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Modern Widows Club®️The Movement for Widow Care (MWC) is a women’s health nonprofit for compassionate support to widows empowering them to thrive from grief to growth.
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11/07/2025
To truly support our grieving children, we must first seek to understand them — what they’re experiencing, how they’re feeling, and what helps them feel safe and supported.
Yet, talking about loss (and all the big emotions that come with it) can be challenging — for children, teens, and adults alike.
That’s why the National Alliance for Children’s Grief three powerful resources to help parents and caregivers feel more confident and compassionate in these conversations:
💙 Listening on Repeat – a guide to becoming a compassionate, effective listener
💙 What to Say Instead – thoughtful phrasing suggestions for navigating loss-related conversations
💙 by Taking Action – seven ways to create a supportive environment for grieving children and teens
These free tools are designed to empower you with understanding, language, and action steps to better support a grieving child or teen.
Widow Awareness Feature: We are grateful to Woman’s Club of Winter Park for featuring at their Pause for the Cause event!
We love seeing widows’ health included in essential women’s healthcare initiatives.
MWC Widow Advocate Jeanice Young presented to the club, while MWC Organizational Administrator Heather Price shared resources and services at our booth. We can’t thank them enough for elevating our women’s health organization and its focus on compassionate care that support widows move from to personal growth. This hope and healing is vital.
11/07/2025
Nonprofit Partnership Highlight: Another impact partnership day at New York Life Insurance Company Foundation in NYC! MWC raised awareness about ’ through education and advocacy at the Grief Support Resource Fair, alongside Beth Wacome Keck, our new Modern Widows Club Community Program Director.
The conversations with employees were exceptional, and we’re excited about the tremendous impact ahead in 2026 through this forward-thinking partnership.
Every person we spoke with emphasized the compassionate work culture at NYLF. Their caring vision is elevating our organization’s mission to prioritize essential widows’ health awareness in broader and more meaningful ways across our country! We are grateful.
11/06/2025
Being a widow means living in the space between heartbreak and healing. Some days, gratitude feels distant buried beneath the ache of what was lost. But even through tears, there are moments that whisper, “You’re still here.” 🌿
Gratitude doesn’t erase grief it softens it. It reminds you that love existed, that memories still shine, and that life continues to offer small glimmers of light. ✨
So today, pause. Breathe. Find one thing to be thankful for — a child’s laughter, a sunrise, a friend who checked in.
Those small moments are proof that even in sorrow, your heart is learning to hold both gratitude and grief at the same time. 💫
11/05/2025
When a widow begins to smile again, travel again, or love again—it’s not forgetting. It’s becoming while making informed decisions. She is the subject matter expert.
Growth is not disloyalty; it’s courage in motion.
💜 Celebrate every new beginning, no matter how small. They’re not leaving love behind—they’re learning how to live with it differently.
Have you taken the Widow Empowerment Quiz yet? It's the first step to identifying where you are in your widowhood journey. Your personalized results will show if you are in HOPE, HEAL, GROW or LEAD, and you'll receive ongoing support designed just for your phase. Look for the quiz on our modernwidowsclub.org homepage.
11/05/2025
Welcome Beth to the Modern Widows Club Family 💛
We are honored to welcome Beth to the Modern Widows Club organization!
For more than four decades, Beth has led and co-led health-centered initiatives across both secular and faith communities. Together with her late husband, Eric, she raised four children to adulthood while dedicating her life’s work to family, community building, neighborhood renewal, economic development, and faith in action.
Even before her own widowhood journey began, Beth’s heart was already aligned with our mission to serve, support, and empower widows. Today, she continues that calling through trauma-informed leadership and mentorship, creating healing-centered spaces where widows can grow, connect, and rediscover purpose.
Please join us in giving Beth a heartfelt welcome to the MWC family. 💫
11/05/2025
Nov. 4, 2011 a little idea launched on the internet called Modern Widows Club®️. This is what saw. Fast forward today and over 53K widows are in our nonprofit... never would I have thought!!!! It was just a small gathering by opening my home every 3rd Thursday to strangers- any woman who was widowed. - Carolyn Moor
Becoming one of the 1.8M American nonprofits happened in 2014. I completed the 26 page IRS Form 1023 personally because I couldn’t afford an attorney. Then, I sought out to raise the $750 filing fee by asking friends and family to donate and believe in this mission along with me. That’s when I learned how dedicated and that I’m capable of more than I realized. Chosen for this calling.
The amount of support widows have received in nearly 12 yrs blows me away, brings tears to my eyes and makes my heart burst with JOY. I found my tribe, women who understood me and what’s really happening in widowhood around the world. We’ve only just begun.
I want to THANK YOU for championing this cause by listening, sharing stories and teaching me so I can teach others about the myths vs. realities. Never would I have thought Gods plan would lead me here... such an inspirational community of women warriors full of grace and grit.
A league of their own for all things love. Amazing how far those dandelion seeds have flown and the gardens they have blossomed.
Thank you to the The Woman's Club of Winter Park for choosing Modern Widows Club for your ‘Pause for the Cause’ feature at your event this week! We are honored to share our nonprofit mission and vision!
11/05/2025
Bringing Modern Widows Club®️The Movement for Widow Care (MWC) to New York Life Insurance Company Foundation event this week for their first ‘Grief Resource Fair’ for 2000 NYC employees.
We’re grateful for their on-going support in ensuring our womens health and wellbeing resource continues to find those who care and can impact future generations.
51 Madison Avenue, NY, NY🌎
11/04/2025
Listen to Kate share her powerful journey and how the Modern Widows Club became a place of healing, hope, and sisterhood through widowhood.Her story is a reminder that even after loss, connection and courage can rebuild a beautiful life.
11/04/2025
Most people think widowhood’s challenges are emotional: the , the , the adjustment to single life.
But there’s another layer that’s rarely discussed—the institutional bias that treats widowed women as second-class citizens across virtually every aspect of daily life.
The discrimination widowed women face extends far beyond what most people imagine. It touches every corner of daily life:
Systems: Banks treat single women as higher . Credit scores plummet when a spouse’s credit history disappears. Too many male investment advisors mansplain basic concepts. Mortgage applications become exercises in proving worthiness that married women never face.
: Medical professionals direct questions to non-existent husbands. Insurance companies drop coverage or increase from ‘married’ status to ‘single’ status. Emergency contacts become complicated when the primary contact is deceased.
Framework: Property transfers stall in probate. Power of attorney becomes a challenge of authority. Estate battles emerge from in-laws who never respected the widow’s role.
: Auto mechanics overcharge and over-explain. Contractors refuse to “deal with just the wife.” Restaurant hostesses pity the woman dining alone. Hardware store employees condescend about “technical” purchases.
Structures: Couple friends disappear. Social events become awkward or obsolete and uninvited. Dating becomes fraught with judgment about timing and appropriateness.
The list goes on through dozens of categories: workplace discrimination, government services, religious institutions, technology support, emergency services, even grocery shopping assumptions about family-size packages.
LOOK for our 2-part series of “The Hidden Injustices of Widowhood: How Society Fails Single Women” when grief meets a system designed for .
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11/04/2025
🎉 Happy Birthday to our incredible MWC Ambassador Council member, Tara Gidus Collingwood! 🎂
As a sports dietitian who's fueled Olympic athletes and professional teams, Tara knows all about peak performance. But here's what we love most: she brings that same energy, wisdom, and championship spirit to supporting every single day.
Tara, you've taught us that nourishing our bodies is an act of self-love, that recovery (in sports AND in life) takes time and intention, and that sometimes the best game plan includes cake. Especially today. Definitely today.
Thank you for sharing your expertise, your heart ❤️, and your infectious enthusiasm with our MWC community. You make us all stronger—inside and out.
Here's to a year filled with PRs (Personal Records), joy, and all the good carbs! 🏆✨
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Like every MWC story, ours starts with the simple act of loving someone.
As a women becomes newly widowed, she steps into the on going process of defining a new (and unwanted) self-identity without her partner. This reality is further heightened when she finds herself in a time-space quandary. For her, time has stood still, for the world at large, it has continued. It does not take long for her self-conscious awareness to reveal that these life circumstances cause a sudden and forever change. This internal and external change causes her to seek and find others by way of ‘re-socialization’, otherwise known as ‘finding her tribe.’
When she joins a new group, she will take on new norms, values and behaviors of that created ‘environment.’ This is why the positive approach we foster at MWC is vitally important in her healing and self actualization process. We meet her right where she’s at. Her first few steps will set the future trajectory for her ‘new me’ life. At MWC, we equally recognize and respect all our differences as an interfaith, multi-generational nonprofit. Our shared values and focus on unconditional love are what makes us stand out and highly effective in building greater communities.
At MWC we are interested in research based analysis, empirical investigations and surveys, conversations about subcultures, sociology, stigma and ‘dependency culture’ studies as well as positive psychology, ethnomethodology, physiologic effects of grief, the gender gap, meaning making, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (8 levels), emotional intelligence, pain to purpose resilience building, metanoia, adrenal fatigue, thanatology, neuroscience, compassion, trust, vulnerability, justice and spirituality.
These assist us in serving both our problem challenge and mission statement from the inside out. We serve a myriad of social needs for widows and we also raise awareness through advocacy to bring understanding.
As one MWC widow said, “I actually had no idea about how life altering becoming a widow was until I found myself becoming one. In one breathe, everything I believed about myself disappeared. I went from being seen as a married woman to being known only as a grieving widow. The impact is indescribable. I needed to find others who understood this and ask a lot of safe and confidential questions”.
Women come into widowhood with different challenges; disadvantages and advantages. They need help in trusting again, reducing fears on every level about a changing world and continual encouragement with re-defining themselves. At MWC, they are able to face their future in a nonjudgmental, tender, compassionate, safe and nurturing space with others who have their highest intention in mind. To do that, we need to challenge boundaries and structures, develop wide-spread community partnerships, raise awareness of vulnerabilities, to give empathy with limitations, and forge a livable path to generate solid, positive changes for these women. Finding role models and positive communities is the catalyst that sparks her transformative journey. Seeing is believing.
We hope to serve as a bridge of understanding, comfort, compassion and positive change between a widow and society at large.
