Awareness + Collaboration Inspire Powerful Sollutions

CMWS joins area women's organizations and You

Weaving the Golden Thread of Our Talents

One Day, One way to grow thriving communities 

Inspire the world with your visions and actions.

After the shock and disbelief in learning so many area families are affected by human trafficking and femicide, Central MN women's groups and concerned residents began partnering with state law makers and The Women's Foundation to expand community awareness, collaborate, educate and create a pathway to safe harbor when needed.  We invite you to a soirée with poetry, story telling art and fine food to honor, build awareness, access resources and invest in communities where all families thrive– autonomous yet interconnected.

Thank you for taking the time to click more for links to resources, information and actions. Every time you visit, like, comment or share a link you expand awareness, collaboration, vision, and actions to build thriving communities.

State Information and Resource Links:
 Women's Foundation of MN 
 MNGirlsNotForSale.org 

The Family Partnership. 

If you agree with this post, have an event or solution to building thriving communities please share; leave your comments and links.

Those of you on twitter will love to tweet :  @cmnwomenshine shout out with hashtag: shining a light on #centralmnwomen event http://bit.ly/120t6TM. The bitmark (short web address) will take readers to the invitation flier on the CMWS events page. FBers can use this short link fb.me/BsJ7Iee8 to the Facebook event page where you can join the event invite others   Facebook event page. 

A Special thank you to @marysmithmn for organizing the Minnesota Human Trafficking legislative update and inspired CMWS to be a part of this collaboration, and Dara Westra, co-founder of CMWS  @microsofttrainer who created the flyer. Please shoutout on twitter with hashtag #centralmnwomen @cmnwomenshine. Connect on Facebook: Perservencia Casa Guadalupe: 

Mary Smith of MarySmithMN

Thank you all for reading, sharing, believing and growing thriving communities with Central Minnesota Women Shine.

Shine on,

Mary Margaret and Dara ¸.•´.•´¨) ¸.•¨)

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Dara Westra & Mary Margaret
Co-founders of CMWS

Sense, Express, Dream and Make it Happen

Imagine, dream and weave the fabric...

Join area women from all walks of life, backgrounds and belief systems who are coming together in full awareness of our challenges as well as our talents and resources to build this women's cultural center and place to grow sustainable wealth and wellness.

February A Month Of Hearts, Art and the Feminine

Art, her art. HerArts in Action. Meet Sarah Drake, artist, collaborator and visionary contributing to sustainable wealth and wellness at home and across the globe. We at CMWS wish to express a heart felt welcome to our newest member, tell you about HerArts in Action, Sarah's non profit, and provide you with some opportunities to connect this month - both locally and globally - with individuals and groups who sense, collaborate, innovate and take determined action to grow sustainable wealth and wellness for self, family, community and the world. 

Sarah Drake of HerArts in Action

Locally & Globally, Kitchen Table Networking– It works!

From the Kitchen Table to The Community Table

From home makers to community builders

Photo curtesy of ggjalliance.org

CMWS Out and About Tuesday brings the power of kitchen table networking into the 21st Century! The group calls these events, Netweavings, which is simply networking the women's way. From the days of the original 13 colonies to the towns and cities of the 20th Century, women mostly volunteered as think tank incubators and groundbreakers for the work that the founding fathers, community leaders and family providers would manage in the broader community, business and government systems.