Zonta Club of Fort Myers Area
        Motivating Women to Achieve Their Full Potential
Hands-On Project -
Can Separation at the Harry Chapin Food Bank in Fort Myers, FL
 
Celebrating Zonta's Amelia Earhart Award and Learning more about Aerospace technology.
 

Annually, the Zonta Club of Fort Myers provides financial rewards to preselected recipients.

In the 30 years since the Fort Myers Club's inception, over $240,00 has been raised and distributed to support local and international projects.
 


Zonta Service Projects

Zonta Club of Fort Myers Area:

The Zonta Club of Fort Myers Area has been advancing the status of women for 30 years through fundraising and hands-on projects.

Our largest annual fund raiser is a dinner and auction. The funds raised go to the service projects as voted on each year by our members. A few examples are:

  • Sustaining two endowment scholarship funds at Florida Gulf Coast University
  • Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking
  • Our Mothers Home
  • Mary's House of Hope, Inc.
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Partnership in Family Building
  • Women’s Breast Health Care
  • Ruth Cooper Center
  • Lee County Vo-Tech Scholarships.

We also support other organizations, with goals similar to ours, through participation and hands-on assistance. Being part of Zonta is a personal commitment.

Zonta International Service Projects:

Zonta International selects service projects in various countries to benefit the legal, political, economic, educational, health and professional status of women around the world.

  • Zonta International supports women’s education through its Amelia Earhart Fellowship Scholarship Awards for graduate study in aerospace related sciences and engineering.
  • The Young Women in Public Affairs Award, created to encourage young women to seek leadership positions in public policy, government and volunteer organizations, is also a featured service project of Zonta International.
  • For more than 50 years, Zonta International, in conjunction with various United Nations agencies, has provided financial support and technical assistance to women and children in developing countries.
  • The Zonta International Strategies to Eradicate Violence Against Women and Children (ZISVAW) focuses on prevention, awareness and education, and develops innovative solutions to eliminate abuse against women and children.