On Saturday, March 21, 2026, the Women of Tomorrow\u00ae Mentor & Scholarship Program celebrated its 25th Annual Gala at an exclusive private club in Miami Beach, raising $1 million to benefit at-risk high school girls across South Florida. The Batchelor Foundation matched $200,000 in funds raised, doubling the impact of every program donation given.<\/p>\n
A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream Gala was hosted by Founder & President Jennifer Valoppi alongside Women of Tomorrow\u00ae Co-Founder, Miami-Dade State Attorney, the Honorable Katherine Fernandez Rundle. The gala was chaired by Jim & Megan Ferraro, Dora Puig & Nat Roura, and honorary chairs Caroline & Steven Tanger.<\/p>\n
NBC News and Telemundo anchor Jos\u00e9 Diaz-Balart and class-action lawyer and author Jim Ferraro launched an exciting auction that included a one-of-a-kind Andrea Bocelli Backstage Concert Experience compliments of the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, Backstage Passes to see Cardi B in Concert courtesy of Andrea Yepez Talent Management, Front-Row Milan Fashion Week Seats donated by Dolce & Gabbana, an exclusive Ferrari Challenge Sonoma Race Experience provided by The Collection\u00ae, and a Seven Day Luxury Cruise courtesy of Seabourn.<\/p>\n
Women of Tomorrow\u00ae graduate, soon to be Dr. Nathalie Mora, who just received her white coat on her journey to become a veterinarian, inspired the crowd with her touching story of overcoming the obstacles of her youth to achieve personal and academic success.<\/p>\n
The Annual Gala provides critical support for the Women of Tomorrow\u00ae Mentor & Scholarship Program, which mentors approximately 4,000 at-risk girls annually in public high schools throughout South Florida and Metro Detroit. Women of Tomorrow\u00ae has a 99% high school graduation rate among an at-risk population and has given out over $9 million in scholarships to higher education. It was an incredible celebration highlighting decades of Women of Tomorrow\u2019s\u00ae impact on our South Florida community!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, March 21, 2026, the Women of Tomorrow\u00ae Mentor & Scholarship Program celebrated its 25th Annual Gala…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-250123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}