GFWC Special Projects
Domestic Violence Program (GFWC President’s Special Project)
Objective: Educate members and others about domestic violence and encourage citizen action to address multiple domestic violence concerns.
Action Plan includes:
Become Aware/Learn the Facts!
Initiate and Support Community Activities
Community Improvement Contest
Objective: Encourage and reward clubs for improvement projects that meet the special needs of their communities, thus making their city or town a better place to live.
Empowering Women – One by One
Objective: Motivate and educate GFWC members to become empowered, boosting self-esteem and self image.
Action Plan includes:
Taking Steps Toward Empowerment
Fundraising Program
Objective: Support club, district and state fund-raising efforts, thus generating non-dues revenue to support GFWC.
Action Plan includes:
Club/District/State Fundraising
GFWC Endorsed Fundraisers
Junior’s Special Project: Advocates for Children
Objective: Encourage members and others to become active advocates for children by working to protect children from harmful situations, encourage healthy lifestyles and prevent substance abuse and youth suicide.
Action Plan includes:
Bullying and Children
Kids and Cancer
We Have a Little Emergency/WHALE
Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC)
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (CASA)
Child Assault Prevention (CAP)
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
Youth Suicide
Child Identification
Jennie Awards
Objective: To spotlight one club woman from each region who has been judged on club, state, region and national levels for her outstanding performance as a volunteer within her club, community and (extended) family.
Leadership Program
Objective: Identify potential leaders, strengthen leadership skills of GFWC members, encourage members to seek leadership opportunities, and support youth leadership programs.
Action Plan includes:
Leadership Development
Leadership Opportunities
Youth Leadership
Leadership Recognition
Membership Program
Objective: Help clubs, districts and states recruit new members, retain current members and build new clubs, including Juniorette clubs. Make membership matter!
Action Plan includes:
Membership Recruitment
Membership Retention
Rebuild GFWC Membership
Look to the Future: GFWC Juniorettes
Public Policy and Advocacy Program
Objective: Engage, educate and mobilize clubwomen as advocates for the Federation’s public policy priorities. (GFWC Resolutions are the foundation of the Public Policy Program.)
Public Relations Program
Objective: Assist members with their outreach activities by providing tools that help create a positive image of women’s clubs, and familiarize members with the federation’s history, mission and current initiatives.
Exploring our Heritage: Women’s History and Resource Center
Objective: Collect, document, preserve and promote the history of GFWC clubwomen.
Action Plan includes:
Step One: Documenting our Heritage - Archival Preservation
Step Two: Voicing our Heritage - Oral History Interviews
Step Three: Building the Foundations of Our Heritage - Historic Preservation
Step Four: Empowering our Heritage - Publicizing the Past