100% of all on-site activities of our Charity Bow-tique shopping and Optional Personal Services benefit our two Charity Partners. CampExperience will not only change your life, but the lives of women and children supported by our Charity Partners.
Meet Our 2010 Charity Partners:
The Women's Bean Project, Denver, CO
Mile High United Way, Adult Self Sufficiency Initiative , Denver, CO
How Do We Support Our Charity Partners?
Camp Bow-tique A Shopping Experience!
Optional Personal Services A menu of services including:
- Arbonne Pampering Tour
- Hair People Tips and Tricks
- Bubble Goddess Bath Company pampering suite
- MRS 200 Healing Bed Treatments
- Massage
- Acupuncture
Women’s Bean Project
3201 Curtis St. Denver, CO 80205
303-292-1919
Women’s Bean Project offers women from backgrounds of chronic unemployment and poverty a temporary job in gourmet food manufacturing and jewelry production. The program provides immediate income, coordinates support services for participants to overcome barriers to employment, and teaches the job readiness skills needed to get and keep a job.
Our mission is to change women’s lives by providing stepping stones to self-sufficiency through social enterprise. We aim to affect the world at large through our products, processes and beliefs.
Since 1989, the organization has helped more than 18,000 mothers, children, grandparents and friends make and sustain positive differences in their lives.
Today, program participants develop the work and interpersonal skills needed to function independently in the workplace and community. Most women are single mothers and have been on public assistance for many years. The majority of them do not have a GED or high school diploma. Many are recovering from experiences with substance abuse and incarceration.
Women’s Bean Project opens the door into a world that most of the women served were unaware even existed. By learning basic job readiness skills, such as a positive attitude, reliability, accuracy, and accountability, our graduates go on to lead successful, self-sufficient and fulfilling lives. The essential skills gained during their stay empower them to create better lives for themselves and their families, gain a sense of hope, and contribute to a stronger community.
The sale of our products supports the women’s employment during their time at Women’s Bean Project; however, we rely on donations to provide the life skills classes and other program activities necessary to help these women truly affect change in their lives.
To make a donation, go to Women’s Bean Project’s Donate page or make a check out to Women’s Bean Project, 3201 Curtis St. Denver, CO 80205
Watch our video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIDjtFPQTk4
2505 18th Street,
Denver, CO 80211
303-433-8383
Adult Self Sufficiency Initiative
In today’s economy, the opportunities for hard-working families to become financially stable and provide a better future for their children are becoming increasingly limited. One in five Colorado households lacks the income to cover their most basic living expenses.
Mile High United Way’s Adult Self Sufficiency Initiative is succeeding in moving individuals and families toward economic independence.
We invest in programs that make that success possible:- United Way 2-1-1 - with one free call, hundreds of thousands of people each year are connected to vital human services in our community.
- L:earn Community Partnership - provides eligible individuals with scholarships for licensure, certification, associates and bachelor’s degrees to build their job skills and increase their earning potential.
- Individual Development Accounts - provides matched savings accounts for hard-working individuals and families to help them save for college, a down payment on a home or to start a small business.
- Pathway Scholarships - provides money to supplement grants and helps eligible college bound minority students pay for fees, books, materials and even childcare when necessary.
- Denver’s Road Home - Mile High United Way partners with the City and County of Denver on the Mayor’s 10-year plan to end homelessness, create housing and provide employment assistance
Learn more about Mile High United Way, read our stories of success, watch our online videos and join the movement for positive change at www.unitedwaydenver.org.
How Do We Benefit the Charity Partners?
Women Who Have Helping Women Who Need
One of the experiences that enriches our lives is to truly help others. CampExperience™ is designed for the Campers and teachers to recognize the needs of homeless women and kids and women who need education and start-up business financing, and to respond to help these women with our time, talents and resources.
100% of the on-site Camp activities of participation in Optional Personal Services and shopping at the Camp Bow-tique are donated to the Charity Partners. Betsy and the Camp Committee also recruit Matching Grant Sponsors who donate money directly to the charities. In 2006 we raised $19,000 cash, in 2007 we raised $32,000 and in 2008 $40,000 cash and in-kind support. In 2009 we raised $25,000 cash.
Where can you shop, buy the coolest giftables, jewelry, crafts and accessories AND support women and their families from our Charity Partner?
Each Camper will be asked to bring three new or gently used items to “sell” in our on-site Camp Charity Bow-tique store. Picture our own specialty shop, full of treasures marked at fantastic prices. The Camp committee also finds new items from shops and individuals around Colorado.
Our committee had the BIG IDEA that all of us can donate our “re-giftable” stuff (that purse that you never liked, those never-really-worked candle sticks from Aunt Susan, that jacket that is too big/small, you know… the stuff in the re-gift closet!) to our on-site Bow-tique. Then at Camp we will shop, with 100% of the sales donated to the Charity Partners.
We will remind all Campers about bringing a donation to Camp or we are happy to collect it before we go. For more information about the Charity Bow-tique or to donate your stuff……..contact volunteer chairman Tammy at Tammydenver@yahoo.com
2010 Optional Personal Services
Campers can also support our Charity Partners with participation in Optional Personal Services.
Donations for Personal Services
Individual services are a $35 donation for a 45 minute service. All of the service providers are volunteers, donating their talents to support our Charities. 100% of the Optional Personal Services fees benefit the Charity Partners. Reservations for the 45-minute-long Services will be made on site.
Arbonne Rejuvenation Suite
Please join us as we seek to serve you from “head to toe” and “soul to sole.”
On this tour you will experience; soaks for your soles, facials with friends, soothing smoothies, and a sanctuary for yourself in a special space created for your solitude, meditation and total relaxation. Consultants from Arbonne International will be serving you on the tour where they will “pamper” you with Arbonne’s botanically-based, pure, safe and beneficial products. Arbonne’s premium skin care products are formulated in Switzerland and produced in the USA. You will choose either pampering or make-up makeovers and coaching. For more information about Arbonne contact
Sharon Barone 303-808-0260
And wait there is more.................New for 2010 Maree Chavez and her Hair People Team will be on the Camp scene with everything you need and great with tips on great ways to re-do your hair do!
Maree Chavez 303.377.0304
New for 2009....Welcome Jennifer Leete and her Bubble Goddess Bath Company team for pure pampering and relaxation. Jennifer creates and manufactures her organic products and has a network of national sales representatives who take her creations to the world. We are so blessed to have her host a pampering suite at CampExperience 2009.
Jennifer Leete 303-589-6904
www.BubbleGoddessBathCo.com
Lisa Whaley, CN, Complete Health Concepts
Complete Health Concepts is pleased to offer the MRS 2000 as an exciting energetic approach to wellness. Lying on the mat for 8-16 minutes assists you body's daily natural cleansing and repair cycles by using the most effective form of health resonance frequencies for promoting health including: more energy, increased metabolism, bone density, pain management, improves microcirculation, stress reduction, improved sleep, plus many other benefits. Enjoy the amazing benefits that are Clinically proven, widely accepted with over 1,000 studies.
Robin Lewis
Taylor Mallos, LCMT
Isis Healing Center
Bobbi Holman, LCMT, BA
Better Bodies by Holman
Holmanbobbi@aol.com 303-221-5031
Patricia Meier, LCMT
Better Body Therapy
pkm@betterbodytherapy.com 303-888-2758
Donielle Saxton, BA, CMT
donilynn@gmail.com 303-728-4558
Stacy Robertson, M.S., L.Ac., C.C.Ht.Health & Longevity
anmian5@yahoo.com 303-803-0003
And Wait There's More............FREE!
Dr. Michelle Wendling, DC is back for FREE chiropractic and posture consultations. A huge hit in 2008, Dr. Michelle helps all of us to honor our bodies through good posture, proper allignment and stretching.
Dr. Michelle Wendling, DC 303-750-5220
www.AllSeasonsChiropractic.com
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