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The Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA, formerly known as the Future Homemakers of America, FHA) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit career and technical student organization [1] for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education through grade 12 and postsecondary students.
Their stated primary concerns included improving community leadership roles for women, giving access to affordable day care, neighborhood-based college programs for female returning students, advocating for the Displaced Homemakers bill, working towards neighborhood revitalization, eliminating redlining, establishing seniors centers ...
The National Charity League Inc. (NCL) is a Costa Mesa, California-based national non-profit organization designed to encourage community service and volunteering opportunities for mothers and their daughters in grades 7–12. Founded in 1925 and incorporated in 1958, the group focuses on community service, leadership development and cultural ...
The four women were wives of members of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International. The women wanted a similar women's devotional association, "one where 'those coming into the charismatic renewal could meet to pray, fellowship, and listen to the testimonies of other Christian women.' The women formed the Full Gospel Women's ...
Outreach Program for Women. Outreach is the activity of providing services to any population that might not otherwise have access to those services. [1] [2] A key component of outreach is that the group providing it is not stationary, but mobile; in other words, it involves meeting someone in need of an outreach service at the location where they are.
A notable project from this organization was the “Women’s Development Project.” Women were placed in communities where they lived and worked alongside other women surviving in that community. Their outreach began by teaching basic hygiene for infection control and disease prevention.
General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC), founded in 1890, federation of more than 3,000 women's clubs. *National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC), founded 1896 from merger of 1895-founded National Federation of Afro-American Women, the c.1892-94 Women's Era Club of Boston, and the National League of Colored Women (founded when ...
National Partnership for Women & Families Logo Judith L. Lichtman, Thomas Perez, Debra L. Ness and Ellen Malcolm, 2015. The National Partnership for Women & Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1971, the National Partnership works on public policies, education and outreach that focuses on women and families.