Our History

Local

100+ Women Who Care – MKE Metro West was started February 2016. At that meeting, we gave to our first charity, Hebron House of Hospitality, a donation of $5,250. Over the past 10 years we have served many different groups of people -those with Disabilities(6), Children/Youth(5), Economically Disadvantaged(5), Women/Girls(4), Families(4), Homeless(3), and Elderly/Other(3) - throughout the Milwaukee Metro and SE Wisconsin area. Our members have chosen to support several issues, mainly with an emphasis on the area of Human Services. We are grateful to all our members who have been with us since that beginning, and those who have joined us during our 10 years of selecting and donating to local charities. In those 10 years, we have contributed over $300,000! We are SO PROUD of our accomplishments as a group and know that we can continue to make a difference in our communities.

Nation Wide

100+ Women Who Care organization was founded by Karen Dunigan in her community of Jackson, Michigan in 2006 as a brilliantly simple way to raise money efficiently and quickly for local charities/non-profits/worthy causes. Her group of 100 women, at their first one-hour meeting, each wrote a check for $100 directly to the charity, raising $10,000 to buy 300 new baby cribs for an organization in Jackson.

Finding strength in numbers, other groups of women throughout the country have started their own “giving circles” and found similar successful experiences in their communities.

Now, 100 Women Who Care has extended to: 100 Men Who Care, 100 People Who Care, 100 Businesses Who Care, 100 Kids Who Care groups and so much more. There are currently 795 Who Care giving circles, with 571 in the U.S., making a huge impact with total donations of $52,000,000 in communities throughout the country and the world.