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 About
Annie’s Legacy:
Annie’s Legacy is a resource center in Chicago
for women. We offer mentoring and coaching services
to women to help them become more self-reliant. Annie’s
Legacy started in August, 2006 to honor the life of
founder Beverly Billy’s mother, Annie.
Annie was a stay at home wife and mother of 5 kids
living her dream. When the pressures of marriage and
parenting became more than Annie’s spouse could
cope with, abuse became common place in their home.
After years of verbal, physical and emotional abuse,
Annie packed her kids and moved in with her brother
and his family.
 At
35 Annie picked up the pieces of her life, learned life
skills and became self-reliant. Today, through one-on-one
mentoring and workshops, our organization is helping
other women gain independence, empowerment and life
skills.
As a relatively new organization we greatly depend
on volunteers to help us accomplish our mission “to
provide resources to women that empowers them to become
strong, confident contributors to their homes and communities”.
That is why we were glad to learn about Women On Call!
Through Women On Call we have been successful in getting
three dynamic women to support our cause. Through their
talents, each one has saved us hundreds of dollars by
donating their time and expertise.
Our first volunteer, Ms. Rebecca Lemma of Lloyd Lemna
Design gave us generous hours of her time and talent
designing our 1st brochure. Because of our very busy
schedules we met several times over the phone and via
e-mail. Becky was very patient with us as we flushed
out our mission, purpose, desired outcome and look for
our brochure. The end products are two amazing brochures,
one in color and one black and white. We are using our
brochures to recruit mentees, mentors, donors and volunteers.
I met our 2nd volunteer, Ms. Lee Ann McKay regarding
assistance with our 990 application. As this was our
first year filing we had no idea of how it was done,
when it was due or how to prepare for it. After a two
hour meeting with Lee Ann, she left our office with
about 20-30 lbs of papers and receipts to review and
organize. She knew it would take some time and effort
to get it all organized so first she filed for an extension.
That action alone relieved us of the worry of penalties
and fines, completing the 990 was icing on the cake.
Our 3rd volunteer, Ms. Valerie Corr is an incredibly
bright and talented executive. We sought her expertise
in public affairs and received a bonus! Ms. Corr looked
over several of our documents and our website and offered
great ideas for improving our look. She is very talented
with wordsmithing, which provided a cleaner, crisper
look for our documents. After spending several hours
learning more about what we do, she decided to join
our board!
 Annie’s
Legacy welcomes more volunteers in support of our mission.
We need volunteers to help us with grant writing, fundraising,
workshop presenters in job readiness, finance 101, parenting,
basic computer skills, etc. and mentors. To learn more
about us please visit our website at www.annieslegacy.org.
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