GFWC Ohio

• Make homemade holiday cards for nursing home residents or Meals on Wheels

• Host an art supply drive within your club.  Contact local schools, daycare centers,

And/or community centers to see what is needed

• Bee creative – design and decorate a garden

• Hire student jazz combos, string quartets or a band to perform at club events

• Attend public art displays, plays, and concerts as part of a social event for your club

• Explore museums online with Google Arts and Culture or visit Art Galleries and

Art museums through their websites for virtual gallery tours

• Visit or hold a club meeting at an art gallery, museum, or local cultural center

• Use member art or children’s art for club cookbook covers, greeting cards,

Program covers, etc.

• Decorate a city park or municipal plaza for holidays and/or the seasons

• Sponsor an author or visit your local library

Visit the GFWC website for more arts and culture ideas – gfwc.org

 

The Arts & Crafts Auction will be held at the OFWC Convention. We encourage donations of handmade items from our clubwomen, local artists and Ohio businesses but all items will gratefully be accepted.

 

CONNECT WITH GFWC AFFILIATE ORGANIZATIONS

 

Canine Companions

• Purchase bolts of fabric for Canine Companions to sew vests for dogs or stuffed puppies

• Contact your closest Regional Center to see if your club can fulfill any items on their wish list

• Participate in the Canine Companions Signature Event- Dogfest Walk ‘n’ Roll.  For more information visit www.cci.org/dogfest

 

Heifer International

• Construct and decorate a parade float designed to promote Heifer International for your next community parade

Support Heifer’s “Women’s Empowerment and Entrepreneurship” project and help women earn living incomes www.heifer.org/gift-catalog/womens-empowerment/index.html

 

March of Dimes

• Create blankets for babies.  Create a pattern just for your club

• Create baby hats with your club’s special colors.

www.marchofdimes.org/materials/Advocacy-Toolkit-Q3-2019-v2.pdf

 

Operation Smile

• See how your club can prepare a child for life-saving surgery with coloring pages, stuffed animals, and games to relieve the stress of surgery

https://catalog.operationsmile.org/prepare-kids-for-surgery-0

• Host a neighborhood ice cream social to share the mission of Operation Smile.  Accept donations to support an operation

 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

• Sew mask straps.  Consider meeting to assemble bags with materials to make straps for the children and have your seamstresses take the bags home to complete