100 Women Who Care welcome potential members to attend meeting
The first meeting of the new year for 100 Women Who Care will take place Thursday night in North Battleford and the organizations who are bidding for the group’s donations, remains a secret.
The group gets together four times a year and all members contribute $100 to a local charity or organization. At the last meeting $9,900 was donated to The Lighthouse Serving the Battlefords.
According to Battlefords chapter founder, Roni Zakresky, three organizations have five minutes each to pitch why it should receive the money. She added the organizations are kept a secret until the meeting so members can’t research them and make up their minds before the pitch.
“We do kind of a Dragons Den format,” Zakresky said. “Each organization has five minutes to tell us about their involvement in the community and then our member’s vote for which one they’d like the money to go to.”