What We Do ~ GFWC Club Manual and More
The GFWC Massachusetts clubs work on programs in their communities, their state, their country, and internationally. Clubs follow the suggested guidelines from GFWC as outlined in the GFWC Club Manual.
Follow these steps to access the GFWC Club Manual through the GFWC Member Portal.
The GFWC programs include Special Programs, Community Service Programs, and Advancement Plans.
Looking for new projects and programs? Click below for winning projects and programs.
►►►Click here to see the GFWC TOP 10 Projects for 2022 in each SP, CSP, and AP
►►►Click here to see the GFWC TOP 10 Projects for 2021 in each SP, CSP, and AP
►►► Click here to see the GFWC TOP 10 Projects for 2020 in each SP, CSP, and AP
Follow these steps to access the GFWC Club Manual through the GFWC Member Portal.
The GFWC programs include Special Programs, Community Service Programs, and Advancement Plans.
Looking for new projects and programs? Click below for winning projects and programs.
►►►Click here to see the GFWC TOP 10 Projects for 2022 in each SP, CSP, and AP
►►►Click here to see the GFWC TOP 10 Projects for 2021 in each SP, CSP, and AP
►►► Click here to see the GFWC TOP 10 Projects for 2020 in each SP, CSP, and AP
NEW ~ Community Connection Initiatives ~ NEW
The 2022-2024 Community Connection Initiatives are projects that make a visual, physical, or emotional impact at the grassroots level. They are projects that bring awareness to what GFWC volunteering is all about. A Community Connection Initiative brings the shimmer, the glitter, and the shine to being a member of a GFWC club into your local community.
Public relations and media play a large part in a Community Connection Initiative. Be sure to share your “sparkle” through internet, newspaper articles, social media, blog posts, radio, and television. Make an impact that will ensure your community members want to be a part of such a passionate group of women making good things happen at the grassroots level.
►►►Click here for the detailed four-page Community Connection Initiative handout.
►►►Click here for the two-page Community Connection Initiative handout.
Public relations and media play a large part in a Community Connection Initiative. Be sure to share your “sparkle” through internet, newspaper articles, social media, blog posts, radio, and television. Make an impact that will ensure your community members want to be a part of such a passionate group of women making good things happen at the grassroots level.
►►►Click here for the detailed four-page Community Connection Initiative handout.
►►►Click here for the two-page Community Connection Initiative handout.
GFWC Special Programs and Community Service Programs
GFWC Signature Program: Domestic and Sexual Violence Awareness and Prevention
The goal of the GFWC Signature Program is to increase awareness of and help prevent the widespread occurrence of domestic abuse in communities across the Nation by working with national domestic violence networks, supporting existing activities, working with various established programs, and initiating educational opportunities for club members and local citizens. GFWC aims to be a powerful voice for those who have no voice.
In partnership with GFWC and community members, we pledge to work together with passion and purpose to advocate for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence and educate the public on the prevalence of domestic and sexual violence in our local communities and how informing members can improve outcomes for survivors.
The Signature Program has eight areas of focus:
The goal of the GFWC Signature Program is to increase awareness of and help prevent the widespread occurrence of domestic abuse in communities across the Nation by working with national domestic violence networks, supporting existing activities, working with various established programs, and initiating educational opportunities for club members and local citizens. GFWC aims to be a powerful voice for those who have no voice.
In partnership with GFWC and community members, we pledge to work together with passion and purpose to advocate for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence and educate the public on the prevalence of domestic and sexual violence in our local communities and how informing members can improve outcomes for survivors.
The Signature Program has eight areas of focus:
- Campus Sexual Assault
- Child Abuse .
- Elder Abuse Abuse
- Human Trafficking for Sexual Purposes
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Military Sexual Assault
- Teen Dating Violence
- Violence Against Native American Women
As part of the GFWC Signature Program: Domestic and Sexual Violence Awareness and Prevention, the GFWC Success For Survivors Scholarship was created in 2012 to lend a helping hand to those impacted by intimate partner violence who are pursuing higher education. The scholarship aims to provide survivors with a means to achieve both financial and personal independence.
Since its inception, GFWC has awarded more than $97,500 in scholarship funds.
►►►Click here for details about the 2023 scholarship. Deadline is February 10, 2023.
Since its inception, GFWC has awarded more than $97,500 in scholarship funds.
►►►Click here for details about the 2023 scholarship. Deadline is February 10, 2023.
GFWC Juniors’ Special Program: Advocates for Children
GFWC Juniors’ Special Program: Advocates for Children is designed to encourage all Woman’s, Junior Woman’s, Juniorette, and International Affiliate Clubs to make a difference in the life of a child by being an advocate. The program was envisioned as a way for clubwomen to provide a voice for children and to teach and encourage parents and other caregivers to advocate for children at the grassroots level. The definition of child advocacy is “support for children who are in a vulnerable position in society or in a vulnerable situation.” We aim to honor our roots and be a voice for children.
Clubwomen can be an advocate by working to:
• Ensure that children are protected from harmful situations.
• Encourage healthy physical and emotional lifestyles.
• Impact policy to improve children’s lives
►►►Click here for the GFWC Juniors’ Special Program: Advocates for Children ~ one page handout
GFWC Juniors’ Special Program: Advocates for Children is designed to encourage all Woman’s, Junior Woman’s, Juniorette, and International Affiliate Clubs to make a difference in the life of a child by being an advocate. The program was envisioned as a way for clubwomen to provide a voice for children and to teach and encourage parents and other caregivers to advocate for children at the grassroots level. The definition of child advocacy is “support for children who are in a vulnerable position in society or in a vulnerable situation.” We aim to honor our roots and be a voice for children.
Clubwomen can be an advocate by working to:
• Ensure that children are protected from harmful situations.
• Encourage healthy physical and emotional lifestyles.
• Impact policy to improve children’s lives
►►►Click here for the GFWC Juniors’ Special Program: Advocates for Children ~ one page handout
Arts and Culture Community Service Program
Culture consists of the characteristics and knowledge of a group of people, encompassing their art, beliefs, customs, food, language, literature, music, social habits, religion, and other interpersonal connections. The study of art and culture enriches the human experience. Art education improves problem solving and critical thinking skills, builds focus and perseverance, and nurtures creativity, confidence, and collaboration. Cultural awareness promotes effective communication and profoundly increases the ability to appreciate and enjoy a variety of new people and experiences.
Both art and culture articulate human values and give us a means to relate to and understand one another. They help us empathize with those who are different from ourselves and give us a context to build relationships. Together they are the spark that unites peoples of all times and ages. Clubs and states should take an active role in sponsorship, scholarship, production, direction, and performance in every aspect of all arts and from all cultures. Be proactive in the support of all forms of Art and Culture in your community; Theater, Music, Fine Art, Dance, Improvisation, Singing, Creative Writing, Photography, and Speech.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Art and Culture Community Service Program ~ one page handout
Culture consists of the characteristics and knowledge of a group of people, encompassing their art, beliefs, customs, food, language, literature, music, social habits, religion, and other interpersonal connections. The study of art and culture enriches the human experience. Art education improves problem solving and critical thinking skills, builds focus and perseverance, and nurtures creativity, confidence, and collaboration. Cultural awareness promotes effective communication and profoundly increases the ability to appreciate and enjoy a variety of new people and experiences.
Both art and culture articulate human values and give us a means to relate to and understand one another. They help us empathize with those who are different from ourselves and give us a context to build relationships. Together they are the spark that unites peoples of all times and ages. Clubs and states should take an active role in sponsorship, scholarship, production, direction, and performance in every aspect of all arts and from all cultures. Be proactive in the support of all forms of Art and Culture in your community; Theater, Music, Fine Art, Dance, Improvisation, Singing, Creative Writing, Photography, and Speech.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Art and Culture Community Service Program ~ one page handout
Civic Engagement and Outreach Community Service Program
The GFWC Civic Engagement and Outreach Community Service Program reminds GFWC members that each of us is a part of a larger society and is responsible for undertaking actions that will create a better quality of life and foster a sense of community—locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. GFWC will focus on addressing issues of public concern.
Volunteering is one of the best ways to put civic duty into action and it is often the first step in building a stronger connection to community, but there are other ways to contribute, such as advocating, fundraising or donating, and problem solving. Locally, even supporting small businesses and keeping an eye on your neighbor can play a part in improving the community. The possibilities are endless. We advocate because there is a need, we volunteer because we are needed. Our focus continues to be addressing issues of public concern. Civic Engagement and Outreach are highlighted and encouraged, including Citizenship; Crime Prevention, Safety, and Disaster Preparedness; the Needy, Hungry, and Homeless; and Our Military Personnel and Veterans. Beyond these suggestions, look within your own community and to the wider world for ways to make a positive impact.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Civic Engagement and Outreach Community Service Program ~ one page handout
The GFWC Civic Engagement and Outreach Community Service Program reminds GFWC members that each of us is a part of a larger society and is responsible for undertaking actions that will create a better quality of life and foster a sense of community—locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. GFWC will focus on addressing issues of public concern.
Volunteering is one of the best ways to put civic duty into action and it is often the first step in building a stronger connection to community, but there are other ways to contribute, such as advocating, fundraising or donating, and problem solving. Locally, even supporting small businesses and keeping an eye on your neighbor can play a part in improving the community. The possibilities are endless. We advocate because there is a need, we volunteer because we are needed. Our focus continues to be addressing issues of public concern. Civic Engagement and Outreach are highlighted and encouraged, including Citizenship; Crime Prevention, Safety, and Disaster Preparedness; the Needy, Hungry, and Homeless; and Our Military Personnel and Veterans. Beyond these suggestions, look within your own community and to the wider world for ways to make a positive impact.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Civic Engagement and Outreach Community Service Program ~ one page handout
Education and Libraries Community Service Program
Education for all is the key to acquiring the knowledge to succeed in our ever-changing world. Whether it be in the classroom or via the internet we gain the knowledge and understanding that forms our perspective, our ideas, and our opinions. It is important that society provide the best education to all with no exception to race, ethnicity, gender, or community.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education has come to the forefront encouraging students to pursue careers in the STEM fields. Students learn through interaction, problem solving, creativity, communication, and collaboration. We must inspire our youth with this approach to learning to meet the challenges of the future and enable them to be successful individuals.
Public libraries serve a critical purpose and essential role in our communities not only from books and resources but also as a safe place to meet, learn, and study for all ages. Shining light on public libraries is an important mission to meet the needs of its patrons and the community. They offer free access to all people for information through books, online services, classes, workshops, etc. Libraries can be a safe place for children and adults to learn and interact with friends. Librarians and other staff are the keys to the success of your library in planning events, ordering books, and assisting patrons. Financial support of our libraries is most important, and we must encourage our local and state government to make libraries a priority for funding.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Education and Libraries Community Service Program ~ one page handout
Education for all is the key to acquiring the knowledge to succeed in our ever-changing world. Whether it be in the classroom or via the internet we gain the knowledge and understanding that forms our perspective, our ideas, and our opinions. It is important that society provide the best education to all with no exception to race, ethnicity, gender, or community.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education has come to the forefront encouraging students to pursue careers in the STEM fields. Students learn through interaction, problem solving, creativity, communication, and collaboration. We must inspire our youth with this approach to learning to meet the challenges of the future and enable them to be successful individuals.
Public libraries serve a critical purpose and essential role in our communities not only from books and resources but also as a safe place to meet, learn, and study for all ages. Shining light on public libraries is an important mission to meet the needs of its patrons and the community. They offer free access to all people for information through books, online services, classes, workshops, etc. Libraries can be a safe place for children and adults to learn and interact with friends. Librarians and other staff are the keys to the success of your library in planning events, ordering books, and assisting patrons. Financial support of our libraries is most important, and we must encourage our local and state government to make libraries a priority for funding.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Education and Libraries Community Service Program ~ one page handout
Environment Community Service Program
Our environment is the sum of all living and non-living elements and their effects that influence human life. It functions to provide a supply of resources, both renewable and non-renewable. It sustains and enhances the quality of life, as well as assimilates waste. Humans enjoy the beauty of nature from flowing rivers, towering mountains, waves of grassy life, and vast spaces of desert.
Humans are the caregivers of the earth and influence the continual changes of the natural ecological process with our actions. Deforestation, pollution, habitat destruction, extinction of species, and fossil fuel emissions have all placed the habitat of humans, animals, and plants in jeopardy.
As caretakers of our most precious of resources, our environment, there is much we can do as stewards of the earth by working to preserve the world’s resources, protect wildlife and domesticated animals, live sustainably, beautify our communities, and enjoy nature. With much of the world’s scientists forecasting a climate emergency, we are called to act now. It is vitally important we do our responsive part within our power to care for our world.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Environment Community Service Program ~ one page handout
Our environment is the sum of all living and non-living elements and their effects that influence human life. It functions to provide a supply of resources, both renewable and non-renewable. It sustains and enhances the quality of life, as well as assimilates waste. Humans enjoy the beauty of nature from flowing rivers, towering mountains, waves of grassy life, and vast spaces of desert.
Humans are the caregivers of the earth and influence the continual changes of the natural ecological process with our actions. Deforestation, pollution, habitat destruction, extinction of species, and fossil fuel emissions have all placed the habitat of humans, animals, and plants in jeopardy.
As caretakers of our most precious of resources, our environment, there is much we can do as stewards of the earth by working to preserve the world’s resources, protect wildlife and domesticated animals, live sustainably, beautify our communities, and enjoy nature. With much of the world’s scientists forecasting a climate emergency, we are called to act now. It is vitally important we do our responsive part within our power to care for our world.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Environment Community Service Program ~ one page handout
Health and Wellness Community Service Program
Health vs. Wellness – what is the difference? Wellness has a direct influence on overall health, which is essential for living a healthy, happy, and fulfilled life. So, let’s Get Fit Within our Communities – fit in body, in mind, and in spirit. Educate, practice, and promote the three fundamental areas of this Community Service Program.
This Community Service Program aims to explore the various opportunities for awareness and advancement of each of these vital areas:
• Disease awareness and prevention is the knowledge of the factors that cause a disease (including social determinants and health inequity), the symptoms, and the ways to prevent it. This is to include screenings, vaccinations, and shared information.
• Nutrition is a key element in the quest for good health. Wise food choices, proper usage of vitamins and supplements, and food allergy awareness help maintain a healthy lifestyle free of weakened conditions and chronic illness.
• Physical and emotional care encompasses behaviors to manage a healthy body, mind, and spirt throughout life. This includes physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, environmental, and social wellbeing. The human body, mind, and spirit comprise our health and wellness. To improve our well being, we must address three key components: nutrition, disease prevention, and physical and emotional care.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Health and Wellness Community Service Program ~ one page handout
Health vs. Wellness – what is the difference? Wellness has a direct influence on overall health, which is essential for living a healthy, happy, and fulfilled life. So, let’s Get Fit Within our Communities – fit in body, in mind, and in spirit. Educate, practice, and promote the three fundamental areas of this Community Service Program.
This Community Service Program aims to explore the various opportunities for awareness and advancement of each of these vital areas:
• Disease awareness and prevention is the knowledge of the factors that cause a disease (including social determinants and health inequity), the symptoms, and the ways to prevent it. This is to include screenings, vaccinations, and shared information.
• Nutrition is a key element in the quest for good health. Wise food choices, proper usage of vitamins and supplements, and food allergy awareness help maintain a healthy lifestyle free of weakened conditions and chronic illness.
• Physical and emotional care encompasses behaviors to manage a healthy body, mind, and spirt throughout life. This includes physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, environmental, and social wellbeing. The human body, mind, and spirit comprise our health and wellness. To improve our well being, we must address three key components: nutrition, disease prevention, and physical and emotional care.
►►►Click here for the GFWC Health and Wellness Community Service Program ~ one page handout
GFWC Advancement Plans
Because of the integral nature of the GFWC Advancement Plans, these plans are recognized as core Advancement areas of any successful program. Each of these areas will have an advancement section in the GFWC Club Manual.
You can sign into the GFWC Member Portal to access.
They include:
Communications and Public Relations
Today, communication truly takes on all tactical forms – visual, written, digital, and audible. For your club to become even more efficient and resourceful, you must consider taking the time to develop and execute a strong communications strategy, one that employs all these forms to effectively engage your members. Engaged members are more satisfied, will see more value in their membership, and will participate in more activities. But how do you create an experience that’s truly meaningful to your members?
You need to first create a COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY. It is the first step in understanding your membership! It is how you will shape content that will educate, inform, and inspire current members as well as potential NEW members. Executed properly, a good membership communications strategy will also help you RETAIN members.
Fundraising and Development
Fundraising is beneficial to your community, your club, and its members. Raising capital for a local project, recognized charity, affiliate organization, your club’s outreach plans and operations, or GFWC Designated Funds is also an opportunity to make the achievements of your club known throughout the community. As they work together on a fundraiser, club members learn new skills and much more. Successful teamwork fosters cooperation, provides a sense of accomplishment, cultivates pride and ownership in the organization, and creates life-long friendships—all while building a stronger and better club.
GFWC ENDORSED FUNDRAISER: STARFISH PROJECT
Purpose: Help exploited women and girls experience freedom, establish independence and develop careers.
Ethical Purchases: 100% of your purchase is invested into our social mission to help trafficked and exploited women experience freedom, establish independence and develop careers. Thank you for investing with us!
GFWC Endorsed Fundraiser: 25% of the proceeds from any Starfish Project products purchased through this dedicated link will go to GFWC’s Success for Survivors Scholarship! View Starfish Project’s necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, and garments. Order your next favorite piece of jewelry today and help a survivor of human trafficking succeed!
Leadership
This Advancement Plan contains valuable information, including practical ideas and resources to assist states, districts, and clubs in developing leadership skills in their members. Whatever talent you use, leadership always involves taking risks, being innovative, and promoting new directions. Some may talk about being born leaders, but most of us learn how to be a strong leader, and we should never stop learning and stretching. Just as “management” as a philosophy has evolved through the years into “leadership,” there has also been a growing realization that leadership development involves personal growth and improvement and influencing and fostering others.
FYI: Leadership Education and Development Seminar (LEADS Information and Application)
(Massachusetts LEADS applicants please fill out the Massachusetts form under Members, GFWC MA Information)
Membership
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs is proudly represented in thousands of communities around the world by dedicated volunteers who work to better the lives of others, make cities and towns better places to live, and extend the hand of friendship to those near and far. We are individuals of diverse talents, interests, and backgrounds united by a dedication to community improvement through volunteer service.
GFWC offers a network of support for nearly 80,000 clubwomen who volunteer on a local, state, national, and international level. Working together, we constitute a powerful, service-oriented organization that encourages volunteerism through training and coaching, leadership opportunities, personal enrichment, and many other benefits. Various GFWC resources, from members-only materials to legislative alerts, support individuals and clubs in their volunteer efforts.
Click here for the GFWC 2022-2024 Membership "Sparkle and Shine" Recruitment Campaign Report.
GFWC Juniorette Membership
The GFWC Juniorette Membership category was introduced during the 1966-1968 Administration. GFWC’s Juniorettes are examples of how the call to do community service can be answered at any age. Juniorettes have school, extracurricular activities, and social lives to juggle, but they find time to make positive changes in their communities. According to GFWC Bylaws, Juniorette Clubs are comprised of young students in middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools. Experience has shown, due to differences in interests, abilities, and maturity, that clubs are most successful when organized for either middle/junior high schools or high schools, but not both.
Federating a Juniorette Club requires a commitment from a sponsoring club, which must be an active GFWC Woman’s Club or Junior Woman’s Club in good standing, and a dedicated club advisor. It is required that sponsoring club members accompany Juniorette Club representatives to all levels of GFWC meetings, including State Federation, Region, and/or GFWC.
Legislation/Public Policy
For more than 130 years, GFWC members have raised awareness of specific issues requiring attention at the national level through their advocacy efforts. GFWC members’ advocacy efforts are practical not political. GFWC members worked to pass laws affecting highway safety, juvenile justice, women’s suffrage, the rights of the disabled, equal pay for women, and increased resources for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. Our efforts can change lives! Our empathetic members use public advocacy to seek solutions to local, state, and national concerns. Our organization is strengthened by resolutions and advocacy which make a difference.
The Women's History and Resource Center (WHRC)
2022-2024 Emphasis: Encourage member participation in diverse club and community projects developed to preserve the past, promote the present, and inspire the future.
From the Federation’s founding in 1890, GFWC members have understood the historic significance of the organization’s mission to improve communities through volunteer service. The Women’s History and Resource Center of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs officially opened at GFWC Headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 1, 1984.
Regardless of the focus of a community service project, it may benefit from an historical perspective.
The WHRC strives to educate and inspire GFWC members and potential members, the research
community, and the public to explore the rich, historical role of women volunteers through GFWC’s
expansive collections.
♥ view the PowerPoint: This Old House: Our Home at 1734 N Street
♥ follow along with the accompanying script
Because of the integral nature of the GFWC Advancement Plans, these plans are recognized as core Advancement areas of any successful program. Each of these areas will have an advancement section in the GFWC Club Manual.
You can sign into the GFWC Member Portal to access.
They include:
Communications and Public Relations
Today, communication truly takes on all tactical forms – visual, written, digital, and audible. For your club to become even more efficient and resourceful, you must consider taking the time to develop and execute a strong communications strategy, one that employs all these forms to effectively engage your members. Engaged members are more satisfied, will see more value in their membership, and will participate in more activities. But how do you create an experience that’s truly meaningful to your members?
You need to first create a COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY. It is the first step in understanding your membership! It is how you will shape content that will educate, inform, and inspire current members as well as potential NEW members. Executed properly, a good membership communications strategy will also help you RETAIN members.
Fundraising and Development
Fundraising is beneficial to your community, your club, and its members. Raising capital for a local project, recognized charity, affiliate organization, your club’s outreach plans and operations, or GFWC Designated Funds is also an opportunity to make the achievements of your club known throughout the community. As they work together on a fundraiser, club members learn new skills and much more. Successful teamwork fosters cooperation, provides a sense of accomplishment, cultivates pride and ownership in the organization, and creates life-long friendships—all while building a stronger and better club.
GFWC ENDORSED FUNDRAISER: STARFISH PROJECT
Purpose: Help exploited women and girls experience freedom, establish independence and develop careers.
Ethical Purchases: 100% of your purchase is invested into our social mission to help trafficked and exploited women experience freedom, establish independence and develop careers. Thank you for investing with us!
GFWC Endorsed Fundraiser: 25% of the proceeds from any Starfish Project products purchased through this dedicated link will go to GFWC’s Success for Survivors Scholarship! View Starfish Project’s necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, and garments. Order your next favorite piece of jewelry today and help a survivor of human trafficking succeed!
Leadership
This Advancement Plan contains valuable information, including practical ideas and resources to assist states, districts, and clubs in developing leadership skills in their members. Whatever talent you use, leadership always involves taking risks, being innovative, and promoting new directions. Some may talk about being born leaders, but most of us learn how to be a strong leader, and we should never stop learning and stretching. Just as “management” as a philosophy has evolved through the years into “leadership,” there has also been a growing realization that leadership development involves personal growth and improvement and influencing and fostering others.
FYI: Leadership Education and Development Seminar (LEADS Information and Application)
(Massachusetts LEADS applicants please fill out the Massachusetts form under Members, GFWC MA Information)
Membership
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs is proudly represented in thousands of communities around the world by dedicated volunteers who work to better the lives of others, make cities and towns better places to live, and extend the hand of friendship to those near and far. We are individuals of diverse talents, interests, and backgrounds united by a dedication to community improvement through volunteer service.
GFWC offers a network of support for nearly 80,000 clubwomen who volunteer on a local, state, national, and international level. Working together, we constitute a powerful, service-oriented organization that encourages volunteerism through training and coaching, leadership opportunities, personal enrichment, and many other benefits. Various GFWC resources, from members-only materials to legislative alerts, support individuals and clubs in their volunteer efforts.
Click here for the GFWC 2022-2024 Membership "Sparkle and Shine" Recruitment Campaign Report.
GFWC Juniorette Membership
The GFWC Juniorette Membership category was introduced during the 1966-1968 Administration. GFWC’s Juniorettes are examples of how the call to do community service can be answered at any age. Juniorettes have school, extracurricular activities, and social lives to juggle, but they find time to make positive changes in their communities. According to GFWC Bylaws, Juniorette Clubs are comprised of young students in middle schools, junior high schools, and high schools. Experience has shown, due to differences in interests, abilities, and maturity, that clubs are most successful when organized for either middle/junior high schools or high schools, but not both.
Federating a Juniorette Club requires a commitment from a sponsoring club, which must be an active GFWC Woman’s Club or Junior Woman’s Club in good standing, and a dedicated club advisor. It is required that sponsoring club members accompany Juniorette Club representatives to all levels of GFWC meetings, including State Federation, Region, and/or GFWC.
Legislation/Public Policy
For more than 130 years, GFWC members have raised awareness of specific issues requiring attention at the national level through their advocacy efforts. GFWC members’ advocacy efforts are practical not political. GFWC members worked to pass laws affecting highway safety, juvenile justice, women’s suffrage, the rights of the disabled, equal pay for women, and increased resources for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. Our efforts can change lives! Our empathetic members use public advocacy to seek solutions to local, state, and national concerns. Our organization is strengthened by resolutions and advocacy which make a difference.
The Women's History and Resource Center (WHRC)
2022-2024 Emphasis: Encourage member participation in diverse club and community projects developed to preserve the past, promote the present, and inspire the future.
From the Federation’s founding in 1890, GFWC members have understood the historic significance of the organization’s mission to improve communities through volunteer service. The Women’s History and Resource Center of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs officially opened at GFWC Headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 1, 1984.
Regardless of the focus of a community service project, it may benefit from an historical perspective.
The WHRC strives to educate and inspire GFWC members and potential members, the research
community, and the public to explore the rich, historical role of women volunteers through GFWC’s
expansive collections.
♥ view the PowerPoint: This Old House: Our Home at 1734 N Street
♥ follow along with the accompanying script
GFWC Affiliate Organizations
- List of Affiliate Organizations (8 total)
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To see the ways in which GFWC Massachusetts Clubs implement these programs,
check out our Massachusetts Program Information page (under Members)!
check out our Massachusetts Program Information page (under Members)!
GFWC Contests and other info from the GFWC Club Manual:
Other information:
Other information:
- In-kind donation guide ~ used with the statistical sheet for donated goods value
- Creative Arts Waiver ~ needed for GFWC contests in Photography and Writing
- GFWC Photography Contests ~ The World in Pictures Contest: Our World Up Close, Reflections and GFWC Living the Volunteer Spirit Contest
- GFWC Writing Contests ~ Member and Youth
- GFWC Community Impact Program Award
- GFWC Website Contest
- GFWC Newsletter Contest
- GFWC Annual Giving Program
- GFWC Jennie Award
- GFWC Membership Grant application ~ GFWC is offering $50 for club member recruitment activities in conjunction with Membership "Sparkle and Shine" Recruitment Campaign activities.
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