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Events sometimes veer from their purpose – and in the case of The Golda, an awards luncheon hosted by Allied Jewish Federation, that turned out to be a very profitable thing.

AJF doesn’t intend for The Golda to be a fundraiser (its purpose is to celebrate the community contributions of an outstanding woman), but instead of buying gifts, token or otherwise, for the honoree, many guests make contributions to a charity of her choice. The 200 who recently gathered at Green Gables Country Club to fete Linda Fenner gave $12,500 in donations to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Eshet Chayil, or woman of valor, program. Eshet Chayil works to improve the status of Ethiopian-Israeli women marginalized in Israeli society by being kept out of the workforce.

Fenner is a past president and current member of the Federation’s Jewish Women’s Philanthropy Center board and represents Colorado on the United Jewish Communities’ National Women’s Philanthropy Board. She’s also on the board of Jewish Family Service of Colorado.

“I have always been enormously proud of Linda’s many accomplishments,” said Terry Fenner, her husband. “She carries herself with dignity, she speaks with wisdom and kindness, and with immense courage she challenges the future.”

Fenner received the award from previous honoree Lee Kay. “Linda, you are true beauty, inside and out. I am proud to give you this gift in recognition of all that you have done, and will continue to do.”

Tons of fun this week

Mayor John Hickenlooper addresses Friends of Warren Village (303-320-5052) Monday at a reception for new and continuing members that begins at 5 p.m. at the Kevin McNicholas estate in Cherry Hills Village … Vice president Kris Spring (303-979-1216) is taking reservations for the Junior Symphony Guild’s fall membership brunch that is at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Jody and David Smith’s Park Hill home … Dr. David Raben from University Hospital and the Anschutz Cancer Pavilion speaks when the Cancer League hosts a luncheon Thursday at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 4610 E. Alameda Ave. Tickets are $50 from Barb Reece, 303-660-3618 … A woman’s hygiene product for Betsy’s Cupboard is the admission for a cocktail reception The Gathering Place Association is having Thursday evening at Wayne and Leigh Dale’s loft in Lower Downtown. RSVP to Martha Kallestad, 303-840-7759.

Also Thursday night: Plans for the 2006 Denver Heart Ball, chaired by Holley and Dr. Karyl VanBenthuysen, are announced at a 6 p.m. cocktail reception at Saks Fifth Avenue; Pat and Lou Jahde open their home at 5:30 p.m. for an hors d’oeuvres buffet at which Friends of Arapahoe House will start planning the 2006 Pillars of the Community Gala that honors Don Johnson and his fiancée, Arlene Mohler; a show and sale of Israeli art opens at 7 p.m. at Congregation Emanuel (for tickets, call Sandie Eichberg, 303-722-0208); the Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars honors Hank Brown and Charlie Gallagher at a dinner held at the Westin Tabor Center (Pete Coors is the chairman and Ellen Robinson is taking reservations at 303-638-7393); and 5280 magazine hosts a progressive dinner to benefit the Colorado Children’s Campaign. It starts at 6 p.m. at the Denver Studio Complex, 241 S. Cherokee St.; get tickets at 303-832-5280.

Planners for Harrison Memorial Animal Hospital’s Mutts & Models (303-722-2100, ext. 321) kick off the 2006 show by touring David Barnes’ Scenographics studio, 999 Tejon St., on Friday evening, while Pat and Annabel Bowlen are honorary chairmen for the 12th-anniversary Brown Robe Benefit (303-433-0296), a dinner and auction for the Capuchin Franciscan friars that begins at 5 p.m. Friday at the Grand Hyatt Denver.

Saturday finds Uplift Internationale hosting its eighth annual Operation Taghoy Dinner at the Red Lion Hotel. Dr. Barbara Moyer, Russ and Sue Weber and First Data Western Union Foundation are the award recipients; the $65 tickets are available at 303-707-1361. … Also that night is the MaxFund’s Puttin’ on the Max dinner and auction at the Sheraton Denver Southeast, the Diana Price Fish Cancer Foundation Founder’s Ball at the Grand Hyatt Denver, and the Colorado Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty Gala at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.

Society editor Joanne Davidson can be reached at 303-809-1314 or jmdpost@aol.com.