OUR PROJECTS
Serving Clayton, Concord and the surrounding areas since 1973
We love to stay busy by helping our community.
Check out some of our volunteer opportunities below!
SCHOLARSHIP AWARD 2025 GOES TO CHLOE HE
GFWC Clayton Valley Woman’s Club proudly offers a $2,000.00 scholarship to a graduating, female DVC student transferring to a 4-year college or university to pursue a degree. The applicant must have a minimum 3.0 GPA and demonstrate financial need. We must receive DVC transcripts, 2 letters of recommendation, and an essay.
The Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the Clayton Valley Woman's Club DVC Scholarship winner is Chloe He. Chloe discovered a passion for chemistry after taking an honors chemistry class in high school. The satisfaction and accomplishment she felt became the driving force to pursue a higher education in Chemistry. The science made sense to her logically, and she became obsessed with how it ties to our world. She discovered, too, that it is much like baking which is her biggest hobby outside of academics. Chloe let the committee know that she was “committed to UC San Diego and waitlisted at UCLA.”
Chloe has been working as a student laboratory assistant in the stockroom at DVC. She has served as officer in various clubs ranging from Inter-Club Council Representative of the Language Exchange Club to President of the Catalyst Club.
She expanded the STEM community to Morello Park Elementary School through community outreach. Chloe also volunteers in her local community at the city farm zone in San Ramon guiding and helping children make crafts, and at the Welcome and Transfer Center at DVC.
Chloe is very positive, upbeat, driven, and self-challenging. We wish Chloe well in her future education and career, and we all look forward to meeting her at the CVWC Birthday Lunch in June.
PENNIES FOR PINES
This is Clayton Valley Woman's Club conservation activity. Every meeting a small container, covered with pine trees, is passed around to collect coins from members and guests.
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Every time we collect $68, one acre of National Forest land in California is planted with about 350 pine, fir, redwood and giant sequoia seedlings. These plantings are most important as every year thousands of acres of forest are lost to fires and/or disease. Last year CVWC sponsored 2 acres of seedlings.
EYEGLASS COLLECTION
Sheila is currently collecting outdated eyeglasses (both prescription and readers from the Drugstore; sunglasses are fine, too. She believes many of us have a few of these tucked away in drawers! She has a contact with the Lion's Club who wants these eyeglasses which they can repurpose for needy people. Just bring them to our meetings and deposit in the collection basket at the back table. Questions? Call Sheila at 925-980-7970 or email marysheiladriscoll@gmail.com. Thanks!
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL
Heifer International is a global nonprofit with a proven solution to ending hunger and poverty in a sustainable way. Heifer helps empower millions of families to lift them out of poverty and hunger to self-reliance through gifts of livestock, seeds and trees, and extensive training, which provide a multiplying source of food and income. Corporate sponsors offered to triple our donation once again this year. Thanks again for your generous donations - Kathy Hester.
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WE ALSO COLLECT AT OUR MEETINGS!
CLUB HOMELESS PROJECT
Message from Sheila: it has been a while since I have written about our Club's long time project of collecting useful items for uhousedpeople. This is due to the changes in the facility that we supported in Oakland and the needed time to establish contact with new facilities serving homeless people. I am happy to report that we now have two facilities serving the homeless in Antioch and Bay point. For now, please keep collecting and bringing to meetings the following items: toiletries, men's and women's clean & gently used clothing, new socks, gently used socks and new towels and washcloths. Call or email me with questions: Sheila Driscoll, 925-980-7970 or marysheiladriscoll@gmail.com.
We also collect food for SHARE