GOOD MORNING — err, night — again Joan Lunden will return to the spotlight in October, though this one is far less intense than the one she knew while keeping millions of Americans entertained and informed as the host of Good Morning, America for nearly two decades. She’ll be the featured speaker of the Penn Foundation’s sixth annual Autumn Event fundraiser Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m., at the Calvary Church auditorium, Souderton. The Sellersville-based organization provides behavioral health care grounded in Christian principles to people of all ages, from children through seniors. Its services range from treating mental health diseases to addiction recovery. Proceeds from the Autumn Event will benefit the Commonwealth Fund, which supports independent research on health and social issues and offers grants to improve health care practice and policy. 215-257-6551; www.pennfoundation.org

CLOSING THE GAPS Last year, the number of Americans without health insurance rose to 47 million, or 16 percent of the population. The figure takes on even greater weight when you consider that everyday stressors like a depressed economy and the war in Iraq are mounting at an equally exceptional pace. In Holland, there exists a private nonprofit organization that has been helping to cover those gaps in Bucks County for the last 30 years. The Counseling Center provides a broad range of psychotherapeutic services, including bereavement and family counseling, to Bucks residents on a sliding scale, ability to pay fee basis. It is staffed by seven professionals from various mental health fields, all with their own private practices, and led by a community-based volunteer board of directors. 215-322-2586; www.counselingtcc.org

GIRL POWER Andrea Kaminoff and daughters Perri, Nikki and Miz hosted about 100 guests at a garden party at their New Hope home in June in collaboration with the nonprofit Bucks County Women’s Fund (BCWF). The function of the affair, which was called “Mothers and Daughters Helping Mothers and Daughters,” was to illustrate how girls and women could positively influence their Bucks County communities through leadership and philanthropy. As far as society has come in recent years, considerable inequities remain. In the US, women are paid only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men for the same work. In Bucks, the number is closer to 70 cents on the dollar, according to the BCWF. “We hope to teach and inspire girls to be leaders in our communities because girl leaders become women leaders who are more likely to tackle these inequities,” says BCWF Executive Director Kathleen Welsh Beveridge. 215-345-5440; www.bcwf.org