c'monEVERYBODY!!
I JOIN THE FUN TODAY!! I
Host a party, invite friends, colleagues and members of your community; and raise money for the Woman Within scholarship fund. It's really simple...
1. Pick a fun theme for your party
2. Set a fundraising goal
3. Invite your guests
"C'mon everybody" is an initiative organized by the Illinois Woman Within community, Women in Circle. It is open to anyone who wants to support the Woman Within network.
IPICK A THEMEI
Dinner Party
Invite a select group of friends and feast on delicious home-cooked food. Perhaps select a themed cuisine, such as Italian and have fun preparing pizza and pasta together. Play music from the region.
Cocktail Party
Plan a fresh and fun evening of mixing cocktails or sipping different wines. Play fun music and maybe even invite guests to dress up for the occasion. If you know any musicians/singers, ask them to provide some entertainment.
Spa Party
Ask your local spa to sponsor a few hours of mini-treatments for your guests. Decorate your home with candles and soothing music. Provide fruit cocktails and healthy snacks. The spa gets free publicity and you raise donations!
Brunch
Everyone loves Sunday Brunch! Prepare a few delectable brunch options, invite your guests to kick back and enjoy a quiet Sunday with good food and good company.
Ladies who lunch
Invite your girlfriends and female colleagues to a leisurely and healthy lunch. Add some fun card games or board games, and maybe a small gift for each gal. Maybe pair the lunch with a book club or a speaker on an interesting topic.
Kiddies bash
Why not include your children in the fun? Invite your children's friends and their parents to a fun Satturday afternoon at your place. Prepare fun treats, plan some games and top it off with a cool kids movie.
Thanksgiving
This year, host thanksgiving and include Woman Within at your table. Create a afternoon focused on gratitude. Invite your guests to share a meaningful experience in the past year. Give out a small gift of gratitude to each person and ask them to support Woman Within.
Women's Circle
Why not host a special circle (for example, invite young mothers or women over 50). If you invite 10 women to attend and only asked a $5 donation, you would be making a valuable contribution to a woman attending the weekend.
Dessert Party
Indulge your seet tooth and host a dessert party. Prepare delicious treats, hot chocolate and perhaps dessert wine. Dress up fancy and play some cool jazz tunes.
Movie night
Plan a movie night, complete with popcorn, soda, snacks and a great movie. Rearrange your living room to accommodate lots of comfy chairs/cushions and turn down the lights to get that cinema feel. You might even print out movie tickets...
Halloween
Halloween is swiftly approaching. Why don't you host this year's party with a twist? Or host a pumpkin carving party...
Your Own Idea here...
Send us your ideas on a fun theme and we'll add it to the list...
ISET A
GOALI
The aim of your event is to have fun AND raise money for your local Woman Within scholarship fund. You'll do this by asking guests for a donation.
Set yourself a fundraising target. Your goal may be a lump sum, such as raising $100, or sponsoring one woman or you may want to focus on requesting a fixed rate of $20 per person. Be clear in your mind what you want to achieve and set that intention. If you want to THINK BIG, then partner with your local spa, favorite restaurant, or another vendor who might be interested in the free publicity and will sponsor food, drinks, venue, services or products.
You can raise donations for a local Woman Within community, regional community or even an outreach weekend. Visit the "Ask Questions" page if you need information on where to send donations.
There are several ways of extending invitations to your guests. If you're planning an event for a small group of close friends, then a handwriten card or personal phone call will probably do the trick.
If however you want to extend the invitation to a larger network, we suggest you use evite.com. This is a free online service where you can easily and quickly design an invitation from a selection of templates, add the email addresses of your guests, track responses and send reminder emails.
Be sure to state in your invitation that your event is raising money for the Woman Within scholarship fund, and be clear about the nature of the donation you are asking from the guests.
IINVITE YOUR
GUESTSI
For tips on planning your event, please contact Natasha on everybody_womenincircle.org
For questions relating to donations, please contact Ginny on scholarships_womenincircle.org
For local donations: If you want to raise money for a specific local community or perhaps even a specific weekend, then contact Ginny or your local community leadership to find out where to send the money.
For regional donations: If you want to raise money for your larger region, then contact a board member for details:
East Coast
West Coast
Midwest
Europe
South Central
For outreach donations: If you want to send donations to an outreach program such as South Africa or Australia, please contact Marg on info_womanwithin.org
IASK YOUR QUESTIONSI
ILEARN ABOUT
WOMAN WITHINI
The Woman Within Training Weekend provides an experience to delve deeper into your own inner wisdom and see parts of yourself that need further acknowledgement and integration...so that you can LIVE TO YOUR FULLEST. We are there to support you -- in all your potential and power, with all your shadows and challenges -- to be who you want to be. The only requirement for attendance is an openness to experience yourself.
To find out more visit www.womanwithin.org
IFIND COOL
IDEASI
Cooking on a budget: The Meal Planner
A comprehensive site on party planning: Celebrations.com
Great recipes (and on a budget):Allrecipes.com
Martha Stewart's tips for easy entertaining:Marthastewart.com
I YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE I
ILIST YOUR
EVENTI
Email the details of your event to Natasha on Everybody_womenincircle.org and we will post it on this page as inspiration to others. Perhaps you'll even get some interest from women hoping to attend your event!
I LEARN ABOUT
WOMAN WITHIN I
The Woman Within Training Weekend provides a woman with the experience to delve deeper into her own inner wisdom and see parts of herself that need further acknowledgement and integration...so that she can LIVE TO HER FULLEST. Our staff have all gone through the weekend themselves and are there to support each woman -- in all her potential and power, with all her shadows and challenges -- to be who she wants to be. The only requirement for attendance is an openness to experience herself.
Local Illinois contact: debra_womenincircle.org
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