Lincoln

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The second Tuesday of every month September through June beginning at 6:30 pm at the Immanuel Lutheran Church (1409 Pulaski St., Lincoln, IL 62656)

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Our Club Story

The Zonta Club of Lincoln was founded by nine professional women in early 1957 and officially chartered on May 1 of that year. The charter dinner, held at the Eagles Home, welcomed over 100 attendees, including local dignitaries, Zontians from nearby clubs, and representatives from service organizations. The club played a key role in sponsoring the Bloomington-Normal Zonta Club (1965–1968) and hosted its first Area 3 Workshop in 1962. During the 1960s and '70s, traffic safety was a major focus, with the successful Women Driver’s Clinic in 1959 earning recognition from the Illinois Governor and Zonta International. The club received the Carol Lane Award for Traffic Safety in both 1959 and 1962. Beginning in 1965, the annual turkey dinner became the primary fundraiser, serving up to 1,000 people and raising as much as $5,000. Since 1970, the club has awarded over $60,000 in scholarships to local traditional and non-traditional students.

Our Activities

The Zonta Club of Lincoln holds fundraising events throughout the year to raise money for our local scholarships, local women’s charities, and to contribute to Zonta International’s global service projects. We also participate in local service projects such as diaper drives for our local pregnancy resource center, collecting food for our local food pantries, putting together “Birthday Parties in a Bag” so that visitors of the food pantries have options to throw birthday parties for their loved ones,

or collecting items for local domestic violence shelters. We participate in local community events where we can advocate for and help spread the word about critical issues relating to women locally and globally.

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Our Activities

The Zonta Club of Lincoln holds fundraising events throughout the year to raise money for our local scholarships, local women’s charities, and to contribute to Zonta International’s global service projects. We also participate in local service projects such as diaper drives for our local pregnancy resource center, collecting food for our local food pantries, putting together “Birthday Parties in a Bag” so that visitors of the food pantries have options to throw birthday parties for their loved ones,

or collecting items for local domestic violence shelters. We participate in local community events where we can advocate for and help spread the word about critical issues relating to women locally and globally.

Group of women in orange shirts hold a banner that says