OUR WORK
Our work is focused on charitable and educational goals in support of the Carver Museum and consists of annual fundraisers, annual programs and events, and other endeavors that support the overall mission of the Carver and help the surrounding community.
Annual Fundraisers
The annual Juneteenth Celebration T-Shirt sale and the Festival of Trees raises money to help financially support projects, programs, and community events at the museum.
Annual Programs and Events
GWCA helps to financially support programs and events at the Carver and for the surrounding community such as the Silver Bell Social, Santa Special, the Arthur Sauls Scholarship, the Bernadette Phifer Scholarship, the 100% Community Art Exhibition, and the Austin African American Book Festival.
Some of the other supportive endeavors by GWCA have been:
- Commissoned and purchased Art for the Museum’s Collection
- Purchased “Dr. Carver” lab jackets for the children’s gallery
- Purchased wheel chairs for the museum
- Purchased a Self-Guided Tour System
- Acted as museum docents
- Purchased Bell for Juneteenth Monument
- Sponsored A’Lelia Bundles, author and great-great-granddaughter of Madame CJ Walker, to attend the annual Austin African American Book Festival
- Purchased 20 Chrome Book Computers
- Two GWCA members worked as consultants at the Genealogy Center