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GFWC
Naples Junior Women's Club
570 Park Street, Naples
GFWC Naples Junior Women's Club is a service club of women who have joined together to enrich both their own lives and the community in which they live. Meetings are the 2nd Wednesday each month at 6:30.
Over the last 50 years, Juniors have built a children's playground, helped establish a home for pregnant women in need, and contributed time, money, and talent to libraries, schools, hospitals, local theatre groups and many others.
Former club members have gone on to leadership positions in business and in the community. Curent members include business owners, nurses, attorneys, stay-home mothers, writes, office managers, and many others. The common bond is a desire to improve their community and their world.
Volunteers Make the Difference
Past and present NJWC Community Improvement Projects (CIP) include:
Neighborhood Health Clinic - was our 2001-2003 CIP. We helped this health clinic for low income working adults throughout the two-year period. Members sold pavers to help raise funds. Also, members brought the volunteering medical workers meals while they were seeing patients.
Hospice - was our CIP project for 1999-2000. NJWC members have created a library of books designed to help Hospice patients and family members. And on each holiday during the year, members make small gifts for the approzimately 160 hospice patients in Collier County. They have enjoyed Easter baskets, Valentine's cards, St. Patrick's Day carnations, Mother's and Father's Day gifts and more.
Shelter for Abused Women - This was our 1998-1999 CIP. Club members have painted the shelters new office, donated gift baskets of needed items each month, raised money through fundraisers, and assisted the shelter with various projects.
Collier County Libraries - was our 1996-1997 CIP. A rummage sale was held in 1996 to raise funds to buy items on the library's wish list. Each year books are donated in the name of club members new babies.
Sunlight Home - for pregnant women in need was our 1994-1995 CIP. Naples Junior Women's Club helped found the home including furnishing and decorating rooms, planting trees, helping with lawn care, establishing a library within the home, and donating maternity clothing, food, money, baby clothing and baby care supplies and equipment.
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Recent Fundraisers held NJWC:
* Easter Carnival
* Progressive Dinner
* Golden Key Gala
* Christmas in Cambier
* Mother/Daughter Tea
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Some On-Going Projects:
Scholarships for Local Girls - Each year the NJWC gives five $1000 college scholarships to deserving high school seniors from the Naples area. Education Department members select the recipients.
Relay for Life - Club members form a team to participate in this 24-hour fundraiser for cancer research.
Immokalee Friendship House - Is our 2004-2005 CIP. We will be helping to provide much needed supplies and renovations to their facility over the next two-year period.
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The Federation
The Naples Junior Woman's Club is part of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the largest organization of women's clubs in the world. GFWC includes Junior Clubs like Naples Junior Woman's Club, General Clubs such as the Naples Woman's Club.
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GFWC
The GFWC has been credited with establishing 75% of America's public libraries. GFWC was also credited with the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. And in 1949, General Marshall personally attended the GFWC convention to say that the Marshall Plan would never have been passed had it not been for the support of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
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FFWC
Naples Junior Woman's Club is part of the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs, a state division of the GFWC. As federation members, we attend conventions twice a year where we meet with clubs from all over Florida to share ideas for every apsect of club activities, and submit reports on our own activities.
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The Naples Junior Woman's Club is the general club we are affiliated with. They generously allow us to use their club house for meetings, and partner with us on projects throughout the year. The Naples Woman's Club started the first library in Collier County and began the visiting nurses program. They curently provide many scholarships to high school students and support many charities and organizations such as Immokalee Child Care Center, Girl Scouts, Relay for Life and Poject Graduation.
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Club-Wide Departments
Arts:
Projects are done in these categories: arts and crafts, literature and performing arts, and women in the arts.
Conservation:
Projects are done in these areas: energy awareness, resources conservation, solid waste management. Some examples include beach clean-ups, collecting used eye-glasses and other recyclables.
Education:
Projects are done in these areas: continuing education, learning disabilities, and literacy. Some examples are: awarding scholarships to local students, and asisting elementary schools and underpriviledged children.
Home Life:
Projects are done in these areas: family economics, substance abuse prevention, and women's health. Some examples are: hosting an Easter carnival for children and organizing our participation in Relay for Life, a local benefit for the American Cancer Society.
International Affairs:
Projects include Outreach programs cultural exchanges and United Nations. Some examples are: collecting items for Operation Smile, partnering with a woman's club in Jamaica, participating in Adopt-a-Village, and helping with Hope for Haiti Ball.
Public Affairs:
Projects include crime prevention, issues awareness, and safety. Some examples are: helping local law enforcement with seat-belt counts, participating in the Naples 4th of July Parade, and sponsoring speakers about safety and crime prevention.
One Voice for Children:
Includes all projects that have the goal of improving children's lives. This is the theme of the Florida Federation.
Ways and Means:
This departments coordinates all the fundraising activities of the club. All club members help with these projects. Recent projects have included the Golden Key Gala, Christmas in Cambier, Sweet Heart Bowling, and a Progressive Dinner.
CIP = Community Improvement Program:
Every two years the club chooses an entity to concentrate our volunteer efforts on over the next two years.
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