Preserving Our Italian Heritage

Dear Member of The Friends of Isola delle Femmine, Inc. organization,

Thank you for your membership dues in 2020, it is much appreciated. You are a Charter Member of Friends of Isola delle Femmine, Inc, your contributions will never increase. Your contributions have helped us keep our doors open and our new organization moving forward. Your dues-contributions are tax deductible.

It’s been a tough year for a non-profit organization to start up, but we did it! We are still here and we have accomplished a lot in 2020. We launched our NEW website, www.friendsofisola.org, continued and expanded our Face Book page, Mary Pappas Coniglio created and launched “Cooking with Mary’s Village Style” video’s on Facebook, Instagram and on the YouTube Channel, in an effort to preserve our culture and heritage through highlighting our families Old World recipes from our childhood and to keep us all communicating with one another. We published our first Newsletter (IL Notiziario) and Special Editions, with the expertise of our Editor in Chief Alex Grillo. FOI has increased our membership, established an Isola Relief Fund to help those unfortunate Isolani’s during Covid-19. We are proud to say we have developed and established our FIRST FOI Scholarship Program to award those first-time college bound students as well as those returning to college. We will be accepting applications now with a March 2021 deadline. A Family member MUST BE A MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING, TO APPLY.

All these accomplishments are not without costs. To keep our momentum moving forward, we need your membership dues to help defray the costs of insurance, website maintenance, tax advice & tax filings, bank fees, administrative costs, i.e. postage, envelopes, office supplies. No one on the Executive Board of FOI is paid for any of their work, time, supplies and all food items and supplies for videos are donated.

We appreciate your faith in us as a non-profit organization and our cause to preserve our Italian Sicilian Culture & Heritage. We are asking you to renew your Charter Membership at the same low price of $60 per person for 2021.

We have enclosed an Invoice (memberships after June 2020 have been pro-rated) along with a membership application. We would like you to please fill out the application and return it with your check, made out to Friends of Isola delle Femmine, Inc and mail it to FOI 6114 La Salle Ave. #315, Oakland, Ca. 94611-2802.

If you pay on our website by credit or debit card please still fill out the enclosed application and send it to our Oakland Address but please include $2 extra per person to cover the cost of paying the Pay Pal fees. Every dollar counts!

Your Charter Membership provides you:

• Sustaining dues
• Personalized Membership Card
• VIP treatment at all FOI events along with our sponsors
• VIP seating at Event dinners and shows
• Acknowledgement on website and in our Newsletters
• Discounts on some event tickets and merchandise
• Exclusive College Scholarship funds availability for your immediate family members

Your prompt contribution remittance will keep you current as a member in good standing and you will be paid in full through January 1, 2022.

For your faithfulness and believing in our cause, upon receipt of your renewal check before January 15, 2021, we will send you a $10 Amazon gift card, as token of our appreciation.

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts, and thank you for helping us keep our Italian Sicilian Culture & Heritage alive.

Sincerely,

Your Executive Board