Caroline MacGillivray chats to Fiona and Michael on Urban Rush about changing the world through Beauty Night.
Hair-Cut-A-Thon Raised $705!
March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Last year, JuJu Salon owner, Steve Jiu asked friends and family to donate money to Beauty Night in lieu of birthday presents. He donated $100 to Beauty Night. This year Steve wanted to go bigger. He opened up his Aveda Concept Salon to hold a Hair-Cut-A-Thon to raise money for Beauty Night’s 3 streams of programming.
Bean Vancouver’s Vanessa Marshall recruited volunteers to help facilitate the event while Jiu recruited his staff and other salon owners to participate. Thanks to engaging more supporters, he multiplied his donation by 7. Yesterday’s efforts raised $705 for Beauty Night.
I Change, I Change the World
March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Do you have a change you want to make in your life? If you commit to making that change over the next 6-8 weeks, you can change yourself and the community. Please chose to celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8th) but making a positive change in your life and raising money to change the lives of women and children living in poverty through Beauty Night’s programs.
I Change, I Change The World (IC) is Beauty Night Society’s (BN) first fundraising initiative of 2011. The IC campaign provides a platform for volunteers, participants, employees and other supporters of BN to create positive change in their lives while raising money for BN.
The campaign start date is March 8, 2011 and end date is April 19, 2011. Participants in the IC campaign will have 6 weeks in which to affect a change of their choice (like quitting smoking or running 2km without stopping). Participants utilize Canadahelps.org to create an online pledge page where people can pledge their support for the individual’ personal goal. Money pledged/raised by each individual will go directly to BN.
Our campaign goal is to raise $100 000. The monies raised will support Beauty Night’s 3 streams of programs: wellness, life skill development and makeovers. Through this initiative we aim to raise money to continue building self esteem and changing lives of women and youth living in poverty. “In the past 10 years, we have given over 11, 000 life-makeovers,” Beauty Night Founder and Executive Director, Caroline MacGillivray explains, “By asking our supporters to make a positive change in their lives and raising money for a cause they believe in, we hope to make a positive impact in the lives of those who support and live in the community. I change, I change the world is a great way to do that.”
When asked if she was going to be participating in IC campaign, MacGillivray smiled and said,”Yes. I decided it was time to get over my fear of running. I stepped out of my heels and into a pair of running shoes. I started my IC goal several weeks ago as I am training for the Vancouver Sun Run. Thanks to my trainer, Laura Fairfield, I managed to run 5k without stopping. So I am half way there.”
Some of our Beauty Night Supporter’s goals include:
Going Vegan
Learning 200 words in sign language
Running the Sun Run
YVR Twestival Tickets on Sale
March 2, 2011 By 2 Comments
Save March 24th in your calendar for YVR Twestival. “Beauty Night Society is thrilled to be the cause that the proceeds raised from YVR Twestival 2011 will be donated to,” said Beauty Night Founder & Executive Director, Caroline MacGillivray.
What is Twestival? (taken directly from their website)
Twestival: Tweet. Meet. Give.
Twestival® (or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good by connecting communities offline on a single day to highlight a great cause and have a fun event. Twestival is the largest global grassroots social media fundraising initiative to date. Since 2009, volunteers have raised close to $1.2 million for 137 nonprofits. All local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all ticket sales and donations go direct to projects.
Twestival was born out of the idea that if cities were able to collaborate on an international scale, but work from a local level, it could have a spectacular impact. Over 200 international cities from Buenos Aires to Bangalore, Seattle to Seoul and Hong Kong to Honolulu have participated in Twestival.
“The monies raised from YVR Twestival will go towards training several of our participants & volunteers to hold 50 life-makeover sessions, explains MacGillivray, “A session consists of 3 streams of programming wellness, makeover & life-skill development. Our participants come in, are accepted as themselves, able to make friends, & become leaders of their community. Thanks to over 400 volunteers we are at a stage where if we develop our leadership to have volunteer facilitators & training participants to become jr facilitators, we can reach more women & youth.”
Although Twestival is several weeks away, Already it has sold over 100 tickets and raised $2585 for Beauty Night programming so far. Tickets for Twestival are on Sale. To purchase tickets, please visit this link. To find out more about YVR Twestival, visit their website at www.twestival.com.
