Here's how you can help support the Young Women's Giving Circle:  

• A Gift of $500 - A gift of $500 provides a stipend for a YWGC participant for the 2025-2026 school year. We are aiming for 13 YWGC students - one for each Howard County high school. We are hoping to raise a total of $6,500 so we can fully support their gas money as they deliver products, and to show how much we value their time, talent, and resources as they spend the school year supporting women and girls in Howard County.​

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• A Gift of $1,000 - A gift of $1,000 supports the YWGC's participation in the WGC's "Mini Give", YWGC members will give a $5,000 grant award to a local nonprofit partner. We are hoping to raise a total of $6,000 to fund the "Mini Give" so the YWGC can fully fund and experience impactful grantmaking as part of the "Mini Give".

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• A Gift of $2,500 - A gift of $2,500 supports the purchase of more "Break the Cycle" period product donation boxes to collect as many products as we can so that YWGC members can pick them up and deliver products around the county. We are hoping to raise a total of $2,500 to purchase all the boxes our YWGC members will need to support the period product drive.

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• A Gift of $5,000 - A gift of $5,000 supports the full program for the 2025-2026 school year. We are hoping to raise of total of $5,000 to ensure our 13 Young Women's Giving Circle members learn about philanthropy, leadership, community, and specific issues like women’s health and period poverty throughout the 9-month program.​

All YWGC donor names will be recognized in WGC and YWGC marketing throughout 2025-2026.

Thank you for your consideration of support! You can learn more about the WGC's Young Women's Giving Circle here and download more info. here.

The Women’s Giving Circle of Howard County invites you to join with us to raise at least $1,000 to support our partners at Grassroots through the WGC's Emergency Response Network (ERN).

Grassroots has a client in need of at least $1,000 to pay her first month's rent in order to obtain permanent housing. She is currently living in her car.

This client is a single woman working as an on-call chef. She has recently been able to earn enough money to pay her security deposit of $3,200 but needs her first month's rent of $1,600. Once she has the $1,600 she can move into permanent housing.

We are ​h​oping to raise at least $1,000 to help her.

Can you help?

Any amount is valued and appreciated!

Thank you,

Jennifer Woods, WGC Chair
Candace Dodson-Reed, WGC Grants Committee Chair
​Alison Canning, WGC ERN Chair
Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz, WGC Executive Director
www.womensgivingcircle.org​

Today the Business Women's Network of Howard County announced their Annual Scholarship Foundation recipients at the BWN Annual Scholarship Awards & Annual Meeting. These women were awarded funds from the BWN Scholarship Committee to pursue education and training to advance their professional careers. 

The Women's Giving Circle provides funding for one scholarship awardee each year and WGC Advisory Board Member Mary Jordan was honored to be there today to support the WGC scholarship awardee Rhonda Boone.

"The WGC scholarship provides hope and inspiration to today’s recipient" said Mary. "How ideal that Rhonda is working towards a Masters in Leadership - the perfect candidate for the Women’s Giving Circle."

Congratulations to Rhonda and all the recipients! We are proud to partner with the BWN on this award.

The Business Women’s Network of Howard County promotes and supports professional women in their careers as executives, business owners and leaders. We provide a vibrant network of women who have a significant impact on the business environment in Howard County.

The Women's Giving Circle is excited to be a part of this year's Columbia Festival of the Arts! We'll be helping to be "Bringing Unity to CommUNITY" through the Sounds of Music with our beautifully decorated WGC umbrella that we've submitted.

We thank WGC Advisory Board Member Mary Jordan, who was excited to use her beautiful artistic skills to create the WGC's umbrella that depicts our logo, leadership, partnership, solidarity, community, kindness, love, creativity, art, music, and empowerment. Her artistry gives a special nod to WGC's "Break the Cycle" Period Product Drive, that is supporting women and girls in Howard County and that is particularly important to Mary.

"I am so excited to have created the WGC's umbrella for this year's Lakefront Umbrella Theme Exhibition!" said Mary Jordan, WGC Advisory Board Member and owner of Bra-la-la. "I think art, music, community, and philanthropy go hand-in-hand and having our giving circle be a part of 'Bringing Unity to CommUNITY' is so meaningful to me, and to all of us."

We are proud to be a part of our wonderful community and look forward to seeing you there!

​The Women’s Giving Circle of Howard County raised over $1,000 to support our partners at The Columbia Housing Center through the WGC's Emergency Response Network (ERN).

​T​he Columbia Housing Center had a client in need of at least $1,000 in assistance to pay back rent in order to avoid eviction. 

This ​w​oman is studying nursing at HCC with the goal of completing her 4-year nursing degree. She ​recently lost her primary job (she has a second part-time job) ​and at the same time, she has been trying to leave an abusive relationship​.

She is behind​ in her rent by about $2,700 and her landlord has started eviction proceedings​. ​Working with CHC, they have determined that she can come up with $1,700 ​but it leaves an outstanding balance of $1,000 that she needed to pay to halt the eviction process.

Together, we raised $1,354 to help her.

Thank you!

Jennifer Woods, WGC Chair
Candace Dodson-Reed, WGC Grants Committee Chair
​Alison Canning, WGC ERN Chair
Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz, WGC Executive Director
www.womensgivingcircle.org​