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Past EventsFebruary Dinner Meeting Tuesday, February 5, 2008 6:30 pm at Brookhaven Country Club "We specialize in fun character-based products and parties that bring families, schools, and communities closer together. Our mission is to offer unique character enrichment products that create fun family time, promote family values, and encourage positive character for everyone! " Gloria is our 2005 Woman's Opportunity Award winner. Gloria will be graduating this May from Dallas Baptist University. Camp Summit representatives will be updating us on the progress of the Capital campaign for their new facilites. The mission of Camp Summit is to provide a residential camping experience for children, youth and adults with disabilities. Camp Summit seeks to enrich the lives of individuals with disabilities by broadening their experiences and improving their social skills while increasing their capacity for independence and providing opportunities to have camp-loads of FUN. Though unaffliated, Camp Summit carrys on the mission of Camp Soroptimist, Inc., the primary service project of the Dallas Soroptimist club for over fifty years. Thousands of children with disabilites and their families enjoyed the summers through the hard work and dedication of the Soroptimist club members. Thousands more will continue to benefit through Camp Summit. "Mirror to the Past, Vision for the Future" Radisson Dallas Central Hotel 2007 -- May Dinner Meeting Program Project Independence: Women Survivors of War Our 2003-2007 SI Quadriennial project is winding down. An update of the good will and results Project Independence has made in Rwanda, Afghanistan, and Bosnia was presented and followed by a presentation by Margarita Meraku, a Soroptimist member in Pristine, Kosovo. Kosovo is a primarily Albanian inhabited province of Serbia that has been striving for independence since the late 1980's, Margarita, vice president of her club, spoke to us on her experiences living in a region of civil unrest and war. 2007 -- April Monthly Dinner Meeting AWARDS CELEBRATION! Winners of our Women's Opportunity Award (WOA) and Violet Richardson Award were honored this evening. Our guest speaker was Gloria Mansfield, 2006 WOA recipient. Gloria is owner and creator of Character Avenue, a fun system of filling hearts with all the right things: self-control, sharing, patience, kindness.... It was an inspirational evening, with 3 WOA winners and 3 Violet Richardson winners! Each award winner received a check for $1,000, for a total of $6,000. 2007 -- March Dinner Meeting Program Ron Kovatis, Executive Director of Groundwork Dallas was our speaker. The mission of Groundwork Dallas is: To accomplish and secure the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the physical environment for the Great Trinity Forest and its gateway communities. Groundwork will do this by organizing, developing, and implementing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social well-being. Their strategy and action plans call for them to improve access to the Great Trinity Forest by planning, constructing and maintaining nature trails, multi-use recreational trails and trail amenities in the Great Trinity Forest. Groundwork Dallas also sponsors and coordinates clean-ups and beautification projects in and around South Dallas’ neighborhoods, parks, waterways, and brownfields areas. By doing so, they promote eco-tourism and economic development in the City’s southern sector. Groundwork Dallas was founded in 2005 as a nonprofit organization and is one of fourteen (14) approved Local Trusts in the Groundwork USA network (http://www.groundworkusa.net/). Groundwork USA is an initiative of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Brownfields Program and the National Park Service Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program. More information about Groundwork Dallas can be found at www.groundworkdallas.org |
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