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   Healdsburg Soroptimist's 2020 Live Your Dream winners, 
   with our Awards Chair, Shannon Hauseman, on the left.  Every year, we give
   a cash award to women who are going back to school, to improve
​   their lives.

Congratulations to our 2020 High School Scholarship  and Violet Richardson  Award Winners!

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Eva Hernandez
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Joana Angel Rincon
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Esmeralda Cervantes
Our Scholarship Winners for the Year 2020
Annually, since 1956, SIH has awarded scholarships to deserving High School Seniors who exemplify strong leadership skills, acadamic achievement and involvement in school and community.   This years winners from Healdsburg High School are: Malia Llerna, Eva Hernandez, Joana Angel Rincon, and Cordelia Swan.  From Geyservile  New Tech High School is Esmeralds Cervantes. 
​Our Violet Richardson Awardee is Malia Llerna.  This award is awarded to a high school senior who has taken a leadership role in the community through volunteerism.
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Cordelia Swan
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Malia Llerna

We Give Awards to Outstanding Women In Our Healdsburg Community

LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARD
  • Since 1972, this award has disbursed more than $25 million to tens of thousands of women.
  • Women Who Overcome: poverty, violence, divorce, the death of a spouse, or other challenges. 
  • Women with courage to turn their lives around.  
  • Provides women with cash to offset costs associated with higher education.
RUBY AWARD
  • Honors women who make differences in lives of ​​​other women.
  • A Ruby Award Recipient: Works to improve and inspire the lives of women and girls.
  • A monetary award is given to the charitable organization of the recipients choice.​
VIOLET RICHARDSON AWARD
  • Young woman between 14-17. ​
  • An award to honor young women for their volunteer service in their community.
  • The Honoree Receives: Recognition, a monetary award to the charitable organization of her choice and a matching grant for herself​

​Improving the lives of women and girls,
in local communities & throughout the world.

We contribute to the following Organizations

YWCA Sonoma County Womens Safe House                                Sending Girls to Stanford Teck Trek
Sonoma County Girls on the Run                                                  Healdsburg Education Foundation
Sonoma County Cancer Risk Assessment Project                         Social Advocates for Youth
Reach for Home                                                                            Sonoma County Family Justice Center

We Throw Fundraising Events
We give Scholarships to graduating Seniors from Healdsburg High School
​and Geyserville High School every year
GIRLFRIENDS ON THE GREEN (Spring Event) 
  • Our Largest Fundraiser
  • Woman Golfing in the Afternoon
  •  Catered Dinner
  • Silent & Live Auction
  • Proceeds benefit Programs for Women and Girls and  for the Shannon Boaz Memorial Fund for Active Girls, which assists with the fees for girls in our local community to participate in sports, arts, science and various extra-curricular activities.