2019 Executive Board & Committee Members
Provides FDW with strategic direction and organizational oversight so that the organization’s vision, mission, and goals are implemented. The board is comprised of the FDW Officers and Standing Committee Chairs/Co-Chairs.
2019
Executive Board
President
Pearline Booth Greene
1st Vice President
Susan Samson
2nd Vice President
Enid Pigors
Secretary
Sara Cookson
Assistant Secretary
Heidi Danis
Treasurer
Carolyn Edwards
Assistant Treasurer
Beverly Thomas
Program and Activities Committee
Dawn Oparah
Fundraising Committee
Karen Rands
Marketing Committee
Marcia Dunscomb & Larris Marks
Elections, Voting, and Appointments Committee
Derryll Anderson
Bylaws Committee
Anne Hertzog
Political Action Committee
Sheryl Corke
COMMITTEES IN ACTION
Membership
Recruits new members to the organization and maintains a database of all current members
Programs and Activities
Plans engaging programming for the monthly meetings, including securing dynamic speakers
Fundraising
Plans, organizes, and executes fundraising events which allow the organization to make contributions to candidates and local charities
Bylaws
Keeps the organization in compliance with local, state and national Democratic policies and procedures.
Marketing
Connects the organization to the community via media and social media, maintains the website and communicates the organizations’ events to the members in a weekly e-blast.
Elections, Voting, and Appointments
Leads voter education and registration efforts, recruits candidates for local positions, staffs polls during elections
Political Action
Works diligently to identify issues impacting women, children, and families. Provides information to members on the proposed and current state and national legislation, performs all facets of candidate support, monitors local government, lobbies legislators, protests issues.
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
We were recognized by the Georgia Federation of Democratic Women as the Outstanding Chapter of the Year in 2015
Provided approximately $10,000 in financial support to Democratic candidates in Georgia in the 2018 election cycle.
Our 2018 annual fundraising luncheon raised almost $20,000 to support candidates and local charities
In conjunction with the Fayette County Democratic Committee, FDW delivered over 24,000 votes for Stacey Abrams for Governor, turning Fayette County from a red to a solidly purple county.
FDW’s ROAR project (Read On & Rise), a literacy project promoting reading through the donation of children’s books is a huge community success. FDW provided books to children at the Fayetteville Back to School Expo as well as to the Promise Place nonprofit. In December 2018, FDW distributed over seventy books to children being supported by the Grandparents and Kin Raising Children organization.
We have provided service to local organizations including the Midwest Food Bank, Promise Place, Real Life Center, Grandparents and Kin Raising Children, Fayette Samaritans, and Discovering Soldiers Potential/Waypoint.