The Atlanta Women's Foundation Presents 18th Annual Fundraising Luncheon

The Atlanta Women’s Foundation (AWF) will host its 18th annual Numbers Too Big To Ignore luncheon on Thursday, November 6, at noon at the Georgia World Congress Center. Luncheon Co-Chairs Katie Bayne, Senior Vice President, Global Sparkling Brand Center, Coca-Cola North America and AWF Board member and Laurie Ann Goldman, former CEO of Spanx invite the metro Atlanta community to join them for a conversation to “Explore the Collective Power of Women.” The conversation will be led by featured speaker Pattie Sellers, Senior Editor-at-Large, FORTUNE, and founder of FORTUNE’s Most Powerful Women list and summit.

The annual fundraiser brings together key leaders and supporters from the greater Atlanta business and nonprofit communities to celebrate women and girls and recognize those who support AWF’s efforts to build a better future for the Atlanta community. This year’s interactive format will provide an opportunity for attendees to be a part of the conversation in new and exciting ways. Joining Katie Bayne, Laurie Ann Goldman and Pattie Sellers on stage will be AWF’s Board Chair Paula Goodman, Director Best Buy Stores, Executive Director Kelly Dolan, and other Atlanta women leaders.

“This year’s luncheon and new format highlights the influence women have in our community when we come together collectively,” said Luncheon Co-Chair Katie Bayne, “We are thrilled to have Pattie Sellers leading the discussion. She knows better than anyone how powerful women can be as leaders in the community.”

Kelly Dolan added, “With 320,000 women and girls living in poverty in the five metro Atlanta counties, building support for the cause and leveraging community resources are essential to break the cycle of generational poverty. This year’s interactive luncheon program will allow us to truly connect the 1,500 business and community leaders with the problem of generational poverty and the proven solutions that AWF supports. It will also demonstrate how each person in that room is an advocate for Atlanta’s women and girls.”

Numbers Too Big To Ignore is The Atlanta Women’s Foundation’s annual fundraising luncheon to support programs, policy, and awareness for women and girls. Individual tickets for the luncheon are available for $150 and tables of 10 are $1,500. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.atlantawomen.org. A variety of sponsorship opportunities are also available. For information on sponsorships, contact Kari Love at klove@atlantawomen.org or 404.577.5000 x110.

About Pattie Sellers
Pattie Sellers is Senior Editor-at-Large, FORTUNE, and Executive Director of MPW/Live Content, Time Inc.. She has written more than 20 FORTUNE cover stories including “Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo,” “Muhtar Kent’s New Coke,” “Oprah’s Next Act,” “The $100 Billion Woman” (Melinda Gates), and “Gone with the Wind” (Ted Turner). She co-founded FORTUNE Most Powerful Women and oversees the FORTUNE MPW Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond—and programs such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Pattie won Time Inc.’s prestigious MVP award for her performance in 2012.

About The Atlanta Women’s Foundation
The Atlanta Women’s Foundation’s mission is to be a catalyst for change in the lives of women and girls and to end generational poverty. The Foundation has invested nearly $13 million in Atlanta area nonprofit organizations that have successfully moved women and girls from poverty to economic self-sufficiency. In addition to local grantmaking, AWF produces programs, builds awareness and supports public policy in order to leverage community resources to break the cycle of generational poverty.

The Atlanta Women’s Foundation: Breaking Cycles. Building Women.

For more information, please visit www.atlantawomen.org.