MARCH 26, 2009 ISSUE
High Country Women’s Fund Donates $10,000 to Hospitality House
Organization Plans Additional $30,000 Over Next Three Years
The High Country Women’s Fund (HCWF), an initiative of the High Country United Way, has donated $10,000 to the Hospitality House Combined Campaign and plans to allocate a total of $40,000 to the campaign over the next four years. The money will aid in the construction of the new shelter and help sustain current outreach efforts. Specifically, the funds will sponsor one of the women’s dormitories in the new facility and support client services that benefit women.
“The High Country Women’s Fund has worked to ensure the well-being of women and children in this area for several years now, and I’m absolutely elated that this donation will continue that goal,” said Linda Slade, director of the High Country United Way. “By establishing a safe space for women and their families for years to come, HCWF has enabled women to focus on re-starting their lives and working towards becoming self-sufficient.”
The HCWF had originally planned to donate the first $10,000 in October 2009 but moved the donation up to March to participate in the Feinstein Challenge. Sponsored by the Feinstein Foundation, the Feinstein Challenge is an annual effort to help raise funds for hunger-fighting agencies. To do so, the Feinstein Challenge divides $1 million in matching funds to hunger-fighting agencies nationwide in an effort to encourage local donations and fundraising efforts in March and April.
The Hospitality House is a nonprofit crisis intervention agency in Boone that provides shelter and services to the homeless, operates a community soup kitchen and administers WeCAN, a local crisis assistance program. The organization has launched the Giving Hope a Hand Combined Campaign to raise $3 million to build a new shelter facility. The Hospitality House is participating in the Feinstein Challenge to help raise money for the campaign.
HCWF took an emergency e-mail vote on March 4 to move the 2009 donation to March.
“I think what makes me proud about this is the Fund is flexible enough [that] … we made this happen within two weeks,” said Catherine Scantlin, the HCWF coordinator.
HCWF’s donations come from proceeds raised by the sponsors and attendees of the annual Power of the Purse luncheon and from donations by the HCWF Directors’ Circle and Circle of Friends.
Half of the HCWF’s donations to the Hospitality House are earmarked for the combined campaign, and the other half will support women’s client services, such as transportation needs, funding for eyeglasses and other necessities and other services to help women reach self-sufficiency.
“These things are coming up more and more often as these economic times are challenging,” Scantlin said.
Created in 2006, the HCWF is a giving circle of caring and committed women who sincerely want to help other women move toward self-sufficiency.
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