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Door County has roughly three times the number of tax-exempt organizations as a typical community of its size. It’s also the only place I’ve ever lived where so many folks (particularly those who are retired) introduce themselves by talking about the charities with which they are involved.
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The 100+Women Who Care Door County (100+WWC) Giving Circle awarded $29,000 to local nonprofits at its October Giving Event. Since inception, the group has held 22 Giving Events, providing $490,000 to 56 Door County nonprofits.
Three nonprofits discussed their organizations and initiatives at the October event. Lakeshore CAP Food Pantry was the recipient of the main award of $14,500. Little Eddie Big Cup/Mental Health Support Fund and Sunshine Resources Door County (SRDC) will also each receive approximately $7,250. A total of $29,000 was awarded in one hour.To learn more visit 100wwcDoorCounty.org.
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This article is not specifically about 100+WWC but may be of interest to our members as we learn more about philanthropy in Door County.
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The next quarterly giving event of the 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) is Oct. 23, 6:30-7:30 pm, in person at the Kress Pavilion or via livestream. Registration and social hour begins at 5:30 pm.
More than $29,000 is to be awarded during this meeting. The three nonprofits this quarter are Little Eddie Big Cup/Mental Awareness Fund, Lakeshore CAP Food Pantry and Sunshine Resources.
Unity Hospice will share the impact of their April 2022 100+WWC award, and three additional nonprofits will be selected for consideration at the January 2024 Giving Event.
To learn more, visit 100wwcDoorCounty.org.The Kress Pavilion is located at 7845 Church Street, Egg Harbor.See the Pulse Story HERE
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Wisconsin Cheese Masters is partnering with Open Door Bird Sanctuary for the fourth year to raise funds toward a new transport van, replacing the current 17-year-old van.
Sunday, Sept. 10 will be an ODBS and You fundraising day at Wisconsin Cheese Masters. From 10:30am – 1:30 pm you can meet up with some of the majestic raptor residents found at the sanctuary and help raise money toward the new sanctuary van. The business will be donating 10% of the day’s sales to the project.
Proceeds will be paired with a grant award from the 100+ Women Who Care to go toward the purchase price of a gently used cargo van early in 2024.
“We provide high quality education and inspiration all over the county and beyond and reliable transport is imperative. We are especially grateful for our business partners, like WI Cheese Masters,” says Jillaine Seefeldt, OBDS board chair. “We are so grateful for Jim and Katie’s continued support and generosity.”
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During the 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) Door County giving event held July 17, the group celebrated five years, its growth to 389 givers (individuals and teams), and its awards of more than $461,000 to 53 Door County nonprofit organizations. Past award recipients and community leaders joined the members to toast the group’s impact on the county.
For July, Open Door Bird Sanctuary received the main award of $14,000, while the Newport Wilderness Society and the Peninsula Symphonic Band also received approximately $7,000 each.
Nonprofits being considered for the next quarterly award on Oct. 23 are the Little Eddie Big Cup Mental Awareness Fund, the Lakeshore CAP Food Pantry and Sunshine Resources. The event will be held both in person at the Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St. in Egg Harbor, and via livestream.
To join this group, visit 100wwcDoorCounty.org.
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The 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) of Door County giving circle is celebrating five years of community donations during its next giving event on July 17. That evening, 382 members will award approximately $28,000 to local nonprofits, and the total awards given since the organization began in 2018 will approach $455,000.
Nonprofits under consideration this quarter are the Peninsula Symphonic Band, Newport Wilderness Society and Open Door Bird Sanctuary. The 100+WWC members who nominated these nonprofits will present information about them, and Rebecca Nicholson, representing the Door County Partnership for Children & Families, will share information about the organization and discuss the impact of its July 2022 100+WWC award. Three additional nonprofits will also be selected from member nominations for consideration in October.
The giving event will take place in person at the Peg Egan Performing Arts Center, 7840 Church St. in Egg Harbor; and via livestream, 6:30-7:30 pm. Registration and a take-your-own-picnic social hour will begin at 5:30 pm, and a toast and cake to celebrate five years will take place at 6:15 pm.
New members are always welcome. Learn more at 100wwcDoorCounty.org.Read the Door County Peninsula Pulse article here:
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100+WWC Next Giving Circle July 17th - celebrating 5 years of giving
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Those attending the 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) of Door County’s January gathering gave the giving circle’s primary award of $13,750 to We Are HOPE. Midsummer’s Music and the Clean Water Action Council also received awards of $6,875 each. The 100+WWC giving circle has given more than $394,000 to 47 Door County nonprofit organizations since its inception.
The next giving-circle meeting is set for April 24 at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor. Find out more and join the group at 100wwcDoorCounty.org.
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The next quarterly meeting of the 100+ Women Who Care Door County (100+WWC) giving circle will be held Jan. 23, 6:30-7:30 pm, both in person at the Kress Pavilion, 7845 Church St. in Egg Harbor, and via livestream. Registration and social hour will begin at 5:30 pm.
Three nonprofits will be considered this quarter: We Are HOPE, Midsummer’s Music and Clean Water Action Council. The 100+WWC members who nominated these nonprofits will present information about them, and representatives from the nonprofits will be available to answer questions. Three additional nonprofits will also be selected for consideration during the April meeting.
New members are always welcome. Visit 100wwcDoorCounty.org to learn more.
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Door County, Wis. (November 11, 2022) – The 100+ Women Who Care of Door County (100+WWC) giving circle’s philanthropic impact continues to grow. The October giving event recognized and awarded gifts to three local nonprofits. In four years, the circle has grown to 375 giver-members and has awarded over $360,000 to 44 Door County nonprofit organizations.
To join this group of local women who are making a positive local impact, visit 100wwcDoorCounty.org.
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During their October giving event, the members of 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) of Door County awarded funds to three local nonprofits. In four years, the giving circle has grown to 375 giver members and has awarded more than $360,000 to 44 Door County nonprofit organizations.
Door County Secret Santa, which provides utility-bill assistance to county families, received the 100+WWC main award of $13,500 and the opportunity to apply for a 100 Who Care matching grant of $5,000 from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation.
Neighbor to Neighbor and the Baileys Harbor Community Association were also presented and considered, and each received $6,700.
To join this group of local women who are making a positive local impact, visit 100wwcDoorCounty.org.
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The 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) of Door County recognized and awarded grants to three local nonprofits during the organization’s July giving event. In four years, the circle has grown to 366 givers and has awarded more than $328,000 to 41 nonprofit organizations.
Door County Partnership for Children and Families received the 100+WWC main award of approximately $13,000, plus the opportunity to apply for a matching grant of $5,000 from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation. Open Door Pride and the Sister Bay Historical Society each received approximately $6,500 from the local 100+WWC giving circle.
The nonprofits to be considered for the next quarterly award are the Baileys Harbor Community Association, Door County Secret Santa and Neighbor to Neighbor.
To join this group of local women who are making a positive local impact, visit 100wwcDoorCounty.org.
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I’ve worked in the world of philanthropy for three decades now. In all that time, I have yet to find a tax deduction, charitable trust or other secret formula through which a donor wouldn’t be better off financially if they just kept the money rather than giving it away.
The most you can hope to accomplish with charitable deductions and other tax-planning tools is to lower the cost of the gift. For example, a high-income donor who gives $100,000 to charity might avoid paying $35,000 in taxes. Yet at the end of the day, even after subtracting the tax savings from the money given away, the donor has still experienced a net financial loss of $65,000. If the donor truly wanted to maximize the amount of money she or he has, the easiest and most obvious solution is to not give the money away in the first place.
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by BRET BICOY, President and CEO, Door County Community Foundation, bret@givedoorcounty.org
“How much or how little money changes hands doesn’t make it philanthropy. Intention and effort make it philanthropy.” MacKenzie Scott.
Several decades ago, in a community far away from our beloved Door County, I was involved in raising money to renovate a local neighborhood center.
I was giving a tour to one of that community’s great philanthropists when an elderly woman came up to me, stuffed a pledge envelope in my hand, then hurried away almost as if she were embarrassed. I knew the woman because she led a story time and read books to young children, including a few of mine, who would gather around her on the floor. She was part of a federal-government program that provided a stipend to senior citizens who volunteered; it was an effort to keep them out of poverty.
If my story were from a Hollywood movie, the woman’s pledge envelope would have contained a commitment for a million dollars. Instead, it held a $20 bill.
Eventually, we raised the money necessary to renovate the neighborhood center, and the great philanthropist I had walked through the building provided the single most important gift that made everything possible. Yet as a percentage of their respective wealth, that elderly woman’s gift of $20 was probably a far greater financial sacrifice. It’s been decades since that campaign, but I still wonder often which of those donors was the greater philanthropist.
This story came to mind when I was writing my most recent column about the philanthropy of MacKenzie Scott. As a reminder, Scott is a co-founder of Amazon and has been in the news of late for having donated an incredible $12 billion to charity. When announcing yet another round of remarkable gifts on Dec. 8, 2021, she wrote on her blog about the concept of “semantic narrowing.”
To linguists, semantic narrowing is when the meaning of a word becomes less general or inclusive than its earlier definition. For instance, centuries ago, an “undertaker” was anyone paid by another person to undertake any task as assigned. Today, an undertaker is one who undertakes the very specific task of preparing a body for a funeral and carrying out the funeral.
Scott wrote about her discomfort in being referred to as a philanthropist. “A lifetime of cultural references associated [the word ‘philanthropist’] with financially wealthy people who believed they knew best how to solve other people’s problems,” she wrote. “Since I did not believe myself to be such a person, I had always felt more kinship with people who offered a couch when someone said they needed a couch.”
Yet she was surprised to learn that the dictionary definition of the word “philanthropist” was far simpler and more beautiful than she had ever realized. Merriam-Webster defines a philanthropist as “one who makes an active effort to promote human welfare.” It defines “philanthropy” as “goodwill to fellow members of the human race.” Nowhere in those definitions is there a requirement that the person make billion-dollar contributions.
Consider the etymology of the word “philanthropy.” A 15th-century definition was a “love of humankind, especially as evinced in deeds of practical beneficence and work for the good of others.” That concept is almost lyrical in its beauty.
In most cases of semantic narrowing, there is no diminishment of the word – merely a greater specificity as to what it has come to mean in a modern context. A “deer” is no longer what we call all four-legged animals; it now refers only to a specific type of four-legged animal. Yet as we have begun to narrow the definition of the word “philanthropy,” we are losing the most extraordinary and magical aspects of it.
“The problem is that half the beauty of the original meaning of ‘philanthropy’ was in its breadth,” Scott wrote. “It’s as if we had taken the word ‘love’ and reduced it to mean only familial love, or only romantic love, cutting out the love we feel for friends, or food, or sunsets, or strangers.”
Goodness knows that our world needs the remarkable generosity of billionaires such as Scott if we are to overcome our most intractable problems. But when we narrow the meaning of the word “philanthropy” so that only the wealthiest among us can be considered philanthropists, we are diminishing the very thing that makes philanthropic giving so beautiful.
“How much or how little money changes hands doesn’t make it philanthropy,” Scott wrote. “Intention and effort make it philanthropy.”
To join this exciting group of local women who make a big local impact, visit 100wwcDoorCounty.org.
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The 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) of Door County giving circle awarded grants to three local nonprofits in April, for a total of $25,500. During its four years, the giving circle has grown to 360 givers and has awarded more than $295,500 to 38 nonprofit organizations.
Jim Black (right), Friends of Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport accepts check from 100+WWC.
Kathy Beck (second from right), PAI board accepts check from 100+WWC.
Matt Baumler of Unity Hospice (right) accepts check from 100+WWC.
Unity Hospice received the 100+WWC main gift of approximately $12,500, plus the opportunity to apply for a matching grant of $5,000 from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation. Friends of Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport and the Public Arts Initiative of Egg Harbor will each receive approximately $6,250.
The nonprofits to be considered for the next quarterly award are Open Door Pride, DC Partnership for Children & Families, and the Sister Bay Historical Society. The 100+WWC members who nominated these nonprofits will present information about them and answer questions during the next gathering, set for July 18.
To join this exciting group of local women who make a big local impact, visit 100wwcDoorCounty.org.
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by BRET BICOY, President and CEO, Door County Community Foundation
Even if you don’t follow the trends in the philanthropic world as obsessively as I do, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about MacKenzie Scott, who has been giving to charity from her Amazon.com wealth at a record pace.
Three years ago, she signed the Giving Pledge and became part of a society of billionaires – brought together by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates – who have promised to dedicate the majority of their wealth to charitable causes. Although most of these pledges will be honored as part of an estate plan, Scott is not waiting until she dies to give her money away.
Since she signed the Giving Pledge, she has donated at least $12 billion to charity. As a basis for comparison, last year her donations exceeded the total grants awarded by the Gates Foundation – the largest philanthropic institution in the United States.
By any measure, $12 billion is an enormous number, yet the manner in which Scott gives her money away arguably makes that $12 billion worth even more to the charities that receive it.
When publicly announcing her first round of grants in July 2020, Scott wrote, “I gave each [charity] a contribution and encouraged them to spend it on whatever they believe best serves their efforts. Unless organization leadership requested otherwise, all commitments were paid up front and left unrestricted to provide them with maximum flexibility.”
Without question, an unrestricted gift is by far the most valuable gift a charity can receive. Every organization appreciates a contribution designated for renovating its building, buying a new piece of equipment or supporting a specific program, but there is no more precious charitable resource than a dollar that a top-quality management team can deploy to whatever aspect of its organization’s work it concludes will make the most impact at that time.
This kind of giving requires a remarkable level of humility on the part of the donor. Unlike the way it’s done with many grant programs, Scott and her team identify organizations they deem to be impactful, then choose to respect that these charities are led by people who are the real experts at what they do.
As she noted in that July 2020 announcement, “All of these leaders and organizations have a track record of effective management and significant impact in their fields.”
Rather than dictate to these leaders what they should do and how they should do it, Scott recognizes that successful nonprofit professionals are just that: the professionals who are best qualified to lead a nonprofit organization to success. When donors make an unrestricted gift to a charity with a documented history of impact, they are not only empowering quality leaders, but they are also following a path that’s most likely to realize their philanthropic goals as donors.
I have worked for community foundations for 25 years, so established deadlines, application processes and restricted grants have long been a part of my professional life. Formal grant processes do play an important role in philanthropy because they offer a way for newer charities to make their case and allow for untested, but innovative ideas to connect with funding.
Yet the most impactful projects of which I have been a part were rooted in humility – in recognizing that I will never know as much as the nonprofit leaders who have dedicated their lives to their cause. Donors and those of us at foundations make our greatest impact when we bring together a coalition of charitable professionals and respect that they, collectively, are far more likely to find solutions than we are.
In another announcement in December 2021, Scott wrote that she “trust[s] the track records of impact and on-the-ground insights of hundreds of carefully selected teams working from within communities, offering them all the money up front and then stepping out of their way, encouraging them to spend it however they choose. I understand that this approach, and probably any approach, will mean having given to organizations that might make choices I wouldn’t make myself, but that’s the point. I believe the gifts will do more good if others are free from my ideas about what they should do. And this trust … is the aspect of gifts that many have said they value most.”
The respect that MacKenzie Scott gives to nonprofit professionals and the humility with which she approaches her philanthropy will result in a far greater impact than if she tried to dictate to those organizations that benefit from her generosity.
Contact Bret Bicoy at bret@givedoorcounty.org.
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Improving end-of-life care, assisting the next generation of pilots, and supporting public art are some of the worthy causes the 100+ Women Who Care of Door County are backing in their latest round of grants.
The organization recently announced $25,500 in grants that were awarded last month. Unity Hospice received the main gift for the month of April, totaling $12,500. That will allow the organization to apply for a matching grant of $5,000 from the Richard M Schluze Family Foundation.
The Friends of Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport received a grant of over $6,250 that will go to support local students aspiring to be pilots or airport mechanics.
The Public Arts Initiative of Egg Harbor received the other grant of approximately $6,250 which will go to support their mission.
Read the FULL Door County Daily News story HERE (including NonProfit Quotes)
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You will not find a shortage of worthy people for this year’s Golden Heart Awards, which will be awarded later this week.
Created in the same vein as a similar event produced by the former Volunteer Center of Door County, nominees were listed in six categories. Bill Aune, Kathy Wagner, William Nick, Ronald Delwiche, Barb Chisolm, Madelyn Ostrand, and Barbara Graul were nominated for the Karl May Lifetime of Service Award.
The teachers and staff of St. Peter’s Lutheran School, St. John Bosco Catholic School, and every public school in Door County earned nominations for the Essential Workers of the Year award. Southern Door teacher Shannon Finger earned special recognition in the category, as did Door County Medical Center’s Michelle Johnson and Sturgeon Bay’s police and fire departments.
Guy Fortine and Judy Samida from Crossroads at Big Creek and Marilyn Hansotia from the Door County Land Trust are vying for the Environmental Stewardship Award. At the same time, Anna Olson, Shaun Tooley, and Andrea Vandertie received nominations for the Youth Volunteer Scholarship Award.
Group Volunteers of the Year Award nominees include the volunteers of the Door County Medical Center Auxiliary House and Garden Walk, Door County Seed Library, Habitat ReStore, Scandia Village Birchwood Art Project, YMCA, Miller Art Museum Desk, Door County Candle, Meals on Wheels Program, and the 100+ Women Who Care Door County chapter.
Taylor and Kaden Stahlke, Jane and Karl Wise, Patricia Ploor, Robert Lindahl, Micaela Inman, Wayne Humbles, and Clarice Brey are all up for the Adult Volunteer of the Year Award.
The awards will be passed out on April 6th, beginning at 6 p.m. The ceremony will be streamed live on the Golden Hearts Awards YouTube channel, but limited in-person seating will be available at the Sturgeon Bay High School auditorium.
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100+ Women Who Care of Door County (100+WWC), which has raised more than $270,000 during the past four years, has been invited to participate in a matching-grant program of the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation (RMSFF), which offers the potential to raise an additional $20,000 to support area nonprofit organizations.
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Myles Dannhausen Jr., Door County Pulse, talks to Ann Morgan, one of the founders of 100+ Women Who Care Door County about the organization’s simple approach that opens the doors to giving to the broader community. The organization has donated $270,000 to area nonprofits since it was founded in 2018, and recently received a $20,000 matching grant from the Richard Shulze Foundation to grow its impact.
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I read something truly fascinating the other day that is indicative of a troubling trend in our nation: During the past 50 years, in all the books published in the United States, the frequency of the word “I” has doubled.
… (the) ability to come together in common purpose, to commit to one another as a united people, has long formed the central tenet of American exceptionalism. Yet as we increasingly turn away from the “we” to focus on the “I,” it has become politically advantageous for demagogues to demonize those who are different or who have opinions that differ from their own. Rather than enter civic life rooted in a shared identity as Americans, we are increasingly segregating ourselves by our differences and thereby losing our willingness to commit our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor to each other in service of the whole. The implications of this shift are profound and enormously troubling.
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A dynamic group consisting of 343 members is making a huge impact on non-profit organizations four times a year with sizable donations. The 100+ Women of Door County meets every three months and has members bring $100 to quarterly meetings that will be collectively given to three non-profits that are voted on. Last month three organizations received a total of $24,000. The Sue Baldwin Fund that supports cancer victims was the recipient of $12,000, while 115 Club LTD and Write On Door County were awarded $6,000.
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The Sue Baldwin Fund received the main award of $12,000 for the financial and emotional support of those living with cancer. 115 Club Ltd. and Write On, Door County also received awards of approximately $6,000 each.
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Members of the 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) Door County giving circle were very generous in their donations of hats, mittens, gloves and scarves during their first Warm Hands Warm Heartsevent in December. The items they collected were then delivered to the Boys and Girls Club (BGC) of Door County and the Door County YMCA’s After School Kids Club program.Read the Door County Pulse story HERE
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Throughout December, two local organizations worked to collect winter items to donate to groups in the county. A non-profit group in northern Door County called 100+ Women Who Care hosted a giving circle at their first “Warm Hands Warm Hearts” event in December. At this event, they collected hats, mittens, gloves, and scarves that they could donate to the Boys and Girls Club of Door County and the Door County YMCA After School Kids Club program. Destination Door County also had a collection of winter items from December 1st to December 31st called the Big Bundle Up. Destination Door County put on this program in conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s 11th year of the Big Bundle Up campaign. The collection strived to gather new or gently used coats, hats, mittens, and snow pants. Since the drive has finished, all items will be given to Door County residents with help from charity partners in the county.Door County Daily News story HERE
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The 100+ Women Who Care of Door County (100+WWC) giving circle met at Egg Harbor’s Kress Pavilion in October to recognize and award grants to Peninsula Preschool, Door County Habitat for Humanity, and the Washington Island Community Health Program. Members listened to presentations about the organizations, then voted to select the honorees. Door County Habitat for Humanity received the main award of $11,250 for its new Rent-a-Ramp program to keep people with mobility issues in their homes. Peninsula Preschool and the Washington Island Community Health Program each received awards of approximately $5,125.
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Your loved ones could benefit from a wheelchair ramp, a quality preschool education, and important services on Washington Island thanks to members of the 100+ Women Who Care of Door County. Last month, the organization donated over $22,000 to three different non-profits. Door County Habitat for Humanity received over $11,000 for establishing its Rent-A-Ramp program that it will be orchestrating with the help of the Door County Aging Coalition to assist local residents to have more accessibility going in and coming out of their homes. Peninsula Preschool and the Washington Island Community Health Program received smaller grants to help fund their programming needs. Paula Latta from 100+ Women Who Care says she is proud of the impact has made in such a short time with over $240,000 donated since 2018.
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The 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) of Door County giving circle met at Egg Harbor’s Peg Egan Performing Arts Center in July to recognize and award grants to local nonprofits. Three nonprofits shared information about their organization; then members voted to select the awards.
The Door County Housing Partnership (DCHP) was chosen to receive the main award of $10,300. Mariah Goode, director of Door County Land Use Services and a DCHP board member, has been working on local affordable-housing issues for many years. The Door County YMCA and Door County Humane Society will each receive runners-up awards of approximately $5,150.
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Area non-profits received just under a combined $20,000 from 100+ Women Who Care of Door County as a thanks for their contributions to the community. At their April meeting, the organization awarded $10,000 to the Women's Fund of Door County and $4900 to both Big Brothers Big Sisters of Door County and Good Samaritan Society - Scandia Village.
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The next quarterly meeting of the 100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door County (100+WWC) giving circle will be livestreamed on Zoom on April 26, 7-7:30 pm, when the organization will award more than $19,000 to local nonprofits. This will bring its donations since its 2018 inception to $196,000 and from 300 current members. Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Scandia Village, Women's Fund, IDA, Cradle to Career.
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The 100+ Women Who Care of Door County giving circle recognized and awarded three local nonprofit organizations in January. The Door County Cradle to Career program of the Lakeshore Community Action Programreceived the main award of $10,000 and will use it to deliver services that promote family stability and wellness, educational attainment and economic self-sufficiency. Operation Not Alone and Peninsula Players Theatre received approximately $4,700 each.
The nonprofits to be considered for the next award in April are Big Brothers Big Sisters of Door County, Good Samaritan Society–Scandia Village and the Women’s Fund of Door County, which will record presentations for members to view online and vote for.To join this exciting group of local women who are making important local impacts, visit 100wwcnortherndoor.org.Door County Pulse story HERE
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A program that helps single mothers in Door County with career training is getting a big financial boost. Lakeshore CAP's Cradle to Career program is getting $10,000 from the 100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door County. That comes through the organization's quarterly fundraising which provides money to non-profits nominated by members. In addition to helping the Cradle to Career program, 100+ Women Who Care also gave $4,500 each to Operation Not Alone, which aids active duty military personnel, and the Peninsula Players Theatre.
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While COVID-19 continues to challenge Door County, the 100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door County (100+WWC, 100wwcnortherndoor.org) giving circle continues to recognize and reward local nonprofit organizations. The latest recipients were announced during an Oct. 26 virtual meeting.
Adopt A Soldier Care Packages received the main award of $10,000 for local veterans and service personnel. It will be used to provide holiday meals for local Coast Guard members who are not able to be with their families while they’re working in the area. Open Door Bird Sanctuary and Friends of Peninsula State Park also received awards of approximately $4,500 each from the giving circle.
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A cash award will reactivate Adopt a Soldier of Door County's mission of providing care packages to area military personnel stationed away from home for the holidays. The organization stopped sending out the gift boxes when the pandemic began and donated all items it had in stock to area charities. Now, 100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door County have awarded Adopt a Solider $10,000, says Nancy Hutchinson.
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The next quarterly meeting of the 100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door giving circle will be livestreamed on zoom on Oct. 26th 7-7:30pm. The three Door County nonprofits will be considered: Open Door Bird Sanctuary, Friends of Peninsula Park, and the Adopt a Soldier Care Package Program. Learn about these organizations and how to join at 100wwcnortherndoor.org.
Open Door Bird Sanctuary, Friends of Peninsula Park, and the Adopt a Soldier
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Open Door Bird Sanctuary, Friends of Peninsula Park, Adopt a Soldier Care Package Program, ALICE
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Northern Sky Theater has received a $11,000 matching grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board to support its ongoing commitment to developing new musicals and an $8,000 CARES Act grant as a form of emergency support during the pandemic.
State grants are awarded through a competitive process, so they are an indication of Northern Sky’s high-quality programs, community outreach and administration.
“We are deeply grateful for the ongoing support of the Wisconsin Arts Board over the years to enable our one-of-a-kind mission of creating a body of regionally relevant work for the professional stage,” said Dave Maier, managing director. “That work is ongoing while we wait to be together again. The additional grant in 2020 will help us weather a season without any revenue generated through ticket sales as we begin to assess what recovery might look like in 2021.”
Northern Sky also received $3,000 from the 100+ Women Who Care–Northern Door County Chapter (100+WWC, 100wwcnortherndoor.org), which is now more than 300 members strong. Lynn Barkinge nominated the theater organization for consideration.
Door County Pulse story HERESeptember 23rd, 2020
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Northern Door Children’s Center received the main award of $10,000. The center, established in 1986, seeks to provide high-quality early-primary care in a safe, secure environment that enhances children’s personal growth and educational development. Northern Sky Theater and Third Avenue Playhouse will also receive approximately $4,500 each.
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The next quarterly meeting of Door County’s 100 Women Who Care will be livestreamed on Zoom on July 20, 6:30-7:00 That night the organization will award more than $19,000 to local nonprofits, bringing its donations since its 2018 inception to $138,000
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Feed and Clothe My People (FMP) of Sturgeon Bay received the 100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door County’s (100WWC) main award during its January quarterly meeting. 100WWC member Ann DeVillers nominated the nonprofit. Carol Krueger, of the FMP board of directors and the coordinator of its Backpack Buddies Program; and Nancy Skadden, secretary of the FMP board of directors, represented FMP to gratefully accept the $10,000 check.
FMP is a charitable nonprofit that provides food and clothing to county residents in need. It began in 1982 to assist local residents who were in emergency situations. The Backpack Buddies Program serves 275 children who receive a weekly lunch bag during the school year. The $10,000 will be used to improve the building’s thrift shop space.
The runners-up at the 100WWC January meeting – Altrusa of DC and the NWTC Educational Foundation – split the remaining estimated $8,000.
The 100WWC’s next quarterly meeting will be held April 27 at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor. It will begin with registration and a social at 5:30 pm; the meeting will start at 6:30 pm. To learn more about 100WWC and how to register for the April meeting, visit 100wwcnortherndoor.org.
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Feed and Clothe My People of Door County will have more money for food and pantry upgrades thanks to a $10,000 gift. The 100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door County selected the pantry as the cash recipient at its quarterly meeting Tuesday night. The money comes just after the busy holiday season. Estella Huff, Director of Operations for the pantry, says it will help purchase needed food items and pay for some pantry renovation work.
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STURGEON BAY - Feed and Clothe My People of Sturgeon Bay recently received $10,000, thanks to the efforts of more than 100 women who care.
The non-profit group, called "100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door County" gave its main award of the year to the Sturgeon Bay group at its quarterly meeting in January.
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The first quarterly meeting of 2020 for 100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door will be held Jan. 27 at the Kress Pavilion in Egg Harbor.
The social part of this women-only philanthropic giving circle will begin at 5:30 pm; the formal presentations will begin at 6:30 pm. The three Door County nonprofits that will present will be Altrusa, Feed & Clothe My People of Door County, and the NWTC Educational Foundation.Now is a great time for new members to join this organization whose mission is to connect like-minded women to make meaningful contributions to the community. Visit 100wwcnortherndoor.org to learn more and sign up. All are encouraged to register prior to the January meeting.
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A new organization in Northern Door County has been making a big impact in the community. 100+ Women Who Care is a national organization that gives money to non-profit organizations. The Northern Door County chapter was launched in March of 2018 by co-founders Peggy Reinecke and Ann Morgan. The group meets four times per year to pick a non-profit organization that impacts the Northern Door County community. Each member of 100+ Women brings $100 to each meeting and all the money goes to one non-profit. The next meeting is on Monday and 100+ Women of Northern Door is now up to 239 members. Reinecke says not only do deserving organizations get the funds they need but it also helps women learn about philanthropy.
Door County Daily News story HERE
BookNook Gardens, Boys & Girls Club, Door County Medical Center Auxiliary, STRIDE, Sunshine House, HELP of Door County Door CANcer.
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In October, the 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) of Northern Door County giving circle began its second year with record attendance and the largest total member donation (to date) of $17,800. Door-Tran – a nonprofit whose mission is to make transportation in Door County more affordable, available and accessible – received the main award of $10,000. The Christ Child Society and Ellie Helm Foundation also received almost $4,000 each.
Door County Pulse story HEREDoor Tran, Christ Child Society, Ellie Helm Foundation
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With just barely two-years since it began, 100-plus Women Who Care Northern Door County has provided $82,000 to local charities and grown substantially. The Northern Door chapter of the worldwide organization started with just two organizers and now boasts 285 members. They pool their donations, nominate groups they'd like to help and select the final recipients. The latest recipients included Door Tran. Northern Door co-founder Ann Morgan says their $10,000 donation was given at just the right time.
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On July 29, 100+ Women Who Care of Northern Door County celebrated its first anniversary. The organization now numbers 278 women (149 teams) who are having an important positive effect on the Door County community. Founded by Ann Morgan and Peggy Reineck, the group met for the first time in July 2018 with 68 women in attendance.
The organization’s growth has been so fast that last quarter, members discussed creating alternatives for how the monetary award will be distributed and voted to allocate part of the award to each presenting nonprofit. The main awardee of July’s donations, totaling about $17,000, was the Door County Medical Center Auxiliary, which received $10,000. The Auxiliary, now 75 years old, has nearly 200 members who support the medical center’s initiatives. The Boys & Girls Club of Door County and BookNook Gardens were the runners-up and will split about $7,000.
DC Medical Center Auxiliary, Boys&Girls Club of Door County, BookNook Gardens
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Door CANcer has received more than $14,000 from 100+Women Who Care (100WWC) of Northern Door County. Since 1997, Door CANcer has been helping families in the county whose lives are being affected by cancer.
100WWC has a simple format: each quarter, members nominate three nonprofit organizations, and each gives a five-minute presentation and answers questions. After the presentations, members vote for the organization they believe is the most deserving.
April’s 100WWC meeting was only its fifth quarterly meeting, but membership now numbers almost 200. The organization has no employees; volunteers fill all roles. “It’s been fantastic being part of a grassroots giving circle where $100 turns into $14,000+ in an hour!” said Peggy Reineck. “It’s no wonder that the 100 Who Care Alliance – the international organization – is currently the fastest-growing giving circle in the world!”
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DOOR CANcer Inc. was selected as the recipient of more than $14,000 from 100+Women Who Care of Northern Door County during the organization's April meeting at the Kress Center.
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This chapter of the national 100+WWC is less than a year old, but it already counts its membership as 178 and has given more than $33,000 to the community. At each quarterly meeting, members are asked to donate $100 - either individually or as teams - to a Door County nonprofit that the membership has selected as its award recipient.
At the February meeting, members selected HELP of Door County to receive a $13,000 donation.
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This collaborative approach to philanthropy is being driven by millennials and women.
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Door County Advocate/Green Bay Gazette.
HELP of Door County was selected to receive the $13,000 donation at the February meeting.
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EGG HARBOR - Egg Harbor's Kress Center had a double-whammy of good fortune on Oct. 10, as the second meeting of the new Northern Door 100+ Women Who Care group met it's more-than-100-member goal and awarded $11,200 to Sunshine House, Inc.
Northern Door 100+ Women Who Care was created in March by Ann Morgan and Peggy Reineck, and held its first meeting in July. According to organizers, the group meets quarterly to nominate deserving charities, select and award funds donated that evening.
This quarter's beneficiary, the 47-year-old Sunshine House, was nominated by Natalie Gorchynsky, who presented a brief background on the community service organization. Sunshine House CEO and President Cindy Weber was also on hand to provide additional information.
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On Oct. 10 the 100+ Women Who Care group met their goal of obtaining 100 members, and exceeded it. The organization meets quarterly to nominate deserving charities, select and award funds donated that evening. The members awarded $11,200 to Sunshine House, Inc. Natalie Gorchynsky nominated Sunshine House and presented a brief background on this diverse community service organization. Sunshine House CEO and President, Cindy Weber, provided additional information and answered questions from the group.
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The next quarterly meeting of Door County’s 100 Women Who Care is Oct. 10 at the Donald and Carolyn Kress Pavilion Great Hall, 7845 Church Street, Egg Harbor. A social period with appetizers starts at 6 pm with the formal meeting from 6:30 – 7:30 pm. For more information or to join this community organization visit 100wwcnortherndoor.org or email info@100wwcnortherndoor.org.
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A new pilot program funded by United Way will launch in October to address one gap in addressing these issues. The STRIDE program (Strengthening Trust and Resilience, Instilling Independence, and Discovering Empowerment) is committed to removing the three major barriers to youth mental health treatment: cost, travel and the low number of local providers.
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The Door County Chapter of 100+ Women Who Care (100+WWC) met for the first time in July and awarded their first donation of $7,700 to STRIDE, the Door County Collaborative School Mental Health Project. It was an exciting way to initiate the Door County Chapter of 100+WWC which was co-founded by Ann Morgan and Peggy Reineck.
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A new chapter of 100+ Women Who Care is starting in northern Door County with the first voting meeting scheduled for July 16 at the Kress Pavilion Great Hall in Egg Harbor at 5:45 pm. 100+ Women Who Care (100+ WWC) is a community of dynamic women who want to make a big impact with a small investment while learning about charitable giving opportunities in Northern Door. Their goal is to keep meetings fun and efficient with the formal meeting conducted in less than an hour preceded by a social gathering.
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100+ WOMEN WHO CARE DOOR COUNTY, INC.
100wwcdoorcounty.org/
info@100WWCDoorCounty.org
100+ WWC in the News