Our Service to the Community
Just a Glimpse at Our Civic and Community Involvement
- Endorsement and financial support of the Three Rivers Promise.
- Sponsors college scholarships for over 100 young people to date.
- Supports the Domestic and Sexual Abuse Services (DASAS) and Keystone Place through donations and the Afghan Project to date over 1000 afghans have been donated.
- Hosts the Historic Three Rivers Labor Day Bridge Walk raising money to improve the trails.
- Three Rivers Food Site with volunteers on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the months of February and August, working 9 to noon, assembling boxes of food for clients of the TRFS. The TRFS is located under the back door of Lowry’s Books downtown.
- Donates “Kind News” subscriptions over 56 classrooms in area elementary schools, teaching children respect and care for animals for more than 20 years.
- Worked with local school children to raise funds for the original Carnegie Library in the early 20th century.
- Sponsored and financially supported the Visiting Nurse Program in Three Rivers for over 50 years.
- For 60 years provided free milk to school children who could not afford it.
- Provided the leadership for the establishment of a Family Service Center in the community which evolved into the Community Mental Health Center.
Many of our members are volunteers in other places in town, Red Cross, Hospital Auxiliary, Community Players, Church, Boy Scouts, Girls Scotts, Garden Club, Southwest Michigan Black Historical Society, Recycling, World Faire, Animal Rescue Fund, St. Joseph County 4-H and many others.
Timeline of Community Service
Three Rivers Woman’s Club from 1891 to Now
2018
2018: Creativity Award
Won the State GFWC Creativity Award for the Bridge Walk
2020
2020: 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
Passed resolution honoring 100 years of women’s suffrage; negotiated an end to the Club’s lease forty-year with the City of Three River for the Carnegie library building and vacated our Clubroom; began strategic planning for the next 10 years
2021
2021: Celebrating 130 Years
Celebrating 130 years of service to the community through window displays of history in downtown Three Rivers and publishing excerpts and articles from the Club’s archives of minutes since 1891; endorsed and donated to the Three Rivers Promise; moved the Club archives to the Three Rivers Public Library; donated funds and energy to realizing the Three Rivers DDA Monarch Waystation.
