The Monticello Women of Today will be holding their monthly meeting on Thursday, July 5th, 2018 at Community United Methodist Church in Monticello.  Join us for social time at 6:30 pm with the meeting starting at 7 pm.  Snacks provided; please bring your own water or soda.

Are you interested in attending?  We welcome guests at our meetings.  Please email us at monticellowomenoftoday@gmail.com to let us know you plan to come to our meeting.

Officer elections took place at our March meeting.  Congratulations to the following members who were elected to the chapter board for 2018-19, who will lead us as of May 1st.

President Arlis T,  State Delegate Annette S, Programming Vice Presidents Nancy F & Mercedes T, Membership Vice Presidents Barb Bo & Lana G, Secretary Sharon S, and Treasurer Cat S.  Outgoing President Glorie B will stay on the board as Past President/Parliamentarian.

Monticello Women of Today members are helping with Kids Kitchen from June 11 through August 13 to benefit Monticello school district area families.  The Monticello Foodshelf provides a variety of food items to be distributed this summer to families in the community.  About 230-250 kids are served each week!  Thanks to all our volunteers.  This is another example of the Monticello community pulling together to help out.

Do you know what happens when a lot of chapters come together across the state and volunteer their time and donate money to great causes?!  We make an IMPACT!  It’s estimated that about 40-45% of our chapters report their donated funds and volunteer hours.  For our 2015-2016 year, here were the reported statistics – aren’t they impressive?!

Breaking Free programming area:  $40,502.73 in dollars and in-kind donations

Women’s Wellness projects:  $2,658.04 in dollars and in-kind donations

Youth of Today projects:  $48,288.73 in dollars and in-kind donations

Community Connection projects:  $68,095.44 in dollars and in-kind donations

The total volunteer hours reported were worth a total of $411,498.96 (valued at $23.56 per hour).

That is a GRAND TOTAL of $571,043.39 in donations and volunteer hours!  WOW!