Posts Tagged: Abigail Riggs

Abigail Riggs & Adorable Dogs ROC Fashion Week

October 8, 2015
posted by Abigail Riggs Team | Topics: Community, Style

Isabella, an adorable Dachshund belonging to model Joanne, riding in style in our Earhart Tote

Isabella, the dashing Dachshund belonging to model Joanne, riding in style in our Earhart Tote

It’s that time of year again! In less than a week, Fashion Week of Rochester returns to celebrate local fashion, creativity and community during seven unique events spread over six days. Thousands will come downtown to see local boutiques, artisans, designers and models strut their stuff in support of The Center For Youth. Events range everywhere from an interactive fashion exchange to high-end runway shows, where attendees will see what the latest and greatest in the Rochester fashion scene are offering for the Fall/Winter and 2016 seasons. (more…)

Tags: Abigail Riggs, Abigail Riggs Collection, downtown rochester, fall fashion, Fashion Week, Fashion Week of Rochester, fashionable dogs, fashions show, puppy love, Rochester, Rochester NY, runway show

Investing in Women: Melinda Gates

March 13, 2015
posted by Abigail Riggs Team | Topics: Buzzworthy Women

Melinda Gates, philanthropist, businesswoman, mother (photo c/o AARP)

Melinda Gates: philanthropist, businesswoman and mother of three (photo c/o AARP)

Melinda Gates has been making headlines the past few weeks, and with good reason. Accomplished businesswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and family matriarch, Gates wears many hats. She has always taken a personal interest in the world’s poorest countries and people. As co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation she has made it her mission to find ways science and technology can be used to better lives in developing countries. In recent years, she has focused her attention specifically on the women of these impoverished areas, working to empower and give them access to the opportunities they all deserve to create the future they desire. (more…)

Tags: Abigail Riggs, Abigail Riggs Collection, Better By Half, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Buzzworthy Women, Empowering Women, Gender Equality, Global Women, Inspiring Women, Invest in Women, Melinda Gates, women in business, Women in the world, Women of Worth, Women's Equality, women's issues, Women's Rights

Women’s History Month

March 6, 2015
posted by Abigail Riggs Team | Topics: Buzzworthy Women

Happy Women’s History Month!

Every day we celebrate women’s history, and in March the rest of the nation joins us. Women are the focus and all month long we honor, recognize and commemorate the great women of our past, present and future. (more…)

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Mentors Matter

January 15, 2015
posted by Abigail Riggs Team | Topics: Buzzworthy Women, Uncategorized

ARC founder and team mentor Gail Riggs being cheered by students after the Young Women’s College Prep Leadership Breakfast in December. (photo cred: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

In this wonderful Internet Age, we have access to information on just about any subject. Whatever answers you may seek you can find with a simple Google search. With countless articles, blogs, vlogs, tip lists and studies aimed to help you in every aspect of your life, the Internet has become a hub of “how-to” advice. One question people are always asking? How to be successful. There are articles that can tell you how to succeed in business, in school, in motherhood, in sports, in philanthropy, in relationships, in politics, in fashion, and just about any other subject you can think of. Although these topics are wildly different (what it takes to succeed in one area may not be the same in another), there is one piece of advice you’ll see over and over again no matter what the topic or the source: Find a mentor. (more…)

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Central Park: Where Are The Women?

December 11, 2014
posted by Abigail Riggs Team | Topics: Buzzworthy Women, Community

The ARC Team Statue Selfie with Susan B. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony Square Park, Rochester NY

As the Abigail Riggs Collection continues to spread our mission of empowering women and celebrating iconic women pioneers, we are lucky to be involved in many different and exciting projects. Recently, Coline Jenkins, who is the great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, reached out to inform us of a major injustice happening right in our own backyard: Of the 50-something statues that are in New York City’s Central Park, not one is of a real woman. (more…)

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