise Valley Chapter
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. “It really touched my heart,” she said. “I had just lost my dad, who was a World War II veteran.” Wreaths Across America is a nonprofit founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington Na-
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Wreaths Across America seeks sponsors BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor
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arolyn Rearley understands the plight of military families. She comes from a long line of veterans, as her four brothers, husband and inlaws all served. “When I see veterans, I thank them for their service — especially Vietnam veter-
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