The Women of Tomorrow® 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.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Gala was hosted by Founder & President Jennifer Valoppi alongside Women of Tomorrow® 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.

NBC News and Telemundo anchor José 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®, and a Seven Day Luxury Cruise courtesy of Seabourn.

Women of Tomorrow® 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.

The Annual Gala provides critical support for the Women of Tomorrow® 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® 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’s® impact on our South Florida community!

About Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program

Founded in 1997 by television journalist and author, Jennifer Valoppi, Don Browne, former Telemundo and NBC President, and Miami Dade State Attorney The Honorable Katherine Fernandez Rundle, the Women of Tomorrow® Mentor & Scholarship Program is designed to inspire, motivate and empower at-risk young women to live up to their full potential while being mentored by highly accomplished professional women in their community. Our partner public schools select at-risk girls facing a variety of challenges, such as behavioral, economic, medical, abuse and/or academic to name a few, to join our program. Each mentoring group at each public high school is diverse in its composition with girls in 9th-12th grade who have varying strengths and weaknesses, so they learn not only from their mentors, but from each other as well. This happens through mentoring sessions, college campus visits, career-focused field trips and college scholarship opportunities. Women of Tomorrow® positively transforms the lives of the at-risk girls we serve. Women of Tomorrow® has touched the lives of more than 30,000 high school girls in South Florida and Metro Detroit. Women of Tomorrow® has a network of over 350 professional women who currently mentor approximately 4,000 girls in close to 175 public high schools, with a 99% graduation rate among an at-risk population. More than $9 million college scholarships have been awarded.