Philanthropy

Goldschmidts Musikakademi

All profits from fund-raising activities of the American Women’s Club of Denmark go to its charitable work, particularly the Philanthropy Award, given every year to a project in or near Copenhagen. Recipients over the last two decades include:

The Heart Pillow Project makes heart-shaped pillows to relieve post-surgery pain for women with breast cancer (2025).

Lykkeliga is the world’s happiest handball league, with more than 1,500 players on more than 80 teams. The teams are open to all, but most members have a developmental disability (2024).

Comfort Mouse Denmark is an association of volunteers who crochet, knit and sew Comfort Mouse for hospitals, private practitioners, psychiatry, hospices, shelters, etc. (2024).

Through free music lessons and the lending of instruments, helps children in vulnerable positions become whole, harmonious and capable (2023).

  • Missionaries of Charity (soup kitchen in Nørrebro)

  • Christian’s safe house (for sexually trafficked women, men and children)

  • Landsforeningen Præmatures Vilkår (National Association for Premature Babies’ Welfare)

  • Blågårds Kirke “Meals for the Needy”

  • Muhabet (center for immigrants with psychological problems)

  • Dry Ind (the oldest day center in Denmark)

  • Support Group for Late Brain-Damaged Children

  • Alexandra Collegium (for single mothers in education programs)

  • Hjernesagen Copenhagen & Frederiksberg (aphasia center)

  • Children’s Home in Farum

  • SOVI (workshop for autistic people)

  • AWC also gives scholarships to young Danish women wishing to do graduate study in the US (given every three years)