I recently became involved in the Barrie
chapter of 100 Women Who Care and it has been such a rewarding experience
already. We meet four times a year, and each woman or group of women donate
$100 at each meeting ($400 total for the whole year). When that money is pooled
together it makes a real difference to a local charity.
Any member can nominate a charity, and then three charities
are randomly chosen to present at each meeting. If the charity you recommended
was chosen for the short list, you give a brief presentation to the group about
why you think it should receive the money. Then the group votes to come up with
a winner.
In August we voted to support the Children’s Aid Foundation
with two special projects: sponsoring 17 children and three social workers to
travel to Africa on life-changing experience, and sending a number of children
to camp for a week in the summer.
In September we raised $7,000.00 and our funds went towards
The Barrie Food Bank to provide nutritional snacks to school age children in
the community.
The business networking and social connections are happy
by-products of the main purpose of the group, which is to pool together our
small contributions to make a huge impact in our local community.
Part of our vision at Brabary is to give women a sense of
empowerment and confidence. Being part of this group of local women who get
together to support a common cause helps me fulfill this vision.
If you’re interested in joining 100 Women Who Care in Barrie, visit
their website today at http://www.100whocarebarrie.ca/.
I’ll see you there!
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