GFWC Pennsylvania

06/18/2026

🚨⚠️ Last chance ⚠️🚨 TODAY to reserve your hotel room for the GFWC Pennsylvania Summer Leadership Conference (at the discounted rate).

Make a new friend that has a reservation and be a roomie if you missed the cutoff. ❣️
Reminder that registration forms and payment should be in the mail by Monday, June 22.🗓📨📬
We will have Dairy Princesses there, serving Turkey Hill ice cream Friday night, and Friday night fun will have a cow 🐮 theme to it as well.🐄🥛🍧

06/14/2026

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06/11/2026

😍🎒Look at these cute backpacks!!🎒😍 Strawberry Shortcake, Bluey, Hello Kitty, Stitch, and Super Mario.
But alas, all 9 are empty. 😞
🎗Reminder to bring to our Summer Leadership Conference, classroom supply donations for PA HeadStart to fill these backpacks to the brim! ….crayons🖍 (regular or jumbo), washable markers, colored pencils✏️, glue sticks, construction paper📃, play-doh, finger or washable paints🎨🖌, paint brushes/sponges, stickers, dry erase markers, tissues🤧, baby wipes🚼, zip-top bags (gallon or quart).🛍

06/11/2026

Powerful words.

These words have shaped generations of clubwomen — and they still inspire the way we show up for each other today.

Mary Stewart, a school principal and member of the Longmont Fortnightly Club in Colorado, wrote the beloved GFWC Collect (also known as “A Collect for Clubwomen”) in 1904.

She originally composed it as a personal daily prayer, later titling it specifically for clubwomen because she saw the value in women uniting for larger purposes and felt they deserved their own special words of reflection and inspiration.

The General Federation of Women’s Clubs was the first organization to adopt and widely share it, and it has been recited at club meetings ever since as a cherished tradition.

06/10/2026

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“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” was written in 1908, but the original version was not simply about baseball. It was about a young woman named Katie Casey, and Katie was not being politely escorted to the park by a man. She was the one asking to go.

In the forgotten verses, Katie is described as “baseball mad.” She knows the players, spends her money on games, and follows the sport with the kind of devotion usually imagined as male territory. When her boyfriend asks if she wants to go to a show, she does not swoon over the offer. She tells him exactly what she wants instead: take me out to the ball game.

That small detail changes the whole song.

This was 1908, more than a decade before many American women won the constitutional right to vote. Public life was still crowded with rules about where women belonged, what they should enjoy, and how loudly they were allowed to want things. Yet here was a popular song about a woman choosing the noise of the grandstand over a traditional romantic date. She wanted the crowd, the team, the peanuts, the Cracker Jack, and the right to root for herself.

Over time, the verses disappeared. The chorus survived. The woman faded.

Millions kept singing her words without knowing they came from a story about female enthusiasm, independence, and public joy. Katie Casey was not written as a decoration in the stands. She was written as the fan. The one with the passion. The one who knew what she liked.

06/10/2026

On June 10, 1963, the Equal Pay Act was signed into law, marking the first federal legislation aimed at addressing wage discrimination based on s*x.

Championed by labor advocates, women’s organizations, and lawmakers who had spent years pushing for change, the law made it illegal for employers to pay women less than men for performing substantially equal work.

While it did not eliminate the wage gap—and many women, particularly women of color, continued to face significant barriers—it established a critical legal foundation for the fight for workplace equity, a struggle that continues today.

06/09/2026

JOIN US!
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GFWC members are community leaders who work locally to create global change. 🌎
We are mothers and daughters, business and community leaders, and women of diverse interests, talents, and backgrounds—all united by a dedication to community improvement through volunteer service!
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06/06/2026

Please support if you are local.

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Please support us while we Walk to End Alzheimer's.🎗🎗🎗
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Thank you!

06/06/2026

Spread Kindness ❣️❣️❣️

Looking for ways to spread kindness this summer? The theme this month is Shine Together, and there are so many ways to do so! ❤

Download our June calendar: https://www.randomactsofkindness.org