Have you ever wondered how people get started volunteering? Or get invited to participate on boards at local non-profit organizations? Have you thought about volunteering but aren‘t sure where to begin? Or maybe you just want to make sure if you‘re going to give your valuable time that your effort will be worthwhile. If so, this podcast should be helpful to you. We‘ll spend our time talking with women — who are members of the General Federation of Women‘s Clubs of North Carolina. We‘ll discuss volunteer projects they‘ve led, and what impact those projects had.
Episodes
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Some people think big, and the Woman's Club of Clayton certainly did when they created a life-sized version of the board game Candy Land in the Main Street Garden in Clayton, North Carolina. I hit the road and visited the Woman's Club of Clayton's historic clubhouse to talk with Melissa Francis, Trish Perna, and Rachel Masimore to learn how they brought this amazing project to life.
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
In this week’s episode I read the first chapter from the History of the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs 1901-1925, by Sallie Southall Cotton. She writes about the “…call for emergence from selfish individuality into broader service to the world.”
Friday Oct 15, 2021
Friday Oct 15, 2021
We speak with Shereá Denise Burnett of the Burlington Junior Woman’s Club about how she started a Virtual Reading Series that focused on authors of color that wrote about children of color or had illustrations that were children of color.
Friday Oct 01, 2021
Friday Oct 01, 2021
In this episode we speak with Crystal O’Neal, the president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs of North Carolina (GFWC-NC). She shares with us information about the organization, why she became a member, some of her favorite projects and the impact they’ve had, skills women develop through volunteer service, and the support her administration is providing to the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum.