​     GFWC STONE MOUNTAIN WOMAN'S CLUB

                                                         

​COMMUNITY SERVICE SINCE 1929

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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."  - Mahatma Gandhi


​The Health and Wellness CSP

  • Supports the Side-by-Side Brain Injury Clubhouse with a Holiday Brunch provided by our club members.
  • Will host a "Game Night" for the members of the Side-by-Side Clubhouse on October 10th
  • ​Shares monthly health reminders and information with members at meetings and in the newsletter
  • Started a members walking group.  "Fitness and Fellowship" meets each Tuesday at 10am in the club parking lot and walks in Stone Mountain Park.
  • Prayer Shawl Ministry meets at the clubhouse on the 3rd Wednesday of the month to knit and crochet prayer shawls for distribution
  • Collects aluminum tabs and other requested items for the Ronald McDonald House in Atlanta
  • Provides monetary donations to:  Friends of Disabled Adults & Children (FODAC), the DeKalb Physician's Care Clinic, and St. Jude's Children's Hospital
  • Hosts the "Cancer 2-Day Walk" practice walk.  They use our parking lot and restrooms and then walk in Stone Mountain Park.

​This is just a sampling of our club's projects.  Many of them were recognized with awards at the 2025 GFWC State Convention. 

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   "If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him"  - John F. Kennedy

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Art and Culture CSP

  • Provides refreshments and serves as hostesses for several artist receptions at the ART Station, a local community theatre and art center in Stone Mountain Village​​
  • Meets for several weeks in the fall to make items to sell at the Tour of Southern Ghosts gift shop.  Set-up, staffed and ran the gift shop, earning more than $5,000 for the ART Station
  • Co-sponsors a DeKalb County School System District-Wide Student Art Contest at the ART Station with reception honoring the student artists.  In 2024-25, four student art pieces were selected from the exhibition to complete at the District and State level of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.  All four were District winners and two won cash prizes at the State competition.
  • ​Each year a large auction item is donated by the club for the ART Station’s annual fundraiser, the "Raising of the Green."  Our club also provides desserts for the event.



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"The Environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."  - Lady Bird Johnson


The Environment CSP

  • ​Is participating in the TREX Challenge by collecting and recycling film plastic.  For every 1000 pounds of plastic that we recycle, we earn a TREX Garden Bench.  The first bench we earned was donated as an auction item for the ART Station's annual fundraiser.  The next bench we earn will be placed in the Stone Mountain Community Garden. 
  • Supports the Stone Mountain Community Garden by helping maintain the food pantry portion of the garden.  These garden plots result in over 1,000 pounds of fresh produce being donated to the Stone Mountain Food Pantry each year.
  • Supports a local pet rescue and spay/neuter facility in Stone Mountain - AARF.
  • Helps maintain the landscaping on the clubhouse property.
  • Several members maintain memberships in the Atlanta Botanical Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Atlanta Audubon Society, the Friends of Georgia State Parks, and more.

​TFS

Founded in 1909, Tallulah Falls School was begun by one woman who wanted to provide an education for the poor mountain children of North Georgia.  A century later, this school is an independent, co-educational internationally known boarding and day school.  The GFWC Georgia headquarters is located in a cottage on the school grounds.


Tallulah Falls School

  • ​The SMWC supports the school with annual club visits,
  • adopting a number of the dormitory students and sending them cards and small gifts, and 
  • visiting the school during the holidays to judge the holiday door decorations and contribute to the cash prizes. 
  • There are other school projects that change from year to year that we support.


​​​​​Our Community Service Programs (CSP's) are our areas of work and are the "rock solid" foundation upon which our club is built.

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." - Marian Wright Edelman

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​Education and Libraries CSP

  • Supports the Sue Kellogg Library through joining Friends of the Library group, assisting with book sales and attending monthly meetings


  • Awards a $500 Women of Empowerment Scholarship for a woman returning to college
  • Participates in Career Day and Read Across America at a local school
  • Donates books for children to a local food pantry for distribution
  • Restocks the Little Libraries with books for children and adults
  • ​Contributes monetarily to the Stone Mountain Back to School bash, fills bags with school supplies for distribution at a summer event​
  • Hosts a monthly Book Club
  • Takes part in reading challenges through GFWC Georgia and the DeKalb County libraries.
  • Assists with projects for Tallulah Falls School.
  • Takes snacks to two local schools for Teacher Appreciation Week.
  • Participates in a summer reading program at a local church aimed at helping students retain their reading skills over the summer.
  • ​Provides monetary support for a student to attend HOBY (Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership Training)

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​"True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth."  - Eleanor Roosevelt

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CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH CSP
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  • Regularly shares legislative updates with our members and encourages them to sign up to receive legislative alerts from the GFWC Legislative Action Center
  • Provides snack items to fill the pantry for local fire and police stations.
  • Participates in Operation Christmas Child 
  • Members donated sheets, towels, linens, bedspreads and more and delivered them to areas of North Carolina which were hit hard by Hurricane Helene.
  • Participates in Operation Care and Comfort by collecting items to send to the military.
  • Collects mother and baby items for Women Veterans who are Postpartum Mothers 
  • Collects warm socks to be distributed at cold weather shelters in our area.
  • Represents GFWC SMWC in local parades
  • Provides voter registration opportunities
  • Donated to the new Woman's Suffrage National Monument to be built on the Mall in Washington, D.C.