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Welcome 2012-2013 Board

Congratulations to our new board for 2012-2013.

Co-chairs:
Lydia Taylor
Sheila Evani
Secretary:
Julia Pon
Treasurer:
Dave Chen

Directors at Large:
Manjot Bains
Annie Bennett
Stacey Dallyn
Kristie Delorme
Laura Fairfield

Tyla Flexman

Pamela Lelong
Veronica Vinje

Beauty Night News Week of June 18th

Congratulations to Alexandra Zuur, Chapman Story Telling Video Contest Recipient
We were thrilled to find out volunteer, Alexandra Zuur won first prize for her video she created about what she learned through her Beauty Night volunteer experience. (we will be showing the video tomorrow on the projector screen). Alexandra started volunteering for Beauty Night in January. She won first place for the video contest and 2nd place for the written story telling contest. Here is the video:

Last week we got to see World Hip Hop Mom perform on Tuesday night at Beauty Night for our ladies. World Hip Hop Mom aka volunteer, Monica Morong delighted our participants and volunteers as she performed two of her songs. The video for The World Needs a Hip Hop Mom can be downloaded here.

June 20th Bring Your Heart and Soul To Work with Heather White
Love to network and connect with amazing people? Pink Tank Group is having the legendary business coach, Heather White speak about Bring Your Heart and Soul to Work. Event is from 6-8pm in downtown Vancouver. Tickets $10 and partial proceeds to our cause. To purchase tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3501494063
June 21st Beauty Night Scent Bar at Lord’s Shoes

On Thursday, June 21st, Lord’s Shoes and Kirk Group are hosting Smell This Aromatherapy’s Scent Bar. From 6-8pm, you will be able to create your own “pure fume” from essential oils; enjoy a glass of wine and shop for shoes. ** Lords is donating a percentage of sales for the evening to our cause. $25 for tickets. I will have details to purchase tickets 50% of ticket price will go to our cause. ** If you want to book a Scent Bar, 10% of the proceeds are going to our cause. http://beautynightscentbar.eventbrite.com/
June 22, 23, 24th Beauty Night Breakfast
Come by the 9th Avenue Grill for a Beauty Night Benny. Spearheaded by their manager, Stacy Cashin (also one of our wonderful volunteers), the staff of 9th Avenue Grill will be creating a Beauty Night Benny. Partial proceeds to our cause. Diners are able to make donations to Beauty Night through their server. Details to be finalized.
June 23 & 24th
Massage by donation. Weather pending - Gastown Physio & Pilates will be offering massage by donation in front of Cafe Medina on Saturday & Sunday through out the summer.

Our AGM 2012 Please RSVP

On Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 we hope to see you at our AGM (annual general meeting). We look forward to sharing our highlights of the year, thanking our volunteers, supporters and board, and meeting our 2012 -2013 board candidates. We are looking forward to having a conversation about our upcoming year and how we can work together to continue building self esteem and changing lives for women and youth living in poverty. 11 years, 16 000 life-makeovers thanks to 500 volunteers. Thanks for supporting our cause.

Events & More for Week of June 4th

Team Beauty Night Volunteers: Caroline MacGillivray, Kristin Guy, Annie Bennett, Tyla Flexman, Kim Pacquette, and Arline Trividic

Smell This and Feel Better With Smell This Aromatherapy Scent Bar
The room smelled amazing! Beauty Night participants got to create their own “pure” fume of essential oils. Nicole and Arline from Smell This Aromatherapy guided our participants to create their own scents. Names such as “Tyla” (after participant’s favourite volunteer), “My Own Creation”, and “hope” were some “pure” fume names.

Barefoot & Bubbly: #Pedis4cause
The Month of May wrapped with a splash. Barefoot Wines and Absolute Spa Group hosted a party at English Bay Boathouse. Those who attended the private event were treated to wine, pedicures and wonderful appetizers. Hosted by Urban Rush’s Fiona Forbes, attendees were encourages to tweet about the party using the hash tag #pedis4cause. For each tweet a donation from Barefoot Wine was given to our cause. It was an amazing night where we got to connect with so many people who support our cause. Compliments of Dianne Chow, here are some photos from the event. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.387337544660106.84488.141445145916015&type=1
Queen Elizabeth Secondary Students Aim to Win $5000 for our Cause
Cross your fingers, our friends from Queen Elizabeth Secondary made phase 2 for the YPI Cares contest with their presentation of Beauty Night. If they win, YPI Cares will donate $5000 for our cause. YPI is an initiative where grade 10 students create a presentation about the charity of choice. If chosen, the charity of choice will be given $5000. Each school is able to chose a recipient.

Last year, students from Bal Moral Secondary School (Carson Graham) won the YPI Cares for their school. This the video they created last year. http://youtu.be/VtRzHEJq1jY

The support did not stop there. One of our Bal Moral supporters, Terry-Dayne Beasley donated his birthday money to our cause. His mother and sister now volunteer for us too.

Upcoming Events:
The next few weeks promise to be busy and exciting time. Although our AGM is June 19th, there are many many ways you can support our cause. Tell your friends. Please share events on facebook, twitter, linked in. Come to events - great way to connect with other volunteers and to support our cause.

* If you have an event that you would like to include our cause in, please contact Caroline ([email protected]).

June 5th Volunteer Orientation
On Tuesday, June 5th we will be holding our monthly volunteer orientation at 5pm at the VPL Firehall Branch 1455 West 10th Avenue. It will run from 5pm until 7:30pm. Board member, Julia Pon will be facilitating this orientation session. If you know people who are interested in joining Team Beauty Night, please let them know the details about our orientation. Please ask them to fill in our volunteer application form too: http://www.beautynight.org/index.php/volunteer-form/
June 5th Health Care Site Visit
On Tuesday, June 5th a Ukrainian Health Care Team visits us. 7 out reach nurses from Ukraine are dropping by to see how we connect beauty with creating community. Thanks to our community relationship with the street nurses, the Ukraine Health care team wants to see how we connect our participants to wellness and health care through our programming.
June 6th AGM Package
Fresh off the presses, our AGM package will be available on our website.
There will also be an invitation to attend our AGM via event brite.
June 7th Beauty Night in the Media
Set your PVR, Empowered Health piece on Beauty Night will be airing at 7pm on Chek 6. The profile piece in the Vancouver Sun prints on Thursday too.
June 8 & 9th Massage by Donation.
Gastown Physio and Pilates’ RMTs will be offering relaxation massage by donation in front of Cafe Medina in Gastown on sunny days. Times & Dates TBD
June 14th - Living Extraordinary Want to be inspired? Conscious Diva’s presents a night of 12 luminaries to inspire you. Beauty Night Founder, Caroline MacGillivray is honoured to be one of the speakers. For tickets and additional information, please visit http://www.consciousdivas.com/living-extraordinary-live
June 19th AGM
On Tuesday, June 19th, we will be holding our AGM at DEWC 302 Columbia at 6pm. Our regular programming will be cancelled due to our Annual General Meeting. It will be an opportunity to celebrate what we have achieved this year, board election and plans for our upcoming year. * We prefer to hold it where the women are able to attend.
June 20th Bring Your Heart and Soul To Work with Heather White
Love to network and connect with amazing people? Pink Tank Group is having the legendary business coach, Heather White speak about Bring Your Heart and Soul to Work. Event is from 6-8pm in downtown Vancouver. Tickets $10 and partial proceeds to our cause. To purchase tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3501494063
June 21st Beauty Night Scent Bar at Lord’s Shoes
On Thursday, June 21st, Lord’s Shoes and Kirk Group are hosting Smell This Aromatherapy’s Scent Bar. From 6-8pm, you will be able to create your own “pure fume” from essential oils; enjoy a glass of wine and shop for shoes. ** Lords is donating a percentage of sales for the evening to our cause. $25 for tickets. I will have details to purchase tickets 50% of ticket price will go to our cause. ** If you want to book a Scent Bar, 10% of the proceeds are going to our cause. http://beautynightscentbar.eventbrite.com/
June 22, 23, 24th Beauty Night Breakfast
Come by the 9th Avenue Grill for a Beauty Night Benny. Spearheaded by their manager, Stacy Cashin (also one of our wonderful volunteers), the staff of 9th Avenue Grill will be creating a Beauty Night Benny. Partial proceeds to our cause. Diners are able to make donations to Beauty Night through their server. Details to be finalized.

Beauty Night News Week of May 21st

Happy Victoria Day! I hope you are having a wonderful long weekend. I’ve got my fingers crossed that the weather will clear up. We will not be open tonight as we are closed on holidays. We will be back open tomorrow night and hope to see you this week!

* Empowered Health will be coming by to shoot a segment on May 22nd. Empowered Health airs on Chek 6 and will have a write up in the Vancouver Sun. We are thrilled to be featured in their show.

Volunteer Orientation on June 5th
Want to become a volunteer? Please click on the volunteer button on the left hand side of our website. Fill in our volunteer application form. Our next orientation is June 5th 5pm at VPL.

Living Extraordinary on June 14th
Want to be inspired? Conscious Diva’s presents a night of 12 luminaries to inspire you. Beauty Night Founder, Caroline MacGillivray is honoured to be one of the speakers. For tickets and additional information, please visit http://www.consciousdivas.com/living-extraordinary-live

Beauty Night AGM on Tuesday, June 19th
After speaking with our participants and some of our volunteers, we have decided to cancel programming on June 19th to hold our AGM at DEWC 302 Columbia at 6pm. Many of our participants would like to attend our AGM and find out what is happening for the next fiscal year. A chance to meet celebrate what we have achieved this year and join the on going conversation about our plans for next year! I will be sharing an event brite invitation in the next few weeks.

Call For Board Members:
Beauty Night is looking for volunteers who wish to run for a seat on our board.

Preference is for:

  • People who are active volunteers
  • Board Experience
  • Completed Board Chair Academy or Board training program at Vantage Point – in other words familiar with putting Mission Based Management into practice.
  • Understand our cause

Requirements:

  • 20 -25 hours a month
  • 12 board meetings
  • Serving on 1 committee
  • coming to our annual planning session
  • 2 year term (can be voted in for 3 terms, 6 years)

If you are interested, please submit your resume (for my board), short bio, and a letter or email explaining why you would like to serve on the board. I will be scheduling interviews within the next few weeks. Please send to [email protected]. Subject line: Board Application.