Our next giving circle will be IN PERSON on May 10th. However, we are providing a hybrid option for this meeting in case you can't attend or are not ready for in person events at this time.
Below you will find background on the three groups that are invited to the meeting. Please review this information and come ready to ask questions at the meeting. If you are voting virtually, please use this material to make your choice. If you plan to attend in person, please do not vote prior to the meeting.
We have three great groups this quarter:
Each of these groups has provided additional information on how they would use our collective donation if selected as well as an information sheet about the organization. Please scroll down to learn more.
Below you will find background on the three groups that are invited to the meeting. Please review this information and come ready to ask questions at the meeting. If you are voting virtually, please use this material to make your choice. If you plan to attend in person, please do not vote prior to the meeting.
We have three great groups this quarter:
- Soroptimist International of Davis. Our club members work to support: Women and girls' access to education and career development Foster children and aged-out foster youths Community nonprofits like women's shelters and crisis nurseries Victims of human trafficking and sex slavery
- RISE Incorporated. RISE Incorporated is a non-profit benefit corporation serving the rural community to enhance the quality of life and opportunity for self-sufficiency.
- Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services Yolo County. The mission of Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services (SPYC) is to provide crisis prevention and intervention, education, and community outreach services to the residents of Yolo County.
Each of these groups has provided additional information on how they would use our collective donation if selected as well as an information sheet about the organization. Please scroll down to learn more.
Soroptimist International of Davis
Soroptimist International of Davis has helped women and girls for over fifty years.
We are requesting your assistance with our Live Your Dream Award. We write checks to women who are going to school while supporting families. Non-Soroptimist community members help us evaluate the applicants based on motivation, financial need, resilience, and references.
In 2021, our top awardee was granted $4,000 from SI Davis. Our awardee, Ashley, is a single mother who was attending community college in preparation for degree in nursing. She was also sharing a computer with her teen-aged daughter while they were both learning from home.
Ashley wrote to us later saying, “The laptop and printer purchase has changed how I tackle homework and has made this part of my life so much easier. I graduate next year and I’m so excited. Thank you and the Soroptimist organization for making this possible.”
This spring, we were able to support six single moms with awards totaling $20,000. Kellee, for example, dreams of obtaining a degree in psychology. Her goal is to educate the world that people are more than just their abilities or disabilities. She has overcome physical challenges and recognizes that education will lead to a better future for herself and others. Kellee's award will help pay for tuition.
For decades, one of our biggest fundraisers has been the beer booth at the Wednesday Farmers Market. The beer booth has now been discontinued. Being selected by 100+ Women Who Care would allow SI Davis to maintain funding for the LYDA program while we continue to augment our fundraising efforts.
If selected, re your organization would be featured in our advertising soliciting applications, on social media, and in our press releases celebrating our Awardees. We hope you will join us.
Thank you for the opportunity to be considered.
We are requesting your assistance with our Live Your Dream Award. We write checks to women who are going to school while supporting families. Non-Soroptimist community members help us evaluate the applicants based on motivation, financial need, resilience, and references.
In 2021, our top awardee was granted $4,000 from SI Davis. Our awardee, Ashley, is a single mother who was attending community college in preparation for degree in nursing. She was also sharing a computer with her teen-aged daughter while they were both learning from home.
Ashley wrote to us later saying, “The laptop and printer purchase has changed how I tackle homework and has made this part of my life so much easier. I graduate next year and I’m so excited. Thank you and the Soroptimist organization for making this possible.”
This spring, we were able to support six single moms with awards totaling $20,000. Kellee, for example, dreams of obtaining a degree in psychology. Her goal is to educate the world that people are more than just their abilities or disabilities. She has overcome physical challenges and recognizes that education will lead to a better future for herself and others. Kellee's award will help pay for tuition.
For decades, one of our biggest fundraisers has been the beer booth at the Wednesday Farmers Market. The beer booth has now been discontinued. Being selected by 100+ Women Who Care would allow SI Davis to maintain funding for the LYDA program while we continue to augment our fundraising efforts.
If selected, re your organization would be featured in our advertising soliciting applications, on social media, and in our press releases celebrating our Awardees. We hope you will join us.
Thank you for the opportunity to be considered.
Soroptimist Organizational Overview |
RISE Incorporated
Rural Innovations in Social Economics, Incorporated (RISE) in 1987. For the past 35 years our mission has been to serve the rural communities of Yolo County to enhance the quality of life and opportunity for self sufficiency. Our programs and services range from a full day preschool (SunRISE Child Development Center) through Senior Citizen services. RISE provides after school programs for elemen-tary and middle school aged youth, professional mental health clinicians, emergency food, clothing, and resource and referral services.
RISE partners and collaborates to meet the essential needs of the communi-ty. For decades, there has been a clear need in the unincorporated community of Esparto and the Capay Valley for access to full time health services. We are thrilled to announce the construction of the Capay Valley Health and Community Service Center! This new 28,000 square foot facility will house medical, dental, vision, phar-macy, mental health, and all of our RISE social services under one roof.
The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation is providing up to 15 million dollars for this transformational project. The County of Yolo is also partnering through American Rescue Plan funding to contribute an additional 3 million. RISE is currently partaking in a Capital Campaign to raise an additional 3 million dollars to get us across the fin-ish line! Should RISE be selected by the 100 Women Who Care—the donation would be used to name one of the meeting rooms and pay for the necessary equip-ment for that specific room.
RISE is looking for donors to help us purchase the necessary equipment for the new facility. We are excited for the opportunity to present to the 100 Women Who Care and to share our amazing project with the community. This new Health and Community Center is going to change the lives of our rural residents for many generations. It will take collaboration and support from our entire region and we hope you all can help us spread the word.
RISE partners and collaborates to meet the essential needs of the communi-ty. For decades, there has been a clear need in the unincorporated community of Esparto and the Capay Valley for access to full time health services. We are thrilled to announce the construction of the Capay Valley Health and Community Service Center! This new 28,000 square foot facility will house medical, dental, vision, phar-macy, mental health, and all of our RISE social services under one roof.
The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation is providing up to 15 million dollars for this transformational project. The County of Yolo is also partnering through American Rescue Plan funding to contribute an additional 3 million. RISE is currently partaking in a Capital Campaign to raise an additional 3 million dollars to get us across the fin-ish line! Should RISE be selected by the 100 Women Who Care—the donation would be used to name one of the meeting rooms and pay for the necessary equip-ment for that specific room.
RISE is looking for donors to help us purchase the necessary equipment for the new facility. We are excited for the opportunity to present to the 100 Women Who Care and to share our amazing project with the community. This new Health and Community Center is going to change the lives of our rural residents for many generations. It will take collaboration and support from our entire region and we hope you all can help us spread the word.
RISE Organizational Overview |
Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services Yolo County
Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services of Yolo County (SPYC) has been in the Yolo County community for over 55 years. Our agency provides a variety of services: 1) a 24-hour crisis line, an ASK teen crisis line, and a school safety and violence reporting crisis line; 2) the SOS® Signs of Suicide school education and prevention program for all Yolo County secondary school students; 3) a Friends and Families of Suicide Loss Support Group; and 4) a follow-up and referral program in collaboration with Sutter Davis Hospital. These services benefit individuals who are experiencing a crisis; educate adolescents how to reach out for help; and provide support to mental health consumers to keep them stable. In this past year, SPYC received over 10,500 calls to our crisis lines and nearly 2,000 students have received our school presentation so far in this academic school year.
Through SPYC’s programs, all communities in Yolo County have access to a trained volunteer crisis line counselor in a time of need, life-saving education and prevention services to adolescents (an age group that can experience strong feelings of depression and suicidality due to developmental, social, and familial changes), and support after a suicide loss.
If Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services receives the gift from 100 Women we will use this money to continue to educate middle and high school students that depression is a treatable illness; that suicide is a preventable tragedy, and how to identify serious depression in themselves or their friends. The SOS® program is the only school prevention and education program to be selected by SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) for its National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices and has been shown to increase help-seeking behavior in students after seeing this presentation.
Through SPYC’s programs, all communities in Yolo County have access to a trained volunteer crisis line counselor in a time of need, life-saving education and prevention services to adolescents (an age group that can experience strong feelings of depression and suicidality due to developmental, social, and familial changes), and support after a suicide loss.
If Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services receives the gift from 100 Women we will use this money to continue to educate middle and high school students that depression is a treatable illness; that suicide is a preventable tragedy, and how to identify serious depression in themselves or their friends. The SOS® program is the only school prevention and education program to be selected by SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) for its National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices and has been shown to increase help-seeking behavior in students after seeing this presentation.
SPCS Organizational Overview |