Tiffany Circle Riverside County Chapter Founding Members Jennifer Hutson Dawn King Brenda Lorenzi Donna Luginbill Eleanor McGrew Vivian Moreno Pictured l-r:  Melanie Sabelhaus, National Tiffany Circle Chair;  Ellie McGrew, Vivian Moreno, Donna Luginbill, Brenda Lorenzi, Pamela Anderson, CEO Riverside County Chapter; Gail McGovern, CEO American Red Cross; and Bonnie McElveen Hunter, National Red Cross Board Chairman

The Tiffany Circle is a society of women leaders and philanthropists. By investing $10,000 annually in their local American Red Cross chapters, these women follow in the footsteps of a long line of women leaders who have helped the Red Cross serve the American public in times of war and peace with disaster assistance, blood collection, safety training and countless other community assistance services. The name Tiffany and the $10,000 amount have historical precedent. The society is named for the beautiful Tiffany windows in the Board of Governors Hall at Red Cross national headquarters in Washington, D.C. These windows, produced by the Tiffany Studios, were commissioned by Red Cross President Mabel Boardman in 1917. As an act of reconciliation and hope, they were paid for with a $5,000 gift from the Women's Relief Corps of the North and $5,000 from the United Daughters of the Confederacy of the South. The women in these windows personify virtues at work in the Red Cross Movement: hope, mercy, faith, charity, truth and fortitude. Members of the Tiffany Circle provide living examples of these virtues in their local communities, by ensuring the Red Cross has the ability to help people prevent, prepare for and respond to life's emergencies. Tiffany Circle, Riverside County Chapter The Riverside County Chapter of the American Red Cross launched its Tiffany Circle in February, 2009 with a luncheon at the Victoria Country Club in Riverside hosted by Brenda Lorenzi of Inland Empire Magazine.  Fifty women attended and were impressed to learn about all of the services the Red Cross was providing locally in their community.  An announcement of a “Matching Grant” to help launch the Tiffany Circle was made and three women immediately signed up as “founding members” of the Tiffany Circle, Riverside County Chapter!  Since then three more women have joined this exciting new society!  For information regarding membership in the Tiffany Circle, please contact Lois Beckman, Development Officer, at 888-831-0031, Ext. 1007.

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