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Soroptimist International of Palm Desert

Helping women and girls live their dreams

A global volunteer organization with local clubs that provides women and girls with access to the education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.

What We Do

Live Your Dream: Education & Training Awards for Women

Soroptimist’s Live Your Dream Awards program is a unique education grant for women who provide the primary financial support for their families. Live Your Dream Awards give women the resources they need to improve their education, skills and employment prospects.

Women heads-of-household get a chance to begin anew
Reentry women are supported so they can Live Their Dream
Mothers who have young children are given awards so they can go back to school and/or receive career training
www.liveyourdream.org

Laci Murphy, 1st Place
2021 LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARD

Dream It, Be It: Career Support for Girls

Dream It, Be It: Career Support for Girls gives girls the tools they need to achieve their education and career goals, empowering them to break cycles of poverty, violence, and abuse.

Soroptimist
House of Hope

Soroptimist of Palm Desert founded, established and continues to support Soroptimist House of Hope, a substance abuse treatment program for women and Hope’s Horizons, which is a transitional living facility for women who have completed their program.

Two homes for substance abuse treatment and recovery
1-Desert Hot Springs, 6 bed residential Substance Abuse Disorder; Treatment Facility. 45-90 days for low-income women
2-Banning, 6 bed Recovery Residence
Highly-rated facility compliance with Riverside County and California state standards
Empathetic staff who are all former clients educated and certified in their field
Excellence in treatment and recidivism rate
Through surveys, clients cite excellence in care and program
Active graduate client-support organization
SI Palm Desert is a Charter Patron Club
Serving area women since Charter in 1981

Soroptimist Live Your Dream

Valley Voice: Soroptimist International Palm Desert is looking to help women

Soroptimist International of Palm Desert is one of nearly 1,300 clubs that make up Soroptimist International of the Americas, a global organization that works to improve the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.

The Soroptimist Live Your Dream: Education and Training Award for Women provides women who serve as the primary wage earners for their families with the financial resources to offset costs associated with their efforts to attain higher education or additional skills and training.

The award can be used for tuition, books, child care, car fare or any other education-related expense. This award provides over $2.5 million in cash grants to head-of-household women in need each year. Since the program’s inception in 1972, more than $30 million has helped tens of thousands of women achieve their dreams of a better life for themselves and their families.

Glenn Miller, Mayor
City of Indio

Our benefactor, Mayor of Indio, Glenn Miller, has established “The Phyllis J. Sullivan Award” to honor his mother. This will be an annual SIPD award within our Soroptimist Live Your Dream program for $1,500 to our 1st place honoree, in addition to her LYD award. Our first place recipient is then forwarded for further consideration at the District level, and possible additional consideration at Soroptimist Region and Federation levels.

We are proud to announce that our 2021 winner, Laci Murphy, has been chosen as one of three winners at the Soroptimist District level and will be presented with her award at our Virtual 2021 Soroptimist Spring Conference, May 29/30, 2021. Congratulations Laci!