About the Seattle Ladies Underground Giving! 

We meet on the first Thursday of each month. Each month, SLUGs team up and identify an experience they would like to share with the other SLUGs and a partner organization. From Clothing SWAPs to animal shelter care, from Bootcamp to Girlvolution events, there are infinite varied possibilities of what the SLUGs may be up to each month. Don't have an idea? Connect with some of the other SLUGs and get inspired. Don't have a non-profit you are passionate about serving? There are plenty of organizations we have and are working with we can offer. Here's the latest news about us.

Greenlake Walk - June 2, 2013

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​Join us by getting 25 of your friends to give you $25 to walk around Greenlake 5 times on June 2, 2013. We will be supporting Partners In Health with their PIH | Engage initiative to raise money to strengthen the women's health center in a rural district of Malawi. If 25 people join we will raise $15000 to fund their prenatal program for one year.
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Currently, Malawi, a landlocked country on the southeastern part of the continent of Africa, has very little in the way of healthcare, particularly for women. One in 36 women die during childbirth due to complications. Each person who donates and each woman who walks will save countless lives that are unnecessarily lost. Join us today in a walk of solidarity with women.



Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health. Feb. 1, 2013, Neno, Malawi. With the assistance of Nurse Pilirani Eddie Dickson, a young woman delivers her baby at Neno District Hospital. Learn more by clicking on photo.

Clothing SWAP - April 4, 2013

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Join us in donating and participating in our 2nd Annual SLUGs Woman’s Only Clothing Exchange Fundraiser!
WHEN: Thursday April 4th from 7pm to 9pm, Shopping begins at 7:20pm
WHERE: Phinney Neighborhood Center, Room 2 in the Main Building ADDRESS: 6532 Phinney Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103; (206) 783-2244
SPONSORED BY: The SLUGs! (Seattle Ladies Underground Giving)



The proceeds will go to two amazing organizations: For Heaven’s Sake Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation and Partners in Health. 



FHSARR is a non-profit organization for the preservation of orphaned and injured animals. They provide care and treatment for domestic and wild animals in a safe and nurturing environment while preparing them for release into their natural habitat. For more information, go to www.fhswildliferehab.org.

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Partners In Health - SLUG’s biggest endeavor yet, every month till June part or all of our monthly fundraising will go to raising money to help PIH / Engage build a women’s health center in rural Malawi. For more information, go to www.pih.org/country/malawi.​



Veronica Smith and Melinda Bocci Goodwill try out the clothes.

Girl Rising Film - March 11, 2013

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Join us in viewing this inspiring film on how one girl can make a difference and purchase tickets for our screening on Monday March 11, 2013 at 7:30pm at the Meridian 16. A portion of your ticket purchase will go to Partners in Health. Tell everyone you know!!!
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"It’s time for every country and every culture to value our girls, to give them the right to education and the right to make a difference. Because denying half the population of education is equivalent to forcing half the population into slavery. It denies girls and women the opportunity for independence or escape. But education can change that, and spending a couple hours of your time to watch this moving film will help you to understand the problem, and more importantly, the solution." ~Michelle Costanza, "Girl Rising: Why this is the movie of the year", Seattle PI

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RATING: PG-13
GENRE: Documentary
DIRECTORS: Richard Robbins
RELEASE: 2013
DURATION: 101
STARRING: Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez, Kerry Washington, Cate Blanchette

From Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins and the award-winning producers of The Documentary Group and Vulcan Productions, strategic partner, Intel Corporation, and distribution partners CNN Films and Gathr, comes Girl Rising - an innovative new feature film about the power of education to change a girl – and the world. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez and other A-list actresses contribute voice performances to the film, which features original music from Academy Award winner Rachel Portman, in collaboration with Lorne Balfe. The film spotlights unforgettable girls like Sokha, an orphan who rises from the dumps of Cambodia to become a star student and an accomplished dancer; Suma, who composes music to help her endure forced servitude in Nepal and today crusades to free others; and Ruksana, an Indian “pavement-dweller” whose father sacrifices his own basic needs for his daughter’s dreams. Each girl is paired with a renowned writer from her native country. Edwidge Danticat, Sooni Taraporevala, Aminatta Forna, and others tell the girls’ stories, each with its own style, and all with profound resonance. These girls are each unique, but the obstacles they faced are ubiquitous. Like the 66 million girls around the world who dream of going to school, what Sokha, Suma, Ruksana and the rest want most is to be students: to learn. And now, by sharing their personal journeys, they have become teachers. Watch Girl Rising, and you will see: One girl with courage is a revolution.

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Girl Rising Film Poster