About Sue Goodwin

Sue Goodwin is going on her 30th year volunteering with the Central Florida Women’s League. Sue is a past president and has served on almost every committee. However, the Service committee is one that is dear to her heart as she has chaired this committee for so many years. Under the radar, Sue is the CFWL historian for the charities we serve. She keeps track of how much and what the CFWL has granted over the years. She now donates personally to some of these great charitable organizations and feels that the only way she would have known about them was through exposure through the league. Sue’s wish is that members of the league will in turn take on some of these charities on their own by finding ones that really tug on their heart.

There is a process as to how the committee chooses an organization to serve. Only charities that the Central Florida Women’s League has selected to receive Charitable Granting money to are considered for service projects. Sue feels that the Service Committee creates a better relationship between the charities that we have granted money to. This allows The League to keep in contact and follow up with the organizations.

Question and Answer with Sue Goodwin

Q: I feel like we have seen you in a pink hard hat since I started in the CFWL, but how many years have you been on the Service Committee?
A: Charitable Granting and the Service Committee were once combined as one committee, so between the two I have chaired them or been involved up until 3 years ago. I still continue to be involved and mentor the new chair members for the legacy of the committee.

Q: What does the Service committee mean to you?
A: It is about exposure of these amazing charities to our community and to the giving hearts of the women in the Central Florida Women’s League. Most of the charities we serve help underprivileged children, those with disabilities, abused women, and homeless.

Q: Can you share one of your most memorable service projects?
A: They are all different and memorable in their own way, but one that really tugs at my heart is A Family Promise. It is a very small organization in Downtown Orlando that works with homeless families helping them find jobs in church communities. The Central Florida Women’s League has helped in the past by donating a mobile home and helping the family with simple needs in the home. However, one memory that stands out was when Family Promised reached out with a need for a single man with two boys. It warmed my heart to “adopt” the boys one Christmas. We shopped for them, bought tons of toys, and dropped them off. You don’t see them open the gifts or even get a photo, but you just know how much you have impacted the boys. You do it because it feels good giving not for any recognition. I still personally donate and adopt children at Christmas from Family Promise.

Q: What service projects do you have the most fun doing?
A: I had a blast stocking “The Closet!” One of our projects is with United Against Poverty, where a group educates and trains the underprivileged on how to get a job. Once they are ready for their interview they get to pick from “The Closet.” We have so much fun organizing donated clothes, putting them on hangers, and putting outfits together with jewelry. They even have a nice dressing room in “The Closet.”