Please join us for Lobby Days – Volunteers Needed!!
Wanted: Volunteers to help contact Legislators to support proposed legislation advancing AAUW priorities, voting rights, and women’s reproductive freedom. Lobby days are April 8th and 9th, and your presentation will typically be a 20-minute shared presentation. See newsletter for details!
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AAUW Petaluma invites us to their Women’s Film Festival on March 29th. Doors open at 1:30 – Showtime is at 2:00 at the Carole L. Ellis Auditorium, Santa Rosa Junior College – Petaluma Campus, 680 Sonoma Mountain Parkway. Ticket info in recent newsletter!
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Welcome to new members Susan Hanes, Diane Graves, Carla Vella, Margie Gardner, Susan Washam Witten, Karen Gresh Callahan, Sue Walker, Vimlan VanDien, Candice Dahlstet, Aiyana Singh, Pamela Nachtigall, and Loretta Donna Garcia!
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Congratulations to the SSU and SRJC students who were chosen as our branch scholarship winners! Also, bravo to all our Tech Trek scholarship recipients who attend Brook Haven Elementary, Slater Elementary and Rincon Elementary. All have strong plans for a very bright future!
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Please see SSU’s Donor thank you for our contributions to their scholarship program!!!
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Important Links!
Ensure Economic Equality by learning to successfully advocate for yourself – and help close the pay gap for women everywhere. Free online WorkSmart and StartSmart Programs on salary negotiation. No need to be an AAUW member.
StartSmart is specifically designed to teach you how to negotiate salaries for a new job. With WorkSmart you learn how to research your target salary, highlight your accomplishments and find the right words — and the confidence — to negotiate for better benefits and pay.
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Two-Minute Activist, where you can MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN CONGRESS! http://capwiz.com/aauw/home/
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Please click HERE if you are thinking of joining AAUW and want to know more!!
For more than 130 years AAUW has been changing the climate for women and girls. Our members have taken the issues we care about to Capitol Hill and into schools, campuses, courtrooms, homes, businesses and national conversation. We’ve been tireless advocates for equity for over a century but there’s still work to be done! Join us.
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MISSION STATEMENT
AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research.
AAUW Santa Rosa does this through:
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granting scholarships for middle school girls to Tech Trek, a summer science and math camp at Sonoma State University
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granting scholarships at Sonoma State University
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granting scholarships at Santa Rosa Junior College
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support of the AAUW National Fund
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providing programs for its members and the public
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support and collaboration with other local women’s organizations
Members of AAUW Santa Rosa are members of AAUW, a national organization, and of AAUW California. The mission of AAUW is pursued throughout the state and nation by these organizations.