Heart to Heart-Connect with W.H.O.

Video Blog: Are You Ready for a New You for W.H.O.?

Don't miss out on an opportunity to be pampered and styled for BeautiControl's glamorous Awards Night Gala by some of the best makeup artists and hair stylists in the business.  Sip champagne and enjoy hors d'oeuvres while your personal stylists work their magic.  Get your tickets now...4 lucky winners will be chosen.  Remember, not only will you be treated like a Queen, but every dollar will be donated to the W.H.O. (Women Helping Others) Foundation to help support the needs of women and children in crisis!
I can't wait to see you all at Celebration!

XOXO,

Tammy Clary

W.H.O. Advisory Board Chair

Thank you Karen Lorenzo, Janine Reilly and team!

We received this great idea for fundraising from Janine Reilly, Senior VIP from Freehold, NJ who is in the Karen Lorenzo Unit.  We wanted to pass it on to you – it’s a great one for May or June.  Thank you Janine and Karen for sharing…..

The consultants are the heart of the W.H.O. Foundation, so NY/NJ teams are setting a mission to raise money in addition to the pledge donations by having Monthly Rally Raffles.

We are asking everyone to bring an item to the unit rally that we can raffle off that night.  It can be store bought, homemade, edible, a re-gift, something someone else might enjoy. We will have all items displayed and an opportunity for everyone to buy raffle tickets to try to win a desired item. So please come with a little cash to buy raffles and you can take something home, all while donating to the W.H.O. Foundation.

May/June Monthly Rally Raffle

Consider bringing items for a Graduation Day or Welcome to Spring themed basket.  For some examples, it can be anything that a special graduate would enjoy…..BeautiControl products, WHO’s Gorgeous products, a gift card to a local store where they can purchase items for a dorm or apartment, picture frame, candles, a little spending money! 

May and June seem to start bringing warm weather back and spring really arrives! Put together a basket to welcome the sunshine and nice days.  Fill a watering can with gardening gloves, a spade and trowel and some seeds for planting. Include a gardening book or a guide to identifying plants. Add a floppy gardening hat for fun and maybe a fold-able kneepad to kneel on while planting flowers.

Please do not feel obligated to bring an item for the month if you do not have anything to donate, we do not want anyone stressing over it. Thank you for the participation and for donating to the W.H.O.

 From the W.H.O. Staff 

W.H.O. Walk:  Please don’t forget to pre-register for the W.H.O. Walk.  Just go to BeautiNet and sign up under events where you sign up for Celebration.  Only $20 to pre-register.  It will be $25 on-site.

New You for W.H.O:  Purchase your tickets now to be automatically entered into the drawing for a make-up and hair makeover at Celebration – just in time for the annual awards event!  Find the ticket order form on BN>Business Tools>Forms on File>WHO. 

Basket Raffle:  Brainstorm with your unit to come up with an idea for the W.H.O. Basket Raffle at Celebration.  This is a fabulous fundraiser for W.H.O. and we always look forward to your creations!

 

 

 

 

                                                                                   

What's up with W.H.O.?

Remember all those prom gowns you donated at Leadership?  Over 300 of them?  The dresses were donated to three organizations to help make prom dreams come true for disadvantaged young ladies.  We had an opportunity to attend the Friends of Wednesday's Child Formal Affair event a couple of weeks ago and witness the fun they had chooseing from the huge selection of dresses!  These girls are all in foster care and without your generosity would likely not have had the resources for prom dresses.  In addition to the dresses, we had local BeautiControl Directors and Consultants there to do make-overs.  It was great to see the transformation as they learned about how to apply make-up and find just the perfect dress.  Thanks to all of you that helped make this dream come true!

Be sure to come to Celebration to see much more about this amazing event and the lives you touched!

On May 10^th,  W.H.O. will have its annual WHOland  Mother’s Day Shopping event at a local free afterschool program, Trinity River Mission.  Approximately 140 students, grades K-5, will have a chance to purchase BeautiControl products, jewelry, purses and more for their moms or other significant women in their lives in honor of Mother’s Day.   

To buy the donated items, children have been earning points in their afterschool program through regular attendance, improved grades, good report cards, mentoring, etc.  We just received the list of names and their points and we will be providing bank envelopes full of WHObucks that represent the number of points they earned.  It’s a real life experience – the harder they worked in their afterschool program, the more points they earned, resulting in more bucks to spend on mom! 

After selecting their gifts, with the help of personal shoppers, students will move to the gift bag table where other volunteers will package the items in gift bags with tissue paper and ribbon.  They will leave that day with their gifts ready to present to the special women in their lives.   

In addition to the shopping, we will be providing a pizza party for the students as well, thanks to generous monetary donations from the W.H.O. Board of Directors.   

It’s a great day and an event we always look forward to.  Moving a store across town is no small feat and certainly the W.H.O. staff could not do it alone!  As always, we will be counting on many of our BeautiControl associates and our W.H.O. Board of Directors to help make it happen!  We appreciate their help so much!  Hope to have some pictures to share after the event.

Just a few reminders about W.H.O. happenings….. 

• Please remember W.H.O. at your May Success Meetings.  Get your $20 for 20 Years ribbon when you make at least a $20 donation that day. 
• Pre-register now for the W.H.O. Walk for just $20.  Register online when you register for Celebration on BN.  Pre-registration guarantees a Walk t-shirt!  Onsite registration will be $25. 
• New You for W.H.O. will be back at Celebration 2013!  Watch for the ticket order form on Forms on File and order your tickets ahead of time to be automatically entered into the drawing for a make-up and hair makeover for the Annual Awards event.  You could be one of the four lucky winners!
• We had such an awesome response to our Prom Dress Project request for prom dresses and we thank you for that!  Watch for another opportunity to help those in need at Celebration.  We will be collecting school supplies for approximately 315 foster children to help them prepare for a successful new school year.  More details to come! 

Thanks for all you do for W.H.O.  Have a great weekend!

 

 

 

 

We are almost there!!

We are getting closer and closer to our $450,000 goal - only about $125,000 to go!  Gosh, it is so exciting and it feels so good to know how many lives we are touching….but we have more lives to touch, right?

 We just came off an awesome New York trip promotion…well, keep spreading the news.  Spread the news about W.H.O. at every spa, health fair or booths, when you are having lunch with your friends, send reminders to your clients…just keep talking.

Fundraising…. it is so amazing how many Consultants are participating in the W.H.O. Pledge Program (over 9,500 now!) and it keeps growing, plus, all the great Directors that are participating in the W.H.O. Director Commission Deduction program.  And I know in every city where there is a team rally or BeautiControl event W.H.O. is being nicely represented, and that feels so good.

With spring in the air, I know many of us are doing some extra house cleaning.  Tammy Clary shared a great idea and that is “New to You for W.H.O.”. I happen to love purses and noticed I had a few too many!  So I packed them up and took them to my team rally and sold them for W.H.O. It was simple, they went fast, we made money for W.H.O. and I had space in my closet to go buy some more!

Remember someone special with a W.H.O. postcard for Mother’s Day (or any occasion).  Send your card electronically with your own message or request a paper copy and your recipient will get the card of your choice with a note stating you have made a donation in their honor. Simply go to W.H.O. on BeautiNet and click  “Online Giving” and complete the form.

Another idea to share… As you all know, we have an over-the-top fabulous Mother’s Day sale going on right now.  How about taking advantage of this great sale?  With the spa sets you order, put together a simple Mother’s Day spa basket for every spa you do up until Mother’s Day. It could just be as simple as one product with fillers or a product in a cute gift bag. Talk to your spa guests about the W.H.O. Foundation and let them know you are selling raffle tickets at their spa that night and someone is going home with a gift for their mother or friend. 

Though we have already touched thousands of women and children and we have put hope in their hearts and a smile on their face, there are still so many who are struggling. So we need to continue to spread the word about W.H.O. and just ask…just like we ask for a booking, sale or recruit.  It’s just what we do.

I want to say thank you to everyone that continues to share the word about the W.H.O. Foundation and those who continue to raise funds with so many creative ideas. Thank you for all you do!

I was looking back at a past speech I wrote and I wanted to share…HEART

H is for helping others

E is for every dollar that brings hope to a mother and child

A is to be aware of the needs of others and what we can do to help

R is for raising the bar, raising expectations and raising hope

T is for together we can make it happen 

Thanks for being the Heart of BeautiControl and the heart of W.H.O. 

Hugs and Smiles, Nancy Willis, W.H.O. Advisory Board Member

From the W.H.O. Staff

If you volunteer for a charity in your community…..PLEASE REMEMBER TO SUBMIT A VOLUNTEER SERVICE GRANT APPLICATION on their behalf!!!  The deadline to receive your applications in our office is May 21^st.  Just imagine how incredible it would be to be onstage at Celebration – receiving funds to take home to the organization where you volunteer your time.  It’s obvious Katherine Burgess and Kathy Thompson were excited with this news at Leadership!!  The grant they received has been used to purchase a van for the Huntsville Inner City Learning Center and because of the van, they can now provide transportation to SO many more children that need their help.  This could be you!!

What are you waiting for?!

 

Celebrate Spring - Celebrate W.H.O!

Spring is here and what a great time to celebrate a new season with fresh ideas as we are closing in on our $450,000 goal by celebration.  As of the end of March we have raised $325,000 and we still have  over 3 months to make a huge difference for W.H.O. and exceed our original goal.  Thank you for your time, dedication and generous support in our efforts to touch and change lives through the W.H.O. Foundation. 

A few ideas and reminders as we look forward to the next few months: 

April: Karla Jones shared this great fundraising idea for spring.  Earth day is April 22!  What a great time to recycle and reuse!  Have fellow consultants donate unwanted items and have a raffle, auction or make it a larger event by having a garage sale.  Send the proceeds to W.H.O.  What a fantastic way to celebrate spring, it's great for the Earth and great motivation to clean out those closets for a cause. 

 April Director Meetings are just around the corner!! Here is a simple idea to bring us closer to our goal - 50/50 Raffle for W.H.O.!!!  Everyone loves to have the chance to take home money and what a great way to bring in funds for W.H.O.!! 

May: 

We will continue our 20th Anniversary Celebration during our May Success Meetings.  When you donate $20 for W.H.O. during these meetings you will receive our special $20 for 20 Years W.H.O. Ribbon!  Help us create the excitement and be the first to give your $20 for W.H.O.! 

The deadline to submit Volunteer Service Grant applications is May 21st!!! If you volunteer for an eligible organization in your community, this is a great way to bring back funds and make a difference and change lives in your hometown.   

Plan now to join us for our 14th Annual W.H.O. Walk.  Please help us as we prepare for this event by registering now for just $20.  Onsite registration will be $25.   

Our $450,000 goal is within reach!!  Thank you for all you are doing to help us reach our goal, change lives and make a difference for those that so desperately need it!  

Shelly Lambeth, W.H.O. Advisory Board Chair

 

Better than EVER!

Just when you think it can’t possibly get any better, they did it again!  BeautiControl prepared and executed by far the most POWERFUL Leadership conference EVER!

From the opening sessions right down to the final moment when we shared together and received our very own Beautiful Daisy – it was an absolutely amazing 3 days!

There was also a very exciting first for the W.H.O. Foundation as they presented W.H.O. Volunteer Service Grants for the first time ever at Leadership conference.  It was so exciting to see the money we raise be put into action and to change lives in our local communities!

Over $139,000 was awarded to eight organizations around the United States.

As the W.H.O. Foundation celebrates its 20^th Anniversary, we have even bigger hopes and have set higher goals with our efforts to both raise money and to give it back than ever before as we continue help those in need. 

If you are currently volunteering at an organization in your community, please take a moment to look into the W.H.O. Volunteer Service Grants and see if your organization qualifies for the money that is available.  The deadline to apply is May 21^st.  The application is simple to complete.  For the details questions about the organization, take it to someone there (the executive director, development director, etc.) and they will be HAPPY to help!  The form is on BeautiNet>Businesss Tools> Forms on File>W.H.O.

Stacy Atnip, Executive Director and W.H.O. Foundation Advisory Board member

From the W.H.O. Staff

Just a quick reminder to please remember W.H.O. at the April Director Meetings.  We are planning a 50/50 raffle and who wouldn’t love to take cash home from the meeting!  ½ to the winner and ½ for W.H.O.

I will say it again – Volunteer Service Grant applications are due in the W.H.O. office by May 21^st!  Celebration in July may seem quite a ways off now – but the deadline for the VSG applications is certainly getting close.  If you volunteer for a charity, don’t let this opportunity to take funds back to them get away!

Also for Celebration – New You for W.H.O. will be back so watch for the ticket order form coming soon so you can purchase your tickets before you get there.  It was a great success last year and we expect even bigger and better for 2013!  The 14^th Annual W.H.O. Walk is coming uptoo.  Just $20 to pre-register AND guarantee that you will get a t-shirt in your size.  Register online at the same place you register for Celebration. 

Thanks to all for your continual support!

 

 

 

Don’t forget about W.H.O. in April and May

This is a great time to start planning to include W.H.O. at our upcoming April Director Meetings and May Success Meetings. 

Some ideas to generate excitement and bring us closer to our goal are:

• Basket raffle
• 50/50
• $20 donation from all attendees to commemorate our 20th Anniversary.   

Special news:  There will be a ribbon at our Success Meetings for anyone that donates $20 or more that day!  $20 for 20 Years! We hope EVERYONE will be wearing this W.H.O. ribbon at the end of the day! 

Please consider what just $20 can do for those in need…

• Provide 33 low-income children with a toothbrush, toothpaste and dental floss 
• Provide 10 survivors of domestic violence with training materials to help them reach self-sufficiency
• Provide delivery of meals for a week to a low-income senior citizen
• Provide a “comfort bag” of school supplies, books, new t-shirts, socks, hygiene items, a stuffed animal and games for a child removed from her/his home
• Provide a new pair of shoes for an under-served child 

You won't want to miss the chance to take funds back to a charity in your own community through our Volunteer Service Grant opportunity.  This is always a very special time at Celebration that we recognize our grant recipients onstage.  If you volunteer for a charity in your community, apply now for a W.H.O. Volunteer Service Grant. Complete the application on BN>Business Tools>Forms on File>WHO - application due to the W.H.O. office no later than May 21st.

I'm thrilled to share with you our goal update - as of February 28th we have raised $300,000 towards our $450,000 goal by Celebration! With 4 months+ still remaining, I am excited to see what we will do!! 

Thank you for helping us change lives and make a difference for those that need it most. 

 Shelly Lambeth, W.H.O. Advisory Board Chair

 

 

 

 

 

Leadership Conference was over the top!

Where do I start??? Leadership conference 2013 was over the top!  For the first time ever the W.H.O. Foundation is giving grants twice this year at our National Conferences – first at Leadership and then again at Celebration.  This has to be one the most exciting parts of Beauticontrol and the W.H.O. because we are able to help women and children on a much larger scale.  I believe this will also get more Consultants involved in volunteering in their community and get the word out that BeautiControl is more than just a skincare company!!   

Being part of the W.H.O. Advisory Board is such a great feeling.  It allows me the opportunity to work with amazing Directors with huge hearts!  At our Advisory Board meeting at Leadership, we all brainstormed together on different ways to raise money and awareness for W.H.O. with our teams on a regular basis. I love the fresh ideas we came up with and can't wait to inspire our teams to get out in their community so we can continue to help hundreds of thousands of women across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.  Our goal for Celebration 2013 is $450,000 and I know we can reach – and exceed – that goal!  There are NO LIMITS to WHO we can help thanks to BC and the W.H.O. Foundation – which is now 20 years old!! 

Karen Lorenzo, W.H.O. Advisory Board                                                                                                      Executive Director BeautiControl 

From the W.H.O. Staff 

Leadership really was over the top – in every way.  For W.H.O. specifically, we had lots to celebrate…..

The red tote bags were a huge hit!  We sold out, but the good news is they will be back for Celebration.   

Zumba with W.H.O. was an Extreme success.  Approximately 200 of BC’s best joined in on the fun and exercise bright and early Saturday morning.

We had 3 raffles going on at the W.H.O. Booth and 6 lucky people went home winners:

 

Luxury Raffle                                                                            

Deb Cannon donated a beautiful full length mink coat and Executive VIP Ruthann Pounds got to take it home!

Paulette Britt contributed a gorgeous 14k white gold and diamond ring and Executive Director Tracey Gillum was the lucky winner!

Blair Billings donated a stunning 14k yellow gold and diamond ring and Executive VIP Sandy Lange took it back with her to New Jersey!

50/50 Raffle – VIP Susan Arbogast took home $295 just by participating in the 50/50 raffle

Apple iPad Raffle – Director Verlean Randolph purchased a W.H.O. tablet case and she was the lucky winner in the drawing for a new Apple iPad valued at $499!  

A big thank you to our donors of valuable items for the Luxury Raffle and congratulations to all the winners! 

 

 

We can do it….

As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the W.H.O. Foundation I am so excited to report that with a full 5 months + left to reach our goal of $450,000 by Celebration 2013, we have raised $250,000 towards our goal.  And that doesn’t include funds raised at Leadership!!  When we set this goal last year we felt it was achievable and I still have every confidence that we can and will exceed our goal.  We did have a slow start, but with almost half of the year before us I believe we will finish strong.  As I have said before, we need each and every one of us doing our part to make this happen!!   

Here are some very simple ways you can make a difference for W.H.O: 

• 100% of team participating in the Pledge
• All Directors participating in Commission Deduction
• Unit Rally fundraisers
• Make a donation in honor or in memory of a loved one or to wish someone a Happy Valentine's Day 

With Valentine's Day just around the corner there is no better place to shop than our WHO BeautiShop.  Great items, great prices and a portion of the sales go right back to the W.H.O. Foundation!!!  Give a gift to someone you love and at the same time, make a difference in the lives of those who desperately need our help.  

Join us as we push forward and strive to exceed our goal.  With each of us making the W.H.O. Foundation our charity of choice and focusing our efforts into this one phenomenal organization, together we will continue to change lives, serve others and make this our most Extreme year ever!!!   

Thank you in advance for helping us reach our goal!!!! 

Shelly Lambeth, W.H.O. Advisory Board Chair

From the W.H.O. Staff

Help us celebration our 20th Anniversary.  Imagine how much you could raise if everyone in your Unit made a $20 donation at your February or March Unit Rally in honor of our special year!  That would be amazing!

Thank you, as always, for your continued support.  Thank you for being part of the heart!

 

 

 

 

Happy 20th Anniversary, W.H.O.!

And, congratulations on helping so many women and children since your founding in 1993: $5.1 million distributed to charitable organizations that improved the lives of women and children.  What a marvelous tribute to the vision of W.H.O.’s founder, Jinger Heath.  Her legacy continues to enhance the lives that we touch through our heart-felt giving.

It was at a directors’ meeting in 1994 when I learned that one of our top directors was facing breast cancer.  My heart was touched.  I felt compelled to make a donation to W.H.O. in her honor.  That donation sparked Ginger to ask: What would it take to have other BeautiControl consultants give to the W.H.O. Foundation?  The answer came easily – Form an advisory board made up of BeautiControl directors that could work with W.H.O.’s board of directors to create giving opportunities and programs.

At Celebration that year, Jinger announced the formation of the new advisory board, and appointed the directors who were to be on the new board.  I was surprised and excited to be one of the directors appointed to the new board.  And I was truly honored when my fellow advisory board members elected me to be the first W.H.O. Advisory Board Chairperson.  My heart was forever committed to helping the W.H.O. Foundation grow.  Of course, I recruited my husband, Ernest, to be a part of growing the Foundation.  Ernest, would you share how the WHO Foundation has touched your heart?

I would be glad to, Peggy.  You know how so many of the large organizations we give to are somewhat distant.  Well, the W.H.O. Foundation is grassroots real.  I first realized that when we had the opportunity in 1995 to deliver a $2,000 check to the YMCA in Oklahoma City that was taking care of the children who were displaced by the bombing of the Federal Building downtown.  To see the need and feel the impact that donation would have on supporting those children really touched my heart.  That was just the beginning.  Since then we have worked with the W.H.O. to support The Angel of the Desert in getting a new van to distribute food, clothing and blankets to extremely disadvantaged Native Americans on the Gila River Reservation in Arizona.  We’ve been a part of getting a grant for Homebase Youth Services in Phoenix.  That grant went a long way in helping get homeless, at-risk children off the streets and into a safe home environment where they could continue their education and go on to become productive citizens.  Homebase has had an amazing success rate in achieving its mission of, “changing lives, strengthening families, and building healthy communities.”  The same impact and success is true of the Family Alliance here in Virginia.  The W.H.O. grant for school supplies and shoes for disadvantaged children produced lots of smiles and excitement as the children picked up their gifts.  The gratitude expressed by their parents was genuinely heart-warming.  I could go on with more stories, but I think our readers will get the point: The W.H.O. Foundation contributes to the health of our communities in very real, tangible ways.  It supports the volunteer efforts of our BeautiControl family.  Consultants who want to see how their state has benefited can go to: http://www.whofoundation.org/WhoWeHelp

That is so true, Ernest.  The W.H.O. Foundation has come a long way since meeting our ambitious first-year fundraising goal of $250,000.  Each year since, the advisory board has increased its vision of how much our BeautiControl sisters, and brothers, are willing to give to support our consultants’ grassroots volunteer work that helps less fortunate, at-risk women and children.  Our consultants’ generosity in giving to the W.H.O. Foundation is a blessing.  All of the seemingly small donations given consistently over the course of the last 20 years have produced high-impact results.  Consultants who want to find out more about how they can donate to W.H.O. can go to: www.whofoundation.org.

All contributions to the Foundation are deeply appreciated.  I would, however, be remiss if I didn’t mention a special program we have for our consultants who want to contribute more.  The program is called Hearts of Gold®.  It’s the way the Foundation recognizes our consultants who donate $500, or more, each year.  Your contributions can be made monthly with automatic deductions from your commission checks.  Or, you may choose to write checks, have your contribution charged to your credit card, add an amount to each of your BC orders and many other ways to contribute.  Please contact Cindy Turek or one of the advisory board members if you would like more information about this program and the special recognition donors receive for their generosity.

The W.H.O. Foundation gives us an easy way to support the volunteer work that our BeautiControl sisters and brothers so generously contribute to their communities.  If you are not already giving to the Foundation, please consider adding $5 for the W.H.O. to each of your BeautiControl orders.  For those of you already giving, please consider increasing your gifts.  Remember: Gifts given consistently over time produce high-impact results.  Women Helping Others is the spirit of what we are all about.

Peggy Adams, Senior National Executive Director and W.H.O. Advisory Board Member

From the W.H.O. Staff

This is a great reminder of how your donations – however large or small – can truly make a difference in the lives of those who are struggling.

Leadership is just a few short weeks away!  Here are some W.H.O. reminders for you…..

• Zumba with W.H.O. – download your registration form from BN Forms on File and fax or e-mail to the W.H.O. office. Zumba Registration form (11/2012)
• Order your W.H.O. iPad case and be automatically entered for a drawing for a new Apple® iPad®.  You do not have to be present to win!
• Prom Dress Project – every young girl deserves the prom of her dreams! Help make them come true by donating gently used prom dresses and/or evening bags.  Drop off at the booth or mail to the W.H.O. office.
• February 1^st is National Wear Red Day®!  Wear red that day – wherever you are – to show your support for women fighting heart disease as we partner with the American Heart Association.

Thanks, as always for your support and have a great weekend!