Bring Rilassati to your city
Start a chapter
Rilassati began in one living room. What holds it together is not a building. It is women who decide that no one in their city should face breast cancer, diabetes or pancreatic cancer alone.
A chapter runs its own gatherings and supports its own neighbors. It operates under Rilassati Women's Retreats and our 501(c)(3), so you are not filing for nonprofit status or carrying that paperwork alone, and what your chapter raises goes to the work in your community. We share what we have learned in nearly 25 years, from the first seminar to the Care Packages, so you do not have to start from nothing.
We have no chapters yet. The first one begins with a conversation, and it could be yours.
In time we hope to hold a full conference, with THRIVE, our youth program, running alongside it.
What it takes
Dedication
A chapter is a commitment through the year, not one event. The women who carry it show up when it is quiet too.
A heart to give
This work asks for time and care before it asks for anything else.
Three willing people
Three is enough to begin. Every chapter starts with a small group who say yes together.
What a chapter receives
Our nonprofit standing
A chapter operates under Rilassati Women's Retreats and our 501(c)(3). There is no separate filing, no separate board and no annual return of your own to worry about.
Twenty-five years of practice
You inherit what we have already learned, from running a seminar and a brunch to packing Care Packages, so your first year is not a year of guessing.
Programs with a proven path
Winners For Life, Blue Hearts Brunch and Purple Pumps come with you, each with its own identity, so your chapter is recognized from the first gathering.
A name women already trust
You carry the Rilassati name and marks, and the story behind them, into rooms where a new organization would have to earn that from nothing.
What a chapter brings to your city
A room where no one sits alone
Women in your city get what Winners For Life gave Port Arthur, a place to bring a diagnosis, a fear or a hard week and find women who already understand it.
Plain information about health
Chapters talk honestly about screening, diabetes and the questions women are afraid to ask. We do not give medical advice. We point women toward care and help them go.
A place to heal
Rilassati is the Italian word for relax. A chapter gives your city somewhere to set the weight down for an afternoon, rest and be cared for by women who have carried it too.
Something for the girls and boys coming up
THRIVE brings health, leadership, mentorship and service to teens, so a chapter serves the next generation and not only this one.
Tell us about your city
Send us a note and we will set up a conversation about what starting a chapter looks like where you live.