60 Women Raise Nearly $6,000 for local nonprofits
WATERFORD – It was a night of giving, empowerment and fun, with an unexpected turn of events.
The annual 100 Women Who Care – Western Racine County awarded not one, but two local organizations as this year’s donation recipients on Wednesday, Feb. 26 at Community State Bank, 500 E. Main Street.
Burlington based nonprofits Life Choices and Women for Tomorrow recorded the same number of votes. Instead of going to a tiebreaker, the groups decided to split the nearly $6,000 donation.
The event was hosted by Community State Bank and Experience Burlington.
100 Women Who Care – Western Racine County supports nonprofits serving Western Racine County. Each attendee brings $100 ($50 for women under 30). The total funds are distributed to one charitable cause each event.
For the first time ever, it was two recipients.
“We were ready to go to a tiebreaker and these two nonprofits, these women, come together and say, ‘Hey, you know what? Let’s not vote. Let’s both do good here and split the funds’,” Community State Bank’s Molly Krause said.
In four years, the event has raised nearly $28,000. Past recipients include Health Care Network (2022), Transitional Living Center (2023), Matthias Academy (2023), Shepherds College (2024).
“It means so much to us,” Women for Tomorrow Board Member Natalie Scherff said. “The whole mission of this group is for women to come together to empower each other, but also to do good in the community and make tomorrow better than today.”
Life Choices Executive Director Renee Meinholz served as a guest speaker at a recent Women for Tomorrow meeting.
Meinholz said she was happy to split the funds raised on Wednesday.
“It was just really neat to be able to share that money,” Meinholz said. “Just shows how empowering women are and that we are not here to compete, but we’re here to lift our community to different heights.”
The 2025 100 Women Who Care – Western Racine County went down as a fun, empowering, impactful night for everyone.
“That was our goal,” Krause said.