About Us

Soroptimist International of Rancho Cordova & Gold River

Annually, our club provides:

  • Live Your Dream Award grants for a head-of-household mothers returning to school
  • “Comfort Kits” and “Comfort Kids”—totes and backpacks that contain full-size essentials for women, and women with children who are escaping a violent environment
  • Lead Project 680 to provide socks & underwear to homeless and at-risk students in FCUSD, purchased new bras for homeless teen girls and nursing bras to adolescent mothers attending Walnutwood High School.

Additional community activities our club has supported:

  • Stuffed over 100 holiday stockings per year to give to female veterans receiving treatment at the VA Northern California Healthcare System in Mather, CA
  • Donated a new heating pad to every secondary school in Rancho Cordova so that girls could use it to relief menstrual cramp pain then return to class, rather than be sent home
  • Hosted a Dream It Be It Career and Life Preparation workshop to 10 secondary school age girls. 100% responded that they are now better prepared to “adult”
  • Created hundreds of pillowcase dresses for the Dress A Girl Around the World program, which provides young girls in developing countries with a nice dress to discourage traffickers from kidnapping them
  • Co-hosted the “STOP Trafficking” Symposium in 2011 and in 2024 to educate the community about the Human Trafficking crisis
  • Sent money to purchase 40 Solar Cookers for the International Solar Cooker Kit project to help Darfur refugees
  • Answered the urgent need of St. John’s Women’s shelter with the donation of over 1,000 diapers.
  • Volunteered at the Cordova Food Locker at Thanksgiving & Christmas
  • Funded for “homeless” and deserving high school senior girls to attend Senior Ball with a nice dress, shoes, make-up & up-do
  • Provided a holiday party, photos with Santa, gifts, punch & cookies; to a needy local elementary school where most of the families live below the poverty line.

Meetings (Guests welcome!)
Business Meetings: 2nd Thurs 6:30-8pm @ Mountain Mike’s Pizza, 2220 Gold Springs Ct, Gold River. Meal purchase not required; all members and guests responsible for their own meal costs.