About Women 101

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

- Maya Angelou

WOMEN 101* was founded in 2009 to help The Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County.  It is, quite simply, a group of women helping a group of children.  One-hundred percent of your donation supports the Club. 

You may also write a check & mail to: The Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club (please make checks out to The Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club) or join Women 101 at an event with your donation.

Join us for the Women 101 Spring Kickoff hosted by Theophilus!

Thank you to D.D. Bullwinkel’s Outdoors for hosting our festive, final event of the year! our women 101 members came through for our club kids with toy donations, and we know that there will be a lot of happy families on christmas morning thanks to you!

To Dee Dee, Allie, and all the staff at DDBO: thank you for making our fashion show idea a reality! and to our brave board members, staff, and volunteers: thank you for walking the runway for women 101! we deeply appreciate our women 101 community and we’re already looking forward to women 101 in 2025!

thank you to Newfound artisan, starfangled press, h.Scott & Associates, and platt home for hosting women 101 in october! we are blown away by all the donations from our wishlist and look forward to distributing them to our club families!

the weather was perfect, and we were thankful for the opportunity to gather and spend the evening with you.

Cheers to another successful “Drop & Shop” at Gravy! Thanks to the generosity of our Women 101-ers, our Club has a wonderful supply of back-to-school items. Special thanks to the wonderful Gravy vendors who also donated items for the raffles we held throughout the evening!

Thank you to D.D. Bullwinkel’s Outdoors for hosting a wonderful evening at Pink Beds & Blue Ghosts! We enjoyed s’mores around the campfire, Boys & Girls Club themed trivia, and a talk on fireflies from Betsy Langston. Thank you to everyone who came out to see the blue ghosts and be a part of our Women 101 community!

Thank you to Martha and the wonderful team at THEOPHILUS for hosting our Spring Kickoff! We loved seeing everyone’s smiling faces!

Thank you for helping us raise a little over $22,700in 2024!

The History of Women 101…

In early 2009 our Board learned that a crucial grant for the Club’s yearly budget was not going to come through for us. Several female Board Members and some loyal female friends and supporters got together and devised a plan - they would first increase the core group to 10 donors that would be able to make an ask of others. That core of 10 would personally ask TEN of their friends to be a part of a new group called Women 101. 

How was the name Women 101 chosen? The goal was to enlist 100 supporters for this group. The donation to join Women 101 would be $100 plus $1 to cover the cost of a stamp for the first mailing which equals $101. The "101" in the name Women 101 also represents "women learning to support and give". (Like English 101) In other words, members would be learning the basic foundations of becoming a lifelong philanthropist. Finally, the founders felt that $101 was a comfortable amount for many women to start supporting our Club. Hence the group chose the name Women 101.

The first year of Women 101, the group successfully helped bridge the gap in the budget left by the missing grant money. Also after the first year, the Board, again with the support of the core group of founders, decided to make Women 101 a yearly campaign. Sprinkled throughout the year would be events and gatherings at homes and local businesses for the group to engage with one another and in turn support our kids. Now, over ten years later and hundreds of thousands of dollars raised, Women 101 is still quite simply: A group of Women helping a group of children with 100% of donations supporting our Club. This is an open giving circle, anyone is invited to join this group.Our members, (even a few men included- again, anyone can join!), hail from our town of Brevard and Transylvania County as well as across the State of North Carolina, and on to New York, California, Florida, along with many, many other states...a Nationwide network of supporters from coast to coast connected through Women 101 of The Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County.