Programs & Activities
The Guam Women's Club provides both services and funds to help others. The Club holds annual fundraising activities to enable them to donate funds to many in the Guam community. The ongoing programs of the GWC are:
• GWC Scholarship Program
• GWC Charitable Fund
• Annual Fundraising Events
• Annual Service Activities
Guam Women’s Club (GWC) Scholarship
The Guam Women's Club Scholarship Program administered by the Club's Education Committee. Please note: See the UOG Financial Aid office for updates with GWC scholarships.
This scholarship is available to current college or university students, graduating high school seniors, and those in the workforce who wish to be full time undergraduate students. It is open to all fields of study.
This scholarship is being offered to US citizens and Guam residents who will be full time students at the University of Guam (UOG), taking at least twelve (12) credit hours per semester. GWC may pay up to eighteen (18) credit hours for tuition and fees only, per semester.
This scholarship shall not exceed four (4) academic years. This scholarship is LIMITED and only offered to those who will NOT be receiving any other scholarships, for any amount of tuition and fees, such as Merit Scholarship, Pell Grant, Regents Scholarship, and/or ROTC. This list is not inclusive of what may be available. Scholarships covering living expenses, books, and other items may be accepted.
The recipient must maintain a 3.0 Grade Point Average (GPA) per semester, and the scholarship will be withdrawn if not met for two (2) consecutive semesters.
The recipient must attend two (2) GWC General Membership meetings and assist with at least one (1) GWC event per year.
Download the files below.
*Criteria/Requirements may be subject to change. Please note: The forms below are in draft form.
GWC Charitable Fund
The Guam Women's Club has been raising funds for the betterment of the island community since its inception. Prior to the establishment in 2007, GWC annually selected particular causes and organizations to fund with the monies raised from their fundraising activities. To serve the community better, the Charitable Fund was established to allow community groups to apply for funding for projects and other uses for their cause. This was the Club's way of "spreading the wealth" so to speak. This also allowed the Club to meet one of its primary goals of lending "support to other civic and service organizations in their efforts to better local conditions."
Guidelines
The purposes of the Guam Women’s Club, Inc. as stated in Section 3.1 of the Amended Articles of Incorporation:
• To investigate, discuss and seek improvement of conditions within the territory of Guam, which affects the general welfare, education, and health of the population;
• To engage in research on local, Pacific-Asiatic and World problems;
• To lend support to other civic and service organizations in their efforts to better local conditions; • To extend the public benefit phases of the program of the corporation to as many people as possible;
• To engage in fund raising activities for the purpose of securing funds to be used for public benefit programs
Applicant Guidelines:
1. Funds awarded to an applicant organization must be in line with the stated purposes of the Guam Women’s Club.
2. Applicants must be a nonprofit organization in good standing with the Dept. of Revenue and Taxation.
3. Applicants must inform the GWC of the purpose for requested funds in writing by completing the Guam Women’s Club Grant Application. Grant funds can be used for any purpose in helping the applicant to carry out its goal as long as it is in line with these guidelines.
4. Special consideration is given to requests that we will use GWC funds to leverage other funding or to meet a match from another funding source.
5. In times of disaster or calamity, the Guam Women’s Club may waive these guidelines and application to provide needed service/facility to the Guam community.
6. A written financial report must be submitted to the Guam Women’s Club for organizations that receive over five thousand dollars from the Guam Women’s Club.
7. Organizations that receive financial donations from the GWC must acknowledge the Guam Women’s Club in any publicity of the program/activity/service for which the funds are used.
Cover Letter
A cover Letter is required. It should be typed on your organization’s letterhead, be no more than 2 pages, and include the following information:
1. Your organization’s mission/description
2. Detailed project/program description for which you are seeking funding Goals of the project/program
3. A specific dollar request
4. Specific outcome to be realized with GWC’s donation, if approved. Please note: The form below is in draft form.