Well, it looks like Spring is finally on its way...and we hope you have been busy preparing to plant the seeds of your growth for the rest of the year! TWM has certainly been busy the past month working on a lot of behind the scenes projects necessary in order for us to blossom!

One of those tasks was to finally mail out the beautiful 8-page printed newsletter we have been talking about for the last several months - we thought that Women's History Month and our Membership Drive was a perfect time to send them to anyone we had a correct snail mail address for prior to March 1. Over 600 of you should have received one and now have a better idea and understanding of who we are and what we've done up until now.

INSPIRER (the name of our newsletter) was a tremendous undertaking for us, and would not have been possible without the contributions of our intern writers Lauryn Bianco and Tamika Yador, and without the extremely hard work, talent and dedication of our graphic design intern Christina Quintero, and our TWM member and volunteer editor-extraordinaire Michelle French. A BIG TWM thank you to them (as well as to Craig Wenrich for generously donating the printing of it) for making this significant premiere issue so special and a pleasure to work on with! For those of you who did not receive one, we have put a PDF version of it up on our website which you can access by the link below.

Last month, we had a great evening at Nine Parts of Desire on Wednesday, March 9th where we got to experience the amazing talents of Heather Raffo combined with the fascinating and heart-wrenching subject matter of the current plight of Iraqi women. Please see below for the article and link to photos.

March also saw the promotion of our Women's History Month Membership Drive, which was a moderate success. Thank you very much to everyone who recently joined! We hope that those of you who have it on your to-do list make a point of crossing it off sooner rather than later, as your support is urgently needed now. For more information on Membership see the article and link below.

As you know, this Saturday, April 9th we will be offering our semi-annual transformative Visioning Workshop: Using Your Creativity and Intuition to Gain Clarity, Find Focus and Manifest Your Dreams! This workshop continues to be extremely popular, and even if you have done one in the past, because your life is constantly moving and changing, it is good idea to periodically re-evaluate where you are and what you want. Spring is a time of re-birth, and this workshop provides a great tool to help you see what you want that re-birth to look like! See the side bar for details and and Evite link.

Don't forget that also next month, we are once again organizing a team to participate in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women's Cancer on Saturday, April 30th, led by Captain Tina Marie Greene. Please see below for more details and a registration link, and contact her directly with any questions.

In other news, TWM is pleased to welcome the addition of Development Intern Rebecca Cathcart, who joined us last month, and will be working primarily on grant writing along with our veteran grant writer and TWM member Kekla Magoon, and an original TWM participant, Kate Sosnoff, who will all be aiming to get us some much needed funds from the foundation world. Rebecca also represented The Women's Mosaic at this past weekend's Empowering Women: Powering Change inter-collegiate conference at Columbia University which was organized by TWM's very own member Selena Soo! We're thrilled that they are all a part of TWM! [Please note that we are currently looking for summer interns in various areas. Please go to the Bulletin Board page of our website at www.thewomensmosaic.org/bulletinboa rd.asp for more details and to refer anyone you feel might be interested.]

As for the next few months, please note that because of all the behind the scenes action of the last several months, we are catching up on programming, and hope to have some interesting events in the works coming up soon, so stay tuned for announcements as they happen. In the meantime be sure to check out the great non-Mosaic events that are happening this month. See below article for link or just check out the Upcoming Events page on our website.

That's all for now, folks...And remember - April showers bring May flowers!

One of the best ways to show your appreciation for what we are doing is to support The Women's Mosaic by becoming a member! We want to expand and grow our organization to become a powerful voice for women, but we cannot do so without your help.

Besides providing general financial support for the organization, your membership allows us to garner funds from other sources such as foundation and corporations; and gives you benefits and perks like reduced admission to our events, discounts on various products and services, as well as other opportunities - the more members we have the more benefits we can offer. The bottom line is that if you enjoy what we are doing, please show your support!

There are lots of exciting things we'd like to do over the Summer and Fall, but cannot do so without your help! The more members we have, the more we can do for you!

Please join at the highest level possible today! A basic Mosaic Membership is only $25 ....

TWM will once again participate in The Revlon Run/Walk for Women's Cancers.

For those of you who don't know, The Revlon Run/Walk for Women is a noncompetitive 5k race that helps raise awareness and critical funds for women's cancers research, counseling and outreach programs.

This year's event will be held on Saturday April 30. Click on the link below to access our page and sign up to join our team. Registration is $25 if you sign up before April 23 ($30 after that). Online registration is fast and easy, but you can download a printable form if you choose. The event website is www.revlonwalk.com/ny, and can be accessed by clicking on our group photo above.

Last year - our first year taking part in this worthy cause - was a great success: we had 17 registered team members and raised almost $2000 (and our CHICKS ROCK t-shirts were a hit as well!). This year we hope to have just as many team members, if not more, and raise even more money.

The event is open to everyone so feel free to drag everyone you know (moms, dads, hubbies boyfriends, sisters, brothers, cousins, your neighbors - heck you can even bring your dog!) to walk, run, skip, or cha- cha-cha with us on an amazingly inspiring day.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact our team captain: Tina Marie Greene, tmg821@yahoo.com