PRESIDENT’S UPDATE *Board Meeting minutes online September-October 2015September-October 2015 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 offices via Costco’s online shipping, or buy online at Smile.Amazon.com and ACC will benefit!! PLEASE MAKE NOTE: OCTOBER Fr. Thomas Lane Bunco & Basket Raffle: October 11 h , St. Anthony Octoberfest (Renton) 9am-5pm ACC Board Meeting: Wednesday, October 14th at CCS (Great Room – upstairs). Social at 9:30am, meeting starts promptly at 10am Katie McKay Fall Luncheon: Wednesday Oct 21st, Broadmoor Country Club Lilly Peabody/Irene Hanley Bulb Sale St. Bridget's Paperwhite Sale: Orders due October 14th NOVEMBER ACC Celebration Mass: Wednesday, November 4th, St. Catherine’s Parish Mass with lunch immediately following, 11:00am Frances Hoffman Bake Sale-DATES TBA CELEBRATE THE CHILDREN: Saturday, November 14th, University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture, 5pm ACC Board Meeting: **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND LOCATION** Tuesday, November 17th, Lady of Fatima, 3218 W Barrett in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood. Social at 7pm, meeting starts promptly at 7:30pm ACCtion Newsletter Deadline: Friday, November 20th St. Bridget's Paperwhite Pickup: Saturday November 21st – St. Bridget parking lot Membership Dues: Due on or before Sunday, November 30th Marjorie Ryan Wreath Sale and Delivery: St. Catherine Parish, date TBA All Circle Christmas Gifts Project 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 of service and advocacy with a well attended board meeting —- September 9th. We welcomed Mary Roddy to the treasurer position and were delighted to meet members of the recently formed St. Therese Circle, who have already held their first successful fundraiser! We reviewed the many calendar dates, including our Celebrate the Children event on November 14th. We are so close to reaching the $500,000 level for our Endowment Fund, and the Endowment Committee is going all out in making sure this event gets us there. We have received a number of amazing items for the raffle prizes and obtained very generous sponsorships — thank you to everyone who is working on and supporting the event. Look for more information in this newsletter and on our updated website. We also talked about the increasing challenge of attending board meetings that are held in the middle of the day on what for many of us, are workdays. We agreed to try something new. For this coming year, 2015-2016, up to three of our board meetings will be held in the evening. The preferred locations will be the parish centers of parishes that are home to strong Circles. An announcement of the evening board meeting (to include a brief background about the ACC) will be published not only in that parish’s bulletin for two weeks prior to the meeting, but also in the parish bulletins of neighboring parishes. Board members and others who would like to carpool are invited to contact the ACC Office and we’ll help get those arrangements made. The hope is that an evening meeting will reflect our understanding of changing times, and also open the door to others who may be interested in learning more about ACC. Certainly, it will provide opportunity to see us in action and hear about our wide-ranging activities. So to that end, the November 17th board meeting not only will be held on Tuesday rather than Wednesday, but also will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Our Lady of Fatima Parish Center, 3218 W Barrett St, Seattle. Announcements will be placed in the Fatima parish bulletin, as well as in the bulletins for St. Alphonsus and St. Anne. This is still a couple of months off, but if you know you’d like to share a ride with another member, please contact Deirdre in the ACC office. Other evening meetings are still to be determined. We’ll see how this idea works over the course of this year, and will share with you any feedback. The October 14th board meeting will be held at 10 a.m. in the CCS office and feature Erin Maguire, who will speak to us about the PREPARES program. Thank you for all you are doing for the children. We have a busy — and wonderful! — year ahead. Monica St. Bridget Circle Paperwhites for the Holidays: Baskets ready to bloom in time for holiday entertaining. Pickup Nov. 21st. Details available and order via included order form. 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: Bring your friends, Play Bunco, enjoy Oktoberfest! October 4 th , St. Anthony Oktoberfest (Renton) 9am-5pm Katie McKay Fall Luncheon: Wednesday Oct 21st, Broadmoor Country Club Marjorie Ryan Wreath Sale: Order forms online at www.forthechildrenww.org Buy Raffle Tickets for Celebrate The Children: Fabulous basket prizes! Tickets available now, ask your Circle Chair, or Nancy O’Brien, 206-325-8836/email:[email protected]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 a Book: 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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PRESIDENT’S UPDATE *Board Meeting minutes online
September-October 2015September-October 2015
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 offices via Costco’s online shipping, or buy online at Smile.Amazon.com and ACC will benefit!!
PLEASE MAKE NOTE: OCTOBER Fr. Thomas Lane Bunco & Basket Raffle: October 11h, St. Anthony Octoberfest (Renton) 9am-5pm
ACC Board Meeting: Wednesday, October 14th at CCS (Great Room – upstairs). Social at 9:30am, meeting starts promptly at 10am
Katie McKay Fall Luncheon: Wednesday Oct 21st, Broadmoor Country Club
Lilly Peabody/Irene Hanley Bulb Sale St. Bridget's Paperwhite Sale: Orders due October 14th
NOVEMBER ACC Celebration Mass: Wednesday, November 4th, St. Catherine’s Parish Mass with lunch immediately following, 11:00am
Frances Hoffman Bake Sale-DATES TBA CELEBRATE THE CHILDREN: Saturday, November 14th, University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture, 5pm
ACC Board Meeting: **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME AND LOCATION** Tuesday, November 17th, Lady of Fatima, 3218 W Barrett in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood. Social at 7pm, meeting starts promptly at 7:30pm ACCtion Newsletter Deadline: Friday, November 20th
St. Bridget's Paperwhite Pickup: Saturday November 21st – St. Bridget parking lot
Membership Dues: Due on or before Sunday, November 30th Marjorie Ryan Wreath Sale and Delivery: St. Catherine Parish, date TBA All Circle Christmas Gifts Project
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 of service and advocacy with a well attended board meeting —-September 9th. We welcomed Mary Roddy to the treasurer position and were delighted to meet members of the recently formed St. Therese Circle, who have already held their first successful fundraiser!
We reviewed the many calendar dates, including our Celebrate the Children event on November 14th. We are so close to reaching the $500,000 level for our Endowment Fund, and the Endowment Committee is going all out in making sure this event gets us there. We have received a number of amazing items for the raffle prizes and obtained very generous sponsorships — thank you to everyone who is working on and supporting the event. Look for more information in this newsletter and on our updated website.
We also talked about the increasing challenge of attending board meetings that are held in the middle of the day on what for many of us, are workdays. We agreed to try something new. For this coming year, 2015-2016, up to three of our board meetings will be held in the evening. The preferred locations will be the parish centers of parishes that are home to strong Circles. An announcement of the evening board meeting (to include a brief background about the ACC) will be published not only in that parish’s bulletin for two weeks prior to the meeting, but also in the parish bulletins of neighboring parishes. Board members and others who would like to carpool are invited to contact the ACC Office and we’ll help get those arrangements made.
The hope is that an evening meeting will reflect our understanding of changing times, and also open the door to others who may be interested in learning more about ACC. Certainly, it will provide opportunity to see us in action and hear about our wide-ranging activities.
So to that end, the November 17th board meeting not only will be held on Tuesday rather than Wednesday, but also will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Our Lady of Fatima Parish Center, 3218 W Barrett St, Seattle. Announcements will be placed in the Fatima parish bulletin, as well as in the bulletins for St. Alphonsus and St. Anne. This is still a couple of months off, but if you know you’d like to share a ride with another member, please contact Deirdre in the ACC office. Other evening meetings are still to be determined. We’ll see how this idea works over the course of this year, and will share with you any feedback.
The October 14th board meeting will be held at 10 a.m. in the CCS office and feature Erin Maguire, who will speak to us about the PREPARES program.
Thank you for all you are doing for the children. We have a busy — and wonderful! — year ahead.
Monica
St. Bridget Circle Paperwhites for the Holidays:
Baskets ready to bloom in time for holiday entertaining. Pickup
Nov. 21st. Details available and order via included order form.
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: Bring your friends, Play Bunco, enjoy Oktoberfest!
October 4th, St. Anthony Oktoberfest (Renton) 9am-5pm
Katie McKay Fall Luncheon: Wednesday Oct 21st, Broadmoor Country Club
Marjorie Ryan Wreath Sale: Order forms online at www.forthechildrenww.org
Buy Raffle Tickets for Celebrate The Children: Fabulous basket prizes! Tickets available now, ask your Circle
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 a Book: For the Least of These and ACC cookbooks for sale via ACC office. Please call or see website for order form.
Association for Catholic Childhood is moving ahead with our name change initiative. Marilyn Price is the committee chair and Colleen Cook will offer legal advice. We are asking all members who have a vested interest in this process to please contact Monica Scott, [email protected], Marilyn Price, [email protected] or the acc office, [email protected] if you would like to offer suggestions, insight, historical perspective or join us for a committee meeting. We are looking for views that share all concerns regarding this initiative.
St. Therese Circle joins ACC! The newly formed Circle, based at St. Louise in Bellevue, host-
ed their inaugural fundraiser, Cooking for a Cause on August
29th! Members of St. Therese prepared summer sensational
themed dishes that any "foodie" would be excited to serve.
The recipes were compiled into an e-Cookbook, which was
distributed to all who attended and donated to the event.
Pregnancy Support provided a compelling speaker, who was
able to share a personal story, and help our members and their
guests connect wholly to our cause. More than 40 women
joined us for a great evening, and we had our own 6-8th
grade kids assist in preparation and serving.
ACC Circles
Support Pregnancy
Support and YTP. Fr. Mychal Judge Circle
stocked Pregnancy
Support’s shelves this
summer with a fantastic
diaper donation!
In addition, we sent a cartload of school supplies
along to YTP who expressed their thanks to Francis
Hoffman Circle, Marjorie Ryan
Circle and other Circle’s
donations. With our support,
many needy children are given
a chance to rise and excel.
ACC ACTIVITIES AND ADVOCACY
Strawberry and Crème Cheese Brushetta.
Key Lime Tarts
Bright Yellow
Flowers
CELEBRATE THE CHILDREN
Every other year ACC hosts our Celebrate the Children event to “fund the
fund”. Our focus for this event is to have fun, remember why ACC members
work hard to fund grants “For the Children”, reconnect with friends over a
lovely dinner and hear a compelling story about why Association for Catholic
has been supporting needing agencies since 1819!
It’s hard to imagine how the many women that founded this organization
would participate now, but I’m sure that compared to the hours and hours of
work in the Fantasy Fair, making baked goods and serving the needs of so
many, the Celebrate the Children event would be very appealing to them!
This event focuses primarily on raising funds for our Endowment, with the
goal that we can continue ACC in perpetuity, using interest earned to
enhance our efforts with Circle projects to support our specific “women and
children’s community.”
Please mark your calendar for Saturday November 14th and ask a few new
friends to join us! Bingo and amazing Raffle baskets will be offered, along
with dinner, friendship, dessert dash and “Celebrating the Children.” Won’t
you join us?
Register online at www.forthechildrenww.org
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14TH, 5PM Center for Urban Horticulture,
ACC Office Deirdre Brownlow 100 23rd South Seattle, WA 98144 206-328-5973 [email protected] www.forthechildrenww.org
ACC BOARD MEETING*
Looking ahead, Please
mark your calendar for
Wednesday, October
14th. We will feature a presentation from Erin
Maguire, who will keep us
current on the CCS
program PREPARES
(Pregnancy and Parenting
Support). We hope that a
representative from your
circle will attend.
9:30 am Social
10:00 am Meeting
Randolph Carter Center
(CCS Building)
Great Room (upstairs)
Prayer: Mary Roddy
Refreshments: Monica Scott &
Barbara Easter
*All members invited to attend
ACC CELEBRATION MASS
In Memory Of
Brenda Kalberer - Holy Angels Circle
Lorraine Ochs - Holy Angels Circle
DID YOU KNOW?
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent “
Napoleon Bonaparte
Frequently Asked Questions about Association for Catholic Childhood -(ACC)
How long have you been doing this?
We have been providing caring and advocacy for children and families since 1918. We will celebrate 100 years of our work in 2018!
ACC was the forerunner of Catholic Community Services in the Seattle area, and we are still closely associated with CCS. If you know of anyone interested in ACC, please;
Share- information about the ACC, our website is a comprehensive resource.
Invite- meetings and fundraisers are
great introductions. Help form a new circle.
Pray- for continued growth of our membership.
IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITIES: PREGNANCY SUPPORT WORK TEAM: ACC is putting together a team of ladies to create some
layettes from inventory already in-house at Pregnancy Support at 1pm on October 6th. Please
bring a diaper bag or two, and meet us at 4250 Mead St. Seattle WA 98118. Contact Mary Lou
