Welcome!

Welcome!

 

The St. John’s club of the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW St. John’s) consists of approximately 110 women, throughout the City of St. John’s and the surrounding area, who meet regularly for learning, enjoyment, friendship and fun.

We are active in supporting higher education for women and in advocating for the rights of women and children. We welcome women who share our vision in the pursuit of education and human rights.

We have something for everyone. We invite you to explore our website to discover what interests you.  Here is our latest Annual Report.
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CFUW St. John’s is looking for a 4-6 week rental of space in the St. John’s area, (ideally about 7000 sq. ft.)  suitable for a very large book sale on or around March, 2025. The actual dates are negotiable.
 
This annual event is organized by the Canadian Federation of University Women’s St. John’s Club. (CFUW St. John’s). This is a very successful event, providing  funding for scholarships and community outreach.
 
We are seeking space that will allow us to have our teams on site for members of the community to drop off books over a 2-3 week period. We sort and price about 40,000 books and then sell them over a three-day period. 
 
CFUW is a voluntary self-funded non-aligned Non Governmental Organization whose members are located in all provinces of Canada. We promote human rights, public education, social justice and peace and are members of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
 
If you have such a space available, please reply to graceh@nl.rogers.com

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Register HERE — You must register in advance to be sent a link to join the meeting on Tuesday, January 14th. 

HOLLY HOGAN is a writer and wildlife biologist with a focus on seabirds. During her more than thirty years as a scientist, she has spent about a thousand days at sea conducting avian and marine mammal surveys and providing educational programming with expedition teams. Her work has taken her to the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans, and every latitude in between. She has been interviewed for CBC Radio, appears in a National Film Board series called Ocean School, and provided expertise on seabirds and the impact of marine plastic for the award-winning documentary Hell or Clean Water (2021). Her book Message in a Bottle: Ocean Dispatches from a Seabird Biologist was short-listed for the 2023 Governor-General’s Award for non-fiction and winner of the 2023 BMO Winterset Award. Holly is a mother of three and lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland with her husband Michael, and an assortment of cats and dogs, depending on the day.

 

ANGELA ANTLE is a writer, artist, and producer based in St. John’s. Her work has been recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Atlantic Journalism Awards, The New York Festivals, Gabriels, and Gracie Allen Awards as well as Berlinale, Dublin, Nickel, and Wexford Film Festivals. She is currently completing an interdisciplinary PhD in energy humanities at Memorial University and her debut novel will be published by Breakwater Books in 2025. The University of Munich has invited her to be the Rachel Carson Writer-in-Residence from April-August 2025. 

 

 

 

 

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CFUW Great Big Book Sale 2024

CFUW St. John’s thanks the public for another successful book sale 2024! Thousands of dollars are now on their way to scholarships and bursaries at Memorial University of Newfoundland, the Marine Institute, and College of the North Atlantic. As well, there are thousands of dollars going into our Social Outreach programs for next year.

Please look for information about Book Sale 2025 in February, 2025. We are unable to store books between book sales so we hope you can keep your books until our next collection.  If that is not possible, the charity shops might like to have them.

CFUW St. John’s will be holding our annual Membership Meeting on June 21st at The Lantern on Barnes Road. The speaker(s) will be announced at a later date. We are always happy to welcome new members who espouse the aims of CFUW and the pubic is always invited to attend our meetings. Come and check us out.

 

 

Local educators attend the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW68) in New York City March 11-22

As members of CFUW St. John’s (Canadian Federation of University Women), and the National CFUW Education and International Relations Committees, educators, Dr. Linda Coles and past national president Ms. Grace Hollett will join policymakers, government officials, and activists from around the world for the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW68), in New York City, March 11-22.  The UNCSW is the main intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls around the world. 

Since the Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) was established in 1946, civil society organizations like CFUW have taken a leading role in strengthening political commitments to gender equality and advancing the dialogue on the empowerment of women and girls around the world.  CFUW’s Consultative Status with the UN through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) permits it to send a 20-member delegation to join other accredited civil society organizations, UN Member States and UN agencies.  Coles and Hollett are members of CFUW’s delegation, for the UNCSW68, all of whom are self-funded. This year’s 11-day conference will culminate with “Agreed Conclusions” and a set of commitments for achieving gender equality, for government implementation, at the international, national, regional, and local levels.

The priority theme for the 2024 UNCSW68 is “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.” The session will also review the agreed conclusions of the sixty-third session, “Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.”     

Coles and Hollett have been involved in many aspects of education throughout their careers. As CFUW delegates for UNCSW68, they will have an opportunity to learn from representatives of other countries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) about what they are doing, in their areas, “to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.”   They are involved in organizing two public sessions, one Canadian and another a collaboration with Canadian, US, and Mexican panelists.  They look forward to sharing their UNCSW68 experiences with community leaders and members of CFUW St. John’s. They can be reached at: lcoles@nl.rogers.com  and graceh@nl.rogers.com.

To learn more about gender equality in Canada and joining CFUW, visit https://cfuw.org/           

 

 

Contact Information:  E- mail: Cfuwstjohns1@gmail.com

 

 

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CFUW Great Big Book Sale 2024

CFUW St. John’s thanks the public for another successful book sale 2024! Thousands of dollars are now on their way to scholarships and bursaries at Memorial University of Newfoundland, the Marine Institute, and College of the North Atlantic. As well, there are thousands of dollars going into our Social Outreach programs for next year.

Please look for information about Book Sale 2025 in February, 2025. We are unable to store books between book sales so we hope you can keep your books until our next collection.  If that is not possible, the charity shops might like to have them.

 

 

 

Local educators attend the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW68) in New York City March 11-22

As members of CFUW St. John’s (Canadian Federation of University Women), and the National CFUW Education and International Relations Committees, educators, Dr. Linda Coles and past national president Ms. Grace Hollett will join policymakers, government officials, and activists from around the world for the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW68), in New York City, March 11-22.  The UNCSW is the main intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls around the world. 

Since the Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) was established in 1946, civil society organizations like CFUW have taken a leading role in strengthening political commitments to gender equality and advancing the dialogue on the empowerment of women and girls around the world.  CFUW’s Consultative Status with the UN through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) permits it to send a 20-member delegation to join other accredited civil society organizations, UN Member States and UN agencies.  Coles and Hollett are members of CFUW’s delegation, for the UNCSW68, all of whom are self-funded. This year’s 11-day conference will culminate with “Agreed Conclusions” and a set of commitments for achieving gender equality, for government implementation, at the international, national, regional, and local levels.

The priority theme for the 2024 UNCSW68 is “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.” The session will also review the agreed conclusions of the sixty-third session, “Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.”     

Coles and Hollett have been involved in many aspects of education throughout their careers. As CFUW delegates for UNCSW68, they will have an opportunity to learn from representatives of other countries and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) about what they are doing, in their areas, “to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective.”   They are involved in organizing two public sessions, one Canadian and another a collaboration with Canadian, US, and Mexican panelists.  They look forward to sharing their UNCSW68 experiences with community leaders and members of CFUW St. John’s. They can be reached at: lcoles@nl.rogers.com  and graceh@nl.rogers.com.

To learn more about gender equality in Canada and joining CFUW, visit https://cfuw.org/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

              

 

 

 

Contact Information:  E- mail: Cfuwstjohns1@gmail.com

 

 

 

              

 

 

 

Contact Information:  E- mail: Cfuwstjohns1@gmail.com