Junior Director Page
Dear Fellow GFWC Members,
What an honor it is to welcome you to the 2022-2024 Administration as the 36th GFWC
Director of Junior Clubs! I look forward to serving alongside you all as we continue the
work of our fore sisters. From 90 years of Junior membership to 100 years in our beautiful
home at 1734 N Street, we will have many reasons to celebrate together!
The guiding concept for the Junior Administration will be to “Share your Sparkle”. We
know all the great things our members do- we need to share them with the world!
Service- Give back to Others!
Passion- Find what you love!
Advocacy- Speak up for those who can’t!
Representation- Vote & Join the Legislative Center!
Kudos- Brag on your members, club, state, and GFWC!
Leadership- Develop members at the club level!
Excitement- Tell your friends, family, and community what all GFWC is about!
Advocates for Children continues to be the Junior’s Special Program. We will encourage clubs to plan projects for their
favorite local organizations and/or March of Dimes, St. Jude’s, and Prevent Child Abuse America. We will celebrate
Advocates for Children Week the fourth week of October. The emphasis of Advocates for Children Week will be to
promote a collection of personal hygiene items, clothing, and blankets to local organizations benefitting children removed
from homes due to unsafe conditions. We encourage all clubs to participate and Share Your Sparkle!
When you “Share Your Sparkle,” your passion, drive, and dedication shine to all. Let’s use the best tool we have of all to
promote GFWC- OUR MEMBERS!
In Junior Love,
Katie Moydell, GFWC Director of Junior Clubs
GFWC Juniors' Special Program: Advocates for Children
NFWC Co-Chairman: Laura Langford & Kelsey McEowen
GFWC Juniors’ Special Program: Advocates for Children is designed to encourage all Women’s, Junior, Juniorette, and International Affiliate clubs to make a difference in our world by being an advocate. The Program was envisioned as a way for clubwomen to provide a voice for children and to teach and encourage parents and other caregivers to advocate for children at the grassroots level.
Clubwomen can become advocates by working to:
• Ensure that children are protected from harmful situations • Encourage healthy physical and emotional lifestyles
• Impact policy to improve children’s lives
The Juniors’ Special Program: Advocates for Children also encourages advocacy and projects that will assist and protect children in crisis, including those experiencing child abuse, depression and suicide, foster or residential care, homelessness, human trafficking, life-threating illness, and/or poverty.
GFWC ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN WEEK
To raise awareness for GFWC’s child advocacy efforts, GFWC has declared the fourth week in October as GFWC Advocates for Children Week. All GFWC Women’s, Junior, and Juniorette clubs are invited to participate by planning events related to the Juniors’ Special Program with an emphasis on collecting personal hygiene items, clothing and blankets for local organizations for children removed from homes due to unsafe conditions.
Contact your Governor/Mayor to request they proclaim this week as “GFWC Advocates for Children Week” for your state/city.
Sunday, October 23 – Saturday, October 29, 2022 Sunday, October 22 – Saturday, October 28, 2023
GFWC AFFILIATE ORGANIZATIONS
GFWC has established a formal relationship and mutual understanding with the listed Affiliate Organizations. Our partners offer unique and customized services: materials, speakers, kits, and/or additional information specifically designed for GFWC clubs. They are aware of GFWC clubs’ specific needs, our organizational structure, and have a signed Memorandum of Understanding with GFWC. GFWC partners will assist in monitoring the donations generated by GFWC members. To ensure that donations to GFWC Affiliate Organizations at the individual, club, district, or state level are reflected toward GFWC’s collective impact, make sure to write GFWC in the memo line on your donation check.
GFWC is partnered with these organizations that believe in the future of our children:
MARCH OF DIMES
OPERATION SMILE
ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION SHOT@LIFE CAMPAIGN
UNICEF USA
Visit GFWC.org for project ideas that support our Affiliate Organizations and/or other activities to meet our common goal of advocating for children!
JUNIOR PLEDGE
I pledge my loyalty to the Juniors
By doing better than ever before
what work I have to do;
By being prompt, honest, courteous
By living each day trying to accomplish something, Not merely to exist.
The Junior Pledge was written in 1916
by Helen Cheney Kimberly of California,
was adopted in 1930 at the GFWC Convention as the National Junior Pledge.