GWF makes it all the way to New York
The Evening with Billie Jean King and Friends will take place in Manhattan.
The Good Work Foundation (GWF) will have its own night of fame in the USA soon.
Tennis legends Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss visited South Africa recently and were exposed to GWF’s digital learning campus model for rural Africa. They were so inspired that they offered to host a special night for 20 guests only on May 2 in New York City as part of Billie Jean’s Leadership Initiative.
The Evening with Billie Jean King and Friends will take place in Manhattan and be co-hosted by GWF USA foundation trustee, Boyd Varty, and GWF CEO, Kate Groch. It will include dinner and a talk about what it means to “lead from the heart”.
With only 20 places at the table, this intimate and exclusive opportunity is inspired by everything from King’s fight for equality to Groch and Varty’s courage to reimagine education under African trees.
All proceeds from the evening will go to GWF. The foundation is close to King and Kloss’ hearts and this contribution will help to power an engine that gives 7 000 young people access to digital education on a weekly basis.
The two tennis players need little introduction. Both are not only legends of the courts but also passionate advocate for inclusive leadership and talent management. They want to work with those in positions of power to increase diverse opportunities through three pillars: lift, learn, and lead.
Groch has made it her life’s work to ensure that access to education is not determined by the circumstances you were born into. In 2006, realising the extent of the developing world’s education crisis, she focused her community projects and started GWF, a non-profit organisation. In 2013 she was invited to speak at TEDx in Edinburgh and in 2015 she was named as an Architect of Change by best-selling author, Maria Shriver.
The wildlife and literacy activist Varty, author of the memoir Cathedral of the Wild, was born to a family of conservationists.
He grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve and engages audiences across the world on the subject of forging connections in ourselves, our communities and with the earth.
