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The General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC), founded in 1890 during the Progressive Movement, is a federation of approximately 2,300 women's clubs in the United States which promote civic improvements through volunteer service. Community Service Projects (CSP) are organized by local clubs for the benefit of their communities or GFWC's ...
They immediately joined the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC). [1] Working under the auspices of the GFWC, the Federation of Women's Clubs for Oklahoma and Indian Territories supported the 1906 campaign for a compulsory school attendance law, which help achieve the resulting compulsory education bill that passed in 1907.
Women's clubs in the United States were indexed by the GFWC, and also by Helen M. Winslow who published an annual "register and directory" of the GFWC ones and some more, which was in its 24th annual edition in 1922. [7] The GWFC did not admit clubs for African-American women, and Winslow's directory seems to omit them too.
GFWC had been active since 1890 in areas related to forestry and had a forestry committee. [101] This committee also disseminated information about conservation to the 800,000 members of the group. [150] The GFWC later sponsored "a natural scenic area survey" of the United States in 1915 in order to discover areas that needed conservation. [151]
[2] [3] Tours of the headquarters, available by appointment, provide information about the activities of the GFWC and several historic rooms, including the 1734 entryway, the Julia Ward Howe Drawing Room, the dining room, music room and the GFWC International President's office. The headquarters also features changing exhibits of art ...
The South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs was formed in 1898 with thirty-two delegates from nineteen clubs. [2] In the early years of the federation members' emphasis was on education and access to books.
Later, the club was admitted to the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) because the president, Rebecca Douglas Lowe, did not realize that she had admitted a black women's club. [17] By April 1900, Lowe had mailed the certificate of GFWC membership to Ruffin and the Woman's Era Club had paid their dues.
It was the fourth state federation of women's clubs to become affiliated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC). [1] The club has held annual meetings since the first one in 1985 at Richmond. [3] By 1898, the KFWC had thirty clubs it represented throughout the state. [4] In 1909, there were 85 different organizations in the KFWC. [5]