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Saturday, June 23, 2007

PEARR Honors Women In Distress of Broward County

FORT LAUDERDALE --On behalf of the PEARR Executive Council and its 86 members, Victoria Dawson, PEARR Founder and President, presented Howard Schulman, Chairman of the Board of Women In Distress of Broward County, with their year end donation check for $7,500 at their outdoor Summer Bash event. These funds will be used to directly support the WID shelter, 24/7 hot line, counseling and educational programs. "It has been such an honor to lead PEARR during its inaugural year and to build a new professionals auxiliary from scratch," Dawson said. "I am thrilled we have raised over $14,500 in our first year and look forward to our future fund raising events led by our new 2007/08 President Charlotte Sundquist".

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Wednesday, May 9, 2007

PEARR’s Patricia Minski named Volunteer of the Year

FORT LAUDERDALE --The Executive Council of Professionals Educating and Advocating Respect in Relationships would like to congratulate Outreach and Education Chairperson Patricia Minski for being named Women In Distress’ Volunteer of the Year.

PEARR, created in 2006, is an auxiliary of Women In Distress of Broward County, Inc. PEARR President Victoria Dawson extended her congratulations to Minski on behalf of the Executive Council.

“We are all so proud of your outstanding accomplishments this year,” she said. “Cheers to you, Patricia.”

Minski received the honor at Women In Distress’ Volunteer Appreciation Awards Ceremony during Volunteer Appreciation Month in April. The Academy Award-themed event, complete with a red-carpet entrance, was held to recognize the women and men who donated their time and talents in the past year to allow the agency to provide victims of domestic violence with safe shelter, counseling and crisis intervention, and to fulfill it’s mission to Stop Abuse For Everyone (SAFE).

More than 100 volunteers attended the ceremony and treated Minski to a standing ovation as she received her award and plaque onstage in the auditorium of the Jim and Jan Moran Family Center, in Fort Lauderdale, on April 20.

When presenting the award, Nancy Leve, agency director of volunteer services and advisor to PEARR, mentioned Minski’s strong will and persistence in seeing through the development of the Adopt-A-Shelter program that Minski created as a social-change activity for PEARR. The program helps volunteer organizations provide services to benefit the women and their families who reside at Women In Distress’ shelters.

Since the program was launched, a mere three months ago, it has provided shelter residents with a Valentine’s Day party, a spring dinner offered by Johnson and Wales Culinary School students, Easter baskets for children donated by Banana Republic employees, and arranged the delivery of outside furniture from a private donor. Shelter doors and walls have been repainted by volunteers from Dimension Data and American Express, respectively, and this Saturday, a Mother’s Day luncheon is scheduled.

Minski said she is grateful for PEARR’s support of Adopt-A-Shelter and added that she was happy to work on a project to help women and their families seeking to escape domestic violence.

“It meant a lot to me because Women In Distress gave me an opportunity to do for others what I couldn’t do for my mother growing up,” she said.

Labels: PEARR Recognition