National Standing and Chapter Committees

​Our chapter officers are elected to serve for two-year terms. Our committee chairmen are appointed to serve for two years as well. Since DAR is a volunteer service organization, Daughters are welcome and encouraged to serve on chapter committees, enabling our chapter to carry out many of our activities in our community. For more information about committees and activities, contact us via email or select the button below.
National Standing Committees

American History
  • Community Impact: This committee promotes historical education by sponsoring annual essay contests for students in grades 5–8 and high school seniors. Volunteers work with local schools, youth groups, and libraries to encourage youth participation and recognize outstanding history teachers.
  • Personal Rewards: Fulfilling a passion for history by inspiring the next generation to appreciate the foundational events and figures that shaped the nation.
American Indians
  • Community Impact: Focuses on supporting the education, cultural preservation, and well-being of Native Americans. Volunteers collect funds and supplies for DAR-supported indigenous schools and scholarship programs, and raise awareness of Native American contributions to history and culture.
  • Personal Rewards: Gaining deep cultural insights while providing tangible educational opportunities and resources to historically underserved communities.
Chapter Achievement Awards
  • Community Impact: Serves as the internal metric ensuring that local chapters remain active, healthy, and deeply engaged in community service, historical preservation, and patriotic endeavors throughout the year.
  • Personal Rewards: Experience the satisfaction of structured goal-setting, teamwork, and seeing a local chapter thrive and maximize its civic impact.
Children of the American Revolution (C.A.R.)
  • Community Impact: Trains the next generation of civic leaders. By supporting the local C.A.R. societies, volunteers help youth learn parliamentary procedure, public speaking, and community service. Non-members can enroll eligible children to participate in patriotic programs.
  • Personal Rewards: Mentoring youth and watching young people develop into confident, service-minded leaders and patriots.
Conservation
  • Community Impact: Focuses on environmental stewardship within the local ecosystem. Volunteers lead community planting projects (such as native Florida gardens), support wildlife preservation initiatives, and educate the public on reducing waste and conserving natural resources.
  • Personal Rewards: The tangible joy of improving the local environment, protecting native wildlife, and leaving a cleaner, greener community for the future.
Constitution Week
  • Community Impact: Commemorates the framing of the U.S. Constitution every September 17–23. Volunteers set up educational displays in local libraries, secure mayoral proclamations, ring bells of freedom, and distribute educational materials to schools.
  • Personal Rewards: Strengthening civic awareness and helping citizens of all ages connect with the rights and responsibilities of their heritage.
DAR Good Citizens
  • Community Impact: Recognizes outstanding high school seniors who exhibit dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism. Volunteers coordinate with local school guidance counselors to administer the program and award scholarships.
  • Personal Rewards: Being inspired by the remarkable achievements, character, and bright futures of local high school students.
DAR Magazine
  • Community Impact: Promotes the society’s educational and patriotic work through journalism. Volunteers distribute issues to local libraries, schools, and historical societies, making rich genealogical and historical research accessible to the public.
  • Personal Rewards: Sharing beautifully curated historical narratives and keeping the community connected to broader national heritage projects.
DAR Scholarship
  • Community Impact: Assists deserving students in achieving higher education goals by promoting and vetting applicants for local, state, and national scholarships spanning diverse fields such as history, law, medicine, nursing, and STEM.
  • Personal Rewards: Easing the financial burden on hard-working students and playing a pivotal role in launching their professional journeys.
DAR Schools​
  • Community Impact: Provides funding, clothing, technology, and educational supplies to DAR-supported schools, primarily serving economically disadvantaged children in the Appalachian region.
  • Personal Rewards: Directly impacting a child's life by ensuring they have a safe, well-equipped, and supportive environment to break the cycle of poverty through education.
DAR Service for Veterans
  • Community Impact: Supports active-duty military, veterans, and their families. Volunteers visit VA hospitals, organize supply drives for homeless veterans, participate in Stand Down events, and participate in projects like the Veteran Utility Relief Reserve.
  • Personal Rewards: Honoring the sacrifices of military heroes through direct, hands-on comfort, advocacy, and financial lockdown protections for those who served.
Historic Preservation
  • Community Impact: Preserves physical history for future generations. Volunteers identify, mark, and restore historic sites, clean local cemeteries, preserve vital records, and support local museum archives. Non-members often collaborate on regional preservation projects.
  • Personal Rewards: Saving history from fading away and leaving a visible legacy of preserved community roots.
Junior Membership
  • Community Impact: Engages members ages 18–35 in active service and leadership. Juniors lead local service projects, raise funds for the Helen Pouch Memorial Fund, and bring fresh energy and innovative ideas to community outreach.
  • Personal Rewards: Building lifelong friendships and a professional network with driven, service-oriented peers while developing vital organizational skills.
Lineage Research
  • Community Impact: Assists the public in uncovering their ancestral roots. Volunteers host workshops and provide free genealogical assistance to individuals seeking to trace their family trees back to the American Revolution.
  • Personal Rewards: Solving complex historical puzzles and experiencing the profound emotional moment when a person connects deeply with their ancestors' sacrifices.
Membership
  • Community Impact: Ensures the long-term vitality of civic engagement. Volunteers welcome new faces, guide prospective members through the onboarding process, and help individuals find where their unique skills best fit within community service frameworks.
  • Personal Rewards: Fostering an inclusive, supportive environment and watching a dedicated group of volunteers grow in strength and impact.
National Defense
  • Community Impact: Fosters an informed citizenry regarding national security and patriotic education. Volunteers distribute patriotic literature, study defense issues, and host guest speakers to keep the public educated on civic responsibility.
  • Personal Rewards: Deepening personal knowledge of history, security, and global issues while upholding standard foundational principles.
JROTC
  • Community Impact: Directly recognizes and encourages youth leadership in local high school JROTC programs. Volunteers present DAR JROTC Bronze Medals to outstanding cadets who demonstrate academic excellence, dependability, and military discipline.
  • Personal Rewards: Cultivating leadership and discipline in young adults who are committed to serving their community and nation.
Public Relations and Media Committee
  • Community Impact: Shares the story of civic service with the world. Volunteers write press releases, manage social media, and coordinate with local news outlets to highlight chapter initiatives, upcoming community events, and historical milestones.
  • Personal Rewards: Using creative communication skills to shine a spotlight on meaningful work and inspire others to get involved in local service.
The Flag of the USA
  • Community Impact: Promotes proper flag etiquette and patriotism. Volunteers distribute flags and educational booklets to schools, civic organizations, and new citizens at naturalization ceremonies. They also present awards to businesses that display the flag correctly.
  • Personal Rewards: Seeing a sense of pride and respect ignite in others—especially new citizens—when they receive a beautifully presented flag.
Volunteer Information Specialists
  • Community Impact: Provides the digital backbone for local service. Volunteers build and maintain secure chapter websites, assist with digital communication, and train members in using technology to streamline their community outreach.
  • Personal Rewards: Utilizing technological and analytical skills to bridge the gap between tradition and innovation, keeping civic service accessible in the digital age.

Special Committees
Celebrate America!
  • Community Impact: Encourages a massive collective impact of community service. Volunteers log hundreds of thousands of hours of local community service annually, ranging from feeding the hungry and picking up litter to reading to children and helping neighbors in need.
  • Personal Rewards: Realizing how small, daily acts of kindness combine to create an overwhelming wave of positive change across the nation.
Commemorative Events
  • Community Impact: Organizes community-wide celebrations and educational events for significant historical milestones (such as the Semiquincentennial/America 250). These events bring communities together through parades, lectures, and educational reenactments.
  • Personal Rewards: Bringing history to life on a grand scale and fostering a shared sense of community pride and remembrance.
DAR Project Patriot
  • Community Impact: Directly supports active-duty military personnel deployed overseas. Volunteers pack and ship care packages filled with snacks, hygiene products, and morale-boosting letters, and provide critical support to specialized military medical facilities.
  • Personal Rewards: Knowing you are sending a tangible piece of home and comfort to soldiers standing on the front lines of freedom.
NSDAR President General's Project
  • Community Impact: Unites chapters across the globe to fund major structural upgrades, restoration projects, and educational initiatives at National Headquarters and selected national historic sites, ensuring they remain open and free to the public.
  • Personal Rewards: Feeling connected to a grand, international mission that preserves the heart of American patriotic history.
Historic Preservation Grants
  • Community Impact: Provides essential matching funds to local non-profit organizations, historical societies, and municipalities to preserve historic structures, monuments, objects, and significant sites.
  • Personal Rewards: Seeing historic local landmarks revitalized and saved from decay thanks to vital financial backing and rigorous framework of our organizaion.
Volunteer Genealogists
  • Community Impact: Maintains the integrity and expandability of the massive NSDAR genealogical database. Volunteers rigorously review historical documentation, preserve rare family bibles, and verify newly discovered Revolutionary War patriots.
  • Personal Rewards: Immersing oneself in forensic document analysis and expanding the global repository of family history for researchers worldwide.
Women's Issues
  • Community Impact: Addresses modern challenges facing women in the local community. This committee focuses on health, career development, work-life balance, and family well-being through informative seminars, supportive networking events, and health advocacy drives.
  • Personal Rewards: Creating a strong, resilient network of women who uplift, protect, and empower one another across all stages of life.
Chapter Committees

To support the mission of DAR, we accomplish many of our goals through a range of chapter committees.
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​Florida State Project
  • Community Impact: Focuses fundraising and service power directly onto specific preservation, conservation, or educational initiatives chosen by the current State Administration to benefit the citizens of Florida.
  • Personal Rewards: Working hand-in-hand with chapters across the entire state to achieve a massive, unified goal that leaves a lasting footprint on Florida's heritage.

Bylaws and Chapter Standing Rules
  • Community Impact: Serves as the institutional integrity framework for governance. Volunteers maintain strong, transparent, and legally sound organizational rules, ensuring all operations, elections, and funds remain strictly compliant and ethical.
  • Personal Rewards: Exercising legal, parliamentary, and administrative skills to protect the foundation and longevity of an organization dedicated to the public good.

Communications
  • Community Impact: Keeps internal and external community members informed, connected, and aligned. Volunteers draft newsletters, manage local telephone or email trees, and ensure that every member and community partner knows when, where, and how to get involved.
  • Personal Rewards: Building a tight-knit community where no volunteer is isolated, and clear information flows seamlessly to maximize mission effectiveness.

Finance
  • Community Impact: Safeguards the chapter’s assets and budget. Volunteers implement strict fiduciary protocols—including asset sweeps, dual-signer requirements, and restricted fund protections—to guarantee that every dollar raised goes exactly where it was promised.
  • Personal Rewards: The peace of mind that comes from maintaining an audit-ready standard, demonstrating perfect transparency to donors and the community.

Fundraising
  • Community Impact: Generates the vital financial engine that funds local scholarships and educational materials, veteran relief programs, and historical markers. Volunteers design creative, compliant events that engage, inform, and invite the local business community and public to be a part of our mission.
  • Personal Rewards: Turning a creative event idea into tangible, financial support that transforms lives and preserves local history.

Central Florida Scottish Highland Games
  • Community Impact: Celebrates the rich cultural tapestry of the region. Volunteers staff educational booths, coordinate cultural presentations, and engage the public in understanding the deep connection between Celtic heritage and early American history.
  • Personal Rewards: Immersing yourself in a vibrant, high-energy community festival while sharing local history with thousands of enthusiastic visitors. This is an incredible opportunity to engage socially with fellow Daughters and celebrate cultures.

Sunshine
  • Community Impact: Spreads joy and personal care to members who are homebound, ill, grieving, or celebrating milestones. Volunteers send handmade cards, coordinate meal deliveries, and make personal visits to ensure no one feels forgotten.
  • Personal Rewards: Deepening the emotional bond of community through simple, heartfelt gestures that provide comfort in difficult times.

Yearbook
  • Community Impact: Curates and preserves the chapter's active history and operational structure each year. This comprehensive directory keeps members aligned with state and national contacts, schedules, and standard protocols.
  • Personal Rewards: Creating a beautifully organized archive that acts as a blueprint for current success and a permanent historical record for future generations.