Rosie's Place raised a record-breaking $1,015,000 at its annual Funny Women...Serious Business luncheon held November 6 at the Thomas M. Menino Convention and Exhibition Center, the organization announced.

The event brought together 1,400 supporters to benefit the Boston-based community center for poor and homeless women. Retired WCVB 5 anchor Susan Wornick and WCVB's Shayna Seymour co-hosted the afternoon, which featured Rachel Louise Snyder, an award-winning investigative journalist and author whose memoir, Women We Buried, Women We Burned, explores her own experiences with loss and survival.

Special guests included Governor Maura Healey, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Mayor Michelle Wu, and local media personalities from NBC10 Boston, Boston 25 News, Encuentro Latino, and 7News WHDH/WLVI.

Funds raised will support Rosie's Place emergency services including shelter, meals, and a food pantry, as well as long-term programs offering education, legal aid, mental health services, recovery support, employment assistance, and housing stabilization, according to the announcement.

"While we do not accept government funding and therefore are not subject to the cuts being made by our federal administration, we still feel their dire impacts," said President/CEO Leemarie Mosca in her remarks. "Because the women who count on us do. And when other programs are cut... that means more women come to Rosie's Place for the help they need to survive."

Founded in 1974, Rosie's Place was the first shelter for women in the United States.

For more information, visit rosiesplace.org.

Disclosure: South End News editor/co-publisher Sue O'Connell is a commentator at NBC10 Boston.