by Babs Cape – We wished we could vote “yes” on all the grant requests! Voting Night is the highlight of the SoS year.  It’s also the hardest time for members of Seeds of Strength.  This year was no exception.  How can we decide which to choose from among these amazing community organizations asking for our assistance? Voting Nights wake us to the needs around us: from assistance with the aged and their care givers to helping young girls become their best to providing nourishment for hungry children to a place for crime victims with nowhere to go and no one to care or to help, all have needs and are worthy of our help.  The $160,000 available for grants sounds like a lot, but...

New members! Hurray! Welcome! by Babs Cape – As a new member one year ago, I was over the moon! I thought Seeds of Strength looked awesome on paper. And now, having blogged for the SoS Communications Committee and visited some of the grantees, I have come down to earth to find that SoS is even more amazing in reality! Being a part of SoS has brought home the need for our help — and the fact that we can help! We ARE helping! This and more was shared with almost all of our new 59 members at the New Member Event, held on April 5. New members mingled with “experienced” members to meet and to learn about the whole organization. Membership Chair Barbara Garland welcomed everyone an...

by Babs Cape – I left the Georgetown office of Capital IDEA overwhelmed with thoughts of what if … What if I had a husband whose abuse sent me fleeing with my two young children to live with my parents?  What if I then had to rely on multiple part-time jobs, food stamps, and Medicaid to provide for my kids and myself?  What if I were caught in the trap of seeing no future, no hope, nowhere to go? But, what if I had someone believe in me and give me an opportunity to turn things around—a hand up and the support to make THE change of my life?  Sounds like a Capital IDEA! On March 7th, Emily Lucid, Capital Idea liaison, Karron Wilson and I visited this amazing place where lives are...

by Jeannine Haffner – It’s a Tuesday evening in February and that means yet another lovely sunset outside the window of the beautiful Williamson County Courthouse in Georgetown, TX. I am sipping a glass of white wine, eating strawberries and some sort of ridiculously rich ‘Death by Chocolate’ cookie, and trying to figure out how far I’ll have to walk to burn off all the calories if I eat one of everything from the amazing spread on the ‘Chocolate’ table. This is the ‘Wine, Women, Chocolate & Giving’ event sponsored by Seeds of Strength, a group of local Georgetown women whose motto is “Women Coming Together to Make a Difference!”. My friend Sherry Ellis is a mem...