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1873
Stephanie Drenka uncovers a lost history of Asian Americans in Dallas
Story by SIMON PRUITT | Photography by KATHY TRAN
When do you think the first person of Asian descent was listed in a Dallas city directory?
Stephanie Drenka opens with this question at speaking engagements, usually fielding answers anywhere from the 1950s to the ‘80s. The answer is 1873, when J.L. Chow of Chinese descent opened Chow Chow Laundry on Elm and Main Street. In fact, 1873 is the first year that a Dallas city directory was made.
It’s Dallas history, but not the type taught to a young Drenka in grade school. She was born to Korean parents, then adopted as an infant by a family in Southlake. There, she went through the Carroll ISD school system, noticing a lack of representation in textbooks and extracurriculars.
“My mom was a children’s librarian, so I grew up reading, writing and in theater performing other people’s stories,” Drenka says. “At some point you just realize ... I didn’t see myself in any of them.”
Eager to learn, Drenka minored in Asian American studies at DePaul University and began to research Dallas Asian American history after graduating. She discovered the story of J.L. Chow, and learned that he
inspired Chinese immigrants Austin and Sam Shong to open their own laundromat in 1878, followed by a third in downtown Dallas owned by Sam Choi.
As multiple Chinese business owners began to succeed in a concentrated area, their white competitors responded with a smear campaign through the Dallas Daily Times Herald . A headline read “Danger In Inferior Laundries” and claimed that white customers of Chinese laundromats would run a risk of contracting diseases by allowing Chinese workers to handle their clothing.
The hellbent drive to push out Chinese businesses wasn’t exclusive to Dallas. In 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, banning Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S. for the following 10 years. A decade later, California representative Thomas J. Geary proposed the Geary Act to Congress, intending to make the Chinese Exclusion Act permanent. It passed, and wasn’t officially repealed until 1943, when Congress removed all Chinese discriminatory laws and promised a yearly immigration quota of 105 work visas for Chinese immigrants.
“For Asian Americans, we grew up not seeing ourselves reflected anywhere,” Drenka says. “In the media, I think it’s slowly changing, but definitely not in textbooks and curriculum.”
Drenka sought to enact as much change as she could herself. She previously served as the communications director for Dallas Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation and founded her own online magazine, VISIBLE, dedicated to highlighting underrepresented voices in the media.
In 2022, she co-founded the nonprofit Asian American Historical Society alongside designer Denise Johnson with the intent of growing a collection of Dallas Asian American artifacts and cultural relics to preserve and display their untold stories.
“We chose ‘Asian American’ intentionally based on its historic and political context,” Drenka says. “Asian American was coined in the 1960s by an organization at Berkeley who called themselves the Asian American Political Alliance. Prior to that usage, Asian Americans were known by their individual groups, or it was whatever
Drenka has published
label non-Asians would give us. ‘Asian American’ has a really powerful reclamation aspect.”
The Asian American Historical Society’s collection can be viewed online at their website, but currently resides unceremoniously in a storage unit. Drenka and Johnson’s top priority is to start a campaign to secure a physical location for the city to visit.
“It will be a community archive and storytelling studio,” Drenka says. “We want the community to be able to bring in their photos or videos and we can help preserve the items and add them to our online collection.”
Once a broad enough collection is built, the organization has bigger plans.
“The idea is that we would have a multipurpose or exhibition space to show our permanent collection and any temporary ones that we have, with the hope that someday it expands, potentially to a museum. Then further down the road, a full arts and cultural center,” Drenka says.
Dallas doesn’t have an arts and culture center dedicated to Asian American culture, and Drenka takes exception to the way the city and country at large celebrate it.
“This kind of hyper focus on what is different about Asian culture and an exotic vacation, it contributes to this idea that Asians are perpetual foreigners, that we don’t belong,” she says. “Our uniqueness is celebrated in a way but it also ostracizes us and keeps us excluded in other ways.”
Outside of culture, Drenka wants to make a change in the way the history of the city is understood.
“In this city, a lot of people appreciate Asian culture, but don’t recognize the contributions that Asians have made,” she says. “When the city did their racial equity plan, they had a timeline about the women changing Dallas history. The only reference they had to an Asian American was 2022 when Stephanie Drenka and Denise Johnson founded the Asian American Historical Society.”
Dallas is only one of countless American cities that have a similar disparity in Asian American representation. Drenka hopes that her mission could inspire others in different environments to attempt the same.
“If we can make the case that Asian American history is significant to Dallas history, I think this is something that can be replicated by other communities and led by people that are from it,” she says. “It’s not that we think we can accomplish all of this in our lifetime. It’s that we do as much as we can to set a good foundation for others in the future.”
Drenka and Johnson are joined only by their director of community engagement, Amy Tran-Calhoun and their youth engagement specialist, Jo Lew. The four-person team are the only recurring creative trust, tasked with commemorating centuries of untold history. It’d be a steep workload for any group, let alone one so young and made up of so few people. But for Drenka, the difficulty doesn’t matter.
“I have moments where I feel physically tired or exhausted,” Drenka says. “But emotionally, I feel grounded in my purpose.”
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Desta’s Meat and Veggie Combo, served with Tibs and assorted vegetables.
INJERA AND BEYOND
Desta Ethiopian rose above the ashes to remain a beloved staple
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by KELSEY SHOEMAKER
After Yayehyirad “Yared” Lemma and Yenenesh “Yenni” Desta were gunned down outside of their East Dallas Home in 2012, Yenni’s namesake restaurant, Desta Ethiopian, could’ve just as easily gone out of business.
Not if Yared and Yenni’s families had anything to say about it.
Relatives moved across state lines and quit jobs to help keep the family’s business alive.
“Because it’s the legacy of the ones who passed through this place,” current manager Noble Goliad says. “They opened it, they made sure this was the heart of North Dallas. So my mom moved down from Virginia. And she wants that to happen. Obviously, she took over and she said, ‘I’m going to keep their legacy.’”
Now, more than a decade later, Desta remains a beloved staple of North Dallas Ethiopian cuisine. Guests still feel the warmth, love and hospitality that Yenni was famous for when they walk through the door.
“It’s very important because without that the restaurant won’t keep going. So people know this is a family-owned restaurant, family-run restaurant so they don’t get nothing but family ties,” Goliad says. “Everybody that comes in here will leave with a smile.”
Newly remodeled, with a refreshed bar menu and relatively new face running the restaurant in Goliad, Desta has undergone a bit of a revamp.
However, one aspect Goliad says she has no plans to change: flavorful, traditional dishes cooked in the same time-honored way they’ve been prepared since 2010.
“I’m the new face in here,” Goliad says. “So I try to incorporate different things to make it look nicer. So we do different things, but most of the food is traditional, and that’s what people want.”
For those who are unfamiliar with Ethiopian cuisine and may not know what to expect, Goliad has an analogy.
“So I like to say our food is like a mix of Tex-Mex and Indian food,” Goliad says. Lentils, chickpeas and other vegetables commonly featured in Indian cuisine of -
ten are also found in Ethiopian dishes. All three cuisines use garlic and onion almost religiously, and eating with your hands is near-mandatory.
Desta’s menu features Ethiopian staple proteins: heavily-spiced beef or lamb cooked with vegetables and served over the staple Injera bread, used as a utensil. Kitfo is freshminced tartare-style beef with kibe (butter) and the spice mix mitmita. Tibs is a sauteed red meat served with heaping amounts of onions, bell peppers and garlic. Both are two of the most popular dishes. Desta also offers a selection of fish, typically tilapia, an ode to the fish caught in the Nile River.
There is also a large vegetarian offering, typical of the cuisine of Ethiopia, where 44% of the population belongs to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and have to observe a large number of meatless fast days.
While sharing a meal is a custom which spans ethnicity, cultures and continents, Goliad says it takes on an entirely different meaning for Ethiopians.
“We eat with our hands and we always eat as a group,” she says. “Nobody eats alone, so
it’s a cultural thing. So you just eat together. You stay together.”
Desta also has a full coffee menu, a nod to Ethiopia’s place as the original homeland of coffee consumption. Having had a full bar since the beginning, Goliad says the new cocktail menu has gotten a positive reception.
“We’ve always had any cocktail,” Goliad says. “Now we just updated our menus. So our cocktail menu is changed. And it’s way better, people love it.”
One of Desta’s biggest draws comes from Manchester United. Desta shows most games, and is often packed wall-to-wall with eager fans.
“Normally it’s huge, every seat gets filled,” Goliad says. “It’s like no room at all. It’s crazy. It’s really nice.”
Anything Desta does is strictly because of their regular crowd, Goliad says.
“We know what they want,” she says. “And we like to please everybody. That’s the Ethiopian thing.”
Desta Ethiopian, 12101 Greenville Ave. 214.575.9005, destadallasethiopian.com
Left: Doro Wot, or heavily-spiced Ethiopian chicken stew. Right: Traditional woodwork welcomes guests in Desta’s entry.
FARMER
FARMER KIM
How a Moss Haven Elementary school teacher made school gardens cool
Story by JEHADU ABSHIRO | Photography by AMANI SODIQ
There’s a difference between native Texas milkweed and tropical milkweed. The former is where the monarchs that travel through our state lay their eggs. The latter breaks down the butterflies’ immune system, often killing them.
It’s the difference the average person doesn’t know when they walk into their Home Depot looking to create a butterfly garden.
Plant native milkweed.
That’s Kim Aman’s slogan. She might actually have
more than one slogan. Most of them probably have something to with farming.
She’s Farmer Kim for a reason. Aman helped launch Moss Haven Farms 13 years ago. The patch of grass has become 23 raised beds, a farm field and the home to chickens that produce eggs worthy of ‘Best Egg’ at the State Fair of Texas on Harry S. Moss’ old ranch land. Now, almost every student at Moss Haven Elementary spends at least a day working with their hands. School gardening isn’t a
new concept. Programs up and down the West Coast, East Coast and Rocky Mountain states have long incorporated farming into their curriculum.
“They’ve been doing this for 30 years. We’re behind the curve,” Aman says. “We weren’t necessarily the first people doing it in Dallas, but we’re the first people that brought it to people’s attention that this was important and valuable.”
In Mansfield, Ohio, a town where the population has
been about 50,000 for the last 50 years, there’s land that’s been in Aman’s family for seven generations. A Rust Belt AllAmerican farm harvesting corn and herding cattle. Her grandfather maintained a large garden for food and they’d store the excess produce for the winter months.
teaching degree and came back to Texas. As a special education teacher at Moss Haven Elementary School, where she taught for 22 years, she would take students outdoors and conduct class there.
“I noticed really improved behavior and learning and focus,” she says “So, I literally taught outside, and they could hardly ever find me.”
“CONNECT WITH ROLLIE POLLIES & EARTH WORMS & AN OCCASIONAL GARTER SNAKE & CHICKENS”
“It just taught me the value of the bite of a bright red tomato,” she says.
After living in Cleveland suburb Fairview Park as a child, her family moved to Richardson, Texas, back in the ‘70s when Dallas really started growing. But every summer, Aman would return to the family farm.
“We’d go to amusement parks, and museums and blah blah blah, but get me on the tractor on the farm and that was the best,” Aman says. “The woods whisper my name, and it sounds corny but you feel that your ancestors were there.”
The farming gene skipped a generation with her mom, whose interest in harvesting only went as far as an herb garden.
Aman went to the Pacific Northwest for a
A few parents developed an interest in starting a garden at the school.
“And my principal said ‘Oh, you need to go talk to Kim. She’s never inside,’” Aman says.
The Moss Haven PTA provided initial funds to start the farm. A team of parents and Aman worked on getting RISD to approve plans. Somewhere in the planning process, somebody knew someone at the American Heart Association, which has a Teaching Garden Program, and they received grant money.
“And they asked us to be the first teaching garden in the state,” Aman says. “And we’re like, ‘Yes, please.’”
The farm officially opened in 2012. News outlets came to cover the opening. The first year, they had 24 children signed up for the after-school program. The second year 87 students and the third year 220 students. There was some apprehension from the older grades.
“They were like ‘We need our screens and our paper and pencil and all these things,’” she says.
But then when students who had experienced Moss Haven Farm in the early years got to higher grades and would start course work about topics like erosion, they already understood concepts and experienced real-life examples.
Science. Social studies. Health. Exercise. Social-emotional learning. Math.
“There’s so many things you can learn in one garden lesson that can tie everything together,” Aman says. “It’s really great for kids to get outside and connect with rollie pollies and earth worms and an occasional garter snake and chickens.”
A March 2023 study, The School Gardening and Health and Well-Being of School-Aged Children: A Realist Synthesis , showed a shift to nutrientdense eating, increased physical activity and overall improvement in health in students who participate in programs like Moss Haven Farms. According to a 2017 Columbia University study, students with access to a garden increased vegetable and fruit intake up to three times as much during lunch. It provides more than triple the amount of nutritional education that students receive yearly and hands-on learning experience.
But programs need a lot of hands to be successful. Aman says the average lifetime is two years. The Eden Project, currently being conducted at the University of Texas, has mined data that shows success is directly connected to administrative support. You also need parental support.
“Moss Haven moms are a force of nature. They’re so helpful. They were so instrumental in starting that with their passion and their energy and their connections to other people,” Aman says.
Tiffany Walker, the PTA president in 2011, helped cofound the Moss Haven Farm.
Once there’s parental and administrative support, then there’s the issue of teaching people how to actually garden. Most people are disconnected from the food system.
“When you’re with a group of teachers, and you say, ‘How many of you have a garden?’ Maybe two or three raise their hand … But then you’ll say, ‘Well, how many of your parents?” Then maybe like six hands would go up. Well, ‘How many of your grandparents? Thirty hands go up,’” Aman says.
Then, there’s the issue of connecting people back to nature and showing teachers how to incorporate the outdoors in low-lift ways.
“Even if you’re doing language arts and it’s reading a book, go sit outside,” she says. “Some schools don’t even have windows for them to look out. It can heal a lot of things.”
Then there’s the issue of water. And most teachers don’t have time to water gardens between developing curricula and managing their classrooms. The team at Moss Haven was once quoted $18,000 to
install automated irrigation.
That’s why you have to have more hands.
“When I was in school, I was a good note passer, and that’s all social media is passing notes around. So I did really well at that,” Aman says.
They won a social media contest to go the White House Easter Egg Roll where they got connected to other organizations and increased participation in the program.
“And then after a while, it was like this is so great for our kids. But what about the other kids in our city and our district and our community? And how can we help them?” she says.
She left the classroom and created a nonprofit. Grow Garden Grow, founded in 2020, focuses on developing programs in schools where there’s not enough support naturally or located in food deserts. Becoming a nonprofit was the easiest way to access grants and donations without getting caught in school district red tape, mitigating vendor contracts and easier access to funds. Plus, people like Jack Johnson could donate. He actually did.
Grow Garden Grow is currently in four different school districts and works with about 7,000 children a month. Students who have experienced the program have started gardening experiences for other students. 100 Women of Lake Highlands donated thousands of dollars to gardening projects.
Aman spends less time planting these days. She writes grants, goes to meetings and does walk-throughs to see how lessons are going. Aman still very much involved in Moss Haven.
“I thought teaching was my dream job. I felt like I was born to be a teacher … That was my jam,” she says. “People say corny things like ‘It just all falls into place.’ But it did, with a lot of work and sweat, and, you know, Texas heat. But the stars align and the rows were straight.”
She’s says got nine more years in her. She’ll call it quits when she’s 70.
“I’ll put myself out to pasture then,” she says.
After all, she’s Farmer Kim.
LOVE AND RETAIL
Lake Highlands resident Carley Seale is reshaping boutique shopping
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Inside ROAM Fine Goods, customers can find an array of artisan-made products inspired by Seale’s travels around the country.
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Carley Seale is a lover of two things: retail and people. Seventeen years ago, the Lake Highlands neighbor made the leap and opened a women’s boutique, a dream she’d longed for since childhood.
“It was just a little girl dream to be honest. When I was 15, I got my first job in a fine jewelry store in Tyler, Texas, where I grew up … I worked retail even before I could drive [and] through college,” she says.
At a young age, she became fascinated with retail as it “held endless opportunities.” Seale, who can be restless at times, fell for the constant hustle and bustle of owning a store.
“The success of a shop isn’t a recipe that can be followed, a store is the sum of a million moving parts,” she says.
Seale, who attended Oklahoma University for a bachelor’s degree in accounting, landed her first “real job” at an accounting firm in Dallas. After one year of working at the firm, she decided it wasn’t for her, but the city was.
So she switched to medical sales. For 10 years, it worked, but Seale wasn’t entirely satisfied.
During her time as a sales rep, she constantly traveled, experiencing various cultures and retail with her friends around the country. Upon her return home, Seale noticed the women’s boutiques she’d come to love during her travels lacked a presence in East Dallas.
So, she had an idea: Why not open a women’s boutique?
The decision to open a small business was a drastic shift for Seale. She was starting her company in 2007, right on the precipice of the financial crisis of 2008. Despite the challenge, five stores later, her boutiques continue to grow in business.
When opening her store in 2007, Seale had no guarantees it was going to work.
“When starting a business, you not only evaluate the opportunities, you hypothesize every worst case scenario,” she says. “When the possibility [of] failure is overshadowed by your dreams and a solid business plan, it’s time to get to work. Funny enough, those hypotheticals I defined as the ‘worst case scenario’ have actually happened multiple times [and] I’m still here.”
Her first store, Gypsy Wagon, later renamed Favor the Kind, operated on the corner of Bonita Avenue and Henderson Avenue in a space formerly occupied by a tattoo parlor.
Seale and her mother got to work, scrubbing the floors and painting the walls. They did everything they could to “make it cute” at least, for their three-year lease.
While she envisioned her mother helping her navigate life as a new mom and business owner, Seale’s mother died of pancreatic cancer two years after opening her first store and having her first child.
Her mother’s buisness teachings shaped her buisness model: work hard, be extra kind to people and have fun.
In 2010, it was time to move to a new space off Henderson Avenue, still offering women’s apparel, accessories, children’s clothing and toys, home décor, shoes, stationary items and self care products.
Within the first few years of opening, it was clear what the establishment had become more than what she envisioned.
Carley Seale shares her store’s brand is based on two things: joy and kindness. A company mission that was dedicated to honor her mother.
“We’ve been around 17 years, I’m seeing women that I sold baby clothes [and] their daughter’s [are now] graduating and then their mom is still coming in, it’s just been so intentional for that specific reason,” she says.
Seale decided it was time to expand Favor the Kind outside of Dallas, opening stores in Houston and Crested Butte, Colorado.
At all three Favor the Kind locations, customers new and old continue to fill the store each day. Some buy dresses for their daughters, gifts for a bridal party and new outfits for brunch with accessories to compliment them.
“I’m the type of person [that] the minute everything seems calm, I’m going to operate [on] something again. I can’t help it,” she says.
In 2015, Seale opened ROAM Fine Goods, offering global artisan-made home goods, gifts and jewelry in Colorado in addition to Favor the Kind. Not too long after, she opened a location in the Preston Royal Shopping Center and a third store in Lakewood in November 2023.
She relaxed for four months before making another business move.
In March, Favor the Kind lost the lease of its Henderson Avenue location. So they packed their belongings then headed to their new home at 3024 Greenville Ave.
The store will reopen in the former space of San Francisco Rose on May 1, featuring an updated look with expanded retail space and additional parking.
In addition, she is opening a second storefront at the end of the street called Ernest John Honest Goods, inspired by the names of her two children and her uncle’s store in New York.
The Ernest John Honest Goods store will be similar to Rose Apothecary from Schitt’s Creek , she jokes, as it is a sustainable lifestyle and apothecary shop. A private label refillery, customers will be able to bring in their bath and body products for refills, which helps eliminate plastic waste.
Reflecting on the young girl who had a dream, she feels proud of the decisions she’s made, she says.
“I still made some costly mistakes, [but] I learned how to lead and, in painful ways, how not to lead. I have almost lost it all twice, but I didn’t give up,” she says. “It’s a business, but I treat it like a garden that grows the fruits of kind culture, leadership and community. If I could talk to little Carley, I’d tell her that it is never going to be perfect, so don’t make that the goal. I’d tell her there is no such thing as a mistake, only lessons and lessons make you smart. I’d tell her joy is a commodity that can be sold in little gray bags with rainbow bows, you just have to believe.”
ESCAPE, BREATHE, PAUSE AND CREATE.
Rachel Larlee turned a background in psychology and education into a mindful art class business
Story by ALYSSA HIGH | Photography by AMANI SODIQ
Embroidery is a Rachel Larlee staple, whether it be upgrading a pair of jeans or wall art.
“BREATHE IN.”
“Paint a thin line.”
“Breathe out, push your brush down and paint your breath around the page.”
“There is no messing up, it’s already a mess.”
You could hear these phrases in one of Lake Highlands neighbor Rachel Larlee’s art classes at The Village, where mindfulness and the power of play are equally important in the process of creating art.
Rachel Larlee has a bachelor’s degree in psychology. While in college, Larlee was diagnosed with dyslexia, changing her career trajectory from psychology to education.
“I always knew that it would take me twice, if not three times, as long to do something that my friends just do really quickly,” Larlee says. “Before I went to university, I had a year out and went to Albania and worked in a children’s orphanage for that year. I’ve always loved working with children.”
Larlee began teacher training at Oxford, where she met her husband. She taught for a few years in a village outside of Oxford, using the creativity from her love for art to fill the classroom, partnered with her background in psychology.
Eventually, Larlee taught at a preschool in London, later becoming head of the school. On school breaks, Larlee kept her creativity alive with embroidery, often stitching pillows and making gifts for friends’ nurseries and Christmas presents.
In 2014, Larlee’s husband’s pastoral work led them to Dallas. Larlee started selling freestyle embroidery pieces on social media and at pop-up events.
Then, as so many stories go, the pandemic happened. And Larlee was unable to go home to see her family in the U.K.
“Creativity has always been like a reset for me. I am an introvert, and having three children and an extrovert husband, I needed those moments of reset: of going in and creating,” Larlee says.
After doing an online watercolor painting class, Larlee “fell in love with watercolors” and using the art style in a “play-based way.”
Soon, the Larlee home was “bursting at the seams” with her artwork, which she worked on in her free time after teaching preschool in Lakewood. While looking for a solution to storing the art before selling, Larlee and her son took a walk around The Village.
The pair entered Linger, then a store selling artisan products, to pitch selling some of her artwork. Serendipitously, a woman in charge of The Village’s rental properties was in the store, and
told her of the then-new studio spaces that would be available in the newer part of The Village’s shops.
Larlee opened her shop, teaching lessons on the side and using the space to create.
Her classes aren’t just about art. Her psychology and education backgrounds bring mindfulness exercises into the mix.
“Embroidery, particularly, is such a beautifully mindful process because you’re focusing on every little stitch and you get better,” Larlee says.
To further incorporate mindfulness, Larlee set up a journaling bar with different pens, watercolors, collage material and prompts that focus on mindfulness, intentionality and self-reflection.
“We all know gratitude changes the brain chemistry,” Larlee says. “Journaling and embroidery and more open-ended projects that people can do are great for parents and children to do together. They’re really lovely.”
This summer, Larlee will host several camps for teens and preteens on top of her open houses on Saturdays. From July 1618, a Canvas and Soul camp for ages 8-14 will take a “journey through the lives and works of Matisse and Kahlo.” From July 23-25, a Whimsical Woodlands camp will be centered around cottage core and nature for ages 6-12. Both camps are $260 each.
Focusing on the power of play, Larlee will also host a PreTeens’ Unplugged and Teens’ Unplugged camp for $295. The camps will include hands-on BBQ lessons from Larlee’s husband, pickleball lessons at The Sandy Pickle, nine square and creative art adventures.
“Our teens don’t know how to interact with each other if they don’t have a phone in their hand,” Larlee says. “We’ll be doing some journaling and mindfulness along the way.”
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100 WOMEN OF LAKE HIGLANDS
Neighborhood nonprofit keeps members on the go
Story by AUSTIN WOOD | Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
Some nonprofits are all about long volunteer shifts, considerable time commitments and lengthy new membership processes.
100 Women of Lake Highlands does things a little differently.
The neighborhood nonprofit, started in 2016 by Crispin Deneault, is focused on making philanthropy accessible.
“Crispin started it because she was like ‘We have so much need in Lake Highlands, so let’s find a way to get people involved.’ Everyone works and has kids and everyone’s busy,” says neighborhood resident Stacie Bon, a current 100WLH board member. “So how do we keep it simple and still be able to give back. So that is the entire premise: simplicity.”
Eight years later, the organization has donated over halfa-million dollars.
The premise is simple. Neighborhood women, meeting three times a year, hear from area nonprofits, choose one, then each member writes the selected organization a check for $100. That’s it. A yearly total of $300 is the only requirement for members.
“I think moms and women in general are pulled in many different directions, and it’s hard to prioritize what a woman wants to do,” says former 100WLH President and current board member Amy Timmerman.
Technically, you don’t even have to go to the meetings.
“It is preferred that you attend the meetings, but I would say we want anybody to join who wants to make a positive impact in Lake Highlands,” Timmerman says.
For each meeting, 10 area nonprofits are invited to put the name of their organization in a raffle tumbler, with three being selected from the tumbler to pitch the group on why they deserve a donation.
“Those beneficiaries will know they’re on deck,” says Beth Rider, current 100WLH president. “We’ll call in order each one to come up, and they each get to speak for five minutes straight. We have a timer going — it’s very strict. And then once they’re done, they’ll all come up, and we open it up for 10 minutes of questions.”
Rider and Timmerman say that 100WLH’s roughly 186 members aren’t afraid to ask tough questions during Q&A. After each group has presented, the women vote on a beneficiary through a QR code on their phones.
Typically, the group looks for smaller area nonprofits who may not have the development resources that larger, national organizations have access to. “If it sounds like they can do it
on their own, then they don’t really need our money,” Bon says.
In the past, recipients have included local families in need, nonprofits fighting food insecurity and PTAs.
“They’re really relying on the people of our community to support them,” Timmerman says.
They can recall a few memorable contributions, but for Rider and Timmerman, one donation stood out above the rest. When 8-year-old Julian Kampfschulte passed away after a battle with the neurodegenerative disease ALD, word of the family’s misfortune spread to a 100WLH meeting.
“Every single nonprofit that had put their name in the hat for that meeting withdrew so that the Kampfshulte family could receive the funds, and that was very moving to experience,” Timmerman says.
The family would go on to use the funds, around $22,000, to set up a scholarship in Julian’s name for a graduating Lake Highlands High School senior who attended White Rock Elementary.
“I mean, for me, Snuggle Julian was a wonderful gift back,” Rider says, “And then Forerunner. What they do is just amazing.”
Forerunner Mentoring is a local nonprofit that provides faith-based mentoring to fatherless youth K-12 in Lake Highlands. The group has received multiple donations from 100WLH, including the group’s first donation in 2016, and one recently that will help fund Forerunner’s after-school Thrive program for LHHS students.
“Oh, it changes lives, believe me; we don’t get a whole lot of grants,” says Steve Giddens, Forerunner’s director of development. “We’re primarily driven by private donations, but the grants we receive, we’re always grateful. They kind of enable us to do the things to help us grow.”
Giddens says the 100WLH donation of nearly $18,000 will allow Forerunner to expand its program further and offer more excursions like college visits and camping trips.
Timmerman and Rider say they believe Lake Highlands’ small-town sense of community plays a large role in shaping 100WLH’s fortunes.
“I think that’s the neatest thing about Lake Highlands is how close-knit it is and how easy it is to rally the troops,” Timmerman says.
“I can say, truthfully, that the women of Lake Highlands have very big hearts, and they enjoy giving back, so I think that organization will sustain just fine.”
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