100 Women Who Care chapters are popping up all over the US and Canada! After hearing so much about it...Sarah Yohe decided to look into starting a local chapter in Lancaster. About the same time, Kate Kooker attended a meeting of 100 Women Who Care Chester County, PA. This meeting solidified Kate’s interest in bringing the 100 Women concept to Lancaster. The leadership of the Chester County chapter were enthusiastic and eager to help. A few weeks later when Sarah also contacted this chapter, they helped Kate & Sarah to connect. And so it began...
Kate and Sarah recruited a few others - Amy Balestier, Kate Zimmerman, Stacie Reidenbaugh ~ to help with the planning process. We are all really excited about watching 100 Women Who Care - Lancaster continue to grow!
Kate and Sarah recruited a few others - Amy Balestier, Kate Zimmerman, Stacie Reidenbaugh ~ to help with the planning process. We are all really excited about watching 100 Women Who Care - Lancaster continue to grow!
Current 100 Women Who Care of Lancaster Planning Committee Members:
Sarah Yohe
Sarah Yohe is the Development Director at Girls on the Run of Lancaster. Originally from Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, Sarah moved to the US as a business systems analyst for an IT consulting firm. After 16 years in the IT industry, Sarah made a career change to the nonprofit world and has never looked back!
Sarah helped get 100 WWC-Lancaster up and running after listening to her mother (a member of 100WWC-Fredericton) talk about how empowering and moving it was to be a part of such a great organization!
Sarah is married to Charlie Yohe, owner of Yohe Architecture +Design & Capstone Design+Build, and together they have an 15 year old son, Brady and a 13 year old daughter, Samantha. Sarah LOVES being a mom. She also likes to stay active and involved in her community through various volunteer opportunities. She is an avid runner, dabbles in triathlons and enjoys the outdoors!
Sarah helped get 100 WWC-Lancaster up and running after listening to her mother (a member of 100WWC-Fredericton) talk about how empowering and moving it was to be a part of such a great organization!
Sarah is married to Charlie Yohe, owner of Yohe Architecture +Design & Capstone Design+Build, and together they have an 15 year old son, Brady and a 13 year old daughter, Samantha. Sarah LOVES being a mom. She also likes to stay active and involved in her community through various volunteer opportunities. She is an avid runner, dabbles in triathlons and enjoys the outdoors!
Kate Kooker
Newly retired, Kate Kooker has experience in marketing, nonprofit start-up and fundraising through professional employment and volunteer initiatives. She served on the startup steering committee of Bridge of Hope in Lancaster & Chester Counties and board. During her board tenure, Bridge of Hope’s national program was launched, forming affiliate programs across the USA. Kate has worked with new affiliates, in policy development and implementation and in fundraising at the local and national levels.
Past employment includes Director of the Adverting for Ten Thousand Villages Home Office, Akron, PA. Kate gave leadership for the transition from SELFHELP Crafts to the new name and managed the development of image and message standards for launching a network for fair trade retail stores across the USA and Canada. Kate loved leading learning tours for retail managers to meet the artisans in developing countries, many of which were women’s cooperatives.
Kate is married to Harley, a retired bovine veterinarian. They live on a small farm near Christiana. Parents of two adult children and 3 grandchildren, their lives are enriched by supporting the many activities of family. Other interests include international travel, gardening, reading and biking.
Amy Balestier
Amy Balestier is the communications manager at Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity, where she builds awareness of Habitat's building and renovations efforts throughout Lancaster County. A native of Pottsville, PA, Amy moved to Lancaster from New York City in 2007 with her family and became a moderator of LNP's LancMoms parenting website, a fun fit for a new mom!
Prior to her move to Lancaster, Amy worked as the Development Director of City Parks Foundation, a NYC nonprofit that brings free programming to underserved parks throughout the city. Her degree in Journalism has led to work experience in the fields of public relations, magazine editorial and online blogging.
Amy's husband, Bruce Balestier, is the principle gift officer at F&M College, and together they have two girls, Maddie, 8, and Coco, 5. She is a committee member of Lancaster Festival of Voices, a Lancaster County Community Foundation volunteer, yoga instructor and active mom in her girls' activities.
