The Zonta Club of Loudoun records chronicle the organization's initial decade of local service, and include charters and by-laws,
committee forms, membership rosters, newsletters, meeting minutes, service project report forms, and copies of The Zontian magazine.
Zonta International, a global organization of women executives and professionals, was founded in 1919. With more than 31,000
members in 66 countries and geographic regions in 2010, Zonta advocates worldwide advancement of women through service initiatives.
Its stated objectives also espouse promotion of "justice and universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,"
as well as "work for the advancement of understanding, good will and peace through a world fellowship of executives in business
and the professions."
The Loudoun Chapter of Zonta International, initially orchestrated by members of the Fairfax County branch, received its charter
on 1 November 1997. Their projects have included assistance for the Transitional Housing Program of Volunteers of America,
as well as joint efforts with Holiday Coalition, Interfaith Relief, Loudoun Community Free Clinic, and Brighten the Corner.
Zonta remains active on both international and local levels.
The Zonta Club of Loudoun records chronicle the organization's initial decade of local service, and include charters and by-laws,
committee forms, membership rosters, newsletters, meeting minutes, service project report forms, and copies of The Zontian magazine.
The first box in the collection includes much of the club's primary documentation, such as its charter, membership directories,
long-range planning, and activity descriptions of the Status of Women, Archives and History, and International Committees.
Its folders span all active years of Zonta International's Loudoun branch. Box one also contains club agendas from 1997 through
2005, board meeting minutes from 1999-2006, and all service project report forms. These provide accounts of scholarship budgets,
awards and recognition, planning workshops for promoting recruitment and publicity, as well as the cultural exchange between
the Loudoun chapter and its sister club located in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The second box is comprised of program descriptions
and handouts, press releases, newspaper articles, and event photographs from the years 1999-2007; it recounts the club's major
campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, as well as its extensive community
service proposals. The third box of the collection consists of Zonta International's global objectives from the years 2001
through 2006, as well as biennium issues of The Zontian magazine dating from 1999 to 2006. Furthermore, it holds copies of all newsletters from the club's first ten years of existence.
Newsletters from May 1997 to January 1999 were printed under the heading "Zonta Club of Loudoun County"; in February 1999,
the current "Zircular" format was adopted for all subsequent newsletters.
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