Dare To Dream

It’s Time to Dare to Dream

Take classes, start a business, purchase a computer, learn a new skill, train for a profession, start a non-profit, anything you can dream…

Applications are now being accepted for 2012 Dare to Dream Grants
Grants up to $1,000 are presented each year to local women to help make their dreams come true.

Women living in Warren County and ages 18 years and older are eligible for funding.
Applications are accepted from December 1 to February 1. The recipients will be announced in March,2012.
Applications are available at the following locations:
1. Samuel’s Public Library
2. Royal Oak Bookshop
3. The Front Royal Women’s Resource Center office (316 N. Royal Avenue, upstairs from St. Luke’s Clinic).
4. Call or email the office at 540–636–7007, wrc@frwrc.org
5. Download one from our website here.
The application deadline is FEBRUARY 1, 2012. All entries MUST BE MAILED to our office at PO Box 1748, Front Royal, VA 22630 and MUST BE POSTMARKED by 5PM on February 1.

Dare To Dream 2011

A Women’s Dare to Dream Breakfast and Grant Recipients:

Our annual breakfast honoring Women’s History Month and our new Dare to Dream Grant Recipients was held on Tuesday‚ March 22‚ at Front Royal United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Fifty women attended to honor our 2011 Dare to Dream Grant winners and hear inspiring words from our special guest speakers‚ Malinda Dowsett and Lani Barna‚ Co–Founders of “Change Your Conversation‚ Change Your Life.” Peggy Thompson created a beautiful breakfast buffet for us with the most stunning and delicious fresh fruit display yet and set up the beautiful tables. Thank you to all of you amazing women of Front Royal who came out on another early morning to support our grant winners. A special thanks goes out to our generous sponsors that allowed us to actually make some money this year‚ Beth Waller of Reichert Realtor and Nick Crettier Photography‚ and to Front Royal United Methodist Church for the use of their wonderful sunny room.

We are proud to honor our 2011 Dare to Dream grant winners. They are as follows:

Margarita Alexeyevna Arnold (far right in photo) plans to take accounting courses at Lord Fairfax Community College and hopes to receive an Associates of Art and Sciences Degree. Currently she is doing bookkeeping for a local restaurant while working at Whole Foods Market Group. She is self–taught and hopes to further her education after LFCC by transferring into the International Business Program at George Mason University. Margarita has been granted $909 for three accounting courses at LFCC.
Tamia Edwards (center in photo) is a single mother of three children‚ ages 15‚ 16 and 18. She had to put off her own dreams during the years she was raising her children which she never regretted but now that they are raised‚ she can begin her own dreams. Although she had never been certified in the nursing field‚ she helped care for her grandmother‚ uncle and mother up until their deaths. Now Tamia’s dream of finally becoming certified as a nurse can come true. Her $1‚000 grant will pay for the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Program at Warren Memorial Hospital. She is currently employed by Home Care solutions as an attendant and loves the work very much. She has been accepted into the CNA program and will enter this fall.
Angela Mabe (not pictured) is a single woman currently enrolled in the nursing program at LFCC. She has her CNA and is working to support herself while attending college classes. She was granted $600 to purchase a laptop computer so she can do on–line classes and other projects from her own home. This will allow her to increase the numbers of hours she has available for work.
Bridgette Martin (not pictured) is a 49 year–old single‚ self–supporting woman. She is currently employed full–time at Goodwill Thrift Store while also attending classes at LFCC. Bridgette has been awarded a grant of $1‚060.50 that will purchase a laptop and printer. This will allow her to do her homework from home instead of having to travel to the library or other internet site.
Amber Mitchell (far left in photo) is a 24 year–old single woman who is currently enrolled in her first semester with Mountain State University’s Organizational Leadership online program. This is an accelerated bachelor’s degree program and her expected graduation date is December 2012. Amber began working with local non–profits when she was fifteen years old. Her work with the Blue Ridge Arts Council and the Chamber of Commerce inspired her to work towards a career in non–profit organizations and specifically arts administration. She received her AA from LFCC and now will finish her degree at Mountain State. Amber was awarded a grant of $990 to pay for tuition.

Total grant money awarded in 2011 = $4‚559.50.
Since 1999, the resource center has presented roughly 60 grants totaling more than $44‚000.