WOMEN'S OPPORTUNITY AWARD
Women's Opportunity Award
Each year we award $2,500 to assist a woman in our community by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills and job prospects.
VIOLET RICHARDSON AWARD
This program recognizes an outstanding girl from Laguna Beach High School with a $1,000 award for leadership and volunteer efforts.
RUBY AWARD
Awarded to an exceptional woman in our community to recognize her work on behalf of women and girls.
LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARDS
The Soroptimist Live Your Dream Awards assists women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills and employment prospects.
Each year, more than $1.6 million in education grants are awarded to more than 1,200 women, many of whom have overcome enormous obstacles including poverty, domestic violence and/or drug and alcohol abuse. Live Your Dream Awards recipients may use the cash award to offset any costs associated with their efforts to attain higher education, such as books, childcare, tuition and transportation.
In addition to providing the primary financial support for their families, eligible applicants must be enrolled in, or have been accepted to, a vocational/skills training program or an undergraduate degree program and must demonstrate financial need. Also, please note only residents of Soroptimist International of the Americas’ member countries and territories are eligible to apply for the educational grants.
The Live Your Dream Awards involves three levels of cash awards. The program begins at the local Soroptimist club-level, where award amounts vary. Local-level award recipients become eligible for region-level awards of either $3,000 or $5,000. Region-level award recipients then become eligible to receive one of three international-level awards of $10,000.
Since the Live Your Dream Awards program began in 1972, about $30 million in education grants have been disbursed to assist tens of thousands of women achieve their dreams of a better life for themselves and their families. In 2007, the program received the Associations Advance America Summit Award—ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership’s highest level of recognition.
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDS
Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Beach
Breast Cancer Angels
Chamber of Commerce
Columbo - American Fund
Dream It Be It
Grandma's House of Hpse
Inernational Santuary
Laguna Beach Community Clinic
Laguna Food Pantry
Mary's Path
R Star Foundation
Tanzania Girl
AWARDS
LAGUNA BEACH HIGHSCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS
A total of $10,500 is awarded to 12 college bound students each year.
WOMEN’S OPPORTUNITY AWARD
Each year we award $2,500 to assist a woman in our community by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills and job prospects.
VIOLET RICHARDSON AWARD
This program recognizes an outstanding girl from Laguna Beach High School with a $1,000 award for leadership and volunteer efforts.
RUBY AWARD
Awarded to an exceptional woman in our community to recognize her work on behalf of women and girls.
SERVICE PROJECTS
Alternative Sleeping Location Laguna Beach – monthly dinners prepared and served to 65 homeless residents
Personal care items collected and distributed to homeless shelter residents twice a year