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Dear Santa

Thank you so much for all of the donations of products to fill 1500 Xmas stockings. Starting on Monday we will be handing them out. For those who collected donations to fill the stockings but have not yet dropped them off, please hang onto them for our upcoming Valentine’s Day campaign. At this time we do not have storage space to keep them. As we count down the days until the end of the year, storage space is on our 2011 wish list.

Beauty Night’s Wish List:

1) Storage space in Vancouver for donations of product
2) $100 each week to pay for honorariums ($20 per shift) to pay our participants who are developing job ready skills as they train to become faciliators.
3) $1000 to cover cost of running one week of programming including supplies, staffing, insurance, honorariums, photocopying, etc
4) $$$ for us expand programming to other areas & train additional facilitators to coordinating volunteers & supplies to run programs.
5) Hairdresser volunteers who are able to volunteer on a weekly basis
6) Opportunities for our Beauty Night Ambassadors and ED to speak about Beauty Night and hold discussions about the cycle of poverty and violence against youth and women.
7) Follow us on twitter @beautynight and share our news with your network.
8) Join the conversations on our facebook fan page www.facebook.com/beautynightsociety
9) Hold an event to raise money for our cause. Events can include bake sales, twoonie drives, fashion shows, garage sales, net working events, silent auctions and many many more.
10) Become a monthly donor by hitting the donate now button on the left hand side of the page.

Volunteer, donate, spread the word.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

12 Days of Xmas

The count down to the holiday season is upon us. Right in the midst of it is our 12 Days of Xmas preparation. During the 12 Days of Xmas, we dress up as Ms Claus & her elves to hand out 1500 Xmas Stockings. Fashion designer, Nancy Perreault designs the stockings. Community members and high school textile classes sew them. Elementary school students decorate them. Community members and corporations collect self care items to fill the stockings. We head out to different organizations we provide programming for during the year and hand out the stockings to the participants. This year we would like to hand out stockings in New West and Surrey too. In 2012, we will be offering additional programming in the Fraser Valley area and would like to get to know some of the participants and organizations we will be working with.

We are collecting new products such as:

socks
Mittens
gloves
dental care: tooth brushes, dental floss, tooth paste
skin care products: cleanser, moisturizer, exfolient, face mask, toner
Body care products: body wash, soap, moisturizer, body scrubs, face cloths
Hair Care products: shampoo, conditioner, styling products
Journals
Pens
Jewelry
nail files
candy canes
mandarin oranges
chocolate

* All product donations must be new to meet the requirements of Health & Safety Canada.

** We are also collecting money to purchase some of the items we might not get enough of. We also welcome donations to continue offering the programming we are able to offer to the participants we love to serve. The money will also provide additional opportunities for the women to develop life skills and other programming opportunities.

Donations can be dropped off at various locations through out the city. Donations can be dropped off at:

Carrie Wheeler Talent Management 1737 East 6th Avenue on the porch
Tritech Fabric
Suite 106 611 Alexander
Monday through Friday until 5pm
*** Please call Craig 604-255-4242 ext 210 to make arrangements for drop offs.
We are thrilled with Tritech’s support. They also donated some of the fabric to create the Xmas stockings.
Huge thanks to Judith Latoski letting Barbara at Tritech Fabric know what we need. Barbara has been incredibly supportive too.

**** Donations must be dropped off before December 1st, 2011.

After that they will be moved to another location so we can coordinate stuffing the stockings. Lush Cosmetics has offered to let us use their space for stuffing stockings.

Xmas Stocking Volunteer Opportunities:

Students & classes – if you know of a group of students to decorate stockings we have about 1000 stockings to decorate still.
Drivers – Who are able to pick up product donations and drop them off at Tritech Fabrics
Stocking Team Leader – conducting a product & fund raising drive for Beauty Night within your office or friends. Please share the information in this email with people you think might be interested in getting involved.

Thank you to Nancy Perreault, Judith Latowski, Josanne Franklin, Gary Smith, Nicole Watson, Sharon Hong, Gabrielle Tambre, Margo Dalinghaus, Anne Whitmore, Kana, Heidi Hass Gable,  York House School, White Rock Elementary School, Blair Lockhart, Julianne Petersen and many more who have helped us with our 2011 12 Days of Xmas Campaign.

** If you would like to support our stocking drive with a monitary donation, donations can be made online at http://www.canadahelps.org/CharityProfilePage.aspx?CharityID=s92872. Every dollar counts.

FundRaising: Youth in Philanthropy $5000 to our cause

Here it is… the video created by Carson Graham Secondary students used in their presentation that won $5000 for our cause. In their own words:

Youth And Philanthropy initiative bursary winning video on Beauty night Society’s wonderful services, accomplishments and mission. Beauty Nights, is a Vancouver based volunteer ran program that is designed for to give “live makeovers” for the woman of the Downtown East side of Vancouver that live in poverty.

Carson Graham Students win $5000 for Beauty Night

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.

Fundraising: Unclutter your life, unclutter the world

fundraiser, garage sale
fundraiser, garage sale

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 info@beautynight.org subject line garage sale. Donations can be made on this site or via cheque. Thank you for spreading the word about our cause.