Meetings: Zonta Club of Fort Smith usually meets the second Monday at the Fort Smith Public Library from 6:00 - 7:15 p.m. Meetings include a business portion and a featured program related to the advancement of women’s legal, political, economic, educational, health or professional status worldwide. Dues: Yearly dues provide support to the local, district and international Zonta levels. Half-year fee starting Dec. 1, 2011: $92. Quarterly Dinners: To supplement our operating fund, members alternate in hosting a dinner four times during the year with a $15 charge to members. First Wednesday Lunches: Members meet informally the first Wednesday of each month for lunch at local restaurants. Membership: Members represent numerous professions, from such fields as law, education, insurance, realty, counseling, non-profit and medical. Valuable connections and friendships are made. Hands-on: Members devote four or more hours of service in a club project annually. Current service projects are First Impressions Workshop, Breast Cancer Awareness, Career Fair/Partners in Education, Crisis Intervention Center, Esther Home, Girls Shelter, Single Parent Scholarship Fund, ZISVAW and 16 Days of Activism, and Women Build for Habitat for Humanity. Financial: Two-thirds of the proceeds from our annual fundraiser (the Zonta Club of Fort Smith Geranium Sale on the second Saturday in April) go to these local service projects: Crisis Center for Women, Single Parent Scholarship Fund, Esther Home, Zonta Club of Fort Smith Scholarship to UA Fort Smith, Annette Putnam Business Scholarship to UA Fort Smith, Girls State Sponsorships, Girls Shelter, Rose Scholarship for nontraditional student, Young Women in Public Affairs award and the Jane M. Klausman Women in Business Award. One-third goes to international service programs.
