Grab your dinner at Chipotle in Clackamas Town Center Monday 4/24 and Pay it Forward to exploited children
Clackamas, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie have all been in the news in recent years for youth recruited for sex trafficking; the communities forever altered with the knowledge that predators are in their purview.
SI Lake Oswego / West Linn
Presents Recipients of our
Live Your Dream Education & Training Awards for Women Award
Please Join us in celebrating our annual Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 6 p.m.
Holy Names Heritage Center
Near Marylhurst University Campus
This year, please consider assisting local non-profits in achieving more of their goals and expanding their mission.
Soroptimist International of Lake Oswego/West Linn participates in a variety of programs by Soroptimist International. Our budgets are determined by the amount raised at our annual Harvest Festival, Holiday Greens sale, and viaOneHope wine tastings.
On Tuesday, club members Gail Holmes, Linda Ramey and Pam Banning visited the Wilsonville Arts & Technology High School campus. Working with Principal Saskia Dressler and counselors, the club introduced the opportunity running after school on campus between December 2016 and January 2017. Soroptimist International offers a free curriculum for clubs provide to their communities. Modules include
The club members invite like minded people to join our 2016-17 club in the coming month. The new fiscal year starts July 1st. Opportunities exist for volunteers in social media/pubic awareness, program development, membership orientation/retention, Live Your Dream awards, Dream It*Be It Career Outreach for Girls program and community outreach.
Soroptimist International of Lake Oswego/West Linn completed their first "Dream It*Be It" program, in conjunction with Arts & Technology High School in Wilsonville.
This is a new program for Soroptimist International, developing Career Support for Girls. This seven session course was prototyped with three young ladies. It provided the girls with access to professional role models, career education and resources to live their dreams. The topics included career opportunities, setting and achieving goals, overcoming obstacles to success and how to move forward after setbacks.
Ready to Begin a New Life?
The Soroptimist Live Your Dream Awards program (formerly the Women's Opportunity Awards) has been helping women around the world since 1972. This program provides cash grants to women who are working to better their lives through additional schooling and skills training.
You are eligible to apply if you are:
The Soroptimists of Lake Oswego / West Linn created a video on the organization's Live Your Dream program. SIA's LiveYourDream.org online community offers supporters on- and off-line ways to help deliver the Soroptimist mission of improving the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.
YouTube video https://youtu.be/E-CCeyxN_Vs
Going into it's third successful year, LiveYourDream.org is helping Soroptimist deliver its mission.
The SI LOWL club is holding a fundraising Sweepstakes by selling $10 tickets first winner's choice of either two stadium seats for 2015 OSU/UoO Civil War Game OR an IPad Mini 2 with 32G and wifi. The second drawn winner will be awarded the remaining available prize. Only 600 tickets are available; odds of winning are 1 in 300. Contact the club on their Facebook page Soroptimist International of Lake Oswego/West Linn or by email to silakeoswegowestlinn@soroptimist.net. We'll locate the best way to obtain your tickets.
Soroptimist International of Lake Oswego/West Linn marched in the 59th West Linn Old Tyme Parade on Saturday, July 18, 2015. SoroptiMister Jeff Holmes provided his 1962 Catalina 2+2 powder blue muscle car to escort club members. The club invited Live Your Dream award winners, and community grant recipients to join us.