This group is perfect for you if:

• You believe in giving back and want 100% of your donation to go directly to a local nonprofit.

• You've been wanting to help those in need, but are not sure how to fit it into your busy schedule.

• You want to become part of creating a powerful new group of women that will make an immediate, direct and positive contribution to Door County.
• You want to feel good!

100+ Women Who Care Door County is a giving circle that is supported by the nonprofit corporation 100+ Women Who Care Door County, Inc. A member is defined as a member of the giving circle.

Membership in 100+ Women Who Care Door County includes making an annual tax deductible donation of $400 ($100 per quarter) to local nonprofits serving Door County. Members have the option of partnering with a friend and signing up as a team.  2-member teams contribute $50 each per meeting ($200 each annually). Members commit to fulfilling that donation amount even if they did not vote for the selected nonprofit. Attendance at meetings is not mandatory but the donation is.

Membership is for a one (1) year period of time and will renew automatically unless notice is given.  Members may withdraw at any time.

If you would like to become a member, please visit the Join Us section to complete our SignUp Form.

A 100+WWC goal is to encourage philanthropy by attracting young women (under 40) who are interested in learning more about philanthropy and supporting Door County nonprofit organizations. You could support this goal by sponsoring a scholarship membership.

1. Invite your candidate for sponsorship membership to join 100WWC with you as her sponsor. If she is interested, she should complete the Individual Sign Up form online. She will receive a ballot each quarter as a member.

2. Sponsor should notify memberadmin@100wwcdoorcounty.org that she is sponsoring the individual. The sponsor makes the donation for the women she is sponsoring.

3. If you are interested in either being a sponsor or know someone who may be interested in being sponsored, let us know and we will try to help you make the connection.

Expect to be welcomed at our registration desk and be asked to sign-in. There you will receive your nametag and appropriate ballot(s). 

Generally, our Giving Events go as follows:

5:30 pm – Check-in and social

6:30 pm – Formal giving event begins

* Opening remarks.


* An explanation of the nonprofit selection and voting process is given.


* The members who nominated the three (3) nonprofits selected for that quarter’s meeting will each have five (5) minutes to present their nonprofit to the group (no PowerPoint or handouts please). A representative from the organization being presented with then join our presenting member for an up to five (5) minute Q&A session.


* Members will submit their anonymous ballot and the votes are tabulated.


* While votes are being tabulated, the nonprofit that received the Main award from a previous giving circle will be asked to say a few words of thanks and tell the group how their donations were/will be used and what the impact the 100+WWC gift made on the organization and community.


* 3 nonprofits are pulled from the hat for consideration at our next giving event.

* The nonprofit with the most votes is announced.
 This nonprofit receives the main award. The other 2 nonprofits receive the runner-up awards.

* Checks written out to 100+ Women Who Care are submitted (if not previously submitted) to the DCCF.


* You feel good. You just did something amazing and meaningful!


* The next giving event and venue are announced.


6:30-6:45 pm – The Giving Circle is adjourned.

Members/Givers are welcome to stay to socialize.

Formal giving events last 1 hour. Occassionally, we may go a little longer but we try to keep that to no more than 5-10 minutes if we have a lot of information to share during our Business Update portion of the event.

We start the formal meeting promptly at 6:30 pm. If you wish to come a little earlier or stay a little later, there will be some time to socialize both before and after the formal part of each one-hour event.

Please feel free to attend any giving event as a guest. If, while you’re at the event, you would like to donate to the selected nonprofit you are welcome to do so. However, you must be a member to vote. Individuals must have completed the SignUp & Commitment forms prior to voting or nominating a nonprofit.

100+ Women Who Care Door County collects your personal information (including name, email address, phone number, and mailing address) strictly for the purpose of keeping in contact with our members. Our membership database is used for administrative purposes only.

100+ Women Who Care Door County will not sell, give, or otherwise share your personal information with any third party. Ever. We may occasionally recognize our members via social media and other media. If you want to remain anonymous you must let us know at the time of joining.

If you have signed up for the Social and/or Service email groups, your contact information will be shared with the Giving Circle’s Social and/or Service Coordinators.

The main form of communication is via email. Note: if you change your email address, please let us know. New members will receive a confirmation/welcome email from us within 3-5 days of joining. If you have not heard from us, please contact us.

Our event emails are sent out starting 4 weeks before each event. If you are not receiving them, please check your Spam or Promotions folders. If you find them there please move to your inbox or do what is needed for your email platform to ensure that you receive future emails from us to your inbox. We recommend you adding our domain: 100wwcdoorcounty.org as a safe sender and/or adding our email address to your Contacts.

Our website will have the most up-to-date info at all times. We also have a Facebook page and regularly update that.  

Yes! We are always looking for women who want to join us in our goal to support nonprofits in the Northern Door, Washington Island and Sturgeon Bay Communities. However, your friend will not be able to vote at the giving event unless she completes the SignUp & Commitment forms before voting begins. She is, of course, able to donate to the selected nonprofit if she feels moved to do so.

Yes, we have partnered with the Door County Community Foundation (DCCF) to process our payments. Follow this link to make a donation by credit card or direct debit to your bank account: Donate Online

The charge on your credit card will show up as Door County Comm FNDN

Checks should be written out to: 100+ Women Who Care and be mailed to: Door County Community Foundation, 222 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235.

Enter Door County Community Foundation - EIN: 39-1980685

Depending on the financial platform you are using, in the memo/note/purpose/etc window, enter 100+WWC as the where the donation should be applied by the Door County Community Foundation.

Effective July 1, 2026 Fidelity is moving to electronic transfers only. See HERE to set up electronic donations on their website.

In 2020 our members voted to allocated the Award so that all 3 nonprofits presenting receive a portion. The allocation policy is as follows:

Main Award: 50% of the total giving circle donation for the quarter

Each Runner Up: 25% of the total giving circle donation for the quarter

Once the member payments are reconciled with our member list, we will submit a payment request to the DCCF to process and mail the donation checks to the nonprofits. We work to do this as quickly as practical with our volunteer staff, sending the bulk of the donation quickly. Final reconciliation and last check to the nonprofit may take 4-6 weeks. Members can help us speed up this process by giving prior to the meeting.

Yes. You will receive a tax receipt from the DCCF for your donations. If you have not received your tax receipt within a reasonable amount of time, please contact the DCCF directly.

If you cannot attend a quarterly giving event, please mail your check within three days of the event so it is received within approximately 5 business days of the event.

You may vote in one of two ways:

1. Proxy - You may vote by proxy by giving your check to another member to bring to the meeting and then they will receive an extra ballot to cast a vote for you in your absence. After the vote they will fill in who your check should be paid to.


2. Online - A giving event reminder is emailed to all members approximately 2 weeks prior to each event. It will request you let us know if you will not be able to attend the event. When we receive your rsvp that you will not be able to attend, we will send you a link so that you can vote online and also a link to view the live stream of the event. If it’s available to you, we encourage you to watch the live stream presentations and then vote during the event. All online voting must be submitted within 5 minutes of the end of the last nonprofit presentation to ensure your vote is included in the tally. You may vote anytime time prior to but no later than 5 minutes after the end of the last nonprofit presentation. Checks should be written out to 100+ Women Who Care and be sent to: Door County Community Foundation, 222 N 3rd Ave, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 or you may pay with a credit card: Donate Online In order to reconcile and issue the checks to the nonprofit organizations in a timely manner we need your payment received within 5 business days of the quarterly event.

The contingency plan, should circumstances prevent an in person Giving Event: Members will be notified via E-mail, Website, and FaceBook announcements before 4:00pm the day of the Giving Event. A remote meeting will be hosted on the upcoming Wednesday. Voting will be conducted prior to the meeting and during the online Giving Event.

100+WWC is an independent charitable corporation that uses a Donor Advised Fund at the Door County Community Foundation to facilitate its giving. This arrangement allows 100+WWC to pay with credit card if they would like in addition to giving members the option to pay for multiple meetings in advance, set up automatic recurring credit card payments, and enables us to send one award check to the nonprofits rather than adding to their administrative burden the processing each of our member’s checks.

Once you join our chapter you may nominate a nonprofit. For more information, please see our Nonprofits section.

No. Many women like to just show up and give. While all members have the opportunity to nominate a nonprofit, it is not a requirement of membership.

Please review our Nonprofits section for eligibility requirements.

The most common type of tax-exempt nonprofit organization falls under category 501(c)(3), whereby a nonprofit organization is exempt from federal income tax if its activities have the following purposes: charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering amateur sports competition, or preventing cruelty to children or animals. For more information please visit the IRS website. 

For the purposes of the 100+ Women Who Care Door County, all charitable organizations up for consideration must serve Door County as a part of their mission. The goal is for our members to see the impact their contributions make for our local community.  A local project associated with a national nonprofit may be considered if 100% of the donated funds stay in our local community.

No, a nonprofit may only be nominated by a member.

If a 100+WWC member has an affiliation with a nonprofit, i.e. they are an officer, board member, employee or volunteer, they are allowed to nominate that nonprofit.

Sorry, your commitment to the 100+WWC must be submitted to 100+WWC. The goal of 100+ Women Who Care Door County is to make one BIG donation on behalf of each group within our chapter. To make a BIG impact, we want to give thousands of dollars at the end of each group meeting. The only way to do that is to make each member’s donation part of the larger donation. This is the power of being a member. We also need to be able to track your donations so you get credit for the donation and remain in good standing. Only members in good standing can nominate and vote. The nonprofits benefit from one big check with lower administration effort.

Certainly! If you would like to contribute more for a particular meeting, we will happily make sure the nonprofits receive your donation.

The short answer is no for individuals. The commitment you make as a member is to donate $100 per quarter. However, we do accept teams of two (2) who agree to split the $100 donation each quarter. Please keep in mind that teams only get one (1) vote and one (1) active nomination per team.  If you would like to become a member either as an individual or a team, please visit the Join Us section and then complete our Membership & Commitment Forms.

Yes! Take a look at our list of List of Nominated Nonprofits for links to each of their websites. Each nonprofit will have a list of ways you can help them carry out their mission.

The process for determining the award amounts in the event of a tie for the Main Award is as follows:

Award - The sum of the Main Award plus one Runner Up award (75% of total awards for the event) will be split 50/50 between the nonprofit organizations that tie for the Main Award.

Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation (RSMFF) matching grant - If both of the tied nonprofit organizations meet the criteria to apply for the matching grant (match is 100% up to $5,000), then we will have a post meeting online ballot to determine which organization will have the opportunity to apply for the matching grant as we are only allowed to submit one organization per quarter.

Effective with the January 2024 Giving Circle, each January meeting will have an “Aged Hat” drawing.  Only Nonprofits that have waited in the hat for three years or longer will be placed “in the Aged Hat”.  These nonprofits are considered to be “Aged” and are given preferential status to increase the likelihood that they are selected to present at the next (April) Giving Circle.  In the event that no nonprofits meet the “Aged” criteria, the January “in the hat” drawing will operate as usual with all eligible nonprofits “in the hat”. In the event only one or two nonprofits meet the “Aged” criteria, they will be automatically selected to present at the next (April) meeting and the regular ‘in the hat’ process will be used with all remaining nonprofits having equal opportunity to be selected for the next (April) meeting.  For example – if there is only one “Aged” nonprofit, they will be automatically selected to present in April and two nonprofits will be randomly selected from the hat.

Three nonprofits are randomly pulled ‘from the hat’ at each Giving Circle to be the presenters at the next Giving Circle.  As this is a random process, some nonprofits will inevitably be pulled from that hat quickly after they were nominated while some remain in the hat long after they were nominated.  The Giving Circle members decided that these nonprofits with ‘bad luck’ in the random hat selection process should be given preferential treatment in the presentation selection after they have waited three or more years.  This ensures that all nonprofits nominated will have an opportunity to be presented by the nominating member so that those nonprofits benefit from the awareness offered by being a presenter and, of course, to receive an award from the 100+WWC members.