The GFWC Education & Libraries Service Program works to improve literacy and education awareness in communities at home and around the world. For more than a century, education has been a cornerstone of GFWC beliefs and practices.


​From the 1996 Report of the International Commission on Education for the 21st Century and the 1997 Hamburg Declaration: Literacy, broadly conceived as the basic knowledge and skills needed in a rapidly changing world is a fundamental human right.

There are millions, the majority of whom are women, who lack opportunities to learn or have insufficient skills to be able to assert this right. The challenge is to enable them to do so. Literacy is also a catalyst for participating in social, cultural, political, and economic activities, and for learning throughout life.

Having founded over 474 public libraries and 4,655 traveling libraries in the 1930s, The American Library Association credited GFWC with establishing 75% of America’s public libraries. In the 21st century, libraries continue to be an important part of our communities, demonstrated by a 2013 survey in which 90% of Americans, ages 16 and older, said the closing of their local public library would have an impact on their community.

GFWC Florida clubwomen design and support education activities in their local communities.


Some examples of past projects: 

  • Tallahassee Report Card Rally- members assisted with games, crafts and handed out prizes to students who made good grades on their report cards
  • Oasis Girls Can Do Anything Summer Camp- assisted campers running a fitness pop up shop
  • ​Provided 80 Reading Buddy backpacks filled with books and a stuffed animal to a local kindergarten class in Tallahassee

​​​​​​​GFWC Junior Woman's Club of Midtown