Soroptimist Dream Programs

7/15/2016 144th Biennial Convention

What is SIA?


What is SIA?

33,000 members+ in 1,300 clubs in 28 regions in 20 countries


What is SIA?


Women and girls will have the resources and opportunities to reach their potential and live their dreams.

What is the vision?


Improving the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.

What is the mission?


The driving forces that bring us together to helps us enact sustainable change for women and girls

Vision + Mission


Increasing Our Collective Impact


Stronger together than we are apart


Empowering women and girls

Soroptimist Dream Programs


Violence against women girls

Issues affecting women & girls


Educationholds the greatest potential to transform the lives of women and girls


• Lifts women & girls out of poverty

• Decreases mortality rates

• Increases overall health• Decreases incidences of

violence• Increases the ability to

recover from violence• Increases the chances

their children will earn an education

Education serves as a catalyst


One of SIA’s core values and SI’s long-term theme—Educate to Lead

Education


Helping domestic violence survivors

50 percent of Live Your Dream Award recipients are survivors of domestic violence


Helping domestic violence survivors

• Make contact with domestic violence agencies

• Give more awards to more survivors of violence

• Go beyond the cash award


Hold a Dream It, Be It project:• Help girls avoid and overcome

obstacles• Teach them about teen dating

violence• Work with girls on a project to raise

awareness about violence against women and girls

• Continue with one-on-one mentoring girls after the project is complete

Ensuring girls live free from violence


A catalyst for improving many specific issues affecting women and girls

Education


Dona Gaddis Wolf

SIA Board Director

Please welcome


SIA’s newest Dream program


Provides girls with access to professional role models, career education, and other resources to live their dreams.

Dream It, Be It


• Understanding their own values & aspirations

• Creating achievable goals

• Overcoming obstacles • Turning failure into

success• Balancing stress• Turning their dreams

into action plans

Dream It, Be It


Empowering girls


Dream It, Be It Feedback “Soroptimists taught us about making goals and

being strong, independent women. It really came in handy for a bunch of stuff going on in my life.”

“I liked discussing real-life issues and being able to express myself without being judged.”

“I learned to be a better version of myself.” “I have more confidence.” “It is good to know I am not alone.”


Dream It, Be It

$24,000

THANK YOU!


• Clubs held 443 projects• The projects impacted

8,600+ girls• 408 clubs held at least

one project• Another 24 clubs

supported another club’s project

= 34% of SIA clubs engaged with the

program

2015-2016 Dream It, Be It Projects


Early survey results indicate:• 82% of girls said they

felt more confident about their future success

• 84% said they felt more prepared to pursue their career goals

Evaluating the program


• SI/Rosarito “started with 200 very serious girls who wouldn’t even look at us as we spoke, and now we have 250 very enthusiastic girls who are willing to share their experiences on a microphone.”

• SI/San Jose Del Monte felt a little overwhelmed when they started, but were pleased with the positive response they had from the girls participating.

• SI/Scotts Bluff reported that both members and girls alike “became very emotional as they all shared struggles and triumphs they have personally experienced.”

Feedback from clubs


Clarissa, Connisha, Ja’Shonda and Kyani

(of SI/Tampa’s Dream It, Be It project)

Dream It, Be It participants


The Game of LifeChance VS Skill• Girls make the

connection between unfair game and real-life obstacles they may face



From Tampa, Florida

Please welcome



Blake High School in Tampa, Florida

Thank you!


Panel Discussion


Thank you, girls!


Gigie PenalosaSIA Board Director

Please welcome


The Power of Dream It, Be It


The Live Your Dream Award


The awards have given women the resources they need to improve their education, skills

and employment prospects

Since 1972


• Over half have experienced violence

• Others face obstacles such as poverty, homelessness, teen pregnancy, personal illness, illness or death of a spouse or child

Live Your Dream Award Recipients


“We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.”

Author Isabel Allende


We believe in our recipients


• 1,355 women received awards (5%+ over last year)

• Nearly $1.9 million was awarded (+7%)

In the 2015-2016 club year


Shaping Our FutureIn the last 4 years:We have increased the number of women we have reached by 14% and funds given by 26%.


• Club participation increased 3%, bringing the total to rate to 81%

• 13 regions had 100% participation

2015-2016 Club Year


Three years after receiving the award, recipients report:

How is this award transforming lives?

Have increased self-

esteem

Have earned or are

continuing to purse a

degree or certificate

Enjoy an increased

standard of living

Are serving as a role model

for their dependents


Thank you!

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