COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – A local women’s group is assisting the safety of local law enforcement officers.
At the May Women Who Care of Branch County meeting, the group voted to give funds from the meeting to the Branch County Sheriff’s Reserve for replacement of ballistic body armor vests. The amount donated at the one-hour meeting was $11,800, putting the group at a total donation to the community of over $157,000. Jeanne Crews, whose husband is a member of the Reserves, nominated the organization.
Women Who Care of Branch County is an alliance of women who commit to four meetings per year and donate $100 at each of those meetings to streamline fundraising for local charities and organizations. Meetings occur once per quarter.
Members may nominate the charity of their choice at the beginning of each meeting. Three nominations are pulled out of a box, and those three nominating members have 10 minutes to speak to the group on why the charity is in need of the funds. After all three have spoken, the members vote on who should get the money raised that evening.
Other community organizations the group has contributed to includes the Bridges out of Poverty program, Backpack Buddy Progam, the Girlz Club, Family Promise, the Branch Area Rescue Coalition, Girls on the Run, the 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, and Bronson Girls Softball Complex.
For more information, go to their website at www.WomenWhoCareBranchCounty.com or on the Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/WomenWhoCareBC.
