
Save The Date
Friday, November 7, 2025 | Prairie Meadows | Altoona, Iowa
Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating resilience, healing, and the power of community.
The Cake Gala is The Beacon’s signature annual fundraiser, supporting over 100 women each year through trauma-informed housing, recovery, and wraparound care. We currently house 64 women across two campuses and provide life-changing services for survivors of incarceration, domestic violence, homelessness, and addiction.
This year, we aim to raise $160,000—enough to support 34 women for six months of healing, growth, and transformation. At just $26 a day, your support provides shelter, meals, case management, clothing, employment support, and—perhaps most importantly—a safe place to begin again.

Why Cake?
For many women at The Beacon, a birthday cake is a first.
No candles. No celebration. No one saying, “You matter.”
At The Beacon, every woman is celebrated on her birthday with a homemade cake—baked with love by a volunteer. That cake becomes a symbol of dignity, belonging, and visibility. It’s a sweet, small gesture that says, “You are seen. You are worthy. You are loved.”
This is more than a gala.
This is a chance to be part of someone’s healing.
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