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Parties That Cook Event Recap: Cooking Up Success for Women’s Initiative

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Last Wednesday night, Parties That Cook hosted Cooking Up Success for Women’s Initiative. Women’s Initiative for Self Employment is a Bay Area non-profit that provides high-potential, lower-income women the training, resources and on-going support to start and grow their business. This amazing organization has been in San Francisco for 23 years, and has served more than 22,000 low-income women to date!

The Cooking Up Success event was a great opportunity for us to give back to the community, and with nearly 100 guests coming together in support of Women’s Initiative, it was clear that this hands-on cooking event was a HUGE success! Bibby gave her famous interactive cooking demo, with insightful tips and tricks for the evening’s recipes. Attendees were all smiles throughout the event, as they broke up into smaller teams to create the menu of international tapas. Guests also had the chance to hear their inspiring entrepreneurial stories of four graduates from Women’s Initiative.

The event raised over $16,000! That’s enough money to put 8 women through the Women’s Initiative’s business management training program, potentially create 18 new jobs and put $480,000 back into the community! Parties That Cook is proud to lend a hand to our community.

Bibby Gignilliat of Parties That Cook Honored by Women’s Initiative

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Founder and Executive Chef of Parties That Cook, Bibby Gignilliat, was honored by Women’s Initiative for Self Employment this past Friday at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. What a wonderful event from such an amazing organization! The Women’s Initiative is the nation’s largest microenterprise training and financial services non-profit organization for women. They provide resources, technical assistance and training for low-income women to start and grow their own businesses

Bibby has been sharing her time with Women’s Initiative through walking tours of businesses and mentoring events for women. Parties That Cook was so excited to be a part of the celebration for Bibby as a 2009 SF Woman-Owned Business of the Year! The celebration honored Bibby and ten other women for achieving great business success and for their contribution to the community as positive role models. 

At the event, businesses sponsored by Women’s Initiative showcased their goods, such as Fashion Slave and Mandy Scott Flowers. And of course the food at any event cannot be without mention by Parties That Cook! We loved the alfajores, a classic cookie from Spain and Latin America made of shortbread and dulce de leche covered with powdered sugar. The company, Sabores del Sur, creates the delicious treats. Even sweeter was the fact that owner Guisell Osorio is a graduate of Women’s Initiative. It was an incredible evening for the Parties That Cook family!