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General Federation of Women's Clubs of CT (GFWC/CT)
- Part of an international organization with a mission to provide
volunteer services, responds to challenges, and to seize a crisis as an
opportunity for moving forward. Their goal is to be of service to others,
improve the social, cultural and physical environment and promote appreciation
of the arts. http://www.gfwcct.org
General Federation of Women's Club (GFWC)
- is one of the world's largest and oldest women's volunteer service
organizations. Working locally through thousands of clubs in the United States
and globally in more than 20 countries, GFWC members support the arts, preserve
natural resources, promote education, encourage healthy lifestyles, stress civic
involvement, and work toward world peace and understanding. http://www.gfwc.org/
Heifer International - Heifer
International helps impoverished families worldwide become more self-reliant
through the gift of livestock and training in their care. http://www.heifer.org
Women's
Center of Greater Danbury, Inc. - The Women's Center of Greater Danbury
provides free and confidential services to prevent or lessen the trauma
associated with domestic violence, sexual assault and other major life
transitions. http://www.womenscenterofgreaterdanbury.org/Homepage.asp.
The Breast Cancer Site
- Visit The Breast Cancer Site every day and click on the pink "Fund
Free Mammograms" button to help fund free mammograms for homeless, low-income
women. It costs you nothing to help make early detection and survival possible.
Funding is paid by site sponsors and goes to the nonprofit National Breast
Cancer Foundation, who uses it to grant access to mammography to women in need.
You can click once per day, .http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/
American Mural
Project - AMP is a project that has been 10 years in the making. Its founder
is a local Northwest Corner resident who is an artist in her own right, Ellen
Griesedieck. It will be the single largest piece of indoor
collaborative artwork in the country. AMP started out as a tribute
to working people in America and, now, includes in it's mission a challenge to
future generations to explore all possibilities in making career choices and
recognize the excitement of those many and varied frontiers that await them.
Laurel Girls State - The youth
state project of GFWC/CT is no longer HOBY - it is Laurel State Girls,
www.alalgs.org
Inflammatory Breast Cancer Video
Physical
Therapy Handout
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