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Hotel Astor, the club's home. The New York City Federation of Women's Clubs was organized February 16, 1903, with 25 charter clubs. The object of the organization is to promote good fellowship, strengthen the bonds of club life, and to acquire the power for united action in the advancement of civic improvements, educational interests and philanthropic work.
The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City. Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs. Today, men are admitted as guests. [2]
It met first at the Cosmopolitan Club (New York City) (a women's club) and met four to five times a year at multiple locations. [17] Membership was capped at 40 members by the 1950s; members included Ruth S. Granniss, who was librarian to the Grolier Club. [18] [19] Jamaica Women's Club, Jamaica, Queens; Manor Club, Pelham Manor
The Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House (also 867 Madison Avenue and the Rhinelander Mansion) is a French Renaissance Revival mansion at the southeastern corner of Madison Avenue and 72nd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York.
Belizean Grove logo. The Belizean Grove is an elite, invitation-only American women's social club, located in New York City. [1] [2] The club was founded in 2001 by Susan Stautberg, a former Westinghouse Broadcasting executive, and author and futurist Edie Weiner.
In 1909, the Cosmos Club formed as a club for governesses, leasing space in the Gibson Building on East 33rd Street. [2] The following year, the club became the Women's Cosmopolitan Club, "organized," according to The New York Times, "for the benefit of New York women interested in the arts, sciences, education, literature, and philanthropy or in sympathy with those interested."
The Newswomen's Club of New York is a nonprofit organization that focuses on women working in the media in the New York City metropolitan area. [1] Founded in 1922 as the New York Newspaper Woman's Club , [ 2 ] it included Eleanor Roosevelt , Helen Rogers Reid and Anne O'Hare McCormick among its membership; it changed its name in 1971 [ 2 ] to ...
In 2002, WCC supports a moratorium on executions in New York State and the Women's Health and Wellness Act, which would provide comprehensive health care to women in New York State; In 2004, WCC participates in the March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C. In 2005, WCC hosts a conference, "Revitalizing Citizen Participation for the 21st Century"