June 12, 2025
Connecticut Convention Center
11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
E-mail: info@unitedway.org | Phone: 860.493.6800
WOMEN UNITED’S 14TH
ANNUAL POWER OF THE PURSE
LUNCHEON AND SILENT AUCTION
ANNUAL POWER OF THE PURSE
LUNCHEON AND SILENT AUCTION
June 12, 2025
For more than 14 years, United Way Women United’s Power of the Purse Luncheon and Silent Auction helps women and families achieve financial security. As more people struggle to make ends meet due to the complex job market and new sets of challenges, your support matters now more than ever. By participating in this year’s event, you are ensuring that people receive job training, financial education and savings opportunities. Thank you for your support!
Featuring Keynote Speakers Andrea Elliott and Dasani Coates
Andrea Elliott is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has documented the lives of poor Americans, Muslim immigrants and other people on the margins of power. She is an investigative reporter for The New York Times and the author of Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter.
Meet your 2025 Co-Chairs
Julia Johnson Brinson
Conning
Tara Linton
Cronin