An Easy Way to Donate

Check out https://www.justgive.org/basket?acton=donate&ein=20-1788353 this is an easy way to make a tax deductible one time donation to SWAN. It is an even better way to make a re-occurring donation. Just sign up and once a month the amount you chose will be automatically donated from you to SWAN. You get emailed a receipt and at the end of the year, everything you need for your taxes is right in your email.

It cost $22.50 per night to provide our services to the women.

The great thing is every penny you donate goes right to helping the women and children. No one gets paid to run SWAN it is 100% volunteers.

Is It Time to Clean Our Your Closets?

SWAN is holding another yard sale. If  you have been putting off cleaning out your closet, garage or storage areas, now is the time to do it.

Please donate any items that you are no longer using. They will be sold to help support the butterfly house. Call 602-299-5261 to coordinate drop off/pick up of donations.

Do You Want To Volunteer?

SWAN and Butterfly House can always use more volunteers and the process is pretty easy.


Just let us know if you might be interested. We will meet with you to provide more information and find out where you may be the best fit.

Some ways our volunteers help

• Mixers – go to mixers in your neighborhood to talk about SWAN. This helps get awareness out
• Tabling – set up a table outside a local store, hand out information and accept donations.  Donation Recruitment – talk to local business owners to give info on SWAN and see if they would be interested in donation anything
• Fundraisers – ideas need! Also, help needed on upcoming events.
• Rummage sale holders – hold rummage sale for donations to SWAN. Pool your items with those of friends, family and other volunteers
• Play games – poker, bunco – hold a game night for a buy in and have people bring donations (cash, TP, etc)
• Sales Party – have a independent consultant donate a portion of sales from getting your friends together. Corporate reach out – contact large companies to see if they would support swan with a drive or fundraiser.
• Volunteer at the house – work with the women of Butterfly House. Any activity in the house is good as long as it has a positive message and will help the women in the search for self esteem and goal achievement.

Email us for more info! Worth.Accepting@gmail.com

House & Volunteers

The house is still moving along. The garage sale last week got us about 1/2 of the funds needed for June so we are still working on fundraising ideas. Please, emails us if you have any suggestions!
Last night we had a volunteer meeting to make sure everyone is on the same page when working with the residents of the house and to come up with fundraising ideas.

Looks like June will have a great event that is in conjunction with a Karate School. The school seems to be run by people with really great hearts. They currently offer free classes to any child in foster care and they want to come to the house and do a self defense class.

We have a meeting next week with CCV and hopefully they will let us use space and we can have the date for our October Expo and we can move forward with that. We have already had a few people who want to be vendors!

Volunteer Meeting Tonight

There will be a volunteer meeting tonight at 7pm near 32nd and Bell.


Call Amilia if you are interested in attending! 602-299-5261

Success!

Thank you to everyone who donated items for the garage sale this weekend. The event took a lot of hard work and heavy lifting, but it was worth it. Almost everything was sold and we were able to raise over $700 to help pay for the Butterfly House expenses for this month. Additionally, we made some great people and handed out some materials on SWAN and Butterfly House.

There was a great 21 year old guy who is moving in a couple of weeks but wanted to do something to volunteer, since no guys are allowed in the house, he took some materials and are going to give them to some of his female friends that he things would be interested in volunteering. He was really sweet and it was nice to talk to him and his mother.

We also met Pablo who works at a printing company and may be able to assist with our printing needs.

There were a few women who took info and hopefully be contacting Amilia to see how they can be involved.

We still have a great Chaise Lounge and a TON of books if you know anyone.

Have a great week!

Full House!

As mentioned before, the Butterfly House is now full with 4 great girls and their children.
Ashly has a 4 month old son and was the first person in the house. Katie joined, she has 3 daughters that are 1,3, and 5. She also has a boy on the way. Joslyn is a 17 year old who doesn't have any children and jsut last night a new girl joined the house with her 10 month old son.
As you can imagine there are a host of needs: diapers, baby clothes, and food being top priorities. 2 of the ladies left with only what they were wearing!

In addition to the immediate needs, there are ongoing needs...just to sustain the house we need $1,584 a month. Please consider a reoccuring donation $5, $10, $15 or more each month. You can sign up at https://www.justgive.org/basket?acton=donate&ein=20-1788353 and the payment will be automatic. All donations should be tax deductable.

The garage sale is tomorrow & Saturday and hopefully we will have a great turn out and raise a lot of money to get these ladies some of the things they need. Basic things that you and I take for granted beacuse we have them.....but imagine having to live with only 1 shirt.

Please come consider a donation and coming to the garage sale. Please spread the word about the garage sale, we have a ton of great stuff for sale and will also have information about SWAN and Butterfly House!

Garage Sale!

The fundraiser is being held at 664 W. Grove Cir Mesa AZ Friday and Saturday from 7am-3pm (or later if there are still shoppers).

I have been spending large amount of time working to make sure that everything is organized. I have cleaned out closets and bookshelves and still have a ways to go in the house. Right now we have TON of books, DVD’s & CD’s along with great items like: a desk, a chaise lounge, an entertainment center, a small TV, an iPod, a Nintendo DS w/ games and lots of house hold goods. Yesterday a great co-worker of mine donated 4 large bags of dress clothes, baby clothes and shoes, some of these items may be used for the women but the rest will be in for the sale. Today I have had 4 more co-workers say they have items to donate and they are dropping them buy my house Thursday night…so Friday will be an early morning, getting signs out on the road and items organized for sale.

I am planning a table that will have info about SWAN and Butterfly House, along with pledge forms, mailing list sign up and more. Hopefully, we won’t just raise money, but we will also be able to raise awareness and support for SWAN.

Please tell your friends, your family, and your neighbors (maybe even a stranger) to stop on by.

Full House

The house is full and we have a lot of babies with the ladies. Babies bring a whole new set of needs.

Current Needs:
Diapers size 3 and 4
Booster seat for kitchen table
Baby Boy Clothes size 6-9 months
Food
Laundry Soap.

Busy Week

This has been a busy week, so this will be a quick post to give an status and I promise, more info this weekend!

Butterfly House officially opened on May 1st. The house is now full. 1 of the house members brought her 4 month old son with her and 1 is pregnant!

Volunteers to spend time in the house are needed. Call Amilia (602) 299-5261 if you are interested in helping out.

Oh No!

SWAN has a van that we use to transport women to places like, group meetings, doctors, the store, to get orders of protection, etc. Unfortunately, the van has broken down a wee bit - there is no AC! As you can imagine we can't go all summer with women and babies in the van without AC.

Anyone know of someone who would be billing to donate time & parts to fix it? If so, email Amilia at worth_accepting@yahoo.com .

Tomorrow:
We will show you exactly what cash donations go to support.