Fall Funds Update by Marty McKnew and Donna Holmes

aauw-fundsHappy Fall to all from Marty and Donna!

 

 

For all of you who admired the professional nametags many of us were wearing, here is how to get one of your own: http://aauw.source4.com/b2c/sites/AAUWMember/Home.asp

Click on the first tab, “Wear AAUW” and you will see the ‘Customized Name Badge With AAUW Logo.’

The badges come with pin back for $8 or magnet back for $10, including tax and shipping. Although the badges hold three lines of text, we choose not to use our board titles as they change. Enter your full name as you like to be addressed and our branch’s legal name: Sacramento Branch, Inc. The pin arrives in about a week.

Funds are an umbrella for so much of what we do! Some quick examples:

  • In 2015, $3.7 million in grants and fellowships were awarded to 241 women, 25 of them from California, in graduate studies, Marie Curie, or Tech Trek.
  • Legal Advocacy provides legal case support and campus outreach projects such as ‘Tenure Denied’ or for Laura Mancuso and the women wrestlers at the University of California, Davis.
  • Public Policy works on government relations, civic engagement, and field organizing.
  • Leadership Programs includes The National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL), campus action projects and Elect Her.
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Fund researches and publishes reposts including Why So Few?, How Schools Shortchange Girls, Behind the Pay Gap and, our newest, Barriers to Leadership.
  • Undesignated, #9110, gives money for the national roll out of Tech Trek and anywhere the greatest need is!

Amazing work! Thank you for taking part!