Many Mothers annual fundraiser

An Afternoon With Valerie Plame Wilson

Friday May 11, 3:30 p.m. - 6:30p.m.

Santa Fe Community College, Jemez Room

Silent Auction with GREAT items and our coveted Raffle Baskets ($5 a ticket!)
Host Wine Bar, Delicious hors d'oeuvres prepared and served by SFCC Culinary School

Tickets: $35 Call (505)983-5984 for your tickets.

Our keynote speaker, Ms. Plame Wilson is, among many other things, a former CIA covert operations officer, author and mother of twins who serves on the President’s Council for Postpartum Support International, having experienced PPD after the birth of her children. Valerie will be staying after her talk to meet you personally, and to enjoy the food, wine and a silent auction.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following sponsors of our event:  Allegra Marketing Print Mail, Con Alma Health Foundation, First Citizens Bank, Los Alamos National Bank, New Mexico Bank & Trust, Santa Fe Community College, and Southwest Airlines.

We look forward to sharing this informative and fun event with you!

Many Mothers provides a free service to families with newborns in the Santa Fe area. In today's fast-paced world where families are geographically dispersed or working, families often do not get the help they need. Many Mothers provides a vital service to any family with a new baby - free of charge to all income levels.

When a family calls, we match one of our skilled volunteers to their needs. The mother may need help with simple things like grocery shopping, reading a story to a sibling or rocking the baby so she can take a shower or rest. She may also just need a little company. No task is too small.

Many Mothers knows how exhausted and overwhelmed mothers and families can feel after the birth of a baby. We honor the work it takes to bring a child into this world and we nurture the one who did it. The more a mother feels cared for, the more able she is to care for her baby.

"Nearly all of us receive our first lessons in peaceful living from our mothers."

Did you know that:

• Many Mothers has served over 450 moms, 480 newborns (38 sets of twins, 2 sets of triplets and 2 older adopted children) and 234 siblings in the 18 years we have served the Santa Fe community.
• Our families are Anglo, Latino, Native American, Asian, and African American.
• Our volunteer care providers include doulas, midwives, lactation consultants, infant massage therapists, social workers, teachers, nurses, day car providers, mothers, and grandmothers.
• In the last year 28% of our moms were single, raising their children alone.
• 50% of our families have annual incomes below $30,000
• The "Many Mothers Circle" meets monthly for moms to learn from educational presentations and to network for peer support and self empowerment.
• Many Mothers supports replication of its program in other communities with its "How to...." guidebook and personal mentoring. New programs are now underway in Los Alamos, NM, Washington state, Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan, with others in development.
• Many Mothers' support empowers new mothers and fosters the vital mother/child bond.
• Many Mothers' Pay It Forward program accepts and redistributes gently used newborn and maternity clothing, baby equipment, breast pumps, etc to families with newborns.
• Many Mothers' services are entirely free to families and we plan to keep it that way!
• Home visiting programs are proven to improve children's ability to form healthy relationships, succeed at school and earn higher paying jobs, and to increase life expectancy, while reducing juvenile delinquency and substance abuse.
• Helping families from the very start is preventative and reducing the need for future intervention with its higher societal costs.
• The degree of a mother's post-partum depression is inversely related to the amount of support she receives.

For Every Birth, Many Mothers

“If we do not have peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

Mother Teresa