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Awards not only assist the awardees financially but they
provide recipients equally important encouragement by acknowledging their potential. It would be very fair to say that most of these
awardees, through determination, meet their training, education, and employment
goals, and are inspired by the support of Soroptimists to do so. This is
"advancing the status of women". Contact us for more
information on any of these awards by emailing
"club @ simsc.org" - omit the spaces in the email address.
Women's Opportunity Award (WOA)
An annual award presented to a
mature woman, who is head of household and seeking to further her education for the
betterment of herself and her family. The WOA
begins at the club level: club winners become eligible for Region level awards,
then Federation level awards.
WOA
Application
Making a
Difference for Women Award (MAD)
Honors ordinary women in our community, who through
their professional avenues or through their personal or volunteer efforts make
extraordinary efforts to improve the lives of women and girls on the
Mendo-Sonoma Coast. This program helps to promote issues important to the
Soroptimist organization and enables our club to thank these women and encourage
others to explore ways to assist women and girls. The award program begins
at the local club level, winners are eligible for additional awards at other
levels of the Soroptimist organization.
MAD Application
Violet Richardson Award
Violet Richardson Ward was the founding President of Soroptimist
International of Oakland in 1921. In
memoriam, the annual award recognizes and honors young women between the ages of
14 and 17 who make the community and world a better place through volunteer
efforts such as: fighting drugs, crime and violence; cleaning up the
environment; and working to end discrimination and poverty. Volunteer actions
that benefit women or girls are of particular interest.
Contact our club for an application at the address in the first paragraph above.
Carolyn McFall Mohr Scholarship
Soroptimist International of Mendocino-Sonoma Coast,
Inc. is proud to introduce the Carolyn McFall Mohr Scholarship, an annual
academic award for women entering or attending college programs. A dynamic
and vivacious woman, her career was spent opening new roads for other women
to follow in fields that were preciously considered "male only." This
scholarship is designated to help outstanding women who plans to enter
careers in fields of science, engineering, medicine, and other dominant male
professions.
Founder Region Fellowship,
Inc. Mission Statement
The mission of Founder Region
Fellowship, Inc. is to advance the status of women. This is accomplished
through offering financial support, totaling up to $25,000, to women in the
last year of their doctoral degree at institutions within the bounds of Founder
Region (California and Hawaii). A by-product of this support is affirmation of
the importance of the recipients work and their value as an individual. Our hope is to
support women who are working in fields that have great social importance to the
world. We hope that the recipient's work will reflect and further Soroptimist
ideals. We believe that these women will become a strong voice for all women.
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