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GFWC Blog ~ Volunteers in Action
GFWC's weekly blog highlights Volunteers in Action clubs that are in the news.
To view past blogs of GFWC, click here.
Massachusetts clubs that were highlighted in 2024:
►Volunteers in Action: GFWC Bay State Contemporary Club
September 12, 2024. This week's GFWC blog features The GFWC Bay State Contemporary Club (Massachusetts). Members met on August 27th at GFWC MA Headquarters in Sudbury. The goal was to complete the tying of 22 blankets (for children going into foster care) that Massachusetts is bringing to the New England Region Conference to be held September 13-15. Eight blankets were previously completed by members. Eighteen women from across the state, scissors in hand joined from 2:00 – 4:00 to work on this project. We used two different methods to make these kit blankets ~ cut and tied and sewn and cut. Of course, yummy snacks were provided for energy and success was achieved in our two-hour time window.
►Volunteers in Action: GFWC Auburn Junior Woman’s Club
March 14, 2024. This week's GFWC Blog features GFWC Auburn Junior Woman’s Club (Massachusetts). To participate in Advocates for Children Week in 2023, members of the GFWC Auburn Junior Woman’s Club worked with CASA, Court-Appointed Special Advocates. AJWC clubwomen came together for one of their biggest and newest projects, allocating $500 to help this worthy nonprofit. The money was spent on duffle bags and important items for foster children in need, especially when they are in transition.
Clubwomen donated to fill the bags to the brim with items from CASA’s wish list: soap, shampoo, blankets, coloring books, crayons, bath and hand towels, hand wipes, books, toothbrushes, toothpaste, tissues, and stuffed animals. During their monthly meeting, they filled the duffle bags, and two members delivered them to CASA. The members received a tour of the headquarters and spoke with the director.
Massachusetts clubs that were highlighted in 2022:
►Volunteers in Action: GFWC Marlborough Junior Woman’s Club
October 25, 2022. This week's GFWC Blog features GFWC Marlborough Junior Woman’s Club (Massachusetts) and GFWC Woman’s Citizenship Club of Alamosa (Colorado). Read how Massachusetts clubwomen hosted a Trunk-or-Treat event for local families and how Colorado members are using recycled plastic to make sleeping mats for people in need in their community.
►Volunteers in Action: GFWC Northboro Junior Woman’s Club
June 7, 2022. This week's GFWC Blog features the GFWC Northboro Junior Woman’s Club (Massachusetts) and GFWC West Side Women’s Club (Pennsylvania). Read how clubwomen gave out reusable shopping bags to customers of a local Stop & Shop in recognition of Earth Day and donated funds and volunteers hours to help support blind and visually impaired individuals in their community.
► Volunteers in Action: Ousamequin Club
April 18, 2022. For the past six years, members of the Ousamequin Club have been donating toiletry items to Project PACK, a nonprofit organization that assists survivors of sexual assault throughout the state by providing Post-Assault Comfort Kits. Jean Guarino, the club’s recording secretary, said these kits include items such as a toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, gum, underwear, and more. Currently, Project PACK collaborates with the Massachusetts Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program to distribute the PACKs to the patients they treat.
To view past blogs of GFWC, click here.
Massachusetts clubs that were highlighted in 2024:
►Volunteers in Action: GFWC Bay State Contemporary Club
September 12, 2024. This week's GFWC blog features The GFWC Bay State Contemporary Club (Massachusetts). Members met on August 27th at GFWC MA Headquarters in Sudbury. The goal was to complete the tying of 22 blankets (for children going into foster care) that Massachusetts is bringing to the New England Region Conference to be held September 13-15. Eight blankets were previously completed by members. Eighteen women from across the state, scissors in hand joined from 2:00 – 4:00 to work on this project. We used two different methods to make these kit blankets ~ cut and tied and sewn and cut. Of course, yummy snacks were provided for energy and success was achieved in our two-hour time window.
►Volunteers in Action: GFWC Auburn Junior Woman’s Club
March 14, 2024. This week's GFWC Blog features GFWC Auburn Junior Woman’s Club (Massachusetts). To participate in Advocates for Children Week in 2023, members of the GFWC Auburn Junior Woman’s Club worked with CASA, Court-Appointed Special Advocates. AJWC clubwomen came together for one of their biggest and newest projects, allocating $500 to help this worthy nonprofit. The money was spent on duffle bags and important items for foster children in need, especially when they are in transition.
Clubwomen donated to fill the bags to the brim with items from CASA’s wish list: soap, shampoo, blankets, coloring books, crayons, bath and hand towels, hand wipes, books, toothbrushes, toothpaste, tissues, and stuffed animals. During their monthly meeting, they filled the duffle bags, and two members delivered them to CASA. The members received a tour of the headquarters and spoke with the director.
Massachusetts clubs that were highlighted in 2022:
►Volunteers in Action: GFWC Marlborough Junior Woman’s Club
October 25, 2022. This week's GFWC Blog features GFWC Marlborough Junior Woman’s Club (Massachusetts) and GFWC Woman’s Citizenship Club of Alamosa (Colorado). Read how Massachusetts clubwomen hosted a Trunk-or-Treat event for local families and how Colorado members are using recycled plastic to make sleeping mats for people in need in their community.
►Volunteers in Action: GFWC Northboro Junior Woman’s Club
June 7, 2022. This week's GFWC Blog features the GFWC Northboro Junior Woman’s Club (Massachusetts) and GFWC West Side Women’s Club (Pennsylvania). Read how clubwomen gave out reusable shopping bags to customers of a local Stop & Shop in recognition of Earth Day and donated funds and volunteers hours to help support blind and visually impaired individuals in their community.
► Volunteers in Action: Ousamequin Club
April 18, 2022. For the past six years, members of the Ousamequin Club have been donating toiletry items to Project PACK, a nonprofit organization that assists survivors of sexual assault throughout the state by providing Post-Assault Comfort Kits. Jean Guarino, the club’s recording secretary, said these kits include items such as a toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, gum, underwear, and more. Currently, Project PACK collaborates with the Massachusetts Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program to distribute the PACKs to the patients they treat.