Spotlight on Charity – Gabriel House

Spotlight on Charity – Gabriel House

Gabriel House of Care is a non-profit hospital hospitality house that provides affordable, temporary lodging to patients, 18 and over, and their caregivers who come to Jacksonville for organ transplants or cancer treatment. In addition to the lodging, they offer an...
Dancing Queen Fashion Show

Dancing Queen Fashion Show

Thank You! The DWA Board would like to thank everyone involved in this year’s fundraising Fashion Show ‘Dancing Queen’! The fashion show was very well attended and everyone was generous in helping us all raise money to enable us to support our local,...
2025 Holiday Gift Card Drive

2025 Holiday Gift Card Drive

Ladies, we are again, running our Holiday Gift Card Drive to benefit Families of Slain Children and Mandarin Food Bank, and will be collecting $25 gift cards from Target and Walmart. We’d love to receive at least one gift card from every DWA member to help make the...
Books-A-Go Go Benefits from Holiday Book Drive

Books-A-Go Go Benefits from Holiday Book Drive

Thanks to one of our own members – Patricia Barker – we have been honored to hear that both the St. Johns Town Center Barnes & Noble and the San Jose Boulevard Barnes & Noble have chosen our very own Books-A-Go Go to benefit from their Holiday Book...
Spotlight on Charity – Pine Castle

Spotlight on Charity – Pine Castle

Pine Castle, located at 4911 Spring Park Road, is a leader in serving adults with intellectual and development differences (I/DD) and providing support to their families across Northeast Florida, committed to assisting anyone with differences. Pine Castle was founded...
Thank You Deercreek!

Thank You Deercreek!

A HUGE THANK YOU to the DWA members & Deercreek community for their amazing generosity! The Families of Slain Children School Supply Drive was so successful! We received 115 backpacks & enough supplies to fill all of the bags, & extra supplies to give out....
Pace Appreciation Lunch

Pace Appreciation Lunch

In June, some of the DWA Board who volunteer for PACE, attended their Volunteer Appreciation Lunch. This is an annual event where Pace host a lunch to, in their words, ‘honor the heart of our mission – our incredible volunteers!’ and they celebrate...
Thank You, Deercreek

Thank You, Deercreek

We live in the most amazing community, and the ladies of the Deercreek Women’s Alliance, as well as their friends and neighbors, have the biggest hearts in Jacksonville! This year the food donations came in so fast that Carmen Kelly (the Mandarin Food Bank...
Mandarin Food Bank Summer Drive

Mandarin Food Bank Summer Drive

The Mandarin Food Bank is extremely grateful for the continued support from this community, especially over the last few years. During the summer months, while the children are out of school, they do not receive a mid-day meal, so the Food Bank especially needs...
The DWA Board Thanks You

The DWA Board Thanks You

The DWA Board wants to thank everyone who supported our 17th Annual Shamrock Scramble, despite the month’s delay due to the weather. We had a fabulous turnout, a very generous response to our 50:50 raffl,e and a large number of sponsors, all of whom enabled us...