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Monday 21 August 2017

Last free movie event for the month of August to be held on Saturday


Last free movie event for the month of August to be held on Saturday ODESSA -- The last free movie event, Movies at the Park for the month of August will be hosted at Sherwood Park at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday. Odessa residents are invited to take part in a fun family night where they can enjoy $1 snacks such as buttery popcorn. Attendees will be watching The Lego Batman Movie. For more information regarding the event you can visit www.odessatxparks.org. Marketing: How to create a profitable charity event Hosting a one-of-a-kind fundraiser is a hot trend for small business owners right now. If you do it right, putting together a unique event to “do good” for a non-profit can benefit your business, too. Here’s an example. Seven Seattle business women wanted to create something fun and unique in Seattle’s local wedding industry with the goal of helping the community and creating some buzz about their own businesses. They collaborated and came up with Get Hitched, Give Hope, a very special soirée for brides-to-be that benefits breast cancer patients and their families. I did a quick email chat with one of the event founders, Laurel McConnell, and she was happy to share some of her tips on how they are working to make their charity event stand out from the crowd! Whitney Keyes: “How did you gals come up with the idea? Laurel McConnell: “Well, honestly, after a few bottles of wine in the cold months late last fall, the idea just shaped itself! I think Michelle Loretta was the first to bring it up, then we pooled all of our ideas together, threw out a couple, made a couple more, and voila! Wait, that made it sound really easy… it really has been a lot of work narrowing our focus and keeping on track- I’m sure you can imagine with 7 gals there is a LOT of creativity and tons of ideas being tossed out there!” Whitney: “With so many of you involved in managing the event, how do you keep it collaborative and not competitive between your businesses?” Laurel: “We were all friends to begin with, and at one point or another, have all worked together on weddings and events. Some of us have even built our businesses side by side, so we’ve all sort of grown up together in the sense that our businesses probably wouldn’t have survived without the support of each other. I think that our artistic styles and ideal clients are all so different, and we have such different strengths, that we fill in the blanks so well with each other. We’ve actually divided ourselves up into little sub-committees to keep productive and take advantage of our knowledge and connections. Michelle Loretta is great with forms and research and business since she comes from an accounting background, so she keeps us on track and makes sure that we’ve got all of our licenses and that we’re following the rules. Kelly Simants and Michelle Engvall are wedding and event planners, so naturally they’ve got great relationships with the vendors in town. They’ve been working on communicating with our donors and sponsors, lining up all of our auction and raffle items. Barbie Hull and Eliza Truitt are our little networking busy bees, so they’re the lucky ones who get to go to all the parties and spread the word about our event, working as our PR team. And me, well, I like design and tend to make up ridiculous but sometimes quippy sayings so I’m the marketing department.” Whitney: “As someone who has spent years doing marketing, I’d say you have the perfect qualifications for the job! So how do you think creating a fundraiser event will help your individual businesses?” Laurel: “Exposure and networking. Through forming GHGH, we’re being forced to talk to more people in our community and are making new relationships every week that we normally wouldn’t be making in our own little worlds of photography or invitation design or event planning. Networking and word-of-mouth is the greatest advertising, so the more people that we meet on this adventure, the more people we’ll get to know. Eventually, they’ll end up looking at our personal websites and knowing who we are on a personal level, going beyond our affiliation with GHGH. The more that people blog about our event, talk about our event, and read about our event, the more people will be curious and decide to come see what all the hubbub is about!” Whitney: “It sounds like you’re doing a lot of partnering to cover expenses and pull off the event. How does that pay off??” Laurel: “Businesses love to get involved in the community, and taking such a big part in a fresh, new event that’s also charitable can feel rewarding and exciting. This is our first year, and we’ve been getting such excited feedback from everyone we talk to, everyone wants to be involved. And from an appearance standpoint, what business wouldn’t mind the public thinking that they’re generous and giving and community-involved, and not just serious suits, detached from the personal, focused only on their own business?!” Whitney: “I know the event isn’t happening until the Fall, but what’s the scoop? Give me the details!” Laurel: “Get Hitched, Give Hope (GHGH) is making its debut on October 23rd, 2008 at the newly renovated Arctic Club Hotel in Downtown Seattle. We’ve created GHGH as a non-profit charity with the goal of having a yearly event where brides, grooms, and guests can enjoy an evening out in a fun atmosphere, where they can win great items and services not only for their wedding, but life in general. In the spirit of giving, we’re planning some cool raffles, fantastic silent auctions, and Seattle’s top wedding professionals and businesses have donated some great items like wedding cakes, jewelry, photography, and planning services for auction. The charity we have chosen to receive the proceeds is the Making Memories Foundation (MMF). Through affiliations like Brides Against Breast Cancer, The Pink Envelope Project, and private donations (like ours!!), MMF benefits breast cancer patients and their families, granting wishes and making experiences that they may not have been able to have on their own. We all loved the idea of being able to send a family to Disney World who would have otherwise not been able to because of sickness and medical bills, and since so many people have been affected by breast cancer, we thought that the MMF was a great fit for our event.” P.S. For more information, visit the Get Hitched, Give Hope website. P. P.S. Many thanks to Junebug Weddings for making it so easy to find business contact information for all of these women. Junebug is the place to go when you need a trusted list of Seattle’s most talented and passionate wedding professionals. Boost your business the easy way! Click here to sign up for a free e-reminder for The Biz Bite. Scholarships Announced at Women’s Fund Luncheon Amanda Holder Published 6:46 a.m. PT June 17, 2016 Community Foundation for Monterey County’s 2016 Women’s Fund Lunch(Photo: Provided) The commitment to propel women and girls onto a path of economic security through education is strong, evident through the 470 people who attended the 11th annual Community Foundation for Monterey County’s (CFMC) Women’s Fund Lunch, Thursday, May 5 at the Hyatt Regency Monterey. A tangible vehicle, that will immediately make an impact, was announced at the lunch – a Girls’ Health in Girls’ Hands (GHGH) Scholarship fund for graduating high school seniors or alumnae in college from the six partner agency programs. Up to $2,500 in scholarship money may be awarded to each eligible applicant to support her higher education tuition or related costs. The scholarships are funded by donations to the Women’s Fund. “Women’s economic security is directly related to education,” said Tonya Antle, CFMC board member and chair of the Women’s Fund Leadership Council. “Helping build a path towards higher education will improve the quality of life for women, their future families and our community,” she said. (Photo: provided) The Women’s Fund established GHGH in 2009 as an action research project and evolved to provide education, support and empowerment advocacy skills for girls ages 11-18 in Monterey County. It is now a collaborative program of the Monterey County Health Department, in partnership with six agencies that share resources, enhance programs and bring together girls from 20 sites. More than 550 girls are now participating in health education and leadership training, and more than 1,500 girls have been impacted since its inception. “GHGH has been a success and made a difference in people’s lives. However, we want to take it a step further. As the girls graduated high school, we saw the need to support their aspirations beyond GHGH,” Antle told the Women’s Fund Lunch attendees. “Many of these young women have the desire to succeed in college but lack the financial support to do so. Let’s be that bridge.” (Photo: Provided) More than 18 applications have been received for the GHGH Scholarship. For more information, call 831-375-9712 or visit cfmco.org/womensfund. For scholarship information, visit cfmco.org/ghghscholarship. (Photo: Provided) (Photo: Provided) Thanks to Women’s Fund donors and several funding partners, the Women’s Fund has invested in the potential of girls through the Girls’ Health in Girls’ Hands program, a girl-led movement for health empowerment for girls between 11 and 18 in Monterey County. GHGH is now a collaborative program of the Monterey County Health Department in partnership with: Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County, Girls Inc. of the Central Coast, Monterey County Health Department, Monterey County Rape Crisis Center, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte and the YWCA Monterey County. It was created by the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County. Amanda Holder is the communications officer at the Community Foundation for Monterey County. Read or Share this story: http://bit.ly/24VLLej

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