Community Service Program
Arts and Culture
Music education, local theatre, public art, and craft programs in Tennessee schools and community spaces. This is where many clubs are placing their Our Town, Our Sound projects.
Our programs
GFWC organizes club work into five Community Service Programs, a Signature Program, and several Special Programs. Advancement Plans support that work. Tennessee clubs choose their own projects inside them.
How programs work
Each club decides what its community needs, does the work, and reports it under the program area where the project fits. That is how a book drive in Newbern and a stream cleanup in Loudon both end up in the same statewide report.
Our Town, Our Sound
Through 2028, clubs are working music into projects in every program area. Projects are reported in their normal category and again toward the President's Project.
Community Service Programs
The five areas every GFWC club reports under.
Community Service Program
Civic Engagement and Outreach
Voter education, disaster readiness, safety programs, and support for service members, veterans, and their families.
State chair: Pat Williams
Community Service Program
Education and Libraries
Scholarships, literacy tutoring, book drives, and support for school and public libraries.
State chair: Jessica Mills
Community Service Program
Environment
Stream cleanups, native plantings, recycling programs, and conservation education.
State chair: Anne Wonder
Community Service Program
Health and Wellness
Food security, blood drives, cancer screening awareness, and mental health education.
State chair: Angie Comfort
Signature and Special Programs
Program work carried across the whole Federation.
GFWC Signature Program
Domestic and Sexual Violence Awareness and Prevention
Shelter support, prevention education, and advocacy alongside Tennessee crisis centers. This is the Federation's Signature Program, carried by every GFWC club in the country.
State chair: Nancy Gregg
GFWC Juniors' Special Program
Advocates for Children
Foster care support, school supply drives, and programs that give children a voice. Junior clubs lead this work, and any club can take it on.
State chair: Darby Standefer
GFWC Special Program
Epsilon Sigma Omicron
Epsilon Sigma Omicron, or ESO, is the Federation's reading and study program. Members read from curated course lists and earn recognition as they go.
State chair: Denise Chapman
Advancement Plans
The work that supports the programs.
Advancement Plan
Communications and Public Relations
Newsletters, social media, press, and the state website. TF News is the state newsletter.
State chair: Teresa Cannon
Advancement Plan
Legislation/Public Policy
Tracking bills that affect women, children, and families, and helping members contact their legislators.
State chair: Mary Anne Scott
Advancement Plan
Leadership
Workshops, mentoring, and training for club and district officers. Three virtual learning programs are planned this administration.
State chair: Jan Johnson
Advancement Plan
Membership
Recruiting members, starting clubs, and reaching counties where clubs used to exist.
State chair: Darlene Cochran
Advancement Plan
Fundraising and Development
Raising the money behind the scholarships, the programs, and the state federation itself.
State chairs: Betty Nanney and Carolyn Bartee
Women's History and Resource Center
GFWC's archive of clubwomen's history, and the Tennessee records that feed it.
State chair: Wanda Taylor
Every project starts with a club deciding what its own town needs. Find the club nearest you, or write to us about starting one.