The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls will honor Cheryl Miles – a connector, convener, and passionate advocate for underserved communities in Chester County – with its Kitchen Table Award at the 14th Annual Making a Difference Luncheon on Friday, May 3 at the Desmond Hotel in Malvern.

CCFWG established the Kitchen Table Award in 2011 to honor a Chester County woman who has made substantive contributions through service and/or philanthropy to improve the lives of women and girls through her own time, talent, or resources. It is named in celebration of the genesis of CCFWG in 1996: many conversations held around kitchen, board, and coffee tables.

Miles, a resident of Glen Mills, has dedicated 24 years to caring for Chester County’s most vulnerable and underserved women and girls. She currently works as Director of Permanent Housing Services at Good Samaritan Services, overseeing a team devoted to reducing the number of local women and children who experience homelessness. In 2008, Cheryl founded Housing to Self Sufficiency to help connect homeless single women in Chester County to affordable, shared housing and avenues of support. The organization also became a bridge between landlords and businesses to help other nonprofits access affordable housing and resources.

In 2016, Miles founded Black Women of Chester County in Action (BWCCA) as a direct response to CCFWG’s Blueprint Report; she gathered together friends and colleagues across the county to discuss the Blueprint’s troubling findings about African-American women in Chester County and brainstorm ways to engage a wider audience of African-American leaders in the nonprofit, education, business, faith, law, government and health sectors. Today, BWCCA is a robust group poised to tackle these challenges head on.

“Cheryl is an ambassador of peace and justice and extends an invitation to all to come together at the community table,” said Rev. Dr. Deborah Tanksley-Brown.

“I have watched as the volunteers, interns, and students she has mentored continue on to grad school, lead organizations of their own, and serve as phenomenal change-makers who are making a significant difference in this world,” Adrienne Nash Melendez said of Miles. “In this way, she is constantly developing the next generation. Many of the young people that Cheryl has mentored have direct lived experience with these issues.”

The luncheon will also feature keynote speaker Morgan Berman, founder and CEO of MilkCrate, a mission-driven tech company helping other mission-driven organizations achieve their impact goals. Her platform powers apps for some of the world’s leading nonprofits and municipal programs. Berman was listed by the U.N. Foundation as one of the world’s Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch.

Click here for luncheon sponsorship opportunities or e-mail development@ccfwg.org.

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