I’m excited to be a member of ninety-nine girlfriends. I know how much our grants are helping the important missions of local non-profits, and love that I can contribute. Non-profits are doing such important work in our communities. I have become so passionate about them since I started to volunteer.

This year, I began offering sound healing as a volunteer at Hopewell House. Hopewell House offers compassionate, personal, and beautiful end-of-life residential care for people in their last days. I have been offering sound healing meditation concerts and private sessions professionally for more than three decades in many venues. It is truly an honor to bring this work to the dying and all the kind and compassionate volunteers and staff that keep it all happening every day.

Hopewell House re-opened in January 2023 as a non-profit after Legacy Health made the decision to sell it. A group of ambitious visionaries, including many whose loved ones had died at Hopewell House, got together to raise funds to buy the property. Hopewell House relies on donations for daily expenses, and to sponsor residents who don’t have the funds for their stay.

I also donate my services to A Village for One, a non-profit that provides outpatient and residential services, care, and love to youth who have been sex-trafficked or exploited in Oregon. Also founded by a few ambitious visionaries, they recently built a residential home and are continuing to expand services.

All this to say that I understand how precious the grants we give can be to local non-profits, and how crucial their work is. I joined ninety-nine girlfriends to support these important organizations. I’m a new member and don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing in the organization, but I’m so happy to be a

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