For Good. For Ever.
Fall Annual Business Meeting Event October 12th
Giving Hope, Women’s Giving Circle enjoyed Our Fall Annual Meeting at Rocky’s of Northville. Members were given the updated Operating Guidelines of Giving Hope, Women’s Giving Circle, along with a reminder that annual dues of $125 are now due.
The Emergency Granting Fund was introduced. Emergency fund requests are vetted by CCF/LIA and approved by the Advisory Board to ensure donations will be used appropriately for true needs.
Members were asked to consider serving on our Advisory Board which meets 4-6 times a year. This is an opportunity to be more involved and collaborate with some talented ladies while providing support to local women, children and families in our community.
New Members
Giving Hope extends a very warm welcome to 5 new members: Penny Irwin, Jackie Jossey, Christine Schingeck, Mary Miller and Sue Smith. Our membership has grown to 64; and this, in turn gives us an even greater opportunity to help those in need!
Annual Meeting Recap
Along with our annual business meeting, ladies enjoyed socializing, a delicious plated dinner and learned about the Lead #Like A Girl program which has been empowering young ladies in our community for success for the past 7 years. The program’s director, Laura Mortier, gave a brief presentation overview of the program. Recent program graduates Sunhani Manosh and Natalie Richardson spoke about their personal experience with Lead #Like A Girl. $841 was raised in Pass the Purse and online donations, which will be applied towards the Lead #Like@Girl college scholarship fund awarded annually at their May graduation celebration. Giving Hope members will be invited to attend the ceremony.
Another treat of the evening was seeing some of our recent granting funds in action. Giving Hope member Christina Bair brought a variety of sample soaps from MOD Market. MOD Market recently received a grant from Giving Hope to support this new soap making program for the participants at Living and Learning Enrichment Center. The soaps will be sold at MOD Market in downtown Northville.
Special thank you to Karen Hanchett for suggesting and coordinating our efforts to support Lead # Like A Girl program and Becky Hurst, who helped clean up after our vent.
Dixboro General Store Christmas Shopping Event
Our next special event will be The Dixboro General Store Christmas shopping event on Wednesday, November 30th 7-9 pm. Invite your lady friends to come shop at 20% off items! Our Pass the Purse will go to support The Rainbow Connection. Their mission is to make wishes come true for Michigan children with life-threatening medical conditions. The Pass the Purse collection will focus on gift cards that the Rainbow Connection can give to wish families.
Suggested gift cards:Taco Bell, AMC, Chic Fil A, Amazon, McDonald’s, Panera, Meijer, Little CaesarsDairy Queen *Cash is always welcome.
Raeann Neil
Special Events Chair
Giving Hope, Women’s Giving Circle
Giving Hope Operating Guidelines for the Members and Giving Hope descriptions for Chair and Committee positions.
Giving Hope, Women's Giving Circle was founded in 2006. At that time, a group of local women philanthropists came together to establish the organization and encourage other women to join in philanthropic giving. Their early efforts were focused on helping in the local community, reaching and assisting women, children, and their families in need. For over 15 years, Giving Hope, Women's Giving Circle has been accomplishing that objective and continues to develop women's philanthropy and meet needs through fundraising and grant making.
The Giving Hope, Women's Giving Circle focuses on educating its members about local needs and providing them opportunities to Give to those causes. All members are welcomed and encouraged to get involved either on the Advisory Board or on the various committees.Giving Hope's Advisory Board meets quarterly.
Grant application for 2022 is now open till October 7th. Please click on the link below to apply.
Annual Fall Business Meeting Event
Wednesday, October 12th 6:30 – 9:00 pm
@ Rocky’s of Northville
41122 Seven Mile Rd, Northville
Supporting Lead Like a Girl, a mentoring program for young women ages 11-15.
Grant application for 2022 is now open till October 7th. Please click on the link below to apply.
June 22 Summer Social Update
Twenty-eight ladies attended our Giving Hope Summer Social supporting Seedlings, Braille Books for Children. Ladies enjoyed our in-person event with friends, warm weather, and a bonus of live dinner music along with a delicious Greek buffet at George’s Senate on Bushwood Public Golf Course. Our newest Giving Hope member Christine Schingeck joined us along with several guests. Giving Hope pins were handed out to members. Members are encouraged to wear their pins to our events. Giving Hope golf shirts are still available for $53. Please contact Linda Demmer.
The Fox Hills Golf prize was given out. We had 4 gift bag prize drawings from Vitrine on Main in Plymouth. Giving Hope ladies were encouraged to participate in the Vitrine shopping event the following Friday & Saturday, in which 20% of sales were donated to Seedlings.
Katelynn Lucus from Seedlings, Braille Books for Children, shared their passion and mission. They believe it is important for all children to be raised in a literacy-rich environment. Visually impaired children also need to be surrounded with affordable Braille materials. Giving Hope Ladies participated in their Buy-a-Book donation program. Every $10 donates a Braille book. Each book donated by Giving Hope will be inscribed “This book was donated by Giving Hope, Women’s Giving Circle-Plymouth-Canton”.
Online donation: $820
Pass the Purse donaations: $390
(from the event)
Vitrine shopping event donations: $200
(Giving Hope ladies like to shop!)
Total donations= $1,410
That’s 141 Braille Books!
Thank you to all the generous ladies of Giving Hope, Women’s Giving Circle!
Thank you to the many hands that helped in putting this event together- Beth Meade with eblasts, Linda Demmer with evites, Denise Murray with FaceBook posts, Debbie Maloni for the food choices, Karen Hanchett for the lovely flower vases, Sharon Filips, Karen Christensen & Becky Hurst for attendance and prize drawings, Jackie Norris for her guidance & encouragement and the ladies of Special Events Committee who helped with set up and clean up!
Giving Hope, Women’s Giving Circle is looking forward to our fall event- (tentative) Wednesday, Oct 12 @ Maverick’s, helping to support Lead Like a Girl. Please make plans to join us and invite friends to come to learn about our mission & passion of Giving Hope, Women’s Giving Circle- supporting local charities helping women, children & families.
Raeann Neil
Special Events Committee Chair
We're proud to support our community's students and their educational endeavors by offering numerous scholarships. Our program includes financial aid opportunities for students of all ages who are at different stages in their educational pursuits, as well as a number of different areas of study.
Our online scholarship application opens in early January and remains open until mid-March. Scholarships recipients are notified in May; and funds are sent directly to schools for the fall semester.
A description of each scholarship offered through the Community Foundation of Plymouth can be found here.
| Scholarship | Winner |
| Erin Ryan/ Kiwanis Scholarship | Amari Edwards |
| Gene & Jane Overholt Kiwanis | Iris Ding |
| Community Foundation Credit Union/George Lawton Scholarship | Katherine Ruffner |
| Jayden Joy | |
| Lily Bird | |
| Delaney Morrin | |
| Macy Bahr | |
| Archana Chandran | |
| Tristan Janisse | |
| Conor Whalen | |
| Hailey Deptula | |
| Cassidy Craggs | |
| Community Financial Credit Union/Margaret Dunning | Emma Johnson |
| Amari Edwards | |
| Amin Jazaeri Moghaddas | |
| Kendall Bailey | |
| Elizabeth Pallarito | |
| Max Moon | |
| Katelyn Collins | |
| Sean Henigan | |
| Elise Book | |
| Community Foundation Credit Union/Ron Carlson | Sydney Shanahan |
| Community Foundation Credit Union "Trade" | Kari Klavon |
| Brendan Wright | |
| Robert Loyd Memorial Scholarship | Donald Liveoak |
| Lisa Luecke | |
| Dul Foundation Scholarship | Brendan Church |
| Marwa Dalmi | |
| Luke Davila | |
| Stephen Derosia | |
| Adam Eby | |
| Michael Fisher | |
| Owen Fisher | |
| Jessie Gray | |
| Alyce Krumm | |
| John Paul Krumm | |
| Sydney Olejnik | |
| Amber Salloum | |
| Brenna Shaw | |
| Michael Szymanski |
We're proud to support our community's students and their educational endeavors by offering numerous scholarships. Our program includes financial aid opportunities for students of all ages who are at different stages in their educational pursuits, as well as a number of different areas of study.
A description of each scholarship offered through the Canton Community Foundation can be read here
| Scholarship | Winner |
| Barbara Church Rodenberg Scholarship |
Julia Burgess |
| Barbara Ann Romano |
Kyle Bolyard |
| Canton Soccer Club |
Katherine Ruffner |
| Megan Wu | |
| Ohm Patel | |
| Lauren Sourbeck | |
| Fred Thomann Memorial Scholarship |
Ella Walden |
| Elizabeth Durack Scholarship | Ericka Tucci |
| Dawn Isby | |
| Dustin Piepsney Memorial Scholarship |
Reagan Moran |
| Marvin Schulz Memorial Scholarship - U/M |
Jayden Joy |
| Marvin Schulz Memorial Scholarship - EMU |
Carol Detary |
| Meredith Whalen Memorial Scholarship |
Amelia Troung |
| Jack Demmer Ford Scholarship |
Hailey Deptula |
| Jack Demmer Ford - "Trade" |
Dawn Isby |
| CCF/Penelope Hope Klei |
Katherine Ruffner |
| Heather Nicole Hill Memorial Scholarship | Celeste Anderson |
| Shannon Churchwell | |
| Amteshwar Kaur | |
| R K Bhama MD Memorial Scholarship |
Delaney Morrin |
| Bonnie Berg Memorail Scholarship |
Deborah Abodunrin |
| Hagbard Berg Memorial Scholarship |
Abigail Dipple |
| John Kelly Wheately Scholarship |
Lily Bird |
| Robert Loyd Memorial Scholarship | Donald Liveoak |
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Lisa Luecke |
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| Livonia Firefighters Scholarship | Erica Molnar |
| Alejandro Ordaz | |
| Eve Grigg Memorial Scholarship | Madelyn Laskowski |
| Coleton Taylor | |
| Marjorie & Doanld Treadwell Scholarship | Daniel Heiman |
| Linda Hutchinson Scholarship | Jayanthi Sree Anila |
Patricia Maurer created this scholarship fund in memory of her son, Jason Russell Maurer. These scholarships are available to graduating high school seniors and those who just completed their freshman year of college and who attend Woodside Bible Church - Troy Campus. This scholarship requires that the applicant attend Woodside Bible Church regularly and have documented community service. Scholarships may be awarded to those attending any college, university or trade school.
The list of awardees is below
| Jason Russell Maurer Memorial Scholarship | Margaret Curd |
| Annie Fisher | |
| Caleb Flosky | |
| Kyler Gerrard | |
| Gabrielle Jones | |
| Alex Kirschmann | |
| Lauren Kolodsick | |
| Josh Kubik | |
| Olivia Kubik | |
| Caitlin Luca | |
| Hailey Nichols | |
| Gracelyn Philip | |
| Chloe Putnam | |
| Emma Sawdon | |
| Andrew Schmidt | |
| Alison Schoonover | |
| Olivia Seventko | |
| Autumn Simon | |
| Gideon Smith | |
| Mason Solecki | |
| Miranda Solecki | |
| Joel Stirnemann | |
| Luke Sumner | |
| Taylor Trenta | |
| Sophia Walker | |
| Olivia Weaver | |
| Allison Wei | |
| Nancy Xu |
Hello Giving Hope, Women’s Giving Circle members!
I am happy to announce that Giving Hope will receive a check for $1680 from the Canton Chamber of Commerce. This money was ½ of the total proceeds earned by the Golf Ball drop sales which took place at the Canton Chamber golf outing May 20th and will go into our endowment fund.
Many thanks to Maureen Visser and Noel Bittinger who manned the golf ball sales table all day!! Jane Kerjes and I, along with GH members Renee DiPonio and Jaya Wilson played in the outing representing Giving Hope.
It was a wonderful day to share Giving Hope, Women’s Giving Circle with the community!!
Best wishes and looking forward to seeing everyone at our Summer Social June 22nd!
Linda Demmer Advisory Board Chair
