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PRESIDENT’S UPDATE *Sept. 14 Board Meeting minutes online
September-October 2016
CAN YOU HELP???
Pregnancy Support always needs diapers in size 4, 5 and 6, or wipes. You can arrange to have the diapers delivered to ACC office via Costco’s online shipping, or buy online at smile.amazon.com and ACC will benefit!!
OCTOBER ACC Board Meeting: **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND LOCATION** Wednesday, October 12th: St. Bridget Church 4900 NE 50th St, Seattle, WA 98105 6:30pm social, meeting starts promptly at 7pm
Katie McKay Fall Luncheon: Tuesday, October 4th: 11:30am Broadmoor Golf Club
Lilly Peabody/Irene Hanley Bulb Sale St. Bridget's Paperwhite Sale: Orders due October 12th
NOVEMBER ACC Celebration Mass: Tuesday, November 1st: St. Catherine’s Parish Mass with lunch immediately following, 11:00am
Frances Hoffman Bake Sale-DATES TBA ACC Board Meeting: Wednesday, November 9th: CCS Building Great Room 9:30am social, meeting starts promptly at 10am
ACCtion Newsletter Deadline: Friday, November 20th
St. Bridget's Paperwhite Pickup: Saturday, November 19th: St. Bridget parking lot
Membership Dues: Due on or before Sunday, November 30th
Fr. Thomas Lane Bunco Party: Sunday, November 20th: 2pm St. Anthony (Renton) All Circle Christmas Gifts Project
DECEMBER Magnolia Holiday Home Tour - see pg 2. Saturday, December 3rd: 10AM to 4PM Marjorie Ryan/Fr. Thomas Lane Circle’s Wreath & Poinsettia Sale: Tuesday, Dec. 6th: St. Catherine Parish, pick-up 11am-3pm
CALENDAR LOOK-AHEAD
ACCtion Newsletter Association for Catholic Childhood FOR THE CHILDREN…Caring and Advocacy since 1918
CURRENT FUNDRAISERS
Dear ACC Members,
We started this year early with a major task. Should we change our name to “Advocacy and Caring for Children … a Catholic Association since 1918”?
We sent out 485 ballots and received 231 back. That’s a 48% return on the ballots. There were 186 marked “yes” and 45 marked “no,” meaning 80% of the members voting, voted yes.
I want to thank the name change committee headed by Marilyn Price for all the thoughtful and hard work they put in on this project. While the name is not perfect, and we will never get 100% agreement, it is time to move on with the process.
Our 100th anniversary is coming up in 2018. Our plan is to combine the name change transition with our centennial celebration.
We will be forming two committees (Transition and Centennial) that will work closely together during the next year and a half. We are going to need a lot of help to be ready for 2018. We have been caring for children for almost 100 years and it’s time to celebrate our accomplishments and plan our future.
While checking the rules for the name change process, we realized that the by-laws are in desperate need of update and revision. We want to form a committee to start that process. Membership will be a big part of our future. We need to update our information and plan a membership drive.
Speaking of committees, there is also ample opportunity to join one of several existing committees. See information on committees here in this newsletter. You do not have to be on the board to serve on a committee. This is a perfect opportunity for those who can’t make it to the board meetings to participate and contribute to the success of ACC.
Please check out all the information here in the newsletter regarding committee opportunities and fundraising events.
I know that this sounds like a lot and it is. It is more than a few board members can do, but if everyone helps a little, we can move forward with a great plan “for the children.”
Maureen
St. Bridget Circle Paperwhites for the Holidays:
Baskets ready to bloom in time for holiday entertaining. Pickup
Nov. 19th. - Details on order form included.
Irene Hanley & Lilly Peabody Bulb Sale:
New exciting colors add spring beauty to your garden! Don’t miss out! Place your order asap using order form included.
Fr. Thomas Lane Bunco & Basket Raffle: $10 Bring your friends, play Bunco, eat ice cream, support ACC!
November 20th, 2pm St. Anthony (Renton).
Katie McKay Fall Luncheon: Honoring Susan Burdett, Tuesday, October 4th: Broadmoor Golf Club.
Contact Kate Szymanski: [email protected].
Marjorie Ryan/Fr. Thomas Lane Circle’s
Wreath & Poinsetta Sale: Details on order form included.
Buy Tickets for Magnolia Holiday Home Tour: Available Nov. 1st online www.magnoliahometour.com
* more details next page
Shop online at Smile.Amazon.com: If you shop online at Amazon/Prime, please switch to Smile.Amazon.com and make ACC the organization you support. It’s free to you and ACC earns a percentage of sales.
Join Kroger/QFC’s community rewards program: You can help support ACC via this effort by signing up at www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards and enter our non-profit number 85981. Sign up to help. It’s easy and free!
Buy One of ACC’s Books: For the Least of These and ACC cookbooks for sale via ACC office. Please call or see website for order form.
Web: www.forthechildrenww.org
Email: [email protected] / Phone: (206) 328-5973
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Saturday, December 3rd: 10 AM to 4PM
Tickets: Presale $25/$26 *see below, or Day of Tour $30
JOIN THE TOUR: Get your tickets now! Round up a group of friends
and start the holiday season with this fun day. You’ll see amazingly
adorned homes, learn some history and get new wonderful Christmas
decorating ideas all while supporting ACC during our Magnolia
Holiday Home Tour.
VISIT THE TOUR BOUTIQUE AND TEA HOUSE: From 9:30 am -
4pm visit the Boutique and Tea House with crafts and gifts to purchase.
Complimentary refreshments available. Located at Our Lady of Fatima
Parish Center in Magnolia: 3218 W Barrett, Seattle, WA 98199
* FOUR TICKET PURCHASE OPTIONS:
Online: www.magnoliahometour.com. Ticket available for purchase at your convenience online. The
website also includes Holiday Boutique vendor information, and other details.
Presale via Mail: To order via mail, please send a check for $25 plus $1 service fee per ticket to
ACC, 2855 42nd Ave W, Seattle WA 98199. Orders must be received by 11/23/16.
In Person: Nov.1st - Dec. 2nd, 2016, tickets may be purchased for $25 per ticket in person at the
Magnolia Garden Center, 3213 W. Smith, Seattle, WA 98199. Day of Tour: $30 tickets available at Fatima Parish Center. HOSTESSES & COOKIES NEEDED: Once again Katherine Meloy Circle is inviting all ACC members
to serve as hostesses in the homes. Shifts are at least two hours, starting at 10AM. Please e-mail
[email protected] with your contact information if you can help. Donations of homemade cookies
for the Tea House are welcome. Please drop them off at the Fatima Parish Center on Tour Day 12/3/2016.
2016 MAGNOLIA HOLIDAY HOME TOUR
COMMITTEE’S FORMING-We Need YOU! ACC is preparing for many exciting events over the next two years and now asks all interested and able Circle members to volunteer by joining a committee. Here’s some of the committees we need help with: 100 Year Celebration. This committee will help plan and prepare for our 2018 events celebration alongside the name change committee.
Advocacy. Team up with committee chair to attend events, help get our name and members out in the community by participating in advocacy.
Board Positions. Our 2nd Vice President and Nominating Committee board positions need to be filled. A sound association has a full board.
Bylaw Review and Edit. We want our bylaws to represent an approach to carry us forward. This clarity will also help new Circles/membership.
Labor of Love Auction Team. Help needed for promotion, procurement (ASAP), data entry and auction close-out. January thru March, 2017.
Membership. We need to form new Circles and add members. Help move ACC into the future by planning a membership drive or bring ideas.
Name Change Transition. We’ll need help with the details, legal and online. We have secured the URL advocacyandcaringforchildren.org. This site will not be active until name is legally changed. There will be many steps; can you help with just a piece of this larger task?
Publicity/Marketing. ACC has granted over $2 million over 10 years, yet we’re not commonly known. Can you help us change this?
Please contact ACC President Maureen Britt ([email protected]) or ACC office @ ([email protected]) to sign up.
WHAT’S YOUR ACC STORY? Every one of us became involved in ACC for a reason. We would love to hear your story, and how you have participated in support our mission as a member of ACC. Some of you may have been involved with adoption, or been a member since your child was a newborn. Others joined because of a family connection. Consider sharing your story with ACC - we are all members of this association because we want to make a difference. Forms will be given to Circle chairs, or write your story down and mail ACC: 100 23rd Ave S, Sea, WA 98144 / email [email protected].
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ACC Contact Information
President Maureen Britt 206-281-5732 [email protected]
Secretary(s) Anne Read-Andersen (day) 425-679-6998 [email protected]
Kate Szymanski (evening) 206-226-0961 [email protected]
Treasurer Mary Roddy 206-550-7425 [email protected]
ACC Office Deirdre Brownlow 100 23rd South Seattle, WA 98144 206-328-5973 [email protected] www.forthechildrenww.org
ACC BOARD MEETING*
Evening meeting!! Please
mark your calendar for
and schedule at least one
circle member to attend.
Wednesday, October 12th.
6:30pm Social
7pm Meeting
St. Bridget Church
4900 NE 50th St,
Seattle, WA 98105
Prayer:
Monica Scott
Treats & Coffee:
Kristy Charles & Angeleigh Gregorios
*All ACC members invited.
ACC CELEBRATION MASS
In Memory Of Marilyn Louise Ruple Long, Margaret Anne “Peggy” Sullivan
Jeanne Marie Davis, Helen Dullanty Davies
THANK YOU FOR ALMOST 60 YEARS OF SERVICE, MARGARET ABEL CIRCLE: We extend well wishes and heartfelt thanks to the Margaret Abel Circle members past and
present for their many good deeds and donations over the history of their Circle. ACC received
their final donation of over $500 as they reluctantly closed their Circle. God bless them all.
PROCURE OR DONATE FOR 2017 LABOR OF LOVE AUCTION: The 2017 Labor of Love auction website is ready to go. If you’d like to repeat your donation or add
a new one, you can do it NOW!! Also remember to ask businesses that you frequent in your
neighborhood for donations. It’s easy and they almost always say YES!!
Donate at www.laborofloveauction.org or contact the ACC office @ [email protected]
“A candle will be lit honoring each member
that we have lost this year”
MARJORIE RYAN CIRCLE TO HOST CELEBRATION
MASS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1st AT 11am
Please save the date and join us in this moving memorial for ACC members that
are no longer with us. A Circle or family member will be invited to join in
lighting a memorial candle for their loved
one. Lunch will be served after mass. Your
Circle treasurer will collect lunch cost of $20/
person and submit your reservation*. If your
circle has lost a member, please contact
[email protected] and let us know so they can
be included in our celebration mass.
*others invited to attend/call 206 328-5973
St Catherine of Siena Church - (206) 524-8800 814 NE 85th St, Seattle, WA 98115
2016 IS FULL OF HOPE! Our annual white envelope drive seeking 100% participation from all our members to the ACC Endowment Fund is happening NOW. Your circle treasurer has an easy to mail envelope for your use. Annual gifts to our endowment help build our fund while
providing permanent support for our mission. The continued growth of our endowment is only possible with regular gifts from all of us. Please consider an annual gift to the ACC Endowment Fund. Absolutely no amount is too small! Online donations welcome.
Mail to: ACC Endowment Fund, 100 23rd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144
ANNUAL GIVING TO ACC ENDOWMENT
“What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows” -Alexandra Stoddard
LAYETTES, DIAPERS AND CAR SEATS DONATED
ACC SUPPORTS YOUTH TUTORING ACC members brought in bags and bags of school
supplies for CCS’s Youth Tutoring Program,
(one of our grant recipients). Savvy Circles also
ordered via smile.amazon.com, benefitting both
ACC and YTP.
“Helping children is core to our mission”
Thank you to the many circles that
donated volumes of requested items to
Pregnancy Support.
Over the summer, Katie McKay, St.
Bridget and Fr. Mychal Judge Circles
loaded up Pregnancy Support with the
pictured donations.
ACC is s proud and grateful of the
Circles that help with this ACC mission.
A sign-up sheet for 2016-17 was
mostly filled at our last board meeting.
Please email the ACC office if your
Circle would like to sign up.
October: Layette Sign-up Open
ASSOCIATION FOR CATHOLIC CHILDHOOD
Association for Catholic Childhood
100 23rd Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98144-2302
RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
Non-Profit Organization
U.S. Postage Paid
Seattle, WA
Permit No. 260
It is through the participation of all our members, in gifts of all sizes, that our Fund will continue to
grow and support our mission of caring for families and children in need— in perpetuity!
For The Children…Caring and Advocacy Since 1918
Yes! I would like to make a donation to the ACC Endowment Fund!
Please accept my personal gift of □$50, □$100, □$250, □$500, Other $_______
THIS GIFT IS FROM:
Name_________________________________________________
Address _______________________________________________
City __________________________ State ______ Zip _________
Email ___________________________________________________________
Mail Form and Check to: Association for Catholic Childhood Endowment
100 23rd Avenue South Seattle, WA 98144
or donate online at www.forthechildrenww.org
As we look forward to our fundraising season and
all the Circle efforts, please remember that you can
also support ACC via a donation that will continue to
“grow in perpetuity.” Because of donors like you,
and with continued growth, ACC’s endowment
helps support our grant funding. We are hoping for
100% participation from our members in 2016-17.
With your donation, we can continue funding the
charities listed below. Let’s break $1 MILLION!! *annual endowment gift report enclosed.
Adoption Services – Seattle
Community-Based Foster Care - Tacoma
Emergency Assistance – Bellevue and Kent
Grays Harbor Youth Center – Grays Harbor
Groundwork Project – Seattle
King County Kinship Collaboration - King County
Pediatric Interim Care Services (PICS) – Tacoma
Sacred Heart Shelter – King County
St. Mike’s Tikes Early Learning Center – Olympia
The Community Kitchen – Olympia
Emergency Assistance King County
Holiday Poinsettia & Wreath Sale
Bring a touch of Christmas into your home with our florist quality poinsettias! Decorate your home or office, give beautiful gifts, and help children and families in need throughout the Seattle area. Add a fresh fragrant wreath and get an instant start to your holiday season!
Pick up on Tuesday, November 29th, 2016 St Catherine’s Parish 814 NE 85
th St, Seattle, 98115 (11 AM – 3 PM)
Orders over $250 will be delivered to your home or office.
ORDER FORM Please return by October 25, 2016
Name of Purchaser or Company: ___________________________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________________ Phone: _____________________________ Email: ____________________________ If order is for $250 or more, please enter contact person for Delivery on or just after November 29th: Name ________________________
Phone number _________________
Poinsettia in a 6 inch pot (A single plant with 6 or more flowers) # Red __________________ x $15 = _________ # White_________________ x $15 = _________ #Ice Crystal _____________ x $15 = _________ (red with a white center)
Poinsettia in a 10 inch pot (Three plants per pot) #Red ______________________ x $40 = _________ #White _____________________ x $40 = _________
Wreath - 22 inch Diameter Round Mixed Noble Fir #Wreaths ________________ x $20 = _________
Total Amount Enclosed _________
Please return this form with check payable to ACC by Tuesday October 25th
to:
Judy Schroeder 1633 Kennewick CT SE, Renton, WA 98055
Questions? Contact Judy at 425-255-1437 or [email protected] or see our website www.forthechildrenww.org
Thank you very much to the following individuals and organizations who generously made gifts in support of the ACC Endowment Fund
between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016.
The enclosed list of ACC members and friends who contributed to the ACC Endowment Fund during the last fiscal year is inspiring! The more our Endowment Fund grows because of your gifts and the prudent investment of those gifts, the more generously we are able to respond to the ever-increasing grant requests we receive.
All of the members of the Endowment Development Committee join me in thanking each of you who made a gift to our Endowment this year. We hope that you will continue to give annually, as that is how our Fund will grow. And to those of you who have not previously made an Endowment gift, we hope you will consider making a commitment this year. It is an absolute way to ensure the continuation of support for the children and families we all care about.
