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?
At The Beacon, a simple cake means so much more than flour and sugar.
Every woman in our program is celebrated on her birthday with a homemade cake—baked with love by one of our incredible volunteers. For many, it’s the first birthday they’ve marked since childhood. For others, it’s the first time they’ve celebrated in a safe, stable home.
Some women will tell you it’s the first time in years they’ve felt worthy of celebration. Those cakes deliver a powerful message:
“You matter. You are worthy. You are loved.”
The Cake Gala was born from that tradition. Each year, local bakers and businesses donate beautiful cakes for our signature auction, spreading joy and hope far beyond a single birthday. Guests bid generously—not just for the cakes themselves, but for what they symbolize: dignity, healing, and the chance to begin again.
Every dollar raised through the Cake Gala goes directly back into our shelter and supportive housing programs—providing safety, therapy, job training, and a pathway to independence for women rewriting their stories after trauma.
This is more than a gala.
It’s a chance to be part of someone’s healing.
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