THANK YOU ALL . . .
. . . for supporting our St. Paddy’s Day Scholarship fundraiser. We were thrilled we exceeded our goal and raised $9,205 to support our Scholarships this year! And the generosity didn’t stop there! We also received $1,250 for the Opportunity Fund that grants women money to attend training and/or education programming to give them skills to enhance their lives.
It is clear that our friends and members understand the power of education to change lives. Thank you all so much! All funds went completely to the Scholarships and Opportunity Fund. Our Board, Club members and friends donated time, food, music, and auction items to make sure party costs were covered. And NH Distributors donated beer! It takes a village and we had one. With heartfelt thanks from, The Woman’s Club of Concord Board members.
What does the Woman’s Club do?
The Woman’s Club of Concord supports a high school scholarship program for girls and a grant program for women who need a helping hand to become more self-sufficient: We offer High School Scholarships of at least $2,000 to applicants from Concord High School and Merrimack Valley High School, and we run the Opportunity Fund, a grant program for up to $1,500 to give a boost in education/training to help women become more self-sufficient. In particular, we provide women in the prison, who are about to leave, with testing and certification costs in cosmetology.
As a public service to our community, we run monthly programs around our core interests: Community Service, The Arts, Education, Conservation, International Affairs.
Members and the public are always invited to attend these events. On the first Friday of the month, we host a social gathering at the Club called First Friday for members and their guests to meet others and share ideas, contacts, concerns and just fun conversation.
Our Historic Home: Chamberlin House
The Woman’s Club of Concord was founded in 1893 by Mrs. Lilian Carpenter Streeter. In 1894, The WCC was one of the first clubs to join the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Horace E. and Nellie Chamberlin built a Queen Anne Shingle Style home at 44 Pleasant Street from mail order plans in 1886. Nellie Chamberlin bequeathed Chamberlin House to the Woman’s Club of Concord in 1919 which has maintained it since then as its club house and a home for as many as three women in transition at low-rental rates.
In 1982 Chamberlin House was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Woman’s Club is a Member of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC), the New Hampshire General Federation of Women’s Clubs (GFWC-NH) since 1894 and the Concord Chamber of Commerce.
