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PROGRAM PRINCIPLES
The GFWC Civic Engagement and Outreach Community Service Program reminds GFWC members that each of us is a part of a larger society and is responsible for undertaking actions that will create a better quality of life and foster a sense of community - locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. This CSP highlight and encourages citizenship; crime prevention, safety, and disaster preparedness; the needy, hungry, and homeless; and our military personnel and veterans.
Click here for the GFWC Public Issues Community Service Program from the 2022-2024 GFWC Club Manual.
Chairman: Cindy Brogan; [email protected]
Our Public Issues collaboration projects have included:
Click here for the GFWC Public Issues Community Service Program from the 2022-2024 GFWC Club Manual.
Chairman: Cindy Brogan; [email protected]
Our Public Issues collaboration projects have included:
- Donating to Quarters for Quarters to house a veteran
- Sending school packs to soldiers in Iraq to distribute to children there, Operation Iraqi Children
- Sending items on a platoon in Iraq's wish list for the holidays
- Donating teddy bears for Taunton's Emergency Management Agency to be distributed to children with family emergencies along with 17 Jump Bags containing a teddy bear, children's book and blanket.
- At Christmas members wrote and mailed cards to Holiday Mail for Heroes. The cards were given to veterans and soldiers around the world.
- Members sent 60 bags containing wipes, chapstick, and batteries to a troop in Afghanistan.
- The club currently has bins in the Taunton Public Library to collect items for the Marine Corps League to send to our troops.