Among the Humboldt Branch’s recent events was a “donations only” celebration for International Women’s Day on March 8.

By Carilyn Goldammer
Humboldt Branch

May 2020

Humboldt WILPF is small, but our outreach is huge. Monthly planning meetings and a few key events during the year enabled us to once again award our annual scholarship grants to county residents with projects that “support peace and justice locally or globally.”

This April we have given over $3,500 to diverse groups including our local GI Hotline; two organizations providing meals to folks in need; the Kunle Center “warm line” for people experiencing stress; a blossoming Black music and cultural group; a community radio program to train youth in media; and a large grant to the local Latina outreach group helping keep families afloat. Additionally, we annually support a nonprofit summer camp for 6th-8th grade girls.

March 8 was our eleventh “donations only” celebration for International Women’s Day that included food, speakers, a silent auction, Raging Grannies, a sing-along, and raffling another quilt donated by local Open Heart Quilters. Community donations have been generous. Any money raised goes to our Edilith Eckart Memorial Peace Scholarship fund and to donating the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award books to our library system.

We participate in and sponsor many events that speak out for peace, freedom, and justice. Our community’s support for our fundraising allows us to give back to the community and world. We are 12 members strong in our geographically large Northern California county of about 80,000 people. Small in scale, but huge in heart.

For more information contact: Carilynah@gmail.com