empowering women

Soroptimist International of Huntington Beach Celebrates 15 Live Your Dream Awardees

  On February 22, Soroptimist International of Huntington Beach awarded Live Your Dream Awards to 15 amazing women, head of household with one or more dependents, who are going to school to improve their lives and the lives of their children.We were blessed to have over 90 people join us for this life-changing event including […]

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Surf City Soroptimists of Huntington Beach Presents…A Spotlight on Janice Van Mullem

Janice Van Mullem, a homegrown Huntington Beach girl,  joined Soroptimist International of Huntington Beach in October, 2020.  Why? Because a friend of hers, a Soroptimist in northern California, told her about the organization and our mission…..Because she believes in women’s empowerment…And because she wants to improve the lives of women and girls. Janice holds the

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Surf City Soroptimists of Huntington Beach Support the Boys & Girls Club of Huntington Valley

When the Surf City Soroptimists of Huntington Beach heard about the Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley’s “Drive-Through Gift Giving Party in support of their 42nd Annual Benefit Auction, October 3, 2020, we jumped…or should I say drove…right in. It was a fun, creative event.  For only $25 and a donation of $50 (or

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Surf City Soroptimists of Huntington Beach….Sometimes Something Small Can Have a Great Impact

  Sometimes something small can have a great impact. Our club was blessed with a member who has since passed away but left a small trust fund for us.  Her name was Dolly Wakeham and from what I have been told; she was a spitfire.  I don’t know much about her except that she worked

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Surf City Soroptimists of Huntington Beach Features Cathy Standiford, Activist Poet

Watching the NeighborsByCathy Standiford My neighbor carefully paints the edge of her car’s trunk with white outbecause the too-small-to-notice scratch interrupts her well-manicureddesire for perfection Another neighbor tosses water balloons across the spring lawn to her daughterbecause the beaches are closed and they yearn to feel the surprise ofwater splashing on skin My elderly neighbor

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Surf City Soroptimists of Huntington Beach – Celebrating All Mothers in Our Community of Women Around the World

I’d like to begin this blog by celebrating all mothers around the world… whether you are a mother to a child or children, a mother to your fur-baby or babies or like a mother to another woman, man or child and with a poem by Tiffany Prochera. BE INSPIREDMay you be inspired today…May you be

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Women’s Equality Day Celebrated in August

Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The 19th Amendment prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. Women’s Equality Day was

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2018-2019 SI Huntington Beach Rocks Soroptimist International of the Americas’ 4 Pillars

Soroptimist International of Huntington Beach truly supports our global mission of improving the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social & economic empowerment. We know empowered women & girls can and will change the world for good! Here is what we accomplished this year: PROGRAMS Goal:  Strongly encouraged to participate in SIA’s

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