Meetings are held once per quarter, usually lasting about an hour.

Each member agrees to donate $100 per meeting.

Members bring cash or a check to be written out directly to the selected charity after the winner is selected at the meeting.  If a member is unable to attend a meeting she may give her check to another member to deliver to the meeting on her behalf. Members may also sign up online through Grapevine to donate electronically. This site is specially designed for giving circles (like PayPal or Venmo for clubs like us!). More information on how to donate is located here.

At each meeting, members may nominate organizations to pitch at the next meeting. We will randomly draw from a hat at the meeting to decide the next three organizations to present at the upcoming meeting.  Organizations must serve the MOV area and hold non-profit/501(c)(3) status. Only members who have donated may nominate a charity for consideration.

At the meeting, the non-profit organization has five minutes to present their case on why the charity deserves the donation. A five-minute Q&A session will follow each presentation. See the Presentations Page for suggestions on making a pitch.

Following the presentations and Q&A sessions, the group votes by ballot – the majority rules. The charity selected by majority vote receives a stack of individual $100 checks from all members and any online donations will then be funneled electronically to the group from Grapevine. 0% of the donations goes to our group– we have $0 overhead or administrative costs. We are fully run by volunteers.

In the case of a two-way tie or a three-way tie, we will randomly pick one of the two or three names out of a hat.

100+ Women Who Care in the MOV does not handle any of the funds and does not retain any percentage. All proceeds go directly to the selected charity.

If a member submits a particular charity that is not chosen, the member may submit that same charity at subsequent meetings until the charity is chosen.  If a member’s charity is chosen and makes a presentation, that charity is not eligible to be considered again for at least two years, however the member is still eligible to submit the name of another charity.

The winning charity must agree not to use the names of the members for future solicitations or give the information out for any other public use or purpose.