Awards

GFWC Wisconsin 2024 Awards Presentation

GFWC Wisconsin 2024 Awards Booklet (This is a pdf and you may need to rotate the images in the pdf tool.)

2024 Members Arts & Crafts Winners

2024 Members Photography Contest Winners
State Level ONLY

2023-2024 Community Impact Program Award Recipient

GFWC Stevens Point Woman’s Club

Emerson Park Revitalization Project

The Park in Our Hearts

• GFWC Community Impact Program (CIP) Award - Carol Wolfenden - Virtually any existing club project can develop into a CIPA project.  Identify and assess the needs of your community; partner with other organizations or agencies in your municipality; check out the planning tools in the GFWC manual under Awards, Contests and Grants. Any size club can be a winner!  So go out and “Make a Difference”.   

  • General Information - Due March 1, 2024

2024 GFWC Jennie Award Recipient

Paula Schlice

• GFWC Jennie Award - Ruth Diedrich - The Jennie Award is named in honor of GFWC’s founder, Jane Cunningham Croly, who wrote for national newspapers under the pseudonym Jennie June.  This is the highest honor given to a clubwoman by GFWC.  Clubs may nominate a clubwoman for this award which is then judged at the state, region, and national levels for her outstanding performance as a volunteer within her club, community, and (extended) family. Please send your nomination to State President Linda Brown, 1229 West Portview Drive, Port Washington, WI 53074. 

  • Nomination Form - Due June 1

2024 Junior Award Recipient

Dorothy Protz

GFWC Brown Deer Junior Woman’s Club

Dorothy has been a member of the Club for 25 years, served on the Board for most of those years, and is often a mentor to new Board members.  She has been instrumental in leading many projects throughout the years, never hesitates to suggest a new project, and has led or assisted on new and ongoing projects. During Covid she changed the Club’s focus so that members could continue working for the community through hands-on volunteering projects that did not include meeting as a group. This has continued since its inception.

Dorothy welcomes input and assistance from other members and is always willing to lend a helping hand, thought, or idea when asked.

Dorothy always brings new opportunities for the Club from something she learned from other clubs through district and state meetings and by reading local, district, state and international publications. 

Dorothy works tirelessly to publicize the Club and activities on various social platforms and has daily and weekly goals to get this done. Her efforts have helped increase attendance at the Club’s events and increased Club membership.

In addition to her Club activities, she assists her husband with his business, is a hands-on grandmother to her five grandchildren, and is a long-time member of a book club.

Dorothy has served at the district level as Scholarship Chair for three administrations, Trustee for one administration and is currently Recording Secretary. At the State level,. she served as Junior Special Projects Chairman for one administration and Page to the 2024- 2026 President.  She has also completed Mini-Leads 101 and 102.

• GFWC-WI Junior of the Year Award (JOY) - This annual award spotlights a Wisconsin Junior clubwoman for her leadership and volunteer efforts with an emphasis on her family and community.

  • Nomination Form updated 01/25 - Due March 1 (This is a Word document so check your “Downloads” folder.)

  • Guidelines

Theodora Youmans Citizenship Award

• GFWC-WI Theodora Youmans Citizenship Award - Nancy Honadel, Chairwoman. This award is to honor a Wisconsin woman who has made an outstanding contribution to her community.

  • Previous Honorees

  • Nomination Form - Due April 1 (Note, this is a Word document so check your downloads folder.)

Woman of Achievement

• GFWC-WI Woman of Achievement Award - Sue Sands, Chairwoman. This lifetime achievement award is to honor a Wisconsin clubwoman who has made an outstanding contribution to the General Federation of Women's Clubs.

  • Previous Honorees

  • Nomination Form - Due April 15 (Note, this is a Word document so check your downloads folder.)

LEADS Candidate

(GFWC Leadership, Education and Development Seminar)

The GFWC LEADS program is intended to identify GFWC members at the grassroots level who have the potential and the desire to assume leadership positions in GFWC beyond their club. Participation in GFWC LEADS can help these members gain the capabilities, confidence and commitment necessary to pursue and achieve higher office and serve with distinction. The LEADS program is held annually the day before the official opening of the GFWC International Convention. Each state is allowed one candidate.