Dianne Dunkelman, Founder and CEO

February 2011

Dianne Dunkelman, Founder & CEO of Speaking of Women’s Health® (SWH), began SWH in 1996 as a one-day women’s health event in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her leadership was the inspiration for the expansion of Speaking of Women’s Health to a national foundation with more than 50 conferences and events in more than 40 cities nationwide each year. Through conferences, television, the Web site, books and other materials, the lives of hundreds-of-millions of women and their families were impacted. In December of 2008, under the guidance of Ms. Dunkelman, a number of the branded projects of the National Speaking of Women's Health Foundation were transferred to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

CLEVER CRAZES FOR KIDS

Dianne Dunkelman was inspired to create clevercrazes.com™, a project that responded to thousands of requests from the women who attended Speaking of Women's Health (SWH) conferences across the country. They asked her to address the issue of helping our kids live healthier lives. At SWH, women had a lot of fun while learning how to be healthier. Women were so inspired to make healthy life-style changes that lifted their own zest for life that they said, "let's do the same thing for our kids!"

An increased awareness of the importance of reducing the incidence of overweight children and obesity in our young population led Dianne to develop clevercrazes.com in 2006.

Dianne formed an incredible K-8 Health, Education and Professional Advisory Committee to determine how to best develop the focus areas which she knew needed to be addressed.

She believed that there was a "golden thread" that wove together nutrition, physical activity, self- esteem and living green. She also knew that, just like giving the women of SWH "what they wanted to hear in the way they wanted to hear it through ‘edu-tainment,’” it was critical to connect with kids in a language and style to which they would relate. So, clevercrazes.com was born.

As parents, caregivers and teachers, you will have fun, exploring www.clevercrazes.com and you will see why the kids are loving exploring, investigating and learning as they are spending time becoming the healthy and better educated kids and young adults that we all aspire for them to be.

THE CLEVER CRAZES FOR KIDS™ EXPANSION OF ACADEMICS AND STEM LEARNING

Academic Educational Tool for Schools, After-school Programs and Home

In 2009, after many focus groups with educational professionals who were using the www.clevercrazes.com site, Dianne understood that there was a huge need to boost the academics of elementary and middle school aged kids. Clevercrazes.com brings to K-8 classrooms, across the country, new and exciting ways to engage kids in learning about the STEM disciplines, specifically how Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics as well as literacy, social sciences and social studies are integrated into their every-day lives. All of this is part of the interconnected web of wellness—healthy planet, healthy relationships, and healthy individuals. Strong minds are built on healthy and energetic bodies. Our “Golden Thread” continues to weave an ever growing fabric.

Workbooks, placemats and many other educational materials have been created and distributed free of charge, across the country by Clever Crazes for KidsTM. The reach has grown from 40,000 pieces of material in 2006 to more than 1,240,000 pieces in 2011. The materials have been lauded by the educational community who ask for increasingly more of our materials to benefit their students. The program has an advisory board of outstanding academics and health-care providers who play an active role in its continuing development. Five 30-second public service announcements (PSAs) have been produced to spotlight the issues and engage children, their teachers, parents and caregivers. These PSAs are available, free of charge, to broadcast media across the country, which have within their mission the desire to educate and enhance the lives of children.

NATIONAL RECOGNITION

Dianne has been recognized throughout the country for her women’s health initiatives.

She was most recently named as the recipient of the “Connecting Cultures & Communities Award” given by The Cincinnati Human Relations Commission, May, 2011.
She has been honored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at their 53rd annual Freedom Fund Dinner in recognition of her work to advance healthcare on behalf of women of color and their families.
The March of Dimes honored Dianne for her work with women and infants.
Dianne was honored with The National Conference for Community and Justice Citation Award (BRIDGES).
She received the Northwood University Distinguished Women Award.
She received a YWCA Career Women of Achievement Award.
Columbia University awarded Dianne “The Athena Award from the Partnership for Women’s Health.”
Dianne was recognized as one of Cincinnati’s Leading Women for her advocacy in women’s health.
She also received the Charles W. Vaughan Award for her work with public television.
Dianne is a Dada Rafiki Honoree.
Dianne was honored by the School for Creative and Performing Arts.
Through local efforts, she was selected in 1992 for the National Philanthropy Award by the
National Society of Fund Raising Executives.
Dianne was honored with a Post Corbett Award in 1991.
She was also named a Cincinnati Enquirer Woman of the Year in 1989.
Dianne was thrilled to have been invited to be the only non-African-American to present at the
2005, 50th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

BOARDS

Dianne remains passionate for her state and community. In June 2009 she was inducted into the Association of Ohio Commodores by appointment of Governor Ted Strickland. She also currently serves as a Trustee on the Boards of the University of Cincinnati Foundation, Breast Cancer.org, Contemporary Arts Center, Exec. Committee and the YWCA. She has been active in supporting the arts and civic endeavors in Cincinnati, specifically the Cincinnati Ballet Company, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was a founding member of the Board of the School for Creative and Performing Arts. Ms. Dunkelman is incoming president for Women’s Capital Club and serves as Vice Chair for the Cincinnati Executive Women’s Forum

ABOUT DIANNE DUNKELMAN AND SPEAKING OF WOMEN'S HEALTH®

Dianne Dunkelman, Founder & immediate past CEO of Speaking of Women's Health®, began the SWH in 1996 as a one-day women's health event in Cincinnati. Her leadership has been the inspiration for the expansion of Speaking of Women's Health to a national foundation with more than 50 conferences and events in more than 40 cities nationwide. Through conferences, television, the website, books and other materials, the lives of hundreds-of-millions of women and their families were impacted.

In December of 2008, under the guidance of Ms. Dunkelman, a number of the branded projects of the National Speaking of Women's Health Foundation were transferred to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Those branded projects included Speaking of Women's Health®, Universal Sisters®, an outreach program dedicated to African-American women and Hablando de la Salud de la Mujer®, an outreach program dedicated to Hispanic women.