A Tallahassee charitable organization is marking a major milestone this week. Tom Flanigan reports the "One-Hundred-Women-Who-Care" will meet to celebrate a contribution total that runs into hundreds-of-thousands-of dollars. Until her 2017 retirement, Virginia Glass's day job was in the real estate field. But even then she was a fixture on multiple non-profit boards, helping to raise funds for all manner of worthy causes. If that wasn't enough, she decided to start a new fund-raising organization several years ago. Right as the COVID crisis was getting underway.
"We had to meet via Zoom. We had 65 members at our first meeting in November of 2020. We are now at 264 members and it's just incredible the response we've had from the women in our community."
Especially since Glass's group is called "100 Women Who Care." Obviously they've topped that number. And speaking of numbers, Glass will have a very impressive number to share at 5 o'clock this Thursday during the group's quarterly meeting at St. Paul's Methodist Church.
"The meeting that we have on Thursday of this week, the total that will come in from that, we'll put us right at $608,000 that we have given back to mostly invisible non-profits that are doing good work in our community."
She says that meeting will also be essentially an audition as some new human services groups make funding pitches for the next round of donations.
"Our non-profits that will present to us: Family Promise Big Bend.org, Rethink Energy Florida.org and a relatively new non-profit called Metavisions."
Meanwhile, the 100 Women Who Care keeps growing. Glass says this week's meeting will also include some guests from an organization that hers' inspired. It's called "100 Men Who Care."
