Nominations
For a full list of our recipients and total funds received click here.
Nominees for April 15th Meeting are:
Nominations close March 31st at 6:00 PM
H.O.P. E.
Habitat for Humanity of Addison County
Festival On The Green
Charter House
Elderly Services, Inc.
New Haven Volunteer Fire Department
Common Ground Center
Early Care and Learning Partnership
Corner School Resource Center of Granville, VT
Willowell Foundation
New Community Project
Have a Heart Food Shelf
The Bristol Hub Teen Center and Skatepark
Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Association
Home Share Vermont
Addison County Fair & Field Days
5-Town Friends of the Arts
Bristol Recreation Club
Nomination Eligibility Dates For Previous Recipients
Organizations that were prior primary fund (70%) recipients cannot be re-nominated for 2 years and 1 year for secondary (15%) recipients.
2025
July 2025 The Teen Center
July 2025 New Haven Community Library
July2025 Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Oct 2025 Boys & Girls Club of Vergennes
Oct 2025 Bristol CORE
Oct 2025 Peace Garden
2026
Jan 2026 Turning Point Center
Jan 2026 Cancer Patient Support Foundation
Jan 2026 Addison Otters Swim Team
April 2026 The Open Door Clinic
July 2026 Bristol Rescue Squad
Oct 2026 Vergennes Area Rescue
2027
Jan 2027 Middlebury Community Music Center
Nomination Process:
(Information for our Members)
Only members may nominate a potential recipient. Each member gets one nomination per quarter.
The nomination window is open from the end one meeting until two weeks before the next meeting. You can nominate at any time.
Nominated organizations will receive only one lottery number on the randomized picking wheel even if nominated more than once.
Organizations that were prior primary fund (70%) recipients cannot be re-nominated for 2 years and 1 year for secondary (15%) recipients.
Nominations are subject to eligibility requirements.
Eligibility Requirements
(Information for the Non-Profit)
To be a potential recipient, an organization must meet all of the following criteria:
Recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. In general, no schools, booster clubs, political parties, giving circles or religious organizations will be eligible.
In operation for at least three years as of the date of nomination.
Must provide direct services to Addison County residents.
In addition, all potential recipients must agree to:
Complete a Prequalification Form.
Give a brief presentation at a quarterly meeting if invited.
Provide an update to the group on how funds were used.
Policy on solicitation from non-profits:
Organizations that solicit nomination from our members will be disqualified from nomination for that quarter. Directly targeting 100+ Women Who Care Addison County members to ask them to nominate your organization is not allowed.
Finalists that contact members to solicit votes will be disqualified from consideration that quarter. Organizations who are nominated and selected as finalists may not contact members for votes directly by targeting 100+ Women Who Care Addison County members or indirectly by telling members of their own organization that they expect their vote.
Organizations that target 100+ Women Addison County members for donations will be disqualified from consideration for a year (and if they are an organization that has received funds from us, it will be a year in addition to their waiting period to be nominated again.) Directly soliciting 100+ Women Who Care Addison County members for fundraising purposes is not allowed at any time.
Selection Process:
(Completed by the Steering Committee)
Three organizations are drawn at random from the potential recipient pool two weeks prior to each quarterly meeting.
Those three organizations will be asked to give a 5 minute presentation during the quarterly meeting followed by a brief Q & A if time permits.
The members will vote for one of the three presenting organizations by a majority polling system at each quarterly meeting.
The selected organization is not eligible to be re-nominated for another award for 24 months.
And the two organizations that receive 15% are not eligible for re-nomination for 12months.
Nomination Form
Please fill in as much information as you can.
Each member gets ONE nomination per quarter!