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Domestic Violence Center of Santa Clarita Valley Newsletter

December 2015

In This Issue

Adopt a Family

We had an overwhelming amount of community participation with many families stepping up to help our families in need. We had 48 donors this year! We were able to get all our families adopted! We are extremely grateful for the community support!

Six Red Dresses

#TheSixRedDresses Project made stops around the Santa Clarita Valley for 16 days of activism. The six red dresses represent six women who have lost their lives in the Santa Clarita Valley due to domestic violence. This was a very powerful display and we would like to thank the Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley for organizing this project. #ZontaSaysNo to domestic violence in the Santa Clarita Valley. You can visit our Facebook page to see pictures of#TheSixRedDressesdisplayed throughout the SCV. To find out more about the project, click here.

Amazon Smile

There’s only a few weeks left before Christmas! Do your last minute shopping online and use#AmazonSmile! Sign up on Amazon Smile and select Domestic Violence Center of Santa Clarita as your charitable organization and a portion of your eligible purchases will be donated back to the Domestic Violence Center by Amazon! Don’t worry, we won’t see what you purchase, we just see the donations! And there’s no additional cost to you!

Our Shed is finally built!

We wanted to say a huge THANK YOU to our donors and to HandsOn Santa Clarita for building our shed! Now we have more space to store clothes and other items for the women and children that come to our shelter seeking safety.

Hello Friends!

We have so much fun stuff going on this month and coming up next year. Find out what’s happening and stay in touch with us by following us on our social media!

Rent-A-Santa

Our Rent-A-Santa fundraiser has been helping us raise a lot of money this month! We’ve had over 30 requests for Rent-A-Santa! We are still looking for Santa volunteers to work holiday parties on Christmas Eve! If you would like to volunteer to be Santa, please contact our office ASAP at 661-259-8175.

Build-A-Bathroom

Our build-a-bathroom project is on it’s way! We have meetings booked with contractors! It’s happening next year! HOORAY!! We still need donations to help us finish reaching our goal, but we are almost there! Please consider making a donation today to help us build a second bathroom for our Shelter! The women and children who come to our shelter thank you in advance for your generosity and support! You can make donations on our #GivingTuesday page.

Donations

We’ve had so many kind donors this month we wanted to say THANK YOU to them! Wells Fargo Bank made a $4,000 donation to us this month! Part of this money will be used to sponsor our “I’m Worth It” event we are hosting for our clients this month. It will be an evening of personal relaxation for our clients to celebrate everyone’s worth! We also received $2,500 from The Maximus Foundation. These donations along with our donors from our #GivingTuesday donation page, are helping us reach our goal to build our bathroom!

We want to heartily thank the following contributors for making donations towards our Build-a-Bathroom Project: The Ahmanson Foundation, City of Santa Clarita, G. Marshall Hann, Kimberly Mushinski, K. Kolb, Marlene Pinotti, Anthony & Maureen Newhall Trust, Poole & Schafferty, LLP, Beverly Ferraro, Mark S Miller, Strategic Modularity, Naomi Carmona-Morshead, Chris Chegwin, Patricia Price, Barbara S. Cochran, Bob Keller, LA County DPSS, JSB Development, David Sparrow, Our #GivingTuesday campaign – Sally Van Swearingen, Dianne Curtis, Diane Baron Savitz, Jean Morrison, Corinne Rahman, Bob & Mary Losier, Carol Hall, Robin Becerra, Stephanie Evans, Susan Hayward, LD Mott, Joan Papkin, Robert Hodgkin, Missy Skinner, Christy Ferguson, Valerie Ruiz, Matt Randall, Ayala Bird Acosta, Teri Baskette, Fariba Azad, James Alabastro, Phyllis Stilson, Adele McPherson, Pat Gammage.

If you would like to help us reach our goal, you can make a donation on our #GivingTuesday donation page!

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