Tuesday, December 6, 2011

VERMONT WOMEN’S GIVING CIRCLE

AGENDA

December 7, 2011

Welcome and Introductions

(Unable to attend: Kelly Austin, Betty Wingett)

Follow up from last Meeting’s donation – total –

Sex Trafficking – Sally and Wendy

Suggestions for future meetings –

For January – Since it is a busy month - “Dinner and Movie” we will bring a (maximum one hour) movie about a Women’s issue or Women Issues in General on larger scale. We can then donate to the organization linked to the movie theme OR to one of the “un-selected” organization form the past months

Amy – Idea to offer one of our organization to Skype to us over dinner some months – we can leave that open to anyone’s organization that is willing

Sally – Should we have one person present per month?

Betty – Should we consider meeting every other month?

Future business:

January Dinner and a Movie

February

March

April

May

June

Past Presentations

  • July Jodi and Sally Maternal health
  • August Tina and Debra Water
  • September Betty and Marianne Education
  • October Tammy & Amy Micro Financing
  • November Eva and Jodi Famine relief
  • December Wendy and Sally Sex Trafficking

Other Areas we might focus on in future meetings:

Shelter

Food

Legal Rights for Women

Gender based violence

Business and Skills training

Health Services

Vaccination programs

Blog - any questions

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Follow Up Re Our Donations to Aqua Para La Vida

Hi All - I want to let you know that I contacted the folks at Aqua Para La Vida re our donations of $710. As we suspected, they're just terribly busy. I let them know that it's not a problem, and to take their time. Sally

Here's their note:

Sally-
yes, we received the donations and i apologize that its taken so long to get acknowledgments out. we've
been in the middle of proposal deadlines and our board meeting. the good news is that we are entirely
volunteer-run here in the U.S., so all of the money we raise goes directly to our program in Nicaragua.
the down side is that we can can get behind from time to time.

i want you to know how much we appreciate your support. i hope to get all of the acknowledgments sent
out by the end of next week.

thanks!
charlie

Agua Para La Vida
Charlie Huizenga, Co-Founder, Treasurer, Board Member
2311 Webster Street, Berkeley, CA 94705

Friday, November 4, 2011

New York Times Article on Somalia

This is a link to an article in the Times on Wednesday that I thought you might find interesting after our last meeting.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/giving/some-aid-trickles-into-somalia-surrounded-by-death-and-disease.html?_r=1&scp=7&sq=Somalia&st=cse