BIO Girls 3rd Annual Gala — A Million Dreams
A Million Dreams!
BIO Girls 3rd Annual Gala — a celebration of our 10th year of programming and a reveal of our strategic goal for the next three years. It truly was the greatest show. Thank you to Crown Jewels for being our premiere sponsor for the third year in a row.
CROWN JEWELS has been locally owned for 59 years, specializing in bridal, custom, and fine jewelry. Located at 4487 Calico Dr South Suite A Fargo, ND 58104, you can find engagement sets, wedding bands, and a wide variety of diamond and colored stone jewelry on display. On-site jewelry repair is also available. Crown Jewels is proud to be a third-generation, local, family-owned business.
Crown Jewels store owners, Greg and Jessica Stephens, and their three daughters are long-time supporters of the BIO Girls mission.
Thank you, Greg and Jessica, for your continued generosity.
This night would not have been possible without our other event sponsors:
GAMING SPONSOR — Balance Tax and Accounting
PROGRAM SPONSOR — Strive Chiropractic
SILENT AUCTION SPONSOR — Sanford Children’s
GAME OF CHANCE SPONSORS — Essentia Health & Your Friend Kenny Steam Cleaning
Thank you for supporting BIO Girls!
Our magical evening kicked off when we rolled out the red carpet!
All glammed up, our guests posed for some red carpet photos. The outfits were magnificent. A giant thank you goes out to our wonderful volunteer photographer, Lexi Hovland. She captured our entire event in the most powerful, meaningful way.
Guests then strolled through a visual display of BIO Girls over the past nine years, thanks to Office Sign Company. BIO Girls began with just 40 participants at a single site here in Fargo, ND.
Thanks to Joe and the Avalon, our event set-up was breathtaking.
Love Always Floral knocked our centerpieces out of the park.
We are so grateful for their time and talent! Wow!
Thanks to Do Good Adventures, all of our business table sponsors got the sweetest smelling candles as a take-home gift!
Speaking of business tables, a big thank you goes out to all of our business table sponsors for supporting BIO Girls:
Beth’s Place
Bachmeier Custom Homes & Allegro Group
Bright Futures
Choice Bank
Dakota Medical Foundation
Do Good Adventures
First Community Credit Union
IMAGE Medi Spa
Jordahl Custom Homes
Level 8 Steam Cleaning & Restoration
Title Company
Microsoft
Northwestern Mutual
Vance Thompson Vision
The Vanity Bar
Wellness District
Alpha Lit Fargo lit up the night showing how bright our one million dreams will be!
Thank you Alpha Lit!
6th Street Revue welcomed our guests with some rockin’ tunes!
Our social hour was filled with apps, drinks, and games!
…and the absolute coolest 360 photobooths from Pix Squad!
Our program began with our volunteer event committee chairs, Molly Fuschel and Britt Ingersol welcoming our guests with a game! Thank you to Molly, Britt and our entire event committee: Mary Roehl, Mallory Brown, Ashley Bosh & Kriss Burns.
Then the show began! Thanks to Brian and Mobile Pro for making our production, lighting, and overall program a dream come true!
FM Aerial & Movement Arts and Honeysuckle Hooping nailed the opening number. We are still in awe of the talent and choreography getting our audience on the edge of their seats!
Scott Holdman and Kelsey Buell took over from there! Girl dad Scott, and volunteer BIO Girls mentor Kelsey created the perfect duo to be our emcees. Thank you both for your powerful illustration of the BIO Girls mission and why we exist.
Scott said it best:
“Modern living has amplified ancient feelings of being less than.
We watch our young ones suffer spiraling negative thoughts of comparison, not being good enough, and struggling with being anything other than what God has made them.
If you've ever prayed that someone or something would just do something about this downward spiral of negative self-views. Someone has. Her name is Missy Heilman, and the organization is BIO Girls. And you see why in this video.”
Thanks to Off Color Media for this impactful video!
Finally, BIO Girls Founder and Executive Director, Missy Heilman, shared the BIO Girls strategic plan publicly for the first time.
BIO Girls has set the
bold goal to impact
1 in 6 North Dakota girls
annually by 2025.
That equates to 3,500 girls in North Dakota, annually. Not to mention the 1,000s of girls we’ll be reaching in neighboring states.
Our auctioneer, Andy Westby, kicked off our Fund My Future portion of the program, where our audience rallied together to support our dream big goal. Accompanied by Tyler Hoverson & Kensey Knight singing “A Million Dreams”, pledge cards were raised, packages were auctioned off (including Missy’s mom’s famous carrot cake — thanks Sharon!) and the magic filled the Avalon that evening.
We are overjoyed. Our hearts are exploding with gratitude.
The BIO Girls mission is to increase the self-esteem in adolescent girls — a mission that is too important to fail. Our fundraising goal for this evening was vastly exceeded — we raised around $210,000. The Fargo-Moorhead-West Fargo community is one of a kind. The generosity of the people and businesses that reside here? It is unmatched. The dollars we raised will go directly towards our strategic goal of impacting 1 in 6 ND girls annually by 2025. That is nearly a 300% increase from our current impact in our state… and we’re ready for it. Thank you, thank you, thank you from everyone at BIO Girls.
Until next year.
