Archive for the ‘In the Media’ Category

Since the tender age of 11, Laura took giving back to a whole new level. This year, she spearheaded the movement that had over ten schools and hundreds of volunteers involved in knitting scarves for Beauty Night participants. On November 22nd and Christmas Eve, volunteers walked through the streets in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside handing out scarves to people who needed to be warm.

Huge thanks to our contributors and volunteers who made our All I Want for Xmas party successful! Thanks to your contributions we are able to provide more life makeovers to vulnerable women.

Thanks to Ronnie Bugay from www.galeliodesign.com for capturing the event and what we aim to achieve with the monies raised through Beauty Night Society.

Beauty Night National Executive Director and Founder, Caroline MacGillivray chats to Life on Purpose Network about how Beauty Night got started.

Have you been good or bad this year? By helping Beauty Night Society you will definitely be good!

Yaletown’s hottest club, Bar None hosts the “All I Want for Christmas” Fashion Show fundraiser.  On December 3rd, 2009 make your way to 1222 Hamilton Street where you can be Naughty while being nice to Beauty Night Society.   Featuring pin-up designs by Nancy Black. Tickets: $10 advance, $15 at door.  Dress code: Your choice of suger or spice. Contact: Caroline McGillivray 778.885.4526 or visit www.beautynight.org  to learn how this holiday gathering will get you to the top of Santa’s list as you help women and children in Vancouver’s downtown eastside with the tools to make positive lifestyle changes.

“Be a part of our cause, not a part of the problem”

Bring your credit card and cash.  There will be lots of opportunities to give and receive with a   silent auction items, raffle tickets, photos with Santa and his sexy elves. Vancouver’s leading pin-up fashion Designer Nancy Black, Luscious Dance and Sexy in Vancity dancers have donated their time to keep the cost affordable and enable you to bring your friends to kick off the season right.  Book ahead as our venue has limited space.  It is sure to be an amazing show and it is for a great cause: to provide marginalized women and youth tools to make positive life style choices to heal themselves and build healthy communities. The more money raised, the more people we can heal.

For 9 years Beauty Night Society has used makeover and development programs
To heal women and youth in our community. With outreach offices in Toronto , Vancouver and Victoria Beauty Night Society is proud to boast recently celebrating its 10,000th makeover.  Over these years what started as a place to heal the spirit now provides fitness, nutritional, educational programs and the community needed to make positive lifestyle changes a way of life.  We hope to see you there.

Beauty Night Board Member Dave Dickson’s article about Cut off Supply of Kids is in today’s Province Newspaper. For those of you who wonder what we can do to help in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, Dave shares his highly informed opinion.

Dear Friends:

At 6am on Saturday, July 25, 2009, I will be posting a blog on
www.sexyinvancity.com every 30 minutes for 24 hours.  Blogathon 2009
is an opportunity for bloggers to raise the profile and funds of
charities that are important to them.

Beauty Night Society is important to me.  Beauty Night Society
provides marginalized women and youth the tools to make positive life
style changes.  In 8.5 years, we have given over 10 000 makeovers.
Our Monday night makeover program in Vancouver has 10% of previous
participants volunteering.

By creating opportunities for our participants and our volunteers to
work together with other services providers, we are building strong
communities.  Through Womyn’s Gym, the makeover program, group fitness
program, Chick Lit and many more programs, we have made a positive
impact in the lives of thousands of people.

As we work towards a model to duplicate our programs in other
communities around the world, we are focusing on raising funds to
continue to create opportunities to empower and strengthen our
participants, volunteers and sponsors.  When we work together, we make
a huge difference.

If you are able to pledge a lump sum or an hourly pledge for my
blogging marathon, it would be greatly appreciated. Charitable tax
receipts will be given for donations of $10 or more. Thank you so much
in advance. Here is the link.
http://www.blogathon.org/pledge.php?blogid=272

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to email
me or call me.  I can be reached at 778-885-4526.

Sincerely,

Caroline MacGillivray
Founder and President of Beauty Night Society
www.beautynight.org

This is what I saw on my twitter feed:

monicahamburg@beautynight Just created some cool word clouds from tags on your blog (using wordle) http://twurl.nl/u43m3e & http://twurl.nl/6vudjcabout 4 hours ago from TweetDeck

I clicked onto the links to see what I could see. 

Monica Hamburg Creating Word Clouds Based on Beauty Night Blog Tags

Monica nominated me for the Canadian Living “MetoWe” Award.  If you haven’t voted yet, please do.  If I win, they will donate $5000 to Beauty Night Society.

 Using Facebook, she contacted our mutual friends and encouraged them to vote. She has launched a twitter campaign to encourage people to vote for this award.  If you are on Twitter and would like to spread the word, that would be fantastic. Here is something you can tweet:

Please Vote & RT – Help @beautynight win the “MetoWe” Award! (”In The Community” Category) http://twurl.nl/zwepmy.

Monica will be presenting tips on how not for profits can benefit from social media.  The conference will be run through www.canadahelps.org.  If you wish to make an online donation to a charity (including Beauty Night, our donate now button is just at the left hand corner of the page, please do so.)

Hi everyone,

I am a finalist in Canadian Living’s “MetoWe Awards.” (in the Community Category) They are honoring people who “do good things” in the community. The voting is by public poll. If I “win”, they will donate $5000 to the charity of my choice. The monies would be going to Beauty Night Society (www.beautynight.org or www.beautynight.org/blog)

Even if you do not vote for me, you can vote for people who are making a huge impact in the world. Here is the link http://www.metowe.com/awards/vote

Sincerely,

Caroline MacGillivray

P.S. You can feel free to retweet my message on Twitter, if you like:
Please help @beautynight win the “MetoWe” Award! (”In The Community” Category) Vote & RT http://twurl.nl/zwepmy

Me to We Awards – Vote for your hero

Source: www.metowe.com

Beauty Night Society is excited to announce that two of our volunteers are short listed for the YWCA Women of Distinction 2009 Nominations.  Katie Benjamin who spearheaded Womyn’s Gym and Caroline MacGillivray, founder and president of Beauty Night Society are included in the list of 61 women who have been nominated for their achievements in the lower mainland.