The Friendship Club is proud to announce that we are now a partner agency of United Way of Nevada County.  We look forward to the opportunity to expand our audience and bring awareness to more community members about our important work and the girls we serve.

We thank the United Way staff and Board of Directors for their support through the application process and also for their commitment to Nevada County.  We’ll also let you know about United Way events and activities in 2012 and let you know how you can be involved!

Back in 5^th grade there wasn’t too much pressure to get involved with sex and drugs, but shortly after I started Friendship Club, the summer before 6^th grade I learned the temptation grew stronger. Sometimes the temptation seemed irresistible, but when I joined The Friendship Club I signed a paper saying I would stay tobacco, drug and alcohol free and stay abstinent from sex. Friendship Club taught me there is more to life than all that other stuff.  Kids in Nevada County that don’t see that there is more to life are susceptible to getting involved with drugs and alcohol because it seems like its everywhere. Through The Friendship Club I’ve met many people I look up to and many girls that I know will be life long friends, which is hard to come by these days. I’ve met women who have been amazing role models – they’ve given me opportunities I would never have had a chance to experience without them. Now, about seven years later, I’m on my way to graduating high school at Nevada Union with good grades and big plans for college and a bright future. I don’t think I would be in this same position without the love and support I’ve gotten through this phenomenal program. In six more months I plan on being graduated and moving to Rocklin to attend Sierra College and plan to eventually become a Juvenile Probation Officer. I want to be able to help troubled youth and be there for someone like someone was always there for me.  I really hope you can come to The Friendship Club’s Graduation and Scholarship Dinner on May 17^th for me and my four other lovely senior girls. Thank you!

2012 Calendar of Events

February 2nd-Nevada City Winery Photo Exhibit

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

March 21st-Power of the Purse

11:00 AM – 1:00PM

April 4th-Volunteer Appreciation Event

May 17th-Graduation and Scholarship Dinner

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

September 24th-Friendship 100

4:00 PM – 9:00 PM

December 3rd-Holiday Reception

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Happy New Year to our friends and family! We are excited to launch into 2012 after a very successful 2011. Our program staff is busy getting ready to welcome the girls back to the Club and our board and staff are ready to for a host of events, activities, and thought provoking opportunities to usher in 2012 as Year of the Girl.

Why girls? Why now, you may ask. You may have noticed recently that numerous groups, national and international, are drawing attention to something we have acknowledged for nearly two decades: girls hold a special place in our communities, our society, and our world. They hold the power to bring about the critical changes desperately needed in our world today. As the African proverb goes, “If you educate a boy, you educate an individual, if you educate a girl, you educate a community.”

“Your support especially over the last year has proven that you believe in investing in girls and that – recession or not – support for girls is a critical need and a powerfully effective investment in our community.”
(Girl Scouts 2011)

This year we look forward to continuing to work with our girls to develop their basic skills, leadership abilities, and help them achieve their personal best. Then they are prepared to enter the world with the confidence, belief in self, and feeling of possibility that will be required of them to make their world a better place.

Thank you for you support, and please look out for more from us about how you can be involved in making global change, one life at a time, in your own backyard.

The Center for the Arts announces Community Nonprofit Partner Program An Opportunity for Local Nonprofits From The Center for the Arts: We are excited to announce a new program for 2012. Our COMMUNITY NONPROFIT PARTNER PROGRAM and you the community get to choose the nonprofits we partner with! Each month, the Community Nonprofit Partner will receive: Banner and info on our website. Presence in our lobby (brochures, wish list, small display, ways to give info and logo on the Community NonProfit Partner of the Month board), Presence on our pre-show screening, Spotlight in our email newsletter at beginning of the month. Nominations will close December 24, 2011 and the top 12 voted on non profits will be contacted to implement the monthly partner program. CLICK ON LINK TO NOMINATE YOUR FAVORITE NON PROFIT and share this information! The Center, building community! http://thecenterforthearts.org/non-profit-partner-program/

Please join The Friendship Club and The Sierra Mentoring Partnership on Monday, November 28th at the Nevada Theatre for a viewing of    Miss Representation. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Miss Representation exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America.  The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.

Doors open at 5:30 and the viewing will begin at 6PM. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door and $5 for 21 and under (with ID). Available at The Friendship Club, Briar Patch, Yabobo, and The Bookseller, or online http://missrepfriendshipclub.eventbrite.com/. Please call for additional information 530-265-4311.

Please join The Friendship Club and The Sierra Mentoring Partnership on Monday, November 28th at the Nevada Theatre for a viewing of    Miss Representation. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Miss Representation exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America.  The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.

Doors open at 5:30 and the viewing will begin at 6PM. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door and $5 for 21 and under (with ID). Available at The Friendship Club, Briar Patch, Yabobo, and The Bookseller, or online http://missrepfriendshipclub.eventbrite.com/. Please call for additional information 530-265-4311.

Please join The Friendship Club and The Sierra Mentoring Partnership on Monday, November 28th at the Nevada Theatre for a viewing of    Miss Representation. Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Miss Representation exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America.  The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.

Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door and $5 for 21 and under (with ID). Available at The Friendship Club, Briar Patch, Yabobo, and The Bookseller, or online http://missrepfriendshipclub.eventbrite.com/. Please call for additional information 530-265-4311.

Make your reservations for this Friday, October 28th to get your eye brows sculpted by Reflections Skin Oasis.

ALL the proceeds go to benefit The Friendship Club.

Call 530-274-9053 to reserve your spot today!