Modern Widows Club?? | The Movement for Widow Care (MWC)

Exciting News! ?? The Healthy Widow Healthy Woman podcast is relaunching in 2025! Hosted by Modern Widows Club?? | The Movement for Widow Care (MWC). Our first episode kicks off with a powerful interview featuring Dr. Debra Oliver, a renowned #researcher from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2023, Dr. Oliver led a groundbreaking widowhood #research project in collaboration with thousands of our MWC members—and now, she’s ready to share the impactful results on key topics that matter most to #widows. Experiencing widowhood herself deepened her commitment to advancing research on #caregivers who transition into #widowhood. Dr. Oliver, honored as our 2023 Legacy Award recipient, will also reflect on receiving this prestigious award and how it inspired her work to advance widow support globally. Don’t miss this incredible relaunch and the chance to learn about all our MWC Legacy Award Recipients and their extraordinary contributions. Visit https://lnkd.in/efAP5t3M for more details. Mark your calendars and watch for the big launch announcement this January! #HealthyWidowHealthyWoman #MWCPodcast #Widowhood #LegacyAward #WidowSupport #WidowLife

We’ve witnessed Megan Kopka, CFP?, RLP?, rise from #grief to #growth in #widowhood. Today, she serves as the Founding Leader of our Cape Fear, NC community and Chair of the MWC Board of Directors, embodying #resilience and #leadership. As a young #ALS advocate for her husband Keith and later a #soloparent, Megan faced profound challenges. She rebuilt her life with boldness, teaching us about #advocacy, reinvention, and thriving beyond loss. Few are as qualified to lead as Megan, and her journey reflects what we hope for every widow who joins MWC: to hope, heal, grow, and lead a healthy, empowered life. This is what Modern Widows Club?? | The Movement for Widow Care (MWC) does best—turning life’s hardest moment into a foundation for strength and purpose. Donate in honor of her heroic comeback! https://lnkd.in/eir2vaXV #givingtuesday #fundraising #widowsupport #nonprofit

Giving Tuesday is coming and MWC has over 40 fundraising campaigns ready from the many supporters, champions, communities and volunteers in our nonprofit. Choosing which one is a story all on its own! These stores of grief to growth are heartwarming! Please give if so moved by the widow support we provide that is transforming families at Modern Widows Club?? | The Movement for Widow Care (MWC). Donate today: https://lnkd.in/es_x9P49

Modern Widows Club?? | The Movement for Widow Care (MWC) is honored to greet and welcome the 36 new followers to our LinkedIn page in November!! We are a women’s health organization who provides compassionate support to #widows as they move from #grief to #growth. Learn more about our impactful programs, inspiring services and compassionate communities that goes beyond what has ever been provided in the past to deliver holistic care that is advancing widow support and empowerment. ?? https://lnkd.in/eVxi7QSC #widowsupport #womenshealth #publichealth #mentalhealth #familystability #hope #heal #lead

Dawn Kelp, one of our inspiring #widows, has embraced her journey through our Hope, Heal, Grow, and Lead pathway. Today, she leads a thriving local Idaho community and serves as an MWC Ambassador Council member, passionately raising awareness for widow support on a national scale. This #GivingTuesday, you can support Dawn’s impactful work through Modern Widows Club?? | The Movement for Widow Care (MWC). Together, we can expand vital widow support services. Support Dawn here: #widow #support #publichealth #communityhealth https://lnkd.in/gSsEXx_M

Six years ago, at a Farmers Market, our MWC sign asked passersby, "Can you choose which woman is a widow?" What we discovered was eye-opening—the myths surrounding #widowhood run deep. It became an opportunity to raise awareness and share a startling fact: every 2 minutes, a woman in the U.S. becomes a #widow—that’s 2,800 new #widows every day! Yet, not a single person who stopped to speak with us knew where to refer a widow for support. Interestingly, men seemed more comfortable engaging in conversation than women. People of all ages shared heartfelt and profound insights about #widowhood. Take just 4 minutes to watch this video, created to explain the importance of International Widows Day and why raising awareness matters so much. Let’s start a conversation and make a difference. https://lnkd.in/e4jzb8sn #widowsupport #widowadvocate #education #womenshealth #mentalhealth #publichealth #socialcause #internationalwidowsday #awareness

“Finding New Traditions in Widowhood During the Holidays” at our Widow Life App hosted by Modern Widows Club?? | The Movement for Widow Care (MWC) #widowhood #support #holiday #newsletter #blog #widowlife https://lnkd.in/eqdWWjMP

New #WidowLife blog “Focus on Health and Happiness This Holiday Season in Widowhood” by Tara Gidus Collingwood, MS, RDN, CSSD, ACSM-CPT https://lnkd.in/eQ6ycVRm #widowhood #blog #health #widowlife #app #modernwidowsclub #womenshealth #publichealth #grief #growth #heal #mentalhealth #blog

One of the meaningful new 2024 initiatives we introduced into Modern Widows Club?? | The Movement for Widow Care (MWC) is the formation of a dedicated #community and #prayer team for our wisters? (widow + sisters). These compassionate #volunteers around the country will unite to receive and respond to the many prayer requests from the thousands of #widows within our organization. If you would like to step forward and be on our Wister? Prayer Team, as a purposeful volunteer for this initiative, please see the attached link for more information. If you have a prayer request for a #widow or would like to refer this service to her, please know we are honored to receive it. Together, we can cultivate a sacred space where no widow feels isolated, unprotected, or unloved—a community united in #faith and #compassion. https://lnkd.in/e3R6dXXk #widowsupport #spiritualhealth #womenshealth #service #modernwidowsclub #empathy #widowsforwidows #courage #strength #love #honor #caringforwidows #faithleaders #clergy #prayerteam #isolation #loneliness #depression #solutions

Join us for an inspiring evening to celebrate the incredible strides Modern Widows Club?? | The Movement for Widow Care (MWC)has made this year in supporting widows and their families. Friday | December 13 | 6:00pm ET | Casa Feliz Historic Home | Winter Park, FL This year, with our Widow Life App and Publication on Substack, we've reached over 15,000 readership, providing essential resources and heartfelt stories of #resilience. Our in-person communities and virtual support clubs have welcomed and empowered 4,684 #widows on their unique journey, while 1,768 widows took our Widow Empowerment Quiz to find their place on the Hope, Heal, Grow, and Lead pathway. This vital support allows MWC to meet widows where they are, providing customized guidance for every step of their healing and rebuilding journey. Be part of this impactful movement—together, we’re changing lives. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/g5X8ewsr #widowsupport #impact #event #movement #vision #hope #heal #grow #lead #womenshealth #widowhood #publichealth #mentalhealth #familysupport #journey #nonprofit #grief