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Women Creating Change (formerly Women's City Club) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1915 by suffragettes in New York City. WCC is still active in the New York community. WCC is still active in the New York community.
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."
Women's City Club of New York. Address: 307 Seventh Avenue; The Women's City Club of New York was founded in 1915 before women had the right to vote. Since its beginnings, the Women's City Club has focused on getting women involved in the political process through policy debates on issues that affect their lives.
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]
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.
Colony Club, New York City, founded 1903; its former building, the Old Colony Club, is NRHP-listed; Cosmopolitan Club (New York City) Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs; Equal Suffrage League (Brooklyn) Hroswitha Club (1944-1999) a club of women bibliophiles, all excluded (until 1976) from the men's Grolier Club and the Caxton Club. [15])
Mary Garrett Hay on the telephone in 1918. Mary Garrett Hay (August 20, 1857 – August 29, 1928) was an American suffragist and community organizer. She served as president of the Women's City Club of New York, the Woman Suffrage Party and the New York Equal Suffrage League.
Women's City Club may refer to: Detroit Women's City Club; Saint Paul Women's City Club; Women's City Club of New York; Women's City Club of Boston; Women's City Club of Chicago; Women's City Club of Washington, D.C.