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Beauty Night News Week of June 11th

June 11, 2012 By Caroline Leave a Comment

What a fantastic week! There has been tons to celebrate! We’ve added some of the highlights in this newsletter. Thanks to our wonderful PR intern Adriana Ortega, you might want to check out our website. There have been tons of blog posts added - including several blog posts from volunteers, upcoming events and much more. There are so many events coming up and we are excited to share them with you.

** Volunteer Orientation is tonight at 6pm at DEWC 302 Columbia. Julia Pon will be coordinating tonight’s orientation. Please invite friends who might be interested in being part of team Beauty Night.

Huge thank you to our friends at Queen Elizabeth Secondary School for creating an award-winning
presentation about our cause. Thanks to their presentation and their support, they won $5000 for our
cause. The monies raised help us start Beauty Night programming in Surrey 4 times each month starting
in September 2012.

In The Media

The Vancouver Sun, The Province, West Ender, and Empowered Health (on Chek 6) are some of the places we have been featured this week. To read the article in the Sun (reprinted in the Province) please click here.http://www.vancouversun.com/health/empowered-health/Beauty+Nights+bolster+hopes/6752740/story.html
The video for Empowered Health segment can be seen here: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/empowered-health/Beauty+Nights+bolster+hopes/6752740/story.html

Hamilton Designs PJs for Beauty Night
Adriana Ortega, Jo Moore Hamilton and Caroline Mac
Gillivray pose with a sample of the softest PJs.

When volunteer Jo Moore Hamilton is not volunteering for Beauty Night, she is a fashion designer. Last week, we (our PR intern Adriana Ortega, Jo Moore Hamilton and I) met to talk about a limited edition collection created where part of the proceeds would be donated to our cause. The pajamas designed by her mother (Jo’s had a pair that she has had since she was 12yrs old!) may be named after beauty night ladies and the beautiful qualities about them. When one is wearing the PJs, there will be a note describing the qualities and how wearing the pajamas can make you feel. With some of the beautiful strengths many of our ladies have, we think you will sleep well knowing that part of the proceeds are going to our cause.

Beauty Night’s AGM 2012
On Tuesday, June 19th our programming with be rescheduled as our AGM will be taking place at 6pm. We will need volunteers to help with set up, meeting and greeting attendees, and to help the event run smoothly. Please let me know if you want to volunteer. If you are attending the AGM, please sign up. Please invite friends who might be interested in attending. Our AGM package is available on the invitation, please let us know if you are attending as we need to print out to package for attendees. Here is the invitation.

Shoes, Scent & networking! Looking forward to Beauty Night Scent Bar sponsored by Smell This Aromatherapy, Lord’s Shoes and Kirk Group. It will be a fantastic night of mingling, creating your own purefume and shoe shopping. 50% of the proceeds of your $25 ticket go to our cause. To purchase tickets, please visit http://beautynightscentbar.eventbrite.com

Filed Under: In the Media, Newletter Tagged With: adriana ortega, beauty night society, DTES, Fund Raising, jo moore hamilton, smell this aromatherapy, Vancouver, volunteer

Growing a Cause

April 16, 2012 By Caroline Leave a Comment

“How can I help?” is one of the questions we hear.
Contributing time, energy, money and skills to further our mission (to build self esteem and change lives of women and youth living in poverty) are ways many of our supporters help us. We have over 500 volunteers that help us serve over 200 women each week.

This morning one of my friends, Cyndi Cassidy sent me a video that inspired me to revisit how I see fund raising and helping grow a cause.

After watching the video, it made me wonder how I can continue to grow the cause. There are so many ways we can inspire people to take action in the community. How are you an ambassador for a cause? Would love to know how to inspire others to continue building community and raising the resources to achieve our mission. Suggestions?

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: bc, beauty night society, charity, Colleen Wainwright, DTES, Fund Raising, mission based management, tedxtalks, Vancouver, volunteer

Carson Graham Students win $5000 for Beauty Night

May 27, 2011 By Caroline Leave a Comment

It is with great pleasure that I write this post! Last night, the Carson Graham planning 10 students won $5000 for Beauty Night with their YPI (youth philanthropy initiative) presentation. Every year for planning 10, one of the projects is the Youth Philanthropy Initiative. Students chose a charity of their choice, research it, and do a presentation on behalf of the charity. The presentation selected wins $5000 to further their cause. We are thrilled that we were chosen!

This is the original video. Stay tuned for the one used for the final presentation! Huge thanks to Mersedeh Sagafi, Jasmine Price, Ryder Coker, and Terry-Dayne Marshall.

Filed Under: Events, Fund Raising Tagged With: beauty night, community, DTES, Fund Raising, Jasmine Price, Mersedeh Sagafi, Ryder Coker, terry-Dayne Marshall, Vancouver, youth philanthropy initiative

Fundraising: Unclutter your life, unclutter the world

May 20, 2011 By Caroline Leave a Comment

Unclutter your life, hold a garage sale and donate proceeds to our cause. Photo by Chris Vergara

Change the World by Letting Go of Clutter

Who do you know who needs to unclutter their life and change the world? Since spring arrived late in Vancouver, it isn’t too late for spring cleaning. As you gather up clothes, books, house hold appliances to gear up for a garage sale, you can change your world and the world around you at the same time.

Rid yourself of clutter by selling it and donate the proceeds to Beauty Night. We will give you a tax receipt and use the money to build self esteem and change lives for women and youth living in poverty. Change you world & the world around you with one swoop. Don’t you just love win/win situations?

If you would like to have brochures about Beauty Night at your website, contact us at [email protected] subject line garage sale. D onations can be made on this site or via cheque. Thank you for spreading the word about our cause.

Filed Under: Donations/Fundraising, Fund Raising Tagged With: beauty night, DTES, Fund Raising, garage sale, poverty, women

I Change, I Change the World

March 7, 2011 By caroline 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