 I'm a member of Seroptimus International of Davis and we have a really great program for you tonight. Yes, hello viewers. My name is Emily Zeiser and I too am a member of Seroptimus International of Davis. Tonight we will celebrate our Live Your Dream grant award recipients and introduce you to our high school scholarship winners. We're also going to introduce you to our Ruby Award winner, a woman who has contributed to our community in the spirit of our mission of empowering women and girls. And you will get a chance to be a winner yourself. We'll be pulling names from this bowl and throughout the program so keep watching. We have $300 worth of prizes to give away and you have to be watching to win. So have your phones ready. You'll only have a few minutes to call or text us at this number 530-574-3031. Tonight we will also honor some amazing women and girls in our community and we couldn't do this without your support. Many of you have supported these women and our programs by buying a beer or a glass of wine at our booth at the Davis Farmers Market. Of course with the pandemic we weren't able to open our booth this year. So thank you to all of you out there who bought a dinner from Seward tonight. We hope you enjoyed your meal. Seward has been a fundraising partner with us for over 25 years and we want to thank them as well for their support tonight. While we're saying thank you, let's thank Strelitzia Flower Company and owners Janice and Dean Labity for the use of their beautiful space tonight. The Davis business community has really stepped up in helping us this year by donating auction items to our online auction live now online. Go to our website sidavis.org slash soup night to view and bid on some fantastic items. One of which is a floral arrangement a month for a whole year donated by Strelitzia. Strelitzia does such amazing work and because the flowers are bought and delivered here locally they last for a really long time. Can you imagine having one of these beautiful arrangements in your home pretty much every day of the year? There's lots of fun stuff in the auction too. Check it out at sidavis.org. Bidding ends at 10 p.m. tonight so hurry up and get out there. But the last time I looked there were still some really good deals to be had and all the money goes to support our club and projects you'll be hearing about tonight. We want to get to our first video about our Dreamit Be It program but first let's pull a name for our first prize drawing. The first prize is a $50 gift certificate to Woodstock's Pizza. So Lloyds, B-L-O-I-S-E Catherine call or text this number to let us know you're watching and you will win a $50 gift certificate to Woodstock's Pizza. So with that here's Lisa to tell you about our Dreamit Be It career mentoring program for students at King High School. Hi my name is Lisa Fisher and I'm the chair of the Dreamit Be It program. Dreamit Be It is one of the signature dream programs for Seroptimist International and S.I. Davis we take this program into the Martin Luther King High School, local high school here in town and work with both girls and boys. We invite them to join us to really support them to provide them with some education and understanding and exposure to careers. We start with goals and visioning and we cover things like resilience and things obstacles and how you move through obstacles as well as having a fun career panel where we invite local entrepreneurs and female-owned business owners to come and speak to us. This program we've traditionally done at the Martin Luther King High School. We've gone in once a month through the school year and with COVID we've had to reimagine how we're going to put this program on. So in 2021 and late later part of spring maybe April we're looking at April times. We will have a one day fair where we will set up booths that basically mimic what we bring to the classroom the curriculum and we're really excited about this opportunity to invite girls across the entire Davis Joint Unified School District high school high schools. There's several of them and at each booth students will have an opportunity to learn about different objectives such as visioning and goal setting and resilience and overcoming obstacles working with diversity in mind as well as having an opportunity to listen to a panel of women business owners local women business owners talk about their careers and their career paths. It's been a wonderful program. Students have been really excited about it lots of participation and some of the students have even gone on to secure scholarships from SI Davis and gone on to use those scholarships to further their education after high school. So we hope you enjoy the program tonight and thank you very much. Welcome back. So Catherine we have not received your call yet so please call or text us at 530-574-3031. We're going to go ahead and give all of our drawing winners until the end of the program to call in and if we don't hear from you by then we will go ahead and redraw a name because we want to make sure our winners are watching. Great we have something else for you to watch. We have a video presented by our President-Elect Catherine Hess about our Live Your Dream program. The Live Your Dream program is unique because it is not a scholarship it is a grant awarded to a woman working on her education and she gets to decide how best to use the funds to support herself her family and her dreams. Sir Optimus knows that when you empower a woman you empower a community. I think you're going to love meeting just one of our Live Your Dream grantees and here's Catherine to tell you more. Good evening I'm Catherine Hess co-chair of the Live Your Dream award committee. Live Your Dream a signature Sir Optimus program recognizes women who are caring for their families while going to school. In 2020 our club provided a total of $6,500 in Live Your Dream grants with the assistance of five non-member evaluators. SI Davis issued grants to four single mothers. These women were chosen for their resilience and determination to complete their educations despite challenges such as domestic violence and economic hardships. The top recipient was recognized by our regional level which matched the SI Davis award. This year our preliminary budget includes increased funding for the Live Your Dream award. The top 2020 recipient is a single mother of a young son and a first-generation college student at UC Davis. She's overcome child abuse, domestic violence, homelessness and poverty. She's an active artist and poet as well as an ambassador and supporter of former foster youth. Here's an excerpt from the video she made expressing how receiving the Live Your Dream award has impacted her life and that of her son. I received my first notice through email from the Live Your Dream award on one of my last days of the winter quarter when I was completely exhausted from having worked on my feet up to 12 hours a day and I started to feel the pain of it and it was difficult for me to stand. Receiving that first notice gave me such a renewal of energy and brought tears to my eyes and made me feel that all my hard work was worth it. Since that time the Live Your Dream award has become so much more to me. I've received two rewards and one of the rewards completely covers my entire rent for the summer and this was something I really needed to be taken care of. Thank you. But it gets even better in that because like I said I won two awards I guess it was local and regional so not only am I able to have my rent taken care of for three months this summer I'm also got this beautiful drafting desk it's an art desk I came with lots of storage too and I was able to get paints I was able to get canvas other art supplies in addition to that I am also registered with Laura's house for their certified California certification for domestic violence training and this is so that I can work as a volunteer with domestic violence victims the goal is to be able to do art dance and music therapy but there's a lot of certifications around that. I'm also chipping away slowly at two self-paced programs through the Arizona Trauma Institute which are the certified clinical trauma specialist training as well as sexual trafficking training these are hopefully going to help me become certified once I am in grad school. So yes so not only has the Live Your Dream award helped me to be able to afford my rent and art supplies but most important and please let me say that I was able to give my son food at a time he's growing and a time when food's very expensive and having that ability was a very huge relief having my rent being able to be paid right now during such a harsh time when so many people were struggling out there and having PTSD around the possibility of being homeless again or having some catastrophe the Live Your Dream award kind of helped me stay balanced during this time and in addition to that the summer I'm going to be spending my time creating portfolios for grad school so the Live Your Dream award is really jump starting me to be able to be ready for grad school and to spend my summer preparing for grad school because that's what's next is application so I'm finishing my classes I finished my final year it's a slow rundown but the most important thing is being able to apply for grad school and staying focused on that and the Live Your Dream award gives me the freedom to do that. Every year when I get to meet the women who receive our Live Your Dream grants I'm amazed at their tenacity and their resilience if you're just joining us welcome I'm Emily and this is Maggie and we're your hosts for this SI Davis live program where we are honoring some amazing women in our community and asking for your support to help us be able to continue our programs like the Dream It Be It career mentoring program and our Live Your Dream program we are right now in the process of selecting our Live Your Dream grantees for 2021 and I can tell you the committee will have a tough time deciding there are so many qualified women out there who need our support right that's Si that's Si is is lets us know we we've met in need we gave her a little breathing room and and that is that that's what this is all about so in addition to the financial support our Live Your Dream committee offers mentorship to our awardees and it's great to follow them over time and we get to hear about their successes when they reach their goals and when they achieve their dreams and you can help make these dreams come true by using our text to donate number we haven't talked about that yet so text SI Davis that's all one word no spaces text SI Davis to this number eight eight seven nine three so you gotta put that in first eight seven nine three and then you text SI Davis in the text box and that will help you donate directly to our club and directly to programs like our Live Your Dream award and so many other programs we do here in Davis and check out our online auction lots of items on there would make great gifts for the holidays and the money goes to these amazing programs go to si davis.org slash soup night it's a bid now it's time for our second prize drawing and we're still hoping to hear from Catherine Bluise for your $50 Woodstocks gift certificate and for our second prize I get to pull the name this time this prize is a $50 gift certificate to Strelitzia florist right where we are here we go mackayla leach mackayla leach you are the winner of a $50 gift certificate to Strelitzia call or text us at 530-574-3031 to claim your prize mackayla leach and I get to tell you about the next video we have Karen Westbalon to tell you about our scholarship program and some of our recent scholarship winners I'm Karen Westbalon I'm the scholarship chair for Si Davis Si Davis is a local organization that raises money and volunteers to improve the lives of women and girls locally. As scholarship chair I am so proud to be able to say each spring we award thousands of dollars to graduating seniors from Davis High, Da Vinci High, King High and the independent study program. Each of these almost graduates has a dream of either getting a college degree or a vocational certificate. To date each scholarship winner has had a strong female role model she herself has exhibited perseverance and accomplishment in the face of obstacles and oftentimes she's overcome personal or financial challenges relatively greater than her high school peers. The resilience exhibited by these young women gives us insight into how they will handle challenges in their future. For all of these reasons we are proud to invest in each young woman's dream of higher education knowing she understands the value of education and has the skills to achieve her dreams no matter what life throws at her. Thank you for your continued support of all of our programs. Welcome back to Si Davis Live our program to celebrate the programs and services offered by Si Davis and to honor some amazing women in our community. We're also giving away prizes congratulations to Catherine Blois and Mikayla Leach our first two drawing prize recipients. Don't forget to call or text us at 530-574-3031 to claim your prize and keep watching and listening for your name because we have two more drawings coming up. Now a lot of folks in Davis know us for our community grants. Each spring we award funds to other local nonprofits whose values and missions align with ours. Our mission and vision being that women and girls have the resources and opportunities to reach their full potentials and live their dreams and we do this by providing women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment. Exactly it's such an important effort this year we awarded five local nonprofit organizations $6,500 in funds. We wanted to give a little screen time to these great groups who also know that when you empower and uplift women and children you uplift the whole community. Before we go to the video I think it's time to pick another drawing winner and you are going to want this prize it's a $50 gift certificate to the Three Mile Brewing and that's a lot of delicious local beer. Three Mile Brewing has been a wonderful partner with ours for Optimus Club. They opened up their tasting room for our weekly meetings and of course we had to stop going once the pandemic hit but we can't go wait to get back and no we don't drink during our meetings though sometimes we wanted to. Will you be the lucky winner of the Three Mile Gift Certificate? Stay tuned to find out. In the meantime enjoy this video of our community grant recipients. Hi I'm Mary Lou the executive director for Thriving Pink. I really just wanted to take a minute to express our sincere and heartfelt appreciation to all of you at Siroptimus International at Davis. Your chapter has made such a positive difference and positive impact on our community. You've helped us to sustain our core programs and our educational workshops and wellness and health care workshops and support groups throughout this unprecedented year and especially our granting pink program which provides financial aid and support to many women. So this year we provided over $50,000 in grants to 41 women and their families to help with medical care and other immediate and essential needs including rent and groceries and that would not have been possible without your generous support and also this year we've been able to pivot to provide over a thousand care packages and deliver those to front porch drop-offs with many many volunteers hundreds of volunteers and face masks and PPE equipment because many of them are still going to the hospital for surgeries and important medical procedures and we let them know that we're with them and they're not going through this journey alone. So thank you for your care your compassion and your continued support. It is making a huge difference and we are very very grateful. Thank you. Communicare Health Center's Perinatal Services Program has offered expert women's health and midwifery care since 1972. We are a federally qualified health center with integrated health services regardless of the ability to pay. At Communicare we provide respectful individualized perinatal care. Our perinatal program includes comprehensive services for prenatal and postpartum care. Our midwives work in collaboration with physicians, health educators, nutritionists, social workers and breastfeeding specialists to provide high quality and safe care. As honored and grateful recipients of the Seroptimus grant we've been able to implement a postpartum support group virtually for mothers and babies up to one year with serving over 20 families. We have made the transition to infant and postpartum classes virtually to increase the amount of families we can serve. Some of the topics we cover include healing both emotionally and physically, ways to feed your baby, bonding with your baby, early literacy and baby sign language, newborn sleep basics and milestones, safe baby wearing, self-care and healthy habits. These programs are even more vital for growing families during the COVID-19 pandemic as new mothers are often isolated now. With these community-based programs we've been able to provide support and education in a safe way during challenging times. Hello, I'm Marty Ewing from the Yellow Children's Fund. I want to thank you for your $1,000 grant and to tell you something about how these funds are used. We serve Yellow County youth who've become involved in the court dependency system as a result of being orphaned or due to parental abuse or neglect, violence or drugs and including delinquents on probation. Our goal is to improve the quality of life for these kids by funding a special project, need or enrichment service that would otherwise not be met. We do this by funding specific requests made through our website typically by court-appointed special advocates or CASAS but also by child welfare staff. They identify these needs during their regular visits, regular contact visits with these at-risk children, most of whom are in foster homes. Unfortunately this year the COVID shelter-in-place restrictions have severely limited these regular contacts and this has greatly reduced the demands on all our programs including our health fund. For example by this time of year we would typically have funded at least a dozen $250 health fund requests for school clothing or winter clothing. Instead this year we've seen only three and none since receiving your $1,000 grant in May. I'm sure we'll get more requests this year but I wanted to give you two show you two examples of what we have approved recently. First was a $40 grant to buy a clothes rack, hangers and a shoe organizer for a 13-year-old girl. She was recently relocated to an already crowded foster home with no closet space for her. We also approved a $50 grant to buy a rolling duffel suitcase for a five-year-old girl. Apparently she's too small to use backpack for the purpose of shuttling her toys between her parental visits and her foster home. It appears now that we may not spend these grant funds this year. I can promise you we will put them to good use next year and certainly once the COVID restrictions are listed. Thank you again for your support. Hello Seroptimus. I'm Becky Beeman, founder and executive director of Yolo Diaper Bank. Yolo Diaper Bank distributes diapers through partner agencies to families who cannot afford enough to keep their babies clean, dry and healthy. This year Seroptimus International of Davis is our official diaper repackaging sponsor and grant funds are being used to purchase plastic wrap, size labels and other items for repackaging and delivering donated and purchased diapers. These may seem like small items but they play a big part in getting diapers safely and efficiently to our partner agencies. By repackaging diapers, agencies can have more diapers on hand in the sizes they need and can easily provide the right number of diapers for each family. SI Davis is listed on each label so families receiving diapers will know that you have invested in the health and stability of their families. We are so grateful to have SI Davis as a community partner so that together we can keep Yolo County dry one bottom at a time. Good morning everyone. My name is Katie Zane. I'm with the short-term emergency aid committee otherwise known as STAKE. I've worked for STAKE for over 10 years and I'm really proud of the work that we do. STAKE has served the Yolo County community helping low income and homeless people for over 50 years and we have done do this through a whole range of services. I'm standing here in front of our food closet truck. Our food closet provides the equipment of over 80,000 meals a year. We have programs that help with rent and utilities. We have a legal documents program that provides IDs and birth certificates. We help college students with textbooks. We pay for interview outfits and we have a holiday program that we're just now gearing up for where we will be serving or we will be matching over 400 families with adoptive families for the holidays. This year we received a thousand dollar grant from Seroptimus International of Davis for our legal documents program. This is a really important program so thank you thank you Seroptimus. If you are someone looking for work or trying to get into housing or trying to access aids such as food stamps you have to have legal documents such as IDs and birth certificates and this program is especially important for women and children who may be escaping an abusive environment where they suddenly have to leave and they leave behind all of their longings including the legal documents. So it's a great program. Thank you so much Seroptimus. We can only provide these services because of organizations such as yours and especially during this pandemic your support is that much more important to us. We hope to partner with you for many more years to come. Thank you. Welcome back Robin Erbacher. You are the winner of the $50 gift certificate to Three Mile Brewing so call or text 530-574-3031 number right here to claim your prize. Congratulations Robin. Welcome again to SI Davis Live. Tonight we are celebrating the programs and services offered by SI Davis. Our online auction will be closing tonight at 10 p.m. Our business community gave us gift baskets, beer and wine collections, Davis High School students made soup bowls for you and one of our very special members who just turned 90 Ellie a very talented seamstress and a 35-year member of our club contributed some of her handmade items including aprons and these cute little humbug bags. You go to si davis.org you'll find things like one arrangement a month from Strelia, golf packages, a turntable and $100 in vinyl from Armadillo Music and a lot more. All the proceeds will fund our programs, scholarships and support our club's mentoring, development and grants. We're so glad you're still watching. Hi mom and because you are you're eligible for our grand prize drawing. Our next video is brought to you by Phyllis Himmel, co-chair of our anti-trafficking committee. It wasn't until I joined Seroptimus that I learned the depth and breadth of the trafficking situation right here in Northern California. Our club is committed to not only educating the community about this issue but also in doing what we can to support the women and girls who are affected. Here's Phyllis to tell you more. Hi I'm Phyllis Himmel and along with Athena Chapman we co-chair the Seroptimus International of Davis Anti-Trafficking Committee. The aim of our committee is to support anti-trafficking efforts in our community through development and donation of rescue backpacks, gift cards and disposable phones, to partnering agencies such as Empower Yellow, Sutter Health and Dignity Health. We also raise awareness of trafficking activities through sponsoring and organizing community events that help to educate the community on what to look for in trafficking. So a big focus of what we do is putting to assembling and distributing these rescue backpacks and within each backpack we have clothing to help dress individuals that are rescued. We have snacks, we have toiletries, drinks and best of all a little comforting stuffed animal which has gone over really big. Thank you. Hi again so the retail cost to stuff all that all those things in one of those trafficking backpacks is right about $200 but we work with our members and local businesses to get contributions and we get that cost down to around $50 per backpack. On our auction site tonight at sidavis.org slash tooth night one of the items you can purchase is a $50 donation that will help us to fill and deliver one of those backpacks to our local hospital partners. So we hope that in addition to you bidding on some of the fun packages we have you will consider adding on a donation for a backpack toward the scholarship for a hygiene kit to the local shelter. So you can also use our text to donate number that's sidavis all one word to 88793 to donate directly to our club and support anti-trafficking and other programs here in Davis. In addition to our generous donations we have incredible sponsors for this event our top sponsor or dream champion sponsor is none other than First Northern Bank. Did you know they have been in our community for 110 years? Wow they do so much for our community and how they support local businesses. Let's learn a little bit more about who they are. First Northern Bank is expanding founded in 1910 we have evolved from a small foreign bank in Dixon to a full-service financial institution and the region's number one local small business lender. As our region grew we grew along with it opening new locations where we saw a need for a community bank. With many banks changing merging or just not delivering the need for a local and independent community bank with strong values is as needed today as it was back in 1910. First Northern Bank that's my bank. Hi welcome back thank you again to First Northern Bank and all of our sponsors. You'll find a list of our generous sponsors on the program you received with your sudework meal. They are Hoffman Automotive, Leah Rosenberg, Chapman Consulting, LLC, Focused Path, Life and Leadership Coaching, Mehmet Consulting, Giulietto Remax Gold, Lucas Ferriks, Strelitzia Flower Company, and Bohemuse Clothing and Gifts. So in that program is also where you'll find the link or if you go to our website sidavis.org you'll also find the link to our full cookbook. So in our program you get a little teaser menu to President Evie's White Chicken Chili and you can download for free a full cookbook compiled by all of our members. By the way how much are you enjoying your dinners out there? I had the soup and pretzel earlier it was delicious thank you Sudberg. So Robin Erbacher we heard from you we're so glad you're out there watching congratulations you are the winner of the $50 three mile brewing and we are still hoping to hear from Makayla Leach you were the winner of the $50 Strelitzia and Catherine Lois Lois for $50 to Woodstocks. So you have to call or text this number by the end of the program or we are going to redraw for these two wonderful prizes and I'm really excited to tell you about our next video about our Ruby Award recipient. Every year we select a woman in our community who has contributed to the spirit of our mission of empowering women and girls and this year and in this video you'll first see our 2019 Ruby Award recipient our current City of Davis Mayor Gloria Partita and she will introduce you to our 2020 Ruby Award winner enjoy. Hi my name is Gloria Partita and I am the Mayor of the City of Davis and the recipient of the 2019 Ruby Award for Seroptimist International Davis. Seroptimist International is a global organization that promotes the advancement of women and girls to achieve personal success and economic independence. The Ruby Award is given to a woman in the community that works to improve the lives of women and girls has a impact on the lives of women and girls and inspires other women. It is my great honor to introduce the recipient of this year's Ruby Award Tracy Fover. Yay Tracy! As the Executive Director of Yolo Casa Tracy is dedicated to ensuring that the lives of women and girls at risk for human trafficking abuse and neglect have a roadmap to a better life. Tracy's positive energy and warmth is truly an inspiration. I am going to read a little bit from the nomination for Tracy. It's hard to think of a single individual who has more impact on mental health and community well-being than Tracy Fover. Accomplishing more than any single clinician can do alone, Tracy has dedicated her talents and passion to training others and strengthening organizations to build resiliency among children and families. Congratulations Tracy! Hello Seroptimist International of Davis and thank you so much for this award. Gloria thank you for the introduction. I was so excited when I learned that you'd be introducing me as last year's award recipient. I have admired your work in the community for so many years marveled at the impact that you make and the positivity and warmth you exude while doing it. You are an inspiration. I am grateful to be this year's Ruby Award Honoree for 2020 because it is a welcome acknowledgement that as Executive Director of Yolo County Casa the work that we do to advocate for the best interests of Yolo County's foster children in foster care is recognized as valuable in the community. Indeed many Seroptimists are cost of volunteers and you know that the work that our advocates do on behalf of children in foster care is sometimes rewarding and heartwarming but it's always emotional and never easy. As Executive Director I am simply the conductor. I am responsible to make sure that we have all the pieces in place and that they are in tune so that our team and our volunteers can make beautiful music that will help heal children in many cases strengthen families and allow our community to thrive. The music that we create is connection. The harmonies are intergenerational and when we work together the music that we create is so rich you can feel it deep down in your soul. It is truly a pleasure to receive this award from Seroptimists International of Davis because I see Seroptimists throughout Davis and Yolo County making music by empowering girls and women to help their community thrive everywhere I go. Thank you so very much. Welcome back and as you can see both Gloria and Tracy are amazing women and worthy award recipients. I'm excited to see who we will award in 2021. So before we draw the winner of our grand prize I actually want to redraw for the first two prizes. Okay first is a $50 gift certificate to Woodstock's Pizza. Maggie who is the lucky winner. The lucky winner is Lisa Holmes. Lisa Holmes congratulations you've won a $50 gift certificate to Woodstock's Pizza. Please call or text 530-574-3031 to claim your prize and now for prize number two a $50 gift certificate to Strelitzia Flower Company. Becca Whitman. Becca Whitman congratulations please be sure to call or text us at 530-574-3031 to claim your prize. Congratulations Lisa and Becca. I want to remind you our live online auction closes at 10 p.m. tonight. Get onto sidavis.org slash stoop night. Grab a few items and support our important community programs. So what is this grand prize? Well this grand prize is pretty awesome. Think of it as a special night on the town such as you can have right now. You will receive a hundred dollar gift certificate to Season's Restaurant. $15 to Yolo Berry and $15 to Pete's Coffee. Wow the planning committee got some great prizes. Speaking of the planning committee let's take a moment to thank the very hard work of the Seroptimus Soup Night and Auction Committee. The Soup Night is a long-standing member favorite and community favorite event and the committee seamlessly pivoted into an online format. I agree the resilience and creativity of this club is great and I want to especially thank the committee chair Ms. Diana Harvey along with committee members Meredith Sweet Silverstein, Kathy Ross Price, Laurie Hansen, Lisa Fisher, Eda Chen, Leah Rosenberg, Phyllis Himmel, Evie Wright, Emily Zeiser and Maggie Mehmet. We hope you have enjoyed tonight's program. Now for the grand prize winner. I get to pull it again. Maggie you do. It is Eda Chen speaking out. Congratulations Eda Chen and we can see her so we know that she's going to claim that one. Congratulations. You are the winner of a lovely night out in Davis. Congratulations. Oh and it looks like we have heard from Becca. Congratulations Becca. You have the $50 gift certificate to Strelitzia. So now just waiting on Lisa Holmes for the gift certificate to Woodstocks. Congratulations to all our prize winners and thank you all for watching and supporting Sir Optimist International of Davis with us tonight. We hope you have a great night. Thank you. Good night.