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Women's Woodworking Guild of Colorado: Beginnings
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a Guild in Your Area
Members of the Women's Woodworking Guild of Colorado promoting the group at the
Woodworker's Show. | Pamela
envisions a day when guilds and groups of woodworking women can be found all over
the United States and even globally. All it will take is a little initiative on
the part of just a few people to get the ball rolling. Pamela offers some great
direction for starting a woodworking guild in your area: - Check
out existing woodworking guilds and clubs in your community and surrounding areas
for women members. Find out if they are interested in starting a woman’s
woodworking guild.
- Ask
existing organizations for assistance. Pamela found that other woodworking groups,
even those comprised entirely of men, eager to help out. Ask if their bylaws could
be used as a model when setting up your own.
- Ask
a woodworker's supply store to serve as a base from which to promote the formation
of the guild. This is how Pamela found her guild members.
- Find
more woodworking women by publicizing in other supply stores, at lumberyards,
in the newspaper, on the Web, and any other place you can spread the word for
free or for a small fee.
- Get
assistance from your county to set up the group as a non-profit organization.
- Continue
to promote the group. Some wood shows and home shows will give nonprofit groups
free booth space if they aren't selling products.
Members of the Women's Woodworking Guild of Colorado welcome you. | Learn
More While
you seek women in your area to form a woodworking community, Pamela invites you
to be part of the Women's Woodworking Guild of Colorado. The guild welcomes members
from all over the country. Membership dues also include a subscription to the
guild's newsletter, Out of the Woodwork.
If you have more questions about joining this guild, or about starting a guild
in your area, please see the guild's Web
site, or contact Pamela Philpott-Jones via e-mail. <<<
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