WSO hosted the Inaugural Swing for Love Charity Golf Invitational on June 16th at Pearl Country Club and it was a smashing success!
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WSO is proud to announce our first ever Swing for Love Charity Golf Invitational on Thursday, June 16th at Pearl Country Club! Registration is now open and all proceeds will go to WSO’s educational programs for middle and high school students including The Future is Bright, Speak Love Conference, and WSO’s high school advocacy club The Speak Out Squad! Get your team together for a great time while giving back to the community- we’ll see you on the links!
Space is limited! Purchase your team or become a sponsor click here!
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WSO launched its highly anticipated The Future is Bright program on Saturday, February 5th, 2022 with a festive Pre-Prom Party, thanks to the partnership of Hawaii Pacific University. The event was a huge success, and we were able to host 42 students from James Campbell High School, Farrington High School, Kamehameha Schools, and Waipahu High School. Due to Covid mandates and restrictions, we made this Self Love celebration available as a livestream via YouTube for all to enjoy. We would like to thank everyone involved, and we are looking forward to the next event in The Future is Bright program!
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WSO is committed to educating and empowering Hawaii's youth through visionary program initiatives and with your support we can continue to have a positive impact on our community. To DONATE TODAY click here.
Looking forward to 2022, we will be hosting our Future is Bright Summit, a 12-week educational series with curriculum that focuses on four fundamental areas: Communication, Goals, Relationships, and Self-Love. Students will learn invaluable life skills such as financial literacy, job interview techniques, resume writing, and how to manifest your dreams. WSO is committed to giving out $10,000 worth of scholarships, and to ensure our Future is Bright Summit is a success, we are asking our Ohana for support through student sponsorship. With your $500 donation, we can fully sponsor a student for this comprehensive 12-week program, and your generosity provides unique resources and tools that traditional education does not offer. We also gratefully accept partial sponsorships as every donation makes an impact. Thank you for your support in ensuring our Future is Bright!
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Thank you to all of our generous sponsors, high spirited teams, and the hardworking WSO volunteers for a very successful event. We raised over $20,000 for our new 12 week educational series the Future is Bright Summit launching next February 2022. The summit will be open to high school students in 9th thru 12th grade statewide. More information and early registration sign ups coming soon!
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Women Speaking Out is excited to announce Let’s Roll - our First Annual Bowling Tournament! If friendly competition for a cause is right up your alley, join WSO at Pali Lanes on Saturday, June 26th from 6-10pm for a night filled with strikes, snacks, and sounds from DJ Gem. This event is open to anyone 21+ and aims to raise funds for WSO’s Future is Bright Educational Summit launching in February 2022!
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With WSO being an unconventional Hawaii charitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, we rely on our gracious donors to fund our programs making a positive impact in our community. WSO wants to thank our top donors for their generosity over the past few months, as your donations directly support WSO’s initiatives to create awareness and prevention of dating violence through educational programs.
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On Thursday, May 27th WSO brought together top-level female executives for our inaugural Cocktails For A Cause event! It was truly a night of female empowerment and a chance for to highlight some of the amazing students that have participated in our programs! WSO, in partnership with House of Finance, is so proud to have surprised 4 exemplary student volunteers with $1,000 scholarships for the coming school year during the event!
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Our mission is to give a voice to the youth of Hawai’i by empowering them with education, innovative action, and providing opportunities to speak out and take a stand against dating violence.
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March: Mask Up Campaign! Purchase our limited edition Speak Love masks and support our movement. Choose from two stylish designs while supplies last. And 100% of the proceeds will go towards our Speak Love Conference for high school students in October.
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We just wrapped up our Second Annual Virtual Speak Love Conference, a tremendous success. Our speakers, who were a group of entrepreneurs, former beauty queens, students, and survivors of dating violence, delivered powerful and emotional stories along with helpful insights.
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Women Speaking Out is dedicated to making a positive impact in the community by inspiring and empowering young women to embrace self-love. Women actively coming together with the common goal to spread awareness and speak love is powerful to the point of magical. By lifting each other, we all rise. They don’t call it girl power for nothing.
Once upon a time, we heard these romantic cliches and wholeheartedly subscribed to the adages. These are sayings from our favorite movies, lyrics from classic karaoke bangers, and excerpts from beloved novels. The prototypical concept of love and romance that has been ingrained in young women is as predictable and formulaic as 9th-grade Algebra. And much like high school math, I have a huge problem with it.
Self Love... what does that even mean? I can tell you it's something that I have alway struggled with since I was in my teens and continue to struggle with. As a survivor of domestic violence, I've always been haunted by the thoughts that I am not good enough, pretty enough or worthy enough to be loved. I realized that I am emotionally fragile, and that I needed to find a way to take back what I had lost from the hands of my abusers.
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