Zonta District 3 In Action

Service

The Zonta Club of Fairfax County continued to provide supplies for the food pantry at Fairfax County’s Domestic Violence Action Center (DVAC). The pantry serves DVAC clients, providing emergency food and personal items. Club members purchase and deliver needed items each month. They also provided holiday gifts for a DVAC client and her two children.

Advocacy


Members of the Zonta Club of New York urged lawmakers to take legislative action in support of key issues advocated by Zonta USA Caucus, PowerHer and Equality Now and in support of ending child marriage in Nevada and Pennsylvania.

Membership/Mentoring​

On December 2, 2019, the Zonta Club of Harrisburg-Hershey held a Charter Induction and Installation Ceremony for the new Golden Z Club of Penn State Harrisburg. Club member Professor Heather Jackson and Dr. Ovgu Kaynak will be their advisors. The President of the club is Julia Twaddle.

Centennial Anniversary Grants​

In honor of 100 years of Zonta service and Zonta International’s centennial anniversary in 2019, Zonta International has launched its Centennial Anniversary Grants program. These one-time grants of up to US$5,000 each recognize charitable organizations working to improve the lives of women and girls in their local communities. A total of US$296,271 were disbursed to 62 community-based organizations in 18 countries. The following three clubs in District 3 were selected to receive these grants:
The Zonta Club of Harrisburg-Hershey partnering with Shalom House;
The Zonta Club of Suffolk County partnering with Empowerment Collaborative of Long Island Inc. -Anti-Trafficking Initiative; The Zonta Club of Trenton/Mercer partnering with Girl Scouts of Central and Southern NJ, Inc.

Fundraising


Zonta Club of Frederick holds an annual dinner in November with a silent and live auction at Dutch’s Daughters restaurant. Donated items from local business and Zonta members are sold.

Amelia Earhart Celebration​​

On January 25th, 2020 the Zonta Club of Essex County co-sponsored with the Zonta Club of Morristown Area  presented the Amelia Earhart Women of Color in Aviation. The keynote speaker Carol Hopson, first officer with United Airlines, spoke about her aviation career. Bessie Coleman also talked about the historical fiction book she is writing about Amelia Earhart. Also present were six high school students with the Eagle Flight Squadron who are working to get their wings.

Zonta International Events

On May 23-24, 2019, the President of the Zonta Club of Mid-Maryland joined fellow Zontians from around the world who attended Zonta International’s Conference on Force and Early Marriage: A Severe Human Rights Violation in Vienna, Austria.

Zonta International President Susanne von Bassewitz joined a panel of experts from Interpol, World Bank, the UN Office of Drugs and Crime and EndFGM to discuss forced and early marriage. This conference introduced the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to Accelerate Action to End Child Marriage.
This program is present in 12 countries: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia and is made possible with the support of Zonta International.

Chat rooms, Face book, Skype, Zoom.us, Web-ex, Go to meeting, Google hangouts.
 Zonta Atlantic Coast e-Club meets using Zoom.us.


As with any Zonta club, the membership of the club is limited to classified members, young professionals, Past International Presidents, and Honorary members. Zonta e-Club members can be located in the same community, geographic area, state, district, region, country or may be scattered across the globe.


e-Club members may meet in person as a group or independently for service or fundraising projects upon each member’s proximity to one another. All activities require club approval. Members are encouraged to have at least one face-to-face meeting per year with each other.
The e-Club members are entitled and encouraged to participate in all events and activities of the area and the District to which they belong.


The group of Zonta members taking the initiative and willing to do the work to start a new club becomes an SOM Committee. SOM stands for Sponsoring, Organizing, and Mentoring.

The approval to SOM the new club is valid for two years. That two year clock officially began running in May 2020. Per the Club Naming Policy for e-Clubs, we became the Zonta Atlantic Coast e-Club. To read up on other e-Clubs in the USA, go to
zonta.org.


Fundraising– Some e-Club examples include e-Club sells Zonta e-Club logo items at area/district meetings and websites; e-Club members can hold a raffle of an item that is universally popular.


Service– Delivering personal care items to a local domestic violence shelter in the community, or members collect and deliver clothing for homeless and low-income women in need of outfits for job interviews just to name a few ideas.


Advocacy– An e-Club can host an event in each members’ community by showing a film to the public. Providing business cards and racks in local businesses on how to detect domestic violence and how to get help.


For further information please contact District 3 Governor, Dorothy Knauer lt.governor@zontadistrictthree.org

 Zonta Club of E-Club of Atlantic Coast-I

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Zonta Club of Atlantic Coast-I is forming an E-Club! A Zonta e-Club is a Zonta club that conducts its Zonta business and holds monthly meetings using the internet and other media as tools to manage the club and its projects. An e-Club has all rights and responsibilities of a traditional Zonta club — it is a real club that simply holds their club meetings electronically.