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Cindy
Brogan, Chairman
CindyBB52@yahoo.com
508-558-5439
Click
here
for the GFWC Education Community Service Program from the GFWC Club
Manual.
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for the Education Information
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Click here
for the Education Report Cover Sheet.
EDUCATION
COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM
The GFWC
Education Community Service Program is intended to improve literacy and
education awareness in communities at home and around the
world. The Program is broken down into two areas –
Collaboration and Partnership. This is a change from the
previous titles of “Focus on Literacy” and
“Education in the Community.” I will
attempt to explain these below.
Collaboration:
Clubs will research, plan, and implement projects, programs, and
advocacy based on their interests and the needs that the club members
see and feel are important for their community.
Here
are some of the creative projects that Massachusetts Juniors have done
in the past:
- GFWC
Marlboro Junior Woman’s Club’s “Reality
Fair”: In their “MHS Reality Fair”
Marlborough High School seniors learned about financial
responsibilities by choosing a career, receiving a paycheck and
budgeting their income during the fair.
- Pioneer
Junior Women’s Club’s “Set Them
Free” program: The club encouraged people to take books for
all ages off the shelf that are gathering dust and set them free for
others to read. The books were placed in a container at a local
restaurant with a sign saying, “Set Me Free – Read
and Pass Me On.” To date 350 books have been
“set free.”
- GFWC Agawam
Junior Women’s Club’ “Bingo for
Books” program: The club allocated $200 and ten members
volunteered for 41 children from grades K-4 to play bingo in the Agawam
Public Library where books were prizes. Special bingo cards
with familiar titles, characters, and authors from children’s
literature were used and each child was able to win up to two books.
Become a
member of GFWC-Epsilon
Sigma
Omicron: www.GFWC.org/ESO
and
www.GFWCMA.org/eso.
Through ESO,
clubwomen are given direction in
planned reading for self-enrichment and personal growth.
Start a book club in your club where members read the books on the ESO
list and encourage them to become members of ESO.
Some
websites of interest:
Literacy
Volunteers
of Massachusetts, www.LVM.org,
or The Literacy Project, www.LteracyProject.org,
for Western MA and English
At Large: Literacy and
Learning for Life, www.EnglishatLarge.org,
- formerly Eastern MA Literacy Council. Massachusetts
Department of Education, www.DOE.Mass.edu, Top Floor Learning, www.TopFloorLearning.org.
Partnership:
Clubs will get involved with organizations that operate at the national
or international level and offer unique and customized services such as
project materials, speakers, kits, and/or additional information
specifically designed for GFWC clubs.
American
Library
Association
www.ALA.org
- The American
Library Association is the voice
of America’s libraries and the millions of people who depend
on them. Adopt a library. Clubs can donate books to
their local libraries, volunteer at their library, and recognize
librarians during National Library Week, the second week in April
Mentoring
USA
www.MentoringUSA.org
- Become a
mentor or donate to the
organization. Use their mentoring materials and techniques to
mentor people in your community from ages 7-21.
Reading
Rockets/WETA Public
Television www.ReadingRockets.org
- Your club
can put together the Family Literacy
Bags developed by Reading Rockets, order their free toolkits for your
library, download their free print guides for parents, teachers, or
librarians, and celebrate Read Across America Day on March 2 with their
resources.
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