Good Morning Everyone,
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Huge thanks to everyone for your continued support Special thanks to those who responded so quickly to my facebook & twitter requests for more nail polish. The immediate response offering to contribute polish from your personal collections, contribute monies to purchase more supplies and spreading the word among your friends was overwhelming. It reminded me of how Beauty Night originally started. In the fall of 2000, I sent an email out asking for contributions of hair, nail, skin, dental and body care products to hold the first Beauty Night. People forwarded that email and I started hearing from people who I didn’t know that had contributions of products and money to purchase what we needed.
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Beauty Night Volunteers Dressed up as Santa’s Helpers Handing out Xmas Stockings, Hand-knitted
Scarves, Oranges and Cookies and Spreading Xmas Cheer on December 24, 2009!
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Since then we have given over 11 000 makeovers in 9.5 years. Our original concept has evolved from makeovers to life-makeovers. Our programming includes personal development, literacy, child minding, physical fitness, goal setting and mentorship. We can no longer accept gently used products as we are following Health & Safety Canada’s Guidelines. We would love to accept samples and new products or monies to purchase products. In the fall, we will begin our annual Xmas Stocking Drive. We will be filling up 600 stockings that Ms. Claus will hand out on Xmas eve to the women who participate in our programs. If you are interested in being involved in this program, please email us at info@beautynight.org with your contact information and how you would like to get involved.
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Beauty Night Welcomes David Chen as our treasurer
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David K Chen:
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Complete Financial’s owner and primary financial advisor is David Chen, BSc., BA, CSA (Certified Senior Advisor)
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David is a technical scuba diver, motorcyclist and family man with a very mixed background of education, real world experience and financial services training.

Born and raised in Vancouver, David has built strong relationships with friends, colleagues and clients. Everybody knows if they have a problem and need a solution, they should contact him, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with money. “I am always available to help or find help” is David’s favourite saying.

David specializes in investment, insurance and leveraging strategies for personal and corporate cases focusing on preventing financial shrinkage and encouraging growth. Through stop loss plans and low tax investments, he has helped many families meet their financial challenges, including those with disabled children. He has been in the financial field since January 2004.

-Received a B.Sc. in human physiology from McGill University and a B.A. with awards and honours in bio-psychology from UBC.
-Certified Senior Advisor, 2 year Order of Merit qualifier, currently working towards his certified financial planner designation.
-Worked in a variety of professions including heavy machinery operator, light commercial scuba diver, and business manager.
-Currently one of a handful of technical-diver instructors with PADI-DSAT and well respected life support equipment technician
-Director and newsletter editor with Barnet Rifle Club since 1995.
-President to his 530 unit, residential strata council, 3 years running.
-Guest business psychology speaker for UBC’s Social Psychology Department.
-Job Interview Process coach and Work Experience mentor with Fraser Heights Secondary School
-Guest lecturer for Financial Matters with Fraser Heights Secondary School
-Workshop presenter for the Disabilities Association of British Columbia
-Workshop presenter for the North Shore Connexions society
-Workshop presenter for Community Living BC North Shore division
-Entrepreneur mentor for Canadian Youth Business Foundation
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Beauty Night Volunteers An Minh Vu and Debbie Wright Chat and Style!
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Thank You Vancouver Foundation!
We are thrilled to announce we are one of the recipients of Vancouver Foundations’ 3 year grants. Over the next three years, Vancouver Foundation will be contributing $45 000 to our Life Makeover program. The investment in Beauty Night Society’s mission to provide marginalized women and youth tools to make positive lifestyle choices strengthens the community within a community that Beauty Night has created. This investment will make it easier for us to reach more women and to get more of their input.
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How Are We Doing?
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We will be creating a Women’s Advisory Group with our participants and volunteers who are interested in being involved. Through these sessions we are hoping to evaluate what we offer our participants, how we can evolve it to meet their needs in ways they would like their needs met, and creating a stronger sense of community.
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An Minh Vu, one of long time volunteers will be conducting a survey for our Beauty Night participants. Our last survey was conducted in 2006 to establish demographics. Our updated survey will collect demographics as well as focus groups to find out what our participants want.  We are aiming to conduct the survey in September 2010. Thanks to the Benefic Foundation  to contributing $3000 to Beauty Night to conduct the suvey.
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Every Woman & Womyns Gym Inspire Women who Move
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Huge thanks to www.everywomanintheworld.com for raising over $2000 for Beauty Night through their annual silent auction & raffle. Every Woman Founders’ Kerri Carleson & Lynn Kanuka have made a huge impact on the lives of women through www.everywomanintheworld and continue to support Beauty Night monitarily, sponsorship and through volunary efforts. Kanuka, walk/run coach for Sport Med BC made it possible for 7 of our Womyns Gym participants to run the Sun Run. Thanks to the online coaching and the entry fees sponsored by the Sun, 4 of our participants completed the run. Womyn’s Gym Program Coordinator, Tyla Flexman & Kanuka might have a walk/run clinic geared up for Sept 2010 for our participants who wish to participate in the 2011 Sun Run.
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Until then, Womyn’s Gym programming will focus on group fitness classes. We asked the women what types of fitness classes they would like to enjoy. Dance classes are at the top of the list. Thanks to Vivian Dang, Lina Martin-Chen, and Franny Varty, our participants are able to drop their children off with our child minders as they enjoy a dance class or our makeover program.
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Out Reach
Since the closure of Vancouver Health’s Health Contact Centre in May, we have partnered with many community groups and service providers to offer our life makeover program to their participants. Participants of WISH, Atira’s EWMA (Emerging Women Making Art), YMCA’s Nanook, BC Women’s Hospital’s Fir Square, and Atira’s Serena’s Place have had or are scheduled to able to participate in our Life Makeover Program on their own premises. In July 2010, we stretch our programming to different parts of the lower mainland starting with the Front Room in Surrey.
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Beauty Night Schedule Week of June 21 – June 27th.
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Tonight’s Beauty Night
Schedule:
5:30 -8:30pm
412 E Cordova
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Facilitating: Tiffany
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Nails: Margo, Louise
Hair: Pamela & Courtney
Makeup: Amanda?
Skin Care: Anna
Reiki: Amanda
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Creation Station: Jen
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Tomorrow (Tuesday June 22) 6-8:30pm
BC Women’s Hospital
4500 Oak Street (in Fir Square * Please let us know if you need parking as they will give you a pass for parking)
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Facilitating: Tiffany
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Hair: Gary, Courtney
Nails: Karen, Louise
Skin Care: Anna
Makeup: Tiff
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Saturday, June 26th
Nanook House
(special celebration for women wrapping up a 12 week personal development session I have been teaching. Mainly single moms)
Clark & Broadway Area * will coordinate place to meet with volunteers as confidentiality is important)
2- 4:30pm
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Makeup:
Hair:
Nails:
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Massage:
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* I’ve asked them to bring clothing to dress up in for after the make over, they can celebrate!
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Thank you to all of your support. If you wish to become a monthly contributor, please click on this link. https://beautynightsociety.pincgiving.com/
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Sincerely,
 

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Caroline MacGillivray
Beauty Night Society
www.beautynight.org

Beauty Night provides marginalized women and youth tools to make positive life style changes.

9 years, 400 volunteers, 11 000 makeovers.

Beauty Night… because dignity is beautiful.

Last night we held our first Beauty Night at WISH Drop In Centre’s new building. This morning I checked my email and discovered the article that Blue Planet Green Living  wrote about Beauty Night  has been posted. It was great to see how far we have come in the past nine years. Here is the article.  www.blueplanetgreenliving.com/2010/06/02/beauty-night-heals/

Good Morning Everyone,

Thank you to everyone for your continued support. For those of you who were not able to make it to our AGM.

Please Welcome New Board!

Fergus McCann – Co-Chair
Currently Manager-Media & Community Relations for BC Housing. Prior to joining BC Housing, Fergus worked for 5 years at CTV BC and nearly 20 years at CKVU (Channel 13 – now Citytv) on programs as diverse as The Vancouver Show, the Laurier La Pierre talk show and in the newsroom on the assignment desk. His early years in broadcasting included working in radio in Salmon Arm and Kelowna. Born and raised in South Vancouver, Fergus and family have been living in Burnaby since 1984. His community service has included time on boards such as the BC Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils, the Family Support Institute and most recently, the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion. He was recognized as a City of Burnaby Local Hero in 2005.
Sheryl Williamson – Co-Chair
Sheryl has been a Vancouver resident for 15 years now. With a strong belief in building community, Sheryl and her family give many hours of volunteer time. She holds key positions in several community organizations and has participated in many initiatives such as:
She is currently a Vancouver Police Board Member, On the West End Citizens’ Action Network (WECAN), Chair (since 2003), Family Services of Greater Vancouver (1134 Burrard Project), Community Advisory Committee Member, Our House Recovery Society, Board Member Four Pillars Coalition.
She has previously been on West End Integrated Neighbourhood Network (WEINN), Steering Committee Member and Working Group Lead , Immediate Past Chair Safe Streets Coalition, Member Justice Review Task Force (Street Crime Working Group), Past Participant.
Sheryl is the Chief Operations Officer and a founding partner of a privately owned business in Vancouver and holds several industry designations. She is a Certified Marketing Executive with a Diploma in Sales and Marketing from the Sauder School of Business at UBC. Sheryl’s passion is in building potential ~ both that of individuals and organizations. She is married with one child.
Sarah Mah – Secretary
Sarah Mah has a bachelors degree in genetics, and interested in promoting women’s rights and equality. She was introduced to Beauty Night when she accompanied her mother to some of the events. Sarah became very interested in the Beauty Night cause and saw how the program contributes to the physical and emotional health for women experiencing severe poverty in the DTES. It was not until after she had completed an accelerated high school education and most of an undergraduate degree that she was able to devote time to the program. Sarah started on the BNS board one year ago and looks forward to continuing to serve on the board as secretary, in addition to her role as an amateur manicurist at the events!
Amanda Bonella – Board Member
Amanda Bonella is a 33 year old mother of a (fantastic) 15 year old daughter. Her work in the Downtown Eastside began in 2001 when she began PEERS Vancouver and in less than two years raised over 1.5 million dollars through proposals to government and private foundations. In 2003 she began going around the country speaking on the issue of sexual exploitation as an expert who had not only exited the sex trade herself but also worked alongside women who were on that journey as well, creating curriculum and developing programs for them in partnership with them.
Amanda went on to develop workshops for professionals on how to engage target populations from the bottom up and is an activist for the rights of women, particularly those who suffer from systemic marginalization. In 2006 She started Surrey Girlz, a by us for us sex worker organization in Surrey whose major funding came from t-shirt sales in Vancouver and Kitsilano (SurreyGirlz Fashions…fashions from the frontlines).
In 2007 Amanda was recruited by the One Man Army firm (an association of Red Seal Journeymen Tradesmen) to assist in the incorporation, system development and management of the company. In 2008 she bought a house in Bella Coola while on a writing sabbatical and formed the first ever “by us for us” monthly and yearly youth events, on New Year’s Eve more than 300 residents from the small town came out to support the youth’s first ever sober new Years Eve Ball.
Amanda continues to provide some administrative support at One Man Army, continues her website development at Vancouver’s IT Girl and is opening a frozen yogurt restaurant (Yogiberry) on the corner of Carrall and Cordova (June 2010).
Stacey Dallyn – Board Member
Stacey Dallyn started volunteering for Beauty Night Society in August 2009. Her production skills and contacts developed through over 20 years experience in fashion, media and film made her a dynamic part of the All I Want for Xmas Production Team, Beauty Night’s Annual Xmas Stocking Drive and Knit Fit.Solution focused, Stacey comes up with fresh angles to show case media friendly end product. Her experience as Fashion Editor of Vancouver Magazine and Western Living Magazine shows her keen eye, ability to stick to a budget, team build and come up with innovative ways of coming up with workable solutions. Through her experience on the PTA for her sons’ school, Stacey has been heavily involved with school-based grass roots fund-raising on a local and international level.
Kevin Day – Board Member
Kevin Day is a social entrepreneur with experience running both private and public companies. In 1998, Kevin founded Riskebiz Internet Services Inc., a company which helps entrepreneurs in the developing world establish and grow local businesses by connecting them with micro-finance services through the mobile web. In 2002 Kevin helped establish Feed Me Sports Inc., a company which published sports related content for mobile phones. Under Kevin’s leadership, Feed Me Sports acquired Mobilized Entertainment in 2008, a public company that trades on the over the counter market in the United States. Mr. Day has experience raising money for start-ups and he is also an experienced computer programmer developing many of his company’s mobile applications. Kevin was a Director of the British Columbia Captive Insurance Association for 10 years and is currently a Committee Member of the Canadian Captive Insurance Association. Kevin obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia in 1994. After university and prior to starting his first business, Kevin worked for several years in the insurance industry as a property and casualty insurance broker. Kevin is an avid runner and enjoys movies, documentaries, and reading biographies of business icons.
Kristy Delorme – Board Member
Kristi Delorme has worked as a Social Worker supporting Aboriginal children and families since 2008. She began her career working within the Aboriginal community after volunteering at the Urban Native Youth Association homework clubs in Vancouver in 2003. After being successful in her application to become the Program Coordinator with the First Nations School Success Program, Kristi moved into a Program Coordinator position for the Aboriginal Mentorship Program that connects First Nations youth with positive role models and mentors. Kristi was reminded each day of the negative affect colonization, residential schools and high child removal rates by the government had on the ongoing cycle of addiction, abuse and violence in the Aboriginal community. This experience motivated Kristi to return to university in 2006 where she obtained her second degree, a Bachelor Degree in Social Work, specializing in Aboriginal child welfare. In 2008, Kristi began work with the Ministry of Children and Family Development in Burnaby where she connects children and families to culturally appropriate support services.

Dave Dickson – Board Member
Dave was born and raised in Vancouver area, joined the Vancouver Police Department in May,1980 and became an Advocate for street workers and youth. He spent his entire VPD career working in the Downtown Eastside. Over the years Dave received a number of awards :
· 2003-Recognition Award from Native Health Society
· 2004-Police Officer of the Year
· 2004-Federal Justice Dept. Award for working with Youth
· 2004-International Safety Award for working to keep High Risk Women safe
· 2005-City of Vancouver”Youth Ally Award”
· 2005-Solicitor General’s Community Policing Award
· 2006-B.C. Civil Liberties Award
· 2006-Queen’s Jubilee Medal for Community Policing
· 2006-Premier’s B.C. Community Achievement Award
Dave left the Vancouver Police Department in August 2008 and is currently working with another organization as an outreach worker in the Downtown Eastside so that he can continue his work with the street workers and youth.
Pamela Lelong – Board Member
Pamela has over 22 years experience serving on non-profit boards. She is one of the founding members of Beauty Night Society and in this capacity,Pamela served as the Secretary/Treasurer and wrote the original constating documents for Beauty Night. She has also volunteered on many occasions for the Society. She is a past board member of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors where she served as Vice-president of the Vancouver region, briefly as Co-chair of the Ethics Committee, and as Chair of the Legislative Review Committee. Pamela added the values and duties of clinical counselling to their constitution and re-wrote the BCACC bylaws during her role as Chair of the Legislative Review Committee. She also served as the Secretary/Treasurer on the board of the Greater Vancouver Employment Strategy Society.
Pamela is a member (inactive status) of the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and a past member of the Canadian Counselling and Guidance Association. Pamela’s work experience includes delivering companion services; coordinating non-profit employment programs, delivering one-to-one/group counselling, information and life skills training sessions; writing instructional media, funding proposals, reports and programs; drafting leases and lands claims settlements; acting as clerk of the court; and delivering secretarial and cosmetology services. Pamela has also supervised college and university student practicums and appeared on television, radio and in other media to represent the needs of the unemployed.
Pamela currently works in the position of companion for a large health care organization which is one of the 50 best managed in Canada.
Bill Nevison – Board Member
Writer/producer Citytv Creative Services, promotion & commercial production. Previously worked as a writer/producer at Global TV. Won various broadcast awards, including gold medals from Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) Promax/BDA, and International CrimeStoppers. Has been on the Beauty Night board of directors for 3 years. His role on the Beauty Night Media Committee includes writing and editing Beauty Night press releases, media packages, and media guidelines. Has been involved with the annual Beauty Night stocking drive and has also documented the event.
Darren Reiter – Board Member
Darren Reiter is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the Board of eMedia Networks International Corporation, a sonic branding company listed publicly on the Canadian Venture Exchange (TSX.EMM) Darren has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia (1992), a Masters in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh (1995) and a Certificate in Journalism from Langara College (1997) In partnership with award winning producers and directors including Braemar Court Productions and Bowen Arrow Productions, Darren has produced several short movies including “The River of Jordan” which screened at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2007 and “Amazon Falls,” a feature length drama currently in post production. Darren resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Special thanks to Tyla Flexman, Tiffany Telford, Jacqui Ellis, Gwen Webster, Eileen McDougall and Karen Flemming for making everything run smoothly.
Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in serving on Beauty Night Society’s Board. Through Beauty Night there are many opportunities to provide marginalized women and youth tools to make positive lifestyle changes in a health and wellness frame work. Serving on our committees and our front lines benefits the lives of the women and youth we serve and we encourage you to find out more opportunities to volunteer or contribute.
Beauty Night Closed on Victoria Day, Monday, May 24th
We will be closed on Monday, May 24th but will reopen for programming on Wednesday, May 26th for Womyn’s Gym.

Sun Run Success!!
The Sun Run was a huge success!! Please enjoy our photos and blog on the Womyns Gym website . Huge thanks to Lynn Kanuka of www.sportmedbc.com. To quote Womyns Gym Program Coordinator, Tyla Flexman: “Lynn, know that your coaching, sponsorship and motivation helped make our goal a reality. It was a gorgeous day for a sun run, and we had all but one participant join us for the race. One of our clients ran the sun run coming in at 1:25 and the others walking in around 2 hrs. Everyone was so excited, happy and proud of themselves. Thank you for allowing us to share that experience with our clients, they truly appreciate it.”
What’s next for Womyn’s Gym? Plans are in the works for a walking program to start in the fall so more of our participants will be ready for the Sun Run Training in January for Sun Run April 2011!

Thank You!!
Huge thanks to www.everywomanintheworld.com last weekend, they raised $1500 for Beauty Night Society through their silent auction during the welcome reception. Since 2004, Every Woman in the World has been a proud sponsor of Beauty Night Society and we thank them for their support directly with the participants and for investing in Beauty Night Society’s mission – providing marginalized women and youth tools to make positive lifestyle changes.
Nancy Perreault entered a contest that donates money to one’s favourite charity. She chose Beauty Night. Thank you Nancy for the contribution of $410.

Nancy Perreault has agreed to design our Xmas Stocking for our annual Xmas Stocking Drive. Every Xmas, volunteers from high schools, Sparks troupes, elementary schools sew Xmas Stockings that are filled with skin care, dental care, hair care, and body care products. 600 Xmas stockings are handed out on Xmas Eve to women in the Downtown Eastside, transition homes, drop in centres and hospitals.
Xmas Stocking Coordinator, Blair Lockhart informed me that fabric contributions have already started arriving. In August 2010, we will be holding a volunteer information session specificaly for the stocking drive and Knit Fit. If you are interested in volunteering for either project, please contact us at info@beautynight.org.
Thank you for everything!
Sincerely,

Caroline MacGillivray
Beauty Night Society
www.beautynight.org

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Beauty Night… because dignity is beautiful

On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Beauty Night Society holds its Annual General Meeting at 5:30pm. This will be taking place at PHS Life Skills Centre 412 East Cordova Street. We thank you for your support and invite you to attend. Doors open at 5:10pm. Our AGM Package can be downloaded at AGM 2010 Package.
< Please email info@beautynight.org if you would like more details.

Deadline for Board Position Application Tomorrow Noon
Our AGM will be held Wednesday, May 19th at 5:30pm at PHS LifeSkills Centre 412 East Cordova. We wish to fill two board positions. If you are interested in running for a position on our amazing board, please send your resume, bio, and two references to info@beautynight.org before noon on May 3, 2010. We are looking for candidates for fill two board positions. Once the election is held during the AGM, our board members including newly elected officers will elect the executives on the board. Executive positions (may be filled by current board members or newly elected board members) include treasurer and co-chair. The bios of the candidates running for our upcoming election will be in the AGM package available on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010.

Thank You

Thank you to all of our contributors for your time, energy, talents and monies. Without you, we would not be able to provide as many life makeovers for vulnerable women through our fitness, literacy, child minding, makeover, and mentorship programming. It is thrilling how many people working together can make a huge impact in the lives of many.

Thanks to Jenni Graham, Courtney Krause, Danielle Robson, Laura Volpatti, Thea Cully, Sarah Honkenan, Tyla Flexman and Felicity Scott for inspiring our participants of our Womyns Gym program to do the Sun Run. Huge thanks to Sport Med BC (especially Lynn Kanuka) and the Vancouver Sun for making it possible.

Special thanks to Gwen Webster, 2nd term board member, current co-chair Gwen has been an inspirational co-chair and a wonderful front line volunteer. During her co-chair term, Gwen spearheaded the All I Want for Xmas and Beauty on the Boat events to raise funds for Beauty Night. She worked directly with the participants mentoring one participant who is gearing up to apply for hair school. “Gwen is a huge piece of “team beauty night” – our wonderful blend of board, staff, and volunteers. Her contribution of time, energy, and skills have been priceless to Beauty Night and to me. She made my transition from board to staff easier than I thought it would be. We are very lucky to have such a wonderful board and Gwen has been such a fantastic part of it,” says Beauty Night founder and national executive director, Caroline MacGilivray. “She is a dear friend and has contributed her time, energy and innovation to Beauty Night. Although Gwen is stepping off the board, I am thrilled that she is still on “Team Beauty Night.”

Contributing Monthly
If you wish to make a contribution to Beauty Night Society or becoming a monthly contributor, you can do so by clicking on https://beautynightsociety.pincgiving.com/. The more resources (volunteers, in kind and monitary contributions) raised, the more women and children we can provide safe spaces for them to be themselves, make friends and become leaders in their own communities.

In the Media
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, Beauty Night’s Women’s Gym Volunteers including special volunteer Sport Med BC’s Walk/Run Coach, Lynn Kanuka ( Olympic Bronze Medalist in 1984) were featured in the Vancouver Sun. 7 participants are training for the Sun Run on May 9th! Spearheaded by Kanuka, the Vancouver Sun sponsored the participant’s entries and sport med BC sponsored the web coaching. It was inspiring to have Lynn Kanuka on site training the participants last Monday. Volunteers and participants got to try Lynn’s coaching first hand, hold her Olympic Torch and hear many inspirational things. http://www.vancouversun.com/health/these+women+life+makeovers+challenge/2973151/story.html

This Thursday, Erin Shaw’s piece about our makeover program ran on ShawTV’s Express. This Wednesday, Erin will be covering the Womyns Gym Sun Run training session. As we count down the days until May 9th, the women continue to follow Sport Med BC’s web coaching. Special thanks to all of our Womyns Gym volunteers and Program Coordinators Tyla Flexman and Felicity Scott.

Social Media
Please join our face book fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Beauty-Night-Society/109332169098889

Or Follow our Twitter feed @beautynight

Every Woman in the World Silent Auction Items Needed
From Every Woman Founder Kerri, Carleson:

This is a request for donation for a Silent Auction Item or Welcome Bag Gift in exchange for exposure at every WOMAN – Whistler (May 14 to 16). Silent Auction proceeds go to Beauty Night Society and Dress For Success Vancouver.

You are receiving this e-mail because you have either supported every WOMAN in previous years or because we think that your business has some form of interest in health and women. Please ignore this e-mail if you have already confirmed your donation. And our apologies if you are receiving this in error.

You get:
- exposure in front of 250 participants (fun-filled woman professionals, entrepreneurs, empty-nesters, soul-searchers, adventure-seekers and health advocates – ages 25 to 72, but mostly 40 to 55)
- ability to add your profile to www.everywoman.ca – Exchange
- product displayed during Welcome Reception (or in Welcome Bags)
- company name listed on partner and supporter presentation during event
- $50 off your every WOMAN Registration – use promo code: ‘HEALTH’ when registering before May 9

Silent Auction Item
If you are interested, before May 9, please provide the following info:
- name of item
- value of item
- company name (as you would like listed)

Welcome Bag Gift
We are looking for 250 tangible items (not coupons or paper, unless there is a significant value). We realize there is a cost to this, so let us know what you are willing to provide and we can negotiate partner or sponsor status.

Delivery:
(Vancouver) Before May 12 – mail to Johanna Mramor, 1936 141A Street, Surrey, BC V4A 7R4
(Whistler) Before May 13 at 5pm – drop off att: Kerri Carlson or Paul Adams, Westin Whistler
*or let us know if we can come pick-up your item(s).

If you are interested in having an exhibitor table in the every WOMAN Marketplace, please e-mail us for more information.

Thank you so much for your support!

Kerri

Kerri Carlson
every WOMAN – Whistler

Turn on your television to Shaw TV’s Express. Erin Shaw’s story of Beauty Night Society’s makeover program airs tomorrow at 6pm on channel 4.

Tonight one of The Vancouver Sun photographers will be capturing the womyns gym participants warm up. Sport Med BC’s walk/run coach Lynn Kanuka will be leading the warm up. Program Coordinators Tyla Flexman and Felicity Scott have been using Kanuka’s Sport Med BC’s web coaching to prepare for the Sun Run on May 9th. As we count down the days, we are thrilled to be acquiring more knowledge about the walk/run process.

Thank You!

Huge thanks to all of our volunteers and contributors. Without your contributions, we would not be able to reach so many women and children in a positive way.

$520 anonymous
$520 anonymous
$200 Caree Ludwar

In Kind:
Sport Med BC – web coaching
The Vancouver Sun – entries for 7 womyns gym participants in Sun Run
North Face – clothing for Womyns Gym participants

To make a contribution now or to set up monthly contributions, please visit https://beautynightsociety.pincgiving.com/

Beauty Night Award Nominations

Beauty Night Founder, Caroline MacGillivray has been nominated for a Woman of Worth Award. www.thewowevent.com for more details.

Beauty Night Toronto

Tonight Saafi Warsame and our Toronto volunteers hold our last Beauty Night in Toronto. Beauty Night Society launched December 9th, 2002. In the last 8 years, Beauty Night has held over 80 makeover nights. Tonight’s event will be held at Yorktown Shelter in Etobicoke. “I want to thank all the volunteers and contributors that kept Toronto going during the past 8 years,” said Beauty Night Founder and National Executive Director, Caroline MacGillivray.”Thanks to your perseverance and contributions, we have made a huge impact on the lives of many.” Hopefully Beauty Night Society will be back in Toronto after 2012.

“During our strategic planning session, we decided to focus on creating a template for rural areas and cities. This way we will be able to reach more women and children once we have a sustainable structure in place,” says MacGillivray.

AGM – May 19th, 2010

Our annual general meeting is coming up on May 19th. As mentioned in our previous newsletter, we are looking for a treasurer. If you are interested in applying or getting more information, please email info@beautynight.org. Please include your bio and two references before May 2nd, 2010. Our board package will be available – including the bios of potential Beauty Night Society Board Candidates on May, 5, 2010.

Beauty Night Supporter Bonus: Every Woman in The World Discount

Get a $75 discount from www.everywomanintheworld.com by hitting the promotional code: beautynight BEFORE April 30, 2010. . Every WOMAN has supported Beauty Night through their silent auction (still collecting auction items) and by inviting a participant from Beauty Night to participate in the weekend. During the every WOMAN event in White Rock last month, they sponsored 5 participants from our womyn’s gym program.

If you get a chance to take participate in the every WOMAN weekend, I highly recommend this weekend. It is a great opportunity to get inspired, have fun, try new things, and have fun being you with a group of wonderful women!

Here is every WOMAN founder, Kerri Carleson’s words and the link:

Thank you for supporting every WOMAN – Whistler (May 14 to 16) at The Westin Resort & Spa and for forwarding this e-mail to anyone who you think might be interested. We are pleased to offer a $75 discount to your friends per below. Check out the attached flyer!

Inspiring through physical activity, every WOMAN – Whistler is a weekend of activity offering fitness, dance and wellness workshops. Featuring: Nia, Hip Hop, Pole Dancing, Wake-Up Sexy, Capoeira, Go-Go Dancing, West African Dance, Hoola Hooping, Nordic Walking, Posture Improvement, Living Above The Line, Ayurveda, Boot Camp, GYROKINESIS ®, Confidence-Boosting Catwalk, The Power of Dreams, 5 Rhythms, Circuit Training, Financial Fitness, Yoga and much more. All shapes and sizes welcome. No experience necessary. Humour recommended. Movement guaranteed.

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Happy International Volunteer Week!!!

Volunteer Profiles/Survey:
At Beauty Night Society we create a safe space in the frame work of health and wellness. Through this we create a space for the women to make friends and become leaders in their own community. We could not do this without you. Thank you for all that you do! For International Volunteer Week, I wanted to interview everyone of you to talk about why you volunteer. I wanted to get some quotes to do some volunteer profiles on the website. I have put together some questions on survey monkey. If you feel comfortable having your responses posted, please add your name in there. If you would like to give general feedback, this is possible too. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/27S5MCC

Kid’s Club:
Our mandate for the child minding component of programming is the offer 20 minutes of physical fitness for every hour of programming. Thanks to Franny Varty, Vivian Dong, Lina Marin Chan and Christen Young, we have exceeded that total. Jumping, skipping, hopping and running as they play tag, sing and so many other things keep huge smiles on their faces. Last Monday, I got a workout of my own as I tried to keep up with Courtney Krause, Laura Volpatti, Franny Varty and the children. Spinning, playing tag and other activities kept the children engaged and enthused as their parents participated in the programming. When it was time to say good bye, there were a few tears and struggles from a few of the children who wanted to continue to play.

* A few of the mothers have told me that the act of getting the kids to sleep seems easier on nights that they come to Beauty Night.

Release Your Royalty:
Tonight we welcome Taaja. Taaja will be teaching a “royalty” workshop for our participants. The program description for the participants read: Learn how to be “Your royal princess every day”. Taaja will teach you how to walk down the red carpet and Own the Room with confidence and grace. A fun and interactive workshop!!
6-7pm tonight
www.taajainc.com

Ready, Set, Go!!!
Womyns Gym participants are counting down the days until May 9th. On May 9th 7 of the participants will be walk/running the Sun Run. “I cannot express how excited I am to have our women complete a monumental goal,” says Womyns Gym Program Coordinator, Tyla Flexman. We are thrilled to have the support of Lynn Kanuka, the walk/run coach for Sport Med BC. Lynn, a long time supporter of Beauty Night Society is sponsoring the participants through web coaching and Sport Med BC is sponsoring 7 of the women for the Sun Run. The feedback from both our trainers and our participants has been positive. “Her web coach support has also been excellent, the inspirational tips and forums are very helpful. With the help of daylight savings we are now able to walk / run outside every session. We have built up to 40 minutes outside 20 min of which are running, ” says Tyla when asked about how the training has gone.

Womyns Gym Clothing
We had an overwhelming response to our last newsletter. At press time, Womyn’s Gym Program Coordinator, Tyla Flexman and I were trying to get clothing for our Womyns Gym participants. Some of the participants were wearing jeans and flip flops to work out in. Kerry Parsons and the wonderful community from Cranbrook pitched in and have collected tons of atheltic wear for the women. Tyla and I are delighted. This way the participants will have clothing right at the beginning of the program. Many women do not know their sizes and we have found it difficult to preorder the clothing for the particpants.

Huge thanks to Christen Young of North Face. Christen volunteers for Kids Club on Wednesday Nights. She responded immediately to the newsletter to let us know she has spoken North Face about contributing outfits for the women to wear for the womyns gym program. North Face responded favorably. Last Monday, we handed out the new outfits including sports bras. The women were delighted.

Every Woman in the World
5 Womyns Gym participants took part in www.everywomanintheworld.com on the weekend of March 27th. Huge thanks to Lynn Kanuka for sponsorship to this amazing event. The next www.everywomanintheworld.com will be in Whistler on May 14, 15, and 16th. Every Woman in the World supports Beauty Night by holding a silent auction. Half of the proceeds from the auction are contributed to Beauty Night Society. Every Woman also sponsors a Beauty Night participant to enjoy the action packed weekend at Whistler.

For those who would like to contribute an auction item, please contact Kerri at info@everywomanintheworld.com. If you are interested in participating in the Every Woman Experience, you can get $50 off by putting in the promo code: BN.

At the Movies:
Huge thanks to Jacqui Ellis who shared her love for film with our Beauty Night participants by contributing passes to the http://www.womeninfilm.ca/WIFF_2010.html this weekend at the Vancity Theatre. Thank you to Anna Greczmiel who offered to take some of the women to enjoy films by women. The women enjoy being inspired by film. Several months ago, Beauty Night had the honor of having local filmmakers Chris McDowell and Moira Simpson screen their film Under One Sky at PHS LifeSkills Centre. The film focuses on the Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists camp. A variety of martial art instructors shared their craft and talked about how martial arts strengthened them. One of the martial arts who appeared in the film came on site to teach the women some self defense.

Toronto:
Volunteer coordinator, Saafi Warsame facilitates her last Beauty Night event on April 29th. Saafi will be sadly missed by Beauty Night volunteers and participants. She has been a fantastic part of our team both in Vancouver as well as Toronto. Saafi’s humour and sincerity have helped shape the Toronto events. We wish her well and can not wait to welcome her back when she has time to volunteer again!

AGM:
Mark your calendars for May 19th. Our annual general meeting will be held that evening. AGM package will be available on April 19, 2010.
Please let us know if you would like to attend.

Treasuer
Christie Gray has resigned as our Treasurer. If you are interested in serving on the Beauty Night Society board, please let us know. Please email us for more information. We will send you the board member package and upcoming meeting schedule if you are interested in running for the Treasurer position.

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Beauty Night… because dignity is beautiful

A few weeks ago, we started asking the women what they liked about Beauty Night Society. We also asked what they would like to change. One of the key things they like is the relationships they develop with you. The way you treat each woman with kindness and dignity makes each woman feel special. In terms of what they would like changed, they told us:

1) More Hairdressers
2) Draws
3) Healthy Snacks
4) Notification as to what services we will be offering each week

Some of these changes, we have started to add to our events. On Monday afternoons, DJ distributes flyers to remind the women what we will be offering that evening. Since last Monday when she started to promote the events with flyers, our numbers have increased. There seems to be an air of excitement when the women attend the events. The excitement is contagious and makes for exciting and interactive programming for both our participants and our volunteers.

Thank you for making last night so magical and fun for everyone! Huge thanks to Kerry, Anna, & Amanda who helped “decorate” the space. * Thanks to everyone (especially Tyla Flexman who sent a full page worth) of inspirational sayings. I think we took recycling to the next level by taking envelopes & papers and turning them into lucky four leaf clovers. Before the participants arrived, each station was decorated with shamrocks covered with words of wisdom. As each woman entered the room, they got to pick a lucky four leaf clover for her to take home with her.

With her magical Top Hat, Gwen greeted the women at the door. She collected their names so they could win prizes throughout the evening. There was an air of festivities. With excitement, the women cheered each other on as they would come up to claim their prizes after their names were called. The gift bags that Anna created were based on some of the donations that we collected during our Xmas Stocking Drive. With delight, the women opened up makeup bags full of beauty products, jewelry, and The Da Vinci Inquest Board Game. Photographer Ken Villeneuve captured their expressions of delight on film. Beauty Night moments captured through Ken’s photography were distributed to the women. Women giggled and showed their pictures to their friends and volunteers. Many a pose prompted the women to ask Ken to take a picture similar to one that a friend had from weeks previous.

Wendy Shuen does it again with her culinary mastery. Many of the women have been asking for healthy snacks. Wendy proves that snacks can be delicious and be good for us. The women LOVED the grape kabobs! Between the delectable blueberry cake (which I admit to sampling) and the fresh fruit, they were thrilled!! When someone created the saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover,” it is obvious then never saw trays decorated in shamrock tissue paper covered with lush green grapes on skers and bite sized blueberry cakes.

I know all the women loved getting the sparkly nail art – huge thanks to Denise and Jen. Huge thanks to Gwen for picking up the silver and green glitter. The “glitter ball” manicure will be perfected next week as I promise to pick up a couple of paint brushes (thank you Jen for the recommondation) to make the application of top coat simpler. * At the very end of the night, Amanda & I found the bag that contained a few more pairs of tweezers which will make the application of the sparkles easier.

The shimmery mica flecked “pot of gold” body lotion (www.iluselu.ca thank you Meaghan!) went over well. Gwen & I walked around the room and asked them to make a wish before we poured some of the golden lotion into their hands. Like a potion, the rubbed their hands together feverently focused on making their wishes come true.

For some women, getting their brows shaped by Amanda was a service wished we had always offered. Amanda’s brow shaping was worth waiting for. The women enjoyed having the option of gettting their brows done AND makeup too.

The line up at Kerry’s massage station spoke volumes. He promised several of the participants he would be back next week. Kerry also saved the day for our Womyns Gym participants who are in need of workout clothing. (sizes 10, 12, 14 and one size 6). Thanks to his friends and familly in Cranbrook who did a clothing drive for Beauty Night and then drove it down to Vancouver. (Kerry has been slowly disbursing the clothes during the last 3 or four months . Unfortunately we can not store the clothing at our space due to potential bed bug infestation). We were able to find a selection of tee shirts and tank tops for working out. We are still collecting workout pants and hoodies. Huge thanks to Anna and Kerry for selecting some of the garments for the women to choose from.

When I walked past Anna’s Four Leave Clover Creation Station, I was thrilled to see some of the women pick up some of the inspirational sayings that were strewn around the room and using them in their four leaf clover collages. Thank you to Anna for creating the station and thanks to Franny and Vivian for giving Shianne – the little girl who usually rides her bike around a hand.

Thanks for the group effort by Gwen, Franny, DJ, and Vivian to calm the teething baby. I give kudos to Gwen who spent over 45 minutes bouncing the baby to sleep. As Gwen pointed out afterwards, we really do need 3 people minimum on childcare – 2 for the baby to take turns and one for the other children. Based on last night, I give tremendous praise for everyone who made child care work last Monday when there were 5 children. And Tyla & Felicity and the Womyn’s Gym team for providing such fantastic workout opportunities for the women participating in the womyns gym program

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.