2025 President’s Message

by avonclubfoundation, posted in News

Hello Avon Club and welcome to our 2025 year!  This is going to be such a fun and exciting year!  

I can’t wait to get started and continue the Avon Club’s fantastic work in the Avonworth area. We had a great year in 2024 with a super fun Fall Festival and a fabulous Gala as our main fundraisers!  We were able to support the goals of so many worthy organizations and students while enjoying some great social events. Many thanks to Rissa Witul for her leadership as our president and to all of our club members who made it happen! 

I’m hoping that this year will bring more of the things that our members love about the Avon Club — social gatherings, time together and of course, the Ben Avon Fall Festival (Sept. 27) and biannual Holiday House Tour (Dec. 6). We look forward to seeing you out and about at both events.

As we just recently celebrated the Avon Club’s 80th anniversary, we have a long tradition of service and relationship-building amongst women in the Avonworth community. I hope that all women in Avonworth will consider joining the Avon Club to continue this tradition. Please contact membership@theavonclub.org or visit our new member page here for more information. 

*Mark your calendars for our next few meetings!!!

  • February 6 – Kick off to our year
  • March 6 – New Member Social
  • April 3 – Member Meeting 
  • May 2 – Scholarship Award Meeting

We will continue to meet on the first Thursday of each month except for July. Our first few months of meetings will be at various places due to the construction on the Ben Avon Borough Building.  We’d love to see you all at our meetings this year!  

 **Make sure to check out the Sign-Up Genius that I recently sent out to see which committee you can be a part of this year!  We need a team effort to make our Avon Club run smoothly!  

Cheers to a fantastic year ahead!

Susan Geist
Avon Club President

2025 Grants

by avonclubfoundation, posted in Committees

2025 Grant Recipients are announced below. Thank you to all who applied!

Avon Club Foundation Grant Program — The Avon Club Foundation is organized and operated for the charitable and educational needs of the Avonworth Community. The Foundation makes distributions to those organizations serving our community, as well as other worthy, tax-exempt organizations providing services which otherwise might be unavailable or requiring additional support from local or federal government programs. The Avon Club Foundation serves the Community defined as the area and people living within the Avonworth School District. Goals to improve the Community through projects funded by the Avon Club Foundation include:

> Education
> Recreation
> Preservation and the Environment
> Social Responsibiity

Questions about the program can be directed to:
Finance Committee Chair
finance@theavonclub.org

2024 Fall Festival Highlights

by avonclubfoundation, posted in Events

With an average of more than a thousand attendees each year, the Avon Club Fall Festival has been a family-friendly tradition in the community for many years. 

In spite of the slightly rainy weather, the 2024 Fall Festival on September 28, 2024, was a huge success! We are grateful to the community and vendors for their continued support for this important Avon Club tradition. Through your generosity, we are able to help support members of the community with critical grants and scholarships. 

Click to view the list of 2024 Fall Festival vendors.

Evening in Wonderland

by avonclubfoundation, posted in Events

The Evening in Wonderland Gala, held on September 7th at the Shannopin Country Cub, was a joyous night of merriment and enchantment. Our 2024 Fundraising Event was greatly successful to support our 2025 philinthropic programs, including Scholarships and Grants.

We want to thank the Avon Club’s Ways & Means Committee who coordinated and worked tirelessly to make the event come off spectacularly. We also appreciate the support of all those who attended and the gracious staff of Shannopin Country Club.

Special thanks to our Sponsors who gave generously to the event to fund our philanthropic goals for 2025.

Signature Alice Level Sponsors
Goodrich & Geist
The Priory

Queen of Hearts Sponsors
Industry Terminal
BLT Contracting
Connolly & Steele
Shamot Construction
Allison Gannon ~ Howard Hanna
Avon Club Past Presidents

Mad Hatter Sponsors:
Avonworth Community Park
Amante Radiant
DeNovo Chiropractic
Heeter Commercial Printing
Pierce & Associates
What’s Next Collegiate Planning

Cheshire Cat Sponsors:
CorCom
Andrews & Price
Meyer Unkovic & Scott
Right on the Mark – Inspection Services
Allegheny Financial
Allegheny Millworks
Betsy Wotherspoon – Berkshire Hathaway
Julia M. Dentice, DMD & Chelsea M. Rumbaugh, DMD
Pizza Pronto

Civic Service – Flower Beds

by avonclubfoundation, posted in Committees

The Avon Club Civic Service maintains two flower beds along Ohio River and two flower urns in front of the Ben Avon Borough Hall. In the years when we host the Holiday House tour, the committee decorates the street poles along the tour route and provides greenery to the House Tour homeowners.

May is our busiest month to prepare the flower beds for the summer season — weed, clear trash, prune existing plants, add new plants and lay over 60 cubic feet of mulch. The Committee wishes to thank the volunteers who contributed to our May activities to make our community beautiful!