Soroptimist International of Laramie

10/07/2026

✨ Your dreams deserve a chance to grow! ✨

Soroptimist of Laramie is accepting applications for the Live Your Dream Awards, helping women pursue their education and build a brighter future for themselves and their families! 💙

🎓 Are you the primary financial provider for yourself and your dependents? Are you enrolled in—or accepted into—an undergraduate degree or vocational training program? This opportunity could be for YOU!

💰 Local club award: Up to $3,800!
-Recipients also have the chance to advance to additional award levels, with the potential to receive up to $16,000 total at the National level! Awards can help with tuition, books, transportation, and childcare—giving you more room to focus on your goals. 🙌

📅 Application deadline: December 15th!

👉 Check your eligibility and apply here:
https://www.soroptimist.org/our-work/live-your-dream-awards/apply-for-the-live-your-dream-awards.html

💌 Know a woman who could benefit? Share this post and encourage her to apply. Your encouragement could be the start of her next chapter!

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05/31/2026

🙌Soroptimist International of Laramie is proud to support young women that choose to further themselves with a career in the Trades. This year we awarded two very deserving recipients with $1,000 grants to be used towards their Trades programs. Congratulations to these to LHS Seniors, Chayne Webb who is working towards becoming a CNA and to Leyna Bressler who is in a Cosmetology licensure program. We are excited for the future you are creating for yourselves and cannot wait to see you succeed!

💫Economic empowerment of young women is a core part of Soroptomist International's mission, and we’re incredibly grateful for a supportive community that rallies behind us to make our annual fundraising events a success. It is only because of this amazing community that we are able to support these amazing, hard-working young ladies and others in Laramie and the surrounding areas.

🎓Also, congratulations to all of the graduates! The ladies of Soroptimist of Laramie wish you much success as you follow your dreams and become who you want to be!

04/27/2026

We'd like to extend to a THANK YOU to everyone who helped make the 5th Annual Dream It, Be It - Careers in Trades Fair at Laramie High School a huge success!

We want to give a big shout out to Wyoming Construction Coalition /WYCC for being such a great partner in this event, we could not have done it without you! We had 37 business/industry Trade reps who connected with students and over 170 students participated!

We truly appreciate all who contributed to this event from supporting it at Laramie High School to sponsoring the event and helping us provide meals, refreshments, and VISA gift cards.

Below are just a few of those that helped make this day a huge success, thanks to...
🤝LHS staff for accommodating us—particularly Danielle Kunkel, who was our “go-to” for reserving space, organizing tables, and promoting the event to students. Your support made everything run smoothly!
👩‍🍳A big thank you as well to the LHS kitchen staff for catering for this event, we appreciate your extra that you put into the breakfast and lunch for the event.
🥞Cowboy Glass for providing Breakfast.
☕️The Human Bean of Laramie for their amazing coffee.
🍴 Groathouse Construction, Ridleys, & First Interstate Bank for lunch.
💧 UniWyo Credit Union for the Bottled Water.
🍩 Ridleys & Dan Kelly for Donuts & Chips.
🍪 Mary's Mountain Cookies of Laramie and Soroptimist for providing cookies.
🎁 WyoTech- Laramie, Roamstead Real Estate, Miller Insulation, Fremont Electric INC., Sampson Construction, IMCA, WYCC/WCA, and Soroptimist for contributing for Gift Cards.

💫Economic empowerment of young women is a core part of our mission, and we’re incredibly grateful for a supportive community that rallies behind us to uplift our students and make events like this such a success. We’ve already heard wonderful feedback from students about what they learned and experienced, and we’re excited for the next one!

One more big appreciation to the Chair of this event Stefanie Van Buren, thanks for all you did to make this happen! There are always so many moving parts and your effort made this run so smoothly. Our Club might be small in numbers but we sure are mighty when we all work together for the betterment of our community!

04/27/2026

Congratulations to our very own Gretchen Shierlock who was installed as Region 4 District Director at the 4th Annual Soroptimist Peaks to Plains Region Spring Conference! We are so grateful to have her experience, leadership, and heart to serve in our Club and our Region! Congratulations to all District Directors!

04/26/2026

With our VERY own past-Governor Jonnie Jenkins, that we are so grateful to have in our club-her leadership is invaluable! We are appreciative of the service of these wonderful leaders from our Region who continue to give back🤝!

❤️🙏🏻❤️ We absolutely love our past Governors aka the Big Rocks!! 💍

04/21/2026

We’d like to give a shoutout to Ridley’s Family Markets and a huge THANK YOU to Dan Kelly for generously donating THREE “shippers” of Fritos chips for our students and vendors!

We had some fun figuring out what a “shipper” actually is — turns out it’s a point-of-sale display… and each one held 70 bags! That’s 210 bags of chips total! 🙌

Soroptimist & Wyoming Construction Coalition truly appreciates partnerships like Ridley’s that “chip in” to make a difference.

Don’t forget!
📅 Careers in the Trades Fair
📍 Laramie High School
🕗 Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM

ALL high school students are invited — we hope to see you there!