Apr. 28—May 18
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Letter From the Executive Director “Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which clings fast to the heel that crushed it.” These words from the poem “Forgiveness” say so much.
go down on your anger.” You are better off forgiving immediately on the very day you were wronged. Holding a grudge or being mad or hating will lead you to a path of unhappiness. Everybody gets angry at one time or another, it’s natural and only human to express anger. However, once feelings are hurt and cross words have been exchanged, you must promptly forgive. You should not let the sun go down on your anger.
Few of us can truly forget when someone causes us pain. However, any time hatred is allowed to get the best of you, it can have a wide range of negative effects such as lack of sleep and appetite, high blood pressure, anger, hostility, high blood pressure, ulcers, headaches, skin rashes, fatigue and more.
Anger, resentment or hurt that is felt can work against you. They never help you. Those bitter feelings poison the inner workings of your mind. They can make you tense and nervous. They can harm your health. They can turn you into an unpleasant, unhappy, unhealthy individual. And they lead you to commit actions that you will later regret or that could land you in jail.
“Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” is written in Ephesians 4:26 which to me means “Do not let the sun
For every time you decide to forgive and forget, to earnestly try to replace hatred with love, you will help yourself
to a better life. The more forgiving you are, the better everything will go for you. The staff and volunteers strive to help our participants to let go of their negative feelings and experiences by FORGIVING the person that wronged them through a variety of processes. In doing so, the participant becomes more in tune to receiving the help she needs and becomes empowered to move on with her life. Forgivingly,
Kimberly
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Even the birds make home at WInC.
Arts & Crafts class unleashing their creativity. Flowers made by the Arts & Crafts Class
Olivia Contreras, Spanish Citizenship Instructor
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Eat What You Sow Earlier in the month, our friends at La Semilla led a Food Summit: Eat What You Sow. Part of the summit was hosted at WInC. Participants learned about composting and edible landscaping, Las Cruces and Gadsden teachers were provided with tools to bring cooking into their classrooms, and addressed tough issues with local food policy and cooperative food production.
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Health Sciences Academy Charter School Informational Meeting Parents, students and supporters of implementing a Health Sciences Academy Charter School were present at the informational meeting being provided by the Andele Tutors, the lead agency of the project. Meeting attendees learned how the curriculum will be aligned to the new common care standards and NMPED benchmarks. The proposed school will also offer a rigorous college prep program for grades 7-12 with required internships with local healthcare providers in order to augment the curriculum with hands-on experience to enter careers in health related fields. In addition to the fill time day program, the Health Sciences Academy Charter School plans to offer an evening program for adult community members who have not completed a high school diploma. Day and evening students will follow the same health science focused curriculum and participate in all aspects of the unique health sciences activities. If you are interested in learning more about the Health Sciences Academy Charter School or the status of its application process, please contact Raphael Nevins at (505) 463-6115.
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Free Ways to Make Charitable Donations Use these simple ideas to make contributions to WInC without spending a dime. Being frugal doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give back to the causes that matter to you such as WInC. We believe that, in addition to helping others, being involved in charity also helps people remember what’s really important. If you regularly donate money to WInC, we THANK YOU. If you feel like your budget is too stretched to hand over a chunk of money, there are still plenty of things you can do to contribute to WInC— for free or through simple every day tasks.
Donate food items:
Support our efforts to feed the hungry through our emergency food pantry.
Recycle:
Do your bit for the environment while helping us: Recycle your empty inkjets, laser toners, laptops, i-pods & inactive cell phone(s).
Donate unused gift cards:
We can use the gift cards or redeem them for cash and send you a tax receipt.
Recycle clothing, office equipment, furniture, electronics, small applications, house wares & books for our operations or thrift store.
Buy groceries at Albertsons:
We earn 1% of the sale when our dedicated community partners key tag is scanned by you. Don't have a key tag? Request a key tag at the front desk or via email at wintctr@qwestoffice.net.
Donate your vote:
Vote for our cause through twitter, facebook, online, email &/or text. Check our homepage for current campaigns.
Gift of A Review: Create a causes wish:
A fun & social way to raise money for us by using the events of your life (birthday, wedding, run/walk/ride, holiday, memorial or personal event to make a difference). Visit http://wishes.causes.com/ to create a wish.
Write a review of the Women's Intercultural Center that speaks of your personal experience with us at GreatNonprofits.org. Visit GreatNonprofits.org.
GoodDining.com will donate 6% of the money spent on a meal at 10,000 restaurants across the country.
When you apply for and use the CommonKindness Visa® Platinum Rewards Card, CommonKindness will donate $10 plus a percentage of all your future purchases on the card to your to WInC.
Print & Redeem Grocery Coupons:
Donate Airline and Hotel Miles: Use your miles to buy tickets or office items for us.
Turn your unused credit card points into a charitable donation to your cause. Both American Express and Citi Card offer this program.
Rent our facilities:
Help Us While You Shop:
Dine Out:
Redeem Credit Card Points:
Save money and help us in 3 simple steps. 1) Sign on to Common Kindness; 2) Select us as your favorite nonprofit; 3) Print and redeem grocery coupons for big savings and Common Kindness provides funds to us at no cost to you.
Provide in-kind services:
To download our facilities rental brochure visit http://www.scribd.com/ doc/75950327/Facilities-Rental-Brochure . To download our Facility Usage/Rental Request visit http://www.scribd.com/ doc/123357631/WInC-Facility-UsageRequest-Rental-Agreement.
Search the Internet: We-Care.com and GoodSearch donate 1¢ per search to us.
Shop Online:
Save money at the same time as you earn money for us by shopping online using the following websites:
http://womensinterculturalcenter.wecare.com/ http://www.goodsearch.com/ goodshop.aspx http://www.cafepress.com/WInCShop
Donate professional services &/or certain items.
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Spread the Word: Spread the word about WInC by donating a tweet/facebook status or forwarding our Week In Review/Calendar.
Use your spare change to create change: Donate small amounts of change to us.
Volunteer Volunteering can be a painless way to give back to the WInC community, especially if you do it with your family or a group of friends. Volunteer opportunities at WInC:
Buildings and Grounds Volunteers: Maintain buildings and grounds by helping clean the facilities, gardening, patio landscaping, building repairs, and overall building maintenance. Class, Workshop, or Training Instructor: We offer classes in a variety of interest areas and are always looking for new volunteer instructors who can help us expand our offerings. We have general classroom space as well as specific equipment or facilities for classes in sewing, arts and crafts, carpentry, hair cutting, healing arts and more. Instructors teach class 2-6 hours per week and classes generally have 5-20 participants. Instructors can determine their class schedule with the Programs Coordinator prior to each semester. Volunteers can opt to teach a class for the semester, a special workshop and/or training. Communications: Help deepen awareness of the Women's Intercultural Center and its programming through media relations, journalism, public relations, marketing, social media or graphic design. Community Outreach Volunteers Host or represent the Center at health fairs and community events. Educate others about the Center's programs and services by being part of the Speakers Bureau. Schedule events vary from weekdays to weekends. Computer Support: We can utilize computer-literate volunteers to assist with day-to-day troubleshooting or specific training or development projects. Computer support volunteers work primarily with staff or other volunteers based on their availability.
English as a Second Language (ESL)/Citizenship Tutor: ESL/ Citizenship Tutors work with adult participants who are learning English or
preparing for their U.S. Citizenship Examination. Generally, tutors work with small groups of students (1-4 people), and they teach basic English conversation, reading, writing and grammar or citizenship questions review. Tutors meet their students 2-4 hours per week, the tutoring schedule is negotiated between the tutor and the student. Tutors do not need to speak Spanish fluently or have previous teaching experience, but they do need to be patient and understanding with our students. The Center will provide the tutor with teaching materials, tutor training, and regular staff support. Equipment Maintenance: Do you know how to repair sewing machines, computers, carpentry equipment, air conditioners, heaters, plumbing, or electrical? We can use your expertise. Fundraising and Marketing: Can you organize a group through social media? What about a fundraiser? Can you work on a committee or specific event? Do you know how to write grants? Can you organize a craft fair? Can you serve as a resource person to staff on marketing the Center and its services? If this is something you're interested in, we encourage you to volunteer to work with us on fundraising and marketing. Office Volunteers: Office volunteers work primarily in the front office with daily tasks like answering phones and greeting people or special projects like mailings or phoning participants. Office support tasks are assigned based on the volunteer's skills, abilities and schedule. Special Events Volunteers: Assist the Center with annual fundraisers, trainings, workshops and other special events. Translation: The Center needs bilingual (Spanish-English) volunteers who can translate either written materials or oral presentations. Translators work primarily with office staff or the BAE program and are assigned tasks based on their schedule and abilities.
Volunteer Virtually Volunteer online in your spare time by helping us meet challenges that we face, based on your interests and skills. This could mean everything from basic graphic design to research to copywriting. For example, if you have experience with social media, you might spend a short while brainstorming for ways to connect with people to help educate, empower and engage women.
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Double Your Donation Get free money for your charitable donations through work—many corporations will match their employees’ donations up to 100% which means double the impact. If your firm offers this, we encourage you to think about taking advantage of it, since it’s a unique opportunity to make your money go twice as far for a cause you believe in. To find out if your firm participates, try searching your internal company website and looking for tabs with names like “corporate responsibility,” “volunteering,” or “community affairs.” You can also try entering your company’s name into Google with the word “Foundation” after it to see whether your company has its own charitable foundation. If nothing else, try contacting human resources to see if they can help you track down special charitable programs.
Continually Seeking New Funding Methods: We continually seek new funding methods that are free and or simple everyday tasks from which we can generate funding with the help of our participants, volunteers, supporters, donors and partner organizations.
"Everyone has the power of greatness; not for fame, but greatness. Because greatness is determined by service." ~Martin Luther King
WInC is trending on Twitter With millions of users sending more than 95 million tweets a day, the social network Twitter is a new way for checking the pulse of a nation. Twitter helps people learn what topics are being tweeted about most often with trending topics, a leader board of the top 10 words or phrases currently appearing in tweets. WInC is finally breaking in on the trend. See the posts that have made it below:
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WInC Executive Director Inspires the AAUW Members of the Special Five-Branch Meeting with the webpage...the difficulty there wasn’t in the idea. What caused the difficulty was identifying the reason why most of your members did not connect to your idea. Each of us have individual passions and drives. You need to identify those passions and Lina has the vision of mentoring and uniting professional women in her Whenever she is speaking with drives and connect them to your area. She said she didn’t have what it project. In the end, eventually your organizations that help others, she passion wins them over.” always emphasizes that they need to took to be a visionary; however, she make the people they are helping the shared a story of the difficult time she had in getting the buy in for her AAUW Lina and Mary agreed to keep in touch primary stakeholders in the process. Branch in Santa Fe to get a webpage as she works on her project. They know what they need and can but that she eventually did it. find a solution to their problems; Mary really enjoyed speaking to the however, they may not know where to group and having the opportunity to attain the resources or have access to Mary recognized her as a visionary and a doer. She said, “You have the share her knowledge and experience the tools they need to overcome it. vision, you already know how you are through the work that we are currently After her speech many of the women going to accomplish this...all you need doing. came up to her and thanked her for all is buy in. Think about what you did Santa Fe, NM—Mary Carter, Executive Director of the Women’s Intercultural Center presented her story and the work that is being done at the Women’s Intercultural Center (WInC).
the work she is doing in the South. Some told her how she had inspired them to continue their work. Others came for advise on how to start certain programs in their area.
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We are so fortunate to have donors that truly believe in our cause and include us in their annual budgets to provide us with monthly or quarterly donations. Such donors featured in this week in Review are Hugh Doyle and Sr. TM Malumphy. Thank you both for your commitment to the Women’s Intercultural Center (WInC) and it’s mission to provide a place for women to learn and work together to develop their social, Spiritual, economic and political potential. It is through your support that we are able to be a catalyst for change in the lives of the women we serve and they in turn become a catalyst for change
in their families and communities. We could not do what we do without you, We are pleased to recognize and express gratitude to you and all our donors whose generosity has allowed us to educate, empower & engage women. Your support additionally helps us meet the needs of the rural communities of Southern NM and West TX such the creation of micro-enterprise, emergency food pantry, and many individual services for participants such as translation, faxing, filling out documents, employment search and assistance, scholarship applications, referral services, and more.
cannot make a financial donation, there are other free and simple ways through every day tasks which they can do to support our work. Have them visit our website and review the many ways they can help at http:// www.womensinterculturalcenter.org/ donate.
Thank you for Your Generosity & Support!
Please remind others to ask for WInC. Share with them that if they
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dates to remember For additional information please contact us at 575-882-5556 or the contact number listed next to the event announcement.
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Parents Day Potluck at 12pm. Come and join us in the celebration.
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Monday, Memorial Day. In observance of the holiday WInC will be closed.
Feminine Fuerza Camp from 11 am to 3 pm. The Camp is designed for young ladies 13 to 19 years old To teach the girls of the various tools
Start of Summer Semester Classes. Review the calendar for dates and times of the classes being offered.
with which they can empower themselves and girls around them, and why this empowerment process is important.
June
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Come and celebrate Fathers Day. There will be a potluck at 12 p.m. Share with us your favorite dish and have fun.
August
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July
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End of Classes Celebration at 12pm. Time to come and share with us your achievements. Bring your favorite dish and join the celebration
Let's celebrate Independence Day with a potluck at 12 p.m.
September Independence Day. In observance of the holiday, WInC will be closed; however we will be participating in the Town of Anthony’s 4th of July Parade.
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5, 12, 19 & 9/27
Labor Day. In observance of the holiday, WInC will be closed.
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Fall Semester Registration begins. Come and register for your classes .
Diabetes Workshops from 1 to 3pm. The workshops are being led by Olga Hernandez & Amir Hernandez. The training is designed to teach you how to live with and control your diabetes.
Interested in teaching a class, scheduling a workshop, presentation or training at WInC? We are always searching for Volunteer Instructors to teach in their areas of expertise. We currently have a special need for a haircutting instructor. For more info, contact Ilse Arrieta, Program Coordinator at 575-882-5556 or via email at iarrieta@qwestoffice.net. 13
Women’s Intercultural Center WHERE IT STARTS 303 Lincoln Street / PO Box 2411 Anthony, NM 88021 575-882-5556 Fax: 1-866-285-7245 www.womensinterculturalcenter.org
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