2020–2021 GFWC-NC DISTRICT FOUR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE GRANT With our clubs experiencing difficulties in fundraising and with membership attrition due to COVID, District 4 has implemented a GRANT to assist ... Funding is available to help underwrite the various fundraising, membership recruitment, and operational efforts at the club level. GFWC-NC District Four is offering $50.00 per event for each club within our district. These funds may be used for membership recruitment activities, for events to be hosted/sponsored/co-sponsored by the club, for club projects, and/or to assist with fundraising efforts. This financial assistance opportunity will be available beginning October 1, 2020. Applications will be accepted beginning October 1, 2020. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. The funds applied for will be distributed pending the decision of the GFWC-NC District Four Executive Board. APPLICATION FORM Note: Applications received before October 1, 2020 will not be accepted. Send your application to Fran Pollock presidentgfwcncdirict4@gmail.com
Sallie Southall Cotten Scholarship - Applications Due January 8, 2021
Club candidate packet is due to Liz Aracbascio by January 8, 2021.
Make sure that there is a student email address; as well as a club woman email address included on the application form. This is how Liz contacts the candidates and club women regarding interview times.
Make sure to submit 3 complete packets to: Liz Arcabascio (email Liz for her address)
Interviews will take place January 23, 2021. The time frame is 9 am - 4pm depending on the number of applicants received. The location is The Weir-Jordan House, 223 North Edgeworth Street, Greensboro,NC 27401.
Snow date for interviews will be January 30, 2021 with the same time frame and location.
The winner and runner-up will be announced in February 2021 at the District 4 Arts Festival and Meeting.
The District 4 winner will advance to the GFWC-NC Sallie Southall Cotten judging for a $12,000 Scholarship.
2020-2021 DISTRICT 4 LEADS REPRESENTATIVE - Denane Owen, Burlington Woman's Club
Denane’s leadership skills as well as her dedication to volunteerism are truly a gift to our organization. She will represent our District at the LEADS seminar. GFWC initiated the Leadership Education and Development Seminar, LEADS, for the purpose of finding, training and encouraging clubwomen from the grassroots level to step up, pursue, and accept leadership opportunities in their clubs, districts, states and nationally. A NOTE FROM DENANE OWEN: I’m honored to have been selected to represent District 4 at the upcoming GFWC-NC LEADS session. My personal goals for attending this session is multifold….absorb GRWC history and knowledge, develop and refine leadership skills and interact with fellow GFWC LEAD candidates in hopes to form a lasting relationship. After retirement from the workforce, I wanted to find an activity to help fill some of my downtime and provide me with the opportunity to give back to the community. One day I ran into an acquaintance while leaving the YMCA who highly recommended I check out the Burlington Woman’s Club. After joining BWC in 2017, I realized I had found a home and wanted to be part this organization of selfless women whose goal is to give back. Shout out to BWC members. "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." --Ronald Reagan