Contests,
Awards, and Grants
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GFWC, GFWC
of Massachusetts, and GFWC of Massachusetts, Junior Membership sponsor
several awards, contests, and grants
each year.
Some are for individual club members and others are for clubs
or
states.
Click here
for the GFWC Awards, Contests, and Grants in the GFWC
Club
Manual.
GFWC
Awards include awards for
outstanding achievement in the
Community Service Programs, Special Projects, and the GFWC Advancement
Areas.
Several
Grants and
other funding resources are
available from GFWC and our partners for specific programs and
projects.
GFWC of Massachusetts, Junior
Membership Awards and Recognitions include all those that are
awarded at our Annual Conference with the exception of the Arts and Photography
Contest which are presented by GFWC of Massachusetts at
the April Club Institute.
The GFWC
Jennie Award honors one
clubwoman from each GFWC Region for
outstanding
commitment to club, community, and family.
The Marilyn
Perry Leadership Award focuses
on clubwomen who take their
leadership skills beyond their club and use those skills in the
community-at-large. It is an award recognizing leadership in general
– not just within a club or GFWC.
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The Martha
Michaelwich Clubwoman of the Year Award goes to the
clubwoman who has gone above the call of duty for her
club.
GFWC’s Community
Improvement
Program Award (formerly the Community Improvement Contest) aims to
enhance the lives of GFWC’s neighbors around the world by
meeting
community specific needs, and elevating our clubs’ status
within those
communities. The Community Improvement
Program Award provides a vision for the future of the relationships
between clubs and their communities.
The International
Outreach Challenge is for each
club to collect enough money
to buy a pig for Heifer, International and to name and decorate the
club's ceramic piggy bank.
The GFWC Photography
Contests encourage our members’ artistic expression, and
recognize and
support members’ achievements in photography. These contests
are
individual contests. GFWC offers these opportunities to
participate in
the Photography Contests:
- The
World in
Pictures contests are judged at the state level where the first place
winner in each category is submitted to GFWC
- Feature
- Natural
History
- Scenic
- GFWC
Volunteers in Action
- A Year
in
Pictures (also known as the GFWC Calendar Contest) is an individual
contest where each
club selects the best picture from
their
club to be sent on to GFWC.
- The GFWC
"Volunteers in Action" Photography Contest.
The
GFWC Creative
Writing Contests encourage
members and children to submit
their short stories and poetry.
GFWC
of
Massachusetts has it's own Art contest
where members and the children of members can submit their
artwork to
be displayed along with the photographs at the Annual Artist's Tea.
Awards for winning artwork and photographs are presented at
the April
Awards Day.
The GFWC Website
Contest aims to challenge
clubs and states to employ their websites as membership tools with
organized and updated content that presents a professional and credible
source of information. Individual clubs and states can enter
the GFWC
website contest and an award is given at the state level for the club
with the best website.
The GFWC Newsletter
Contest
encourages clubs and state federations to establish a strong newsletter
program aimed at increasing awareness about ongoing projects, programs,
events, and issues that affect GFWC members, clubs, and communities.
An award is given on the state level to the club with the
best
newsletter. Any club and the state can also enter the GFWC
newsletter
contest.
The Publicity
Book Contest
encourages clubs to keep a record of the many ways in which they have
reached the public throughout the year.
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