COLDWATER, MI – (WTVB) – Women Who Care of Branch County voted during their November meeting to donate $13,000 to the Coldwater United Methodist Church.
The money will be used for the church’s Mary and Martha Diner which a free weekly meal program.
The amount donated at the one-hour meeting put the group’s total donation to the community to over $223,800. Pat McGregor was the member who nominated the United Methodist Church for the donation.
Women Who Care of Branch County is an alliance of busy women who want to make a difference and can commit a small amount of time and resources to streamline fundraising for local charities and organizations with a 501(c)3.
Meetings take place every quarter at Bill’s Grill House Banquet Room at the Coldwater Golf Course.
If you are a member and haven’t made a donation yet, please do so by dropping off a check to Marie Wilber at Nichols Accounting in Coldwater.
Other community organizations the group has contributed to includes the Bridges out of Poverty program, Backpack Buddy Program, the Girlz Club, Family Promise, the Branch Area Rescue Coalition, Girls on the Run, Altrusa Happy Feet Program, Coach Eby Youth and Family Center, Teen Share, Tommy’s House, the Coldwater High School Interact Club, the Foster Child Enrichment Fund, the BCCADV Fence Fund, the Coldwater Band Boosters, the Branch County School Telemedicine Program, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program, Bronson Girls Softball Complex, Branch County Sheriff’s Reserve, Branch Area Food Pantry, Hidden Ponds Horse Rescue, and Branch County Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence/Altrusa Teen Share. Hors d’oeuvres for the meetings were generously donated by the Branch County Community Foundation.
For more information, go to the Women Who Care website at www.WomenWhoCareBranchCounty.com or on the Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/WomenWhoCareBC.
