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Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) is a national organization of local chapters which provide voluntary after-school programs for young people. The organization, which holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code, has its headquarters in Atlanta, with regional offices in Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, New York City and Los Angeles. [1]
A bill to create the new Bronx-Westchester Railroad Authority to purchase and operate the Westchester for public benefit made it all the way to New York State Governor Herbert H. Lehman's office before he was pressured by New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to veto the bill. The only successful effort was the purchase by the City of New ...
Saturday Evening Girls club (1899-1969), Boston, operated The Paul Revere Pottery; Woman's Club of Fall River, Fall River, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed; Women's City Club of Boston; Woman's Era Club, Boston, founded c.1892-94, first black women's club in Boston, attempted to desegregate GFWC in 1900.
Woman's Club of White Plains, originally known as the Thomas H. Kerr residence, is a historic clubhouse located at White Plains, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1910 as a residence and enlarged in 1932, after being acquired as a clubhouse for the Contemporary Club.
Woman's Era Club; Woman's Improvement Association of Las Cruces; Woman's Improvement Club (Indianapolis) Woman's Improvement Club Clubhouse; Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore; Woman's Press Club of New York City; Women Creating Change; Women for Sobriety; Women in the Wind (motorcycle club) Women's City Club of Boston; Women's City Club of ...
Boston’s Florence Crittenton Home shared many of the same goals as the New England Moral Reform Society. It targeted prostitution and joined forces with the Boston police to help close down the city’s “disorderly houses.” In 1896, Boston Florence Crittenton Home was established at 37 Green Street as a mission for unwed mothers.
In March 2017, Hillary Clinton was named as the "Champion for Girls" by Girls Inc. at their 2017 New York Luncheon. [14] In February 2013 the DPR Foundation gave the Girls Inc. of Orange County a $30,000 check. The Girls Inc. organization admired the donation and explained how much of an impact it would make for further purchases. [15]
It is a center of Boston Brahmin families - New England's upper class - and is known as one of the big four clubs in the country, the other three being the Knickerbocker Club in New York, the Metropolitan Club in Washington D.C, and the Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco. [citation needed] The original club was informal, without a clubhouse.