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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!