Evie Salon Studio Commemorates Women’s Equality Day
SUMMARY OF EVENTS:
Women’s Equality Day is August 26th. This day commemorates the day women got the right to vote. In honor of this day, Evie Salon Studio, a woman-owned business in Davis Square, Somerville will be amplifying the voices of + raising funds for 3 local women-owned organizations.
MONTH LONG: All month long (August) we will have a GoFundMe page online where people can donate money. At the end of the month we will take the funds raised and equally divide them amongst the 3 organizations. Donate here.
WEEK LONG: The week of Women’s Equality Day (Sunday 8/23-Saturday 8/29), Evie Salon Studio will be holding a prize pack raffle on our Instagram page (@eviesalonstudio). The raffle will be announced on Sunday and 1 winner will be picked on Saturday. The raffle will include:
Giving Joy reversible tote bag, handmade in Liberia ($40 value)
Adelante Shoes generous $250 gift card for a pair of made-to-order shoes
Evie services/products (TBD)
DAY LONG: The day of Women’s Equality Day (Wednesday, 8/26), Evie Salon Studio will be donating the proceeds of our sales to all 3 organizations.
3 WOMEN-LED ORGANIZATIONS:
Giving Joy, a social enterprise targeting women in the US and in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) was started in 2018 by Joy Kolin, a Somerville-resident, and international development professional. During her travels to over 60 countries, she encountered amazing and inspiring people, particularly women, with brilliant ideas but lacking the opportunity, capital and confidence to be self sustainable. Leveraging her 20 years’ experience in international development, she decided to found Giving Joy.
Giving Joy sells goods made by women worldwide and awards micro-grants to women entrepreneurs. Unique in its approach, Giving Joy supports existing social enterprises by passing on profits to other women via grants, and people who buy on the site have the opportunity to vote for a specific grant finalist, putting a face to the grant. As Founder and CEO, Joy awarded to date 15 grants to women in Massachusetts, Virginia, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. Through this endeavor, she found a way to have a more direct role, positively impacting the lives of women around the world.
We believe that access to healthy food is a fundamental right.
Food For Free improves access to healthy food within our community by rescuing food that would otherwise go to waste and creating new distribution channels to under-served populations with an emphasis on utilizing school systems to reach those in need. We envision a future where everyone in our community – regardless of age, income, or ability – has consistent access to fresh, healthy, delicious food.
Through a combination of food rescue and transportation services, we give food programs year-round access to fresh fruits and vegetables, while our direct service programs bring food to students, seniors, and others most at risk of hunger. Our programs address not only short-term hunger, but also the long-term health effects of food insecurity and poor nutrition, while reducing food waste.
Casa Myrna is Boston’s largest provider of domestic violence awareness efforts and of shelter and supportive services to survivors. Our comprehensive range of services, available in both Spanish and English, provide survivors with tools to recover from the trauma of abuse and begin to build sustainable self-sufficiency.
Each year, we serve over 1,600 survivors through three residential programs, housing assistance and advocacy, financial literacy education and job readiness skill building, individual and group counseling, legal advocacy and representation, children’s services, and community-based advocacy. Casa Myrna operates SafeLink, Massachusetts’ statewide 24/7 toll-free domestic violence hotline, which answers over 27,000 calls annually. We also provide domestic and dating violence awareness and prevention services by educating teens and adults across the state through workshops, seminars, trainings, social media, engagement with the media and annual ad campaigns on mass transit systems.