Help African Women With Your Shopping!

Isn't it fun for shoppers to find a new store to explore? And isn't it even more fun to know that when you purchase a gift from that store you are actually making a difference in this world? HELP has just released their web store www.biggerthanbeads.com for just that experience! Bigger Than Beads features the Wamama artisans of Masese, an impoverished village just near the source of the Nile River in East Africa. Through the sale of this lovely jewelry you will be helping women provide for their families and help fund the school started for children unable to attend school due to their extreme poverty. Not only that but you will find this jewelry is amazingly beautiful. It is not only made from recycled paper but it is crafted with an eye for loveliness.

Give a gift that gives twice! Help us help women and children that are hungry and without hope if their beads don't sell.

Most of all, have fun shopping!

Soroptimist Fort Collins Adds Exciting New Product Line to Fall Fundraiser!

Great news! Our Fort Collins club is introducing the Women's Bean Project products to our array of foods  available for our fall fundraiser. Purchasing any of our nuts, candies, or butter braids will help our efforts to assist women and girls locally and worldwide, but the Women's Bean Project will also assist Colorado women.  Program participants come from backgrounds of unemployment and poverty, and the program helps women develop the work and interpersonal skills needed to function independently in the workplace and community.

The Women's Bean Project offers attractive gift baskets and bundles, cookie and bread mixes, salsa, dip and rub mixes, and jewelry.

Between now and December 4th, Soroptimist International of Fort Collins will make 35% of all sales when you visit the Women's Bean Project website at www.womensbeanproject.com. All products apply and there is no minimum purchase. Just use the campaign code SOROPTIMIST12 at checkout. To get started, click here www.womensbeanproject.com Thank you for your support.

Annual Book Sale a Resounding Success

Our annual book sale February 24-26 at the Foothills Mall was an outstanding success!


We had many dedicated members contribute lots of time and effort to hold this fundraiser that benefits so many! This year we raised a total of $20,729.91!! WOW!!

Each year Soroptimist International Fort Collins (SIFC) partners with The American Association of University Women (AAUW) to hold the sale. Proceeds will be split between the two clubs and will go to many good causes.

A special thank you to SIFC's Book Sale Chair Mary Robinson, and Sorting Chair Judy Robinson for the many hours of hard work they put in to make the sale a success! Many members worked long and hard on the sale and deserve a pat on the back!!

Our club has been holding the sale for so many years that it operates like a well-oiled machine! Many thanks to so many seasoned club members who keep things running smoothly.

Good going, everyone!!