The 2025 FAWCO Biennial Conference was hosted by FAUSA in Annapolis, Maryland, USA from Wednesday evening, March 26 to Sunday morning, March 30, 2025.
We had a FAUSA sponsored welcome event Wednesday evening to greet all the arriving guests from around the world. Thursday morning, March 27, we started bright and early with our conference program. Foundation Night was...
Since 1932, FAWCO has held biennial conferences or interim conferences/meetings almost every year. Starting with just the first seven clubs, the conferences were a way for FAWCO Members to meet each other, to hear updates about FAWCO initiatives and programs, and to vote on key policies and processes concerning the organization.
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The 2023 FAWCO Biennial Conference took place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 24-26, 2023. Hosted by the AWA Vienna with the generous assistance of the IWC Bratislava, 140 Participants, 30 guests and 24 conference volunteers enjoyed a long weekend of business and fun, combining our AGM with fascinating speakers and panelists and informative reports and workshops. Below you will find links to remind yourselves of the event or catch up on what you might have missed.
Liz MacNiven (AIWC Cologne) and Suzanne Wheeler (AAWE Paris/FAUSA) were awarded the Caroline Curtis Brown Spirit Award in recognition of service exemplifying the spirit, inspiration and dedication of FAWCO's Founder. Rep Appreciation Awards were given to Mary Adams (AWC The Hague), Bev Bachmayer (AWA Vienna), Anitra Kitts (Munich IWC), and Belen Monasterio (AWC Madrid) in recognition of their outstanding work promoting FAWCO.
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Keynote Speaker Alison Smale is a veteran British journalist with some 40 years’ experience, half of that with The New York Times. She lives in Vienna, where she was also based between 1987 and 1998 as the AP’s (Associated Press) Bureau Chief covering the anticommunist revolutions and the war in former Yugoslavia. After a 20-year career at the New York Times, she did a two-year stint as United Nations Undersecretary General for global communications. She was Chief of Bureau at The New York Times in Berlin from 2013 to 2017, and before that Executive Editor of the International Herald Tribune (IHT) Paris. She is the first and only woman to have held that post. Alison currently is part of Europe’s Futures Program at the IWM (Institute for Human Sciences) in Vienna and is a freelance contributor to The Times. |
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Awesome Blossoms is the latest evolution of a community-based organization, Safe Spaces, created by Mrs. Peninah Nthenya Musyimi. This project features organic, water-efficient urban farms with 500 gardens in each farm to support girls’ education and empowerment programs and with 75 women in partnership with three primary schools located in the Mathare slum area of Nairobi. Read more about the project on the Target Environment Blog. The FAWCO Foundation announced that even before the project had been selected, FAWCO members had already donated over $26,000. We are also pleased to announce that the Clydette de Groot Foundation has offered a $10,000 matching grant.
FAWCO has gone through the strict approval process to qualify as a member of the State Department Federal Credit Union. This means that US members and green card holders and their children are now eligible to open US dollar accounts without a US address or mobile phone number. Please see our website or download our information sheet to share with your club members!
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Part 1 of our 2022 Interim Meeting included a celebratory wrap up for our successful Target Program Health, the launch of our new Target Program Environment and The FAWCO Foundation announcements, including celebrating 50 years of Education Awards and 25 years of Development Grants. We had a limited number of sessions on Sunday, including FAWCO the UN and CSW66, the SDG #TurnitAround FilmFest and the Global Issues Book Discussion on Jane Goodall’s The Book of Hope.
Part 2 of our Annual General Meeting took place in Luxembourg, May 19-21, 2022 at the Parc Hotel Alvisse Luxembourg.
The Agenda featured the Club Development Workshops that help inspire you and your Club, as well as providing the opportunity to meet and learn more about our FAWCO Teams and Volunteers at a Face2Face. In addition, The FAWCO Foundation announced the recipients of the 2022 FAWCO Foundation Education Awards and Development Grants. Foundation Night “Celebrate FAWCO, Fun and Friendships” was a real celebration, with music, live and silent auctions and a chance to recharge after too much time in lockdown.
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The conference photos are ready to view!! Please use password "LUCY" for the site. The photos are free for you and your clubs to download and use from her website by simply clicking on the download arrow icon at the bottom right of the photos. Thanks to Patricia Ramaer for the photos.
Conference commentary via social media: follow @fawco on Twitter, tweet using #fawco2019 and like us on Facebook!!!
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Sallie Chaballier (AAWE Paris), FAWCO President, presented the Caroline Curtis Brown Spirit Award to Emily van Eerten (AWC The Hague), FAWCO Counselor, especially in recognition of her service in establishing the FAWCO website and heading the Archives Committee.
Congratulations as well to the 2018 FAWCO Rep Appreciation Award Recipients!!
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Mary Dobrian of AIWC Cologne; Sandra Gogel of AWG in Paris; Lauren Mescon of AWC Amsterdam; and Orla Blundell of AWG of Languedoc-Roussillon
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Conference commentary via social media: @fawco on Twitter, #fawco2018 and like us on Facebook!!!
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From March 30 to April 2, 2017, the American Women's Club of Mumbai, India hosted FAWCO's 43rd Biennial Conference. Nearly 100 delegates and their guests, representing FAWCO’s 12,000 members worldwide, attended.
These are words that speak to the overarching theme of the FAWCO Target Program for 2016-2019: Education - Empowering Women and Girls through Knowledge and Skills. These were our goals for the 2017 Biennial Conference. The Butterfly of our logo symbolizes personal transformation…from her cocoon the butterfly emerges in her unfurling glory. A symbol of grace and tenderness, she brings the awareness and energy of another way of being. The Woman Warrior is the symbol of strength, wisdom and passion. She is autonomous, independent, strong-willed and powerful! The bold colors of the wings represent the global effort to bring change.
Click here for preliminary information about FAWCO's Interim Meeting near Frankfurt, Germany in March 2016. (Available to Registered Users only).
