SIFC Plans Cups de Ville 2010

a bras for a cause event

SIFC's first annual Cups de Ville (2009) was a huge success! The community stepped forward and SIFC netted $5000 for the PVH Soroptimist Navigator Fund. We're ramping up for Cups de Ville 2010 and invite you to get involved.

Cups de Ville....SIFC's Bras for a Cause Event is scheduled for Thursday October 7, 2010. Our celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness Month will be held from 5-8 p.m. at the Fort Collins Hilton. We're looking for talented volunteers to help with event planning, organization and publicity to insure another uplifting celebration.

Local businesses and individuals are currently decorating bras for display and auction during the Gala. A $100 fee allows you to sponsor and decorate a bra while promoting your business. The bra fee includes one ticket (valued at $35) to attend the event and enjoy the goodies. $300 gets you 9 tickets and a "corporate table."

Proceeds will go to the PVH Soroptimist Navigator Fund, helping to pay basic needs and medical bills for women in our community who are diagnosed with breast cancer and show financial need.Watch for additional information in future blogs.

To get involved, email sifortcollins@hotmail.com

Soroptimist Awards Near $18,000

Soroptimist International of Fort Collins culminates this year’s service efforts with announcement of awards and grants nearing $18,000. The Fort Collins club commits 80% of their service funds to projects in northern Colorado. The additional 20% goes to global projects.

Those accepting local donations this year include: The Children’s Speech and Reading Center, Lentz Hearing Aid Project for Women and Girls, Project Self-Sufficiency, the Women’s Center of Larimer County, and Sexual Assault Victim Advocate Canter (SAVA). Donations were previously distributed to the PVH Soroptimist Navigator Fund, Boys and Girls Club of Wellington, Crossroads Safehouse for Gala sponsorship, and Rocky Mountain High School’s Adopt a Family.

Those accepting global donations include: 1) Children of Peace International for Remaking a Life--Capacity Building Workshops, 2) Project SIerra—a Family and a Future—helping women in Sierra Leon, 3) Soroptimist of the Americas for Disaster Relief and 5) Soroptimist Rocky Mountain Region for the Governor’s Project. Donations were previously distributed to the Soroptimist International President’s Appeal-- Hopes and Dreams for Everyone--preventing human trafficking from Moldova, and Soroptimist of the Americas in honor of this year’s Ruby Award Recipient, Vicky Lutz.

Soroptimist scholarships and grants totally $3900 were previously distributed to help local women live their dreams. Those donations can be used for any expense related to a woman’s pursuit of schooling.

Soroptimist Objectives

Curious about Soroptimist? Our mission says a lot, but it certainly is broad. With the new year upon us, we thought it might be good to share the current set of Soroptimist International objectives. These are the 10 major ways Soroptimist strives to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. Share these objectives? Join us.

Objectives:

1. Eliminate poverty and gender discrimination through ensuring women’s full social and economic rights

2. End human trafficking and all forms of violence against women and girls

3. Ensure access to health care for women and girls

4. Support programs and policies that eliminate HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other major diseases

5. Improve access to clean water, sanitation and essential food resources

6. Mitigate the effects of climate change and integrate sustainability into personal choices and government policies and programs

7. Meet the needs of women and girls during and after armed conflicts and disasters

8. Promote peaceful conflict resolution, inter-cultural and inter-racial tolerance and condemn all forms of genocide and terrorism

9. Ensure equal access to education and training for women and girls throughout their lifespan

10. Assure women’s advancement in management, politics and decision making