Beginning next summer, Tech Trek will have a 9^th camp, at U.C. Davis. Planning for this camp has been underway since February with Lisa Beauchamp of the Sacramento branch as camp director. She will be ably assisted by Deedee Hays also of the Sacramento branch. Stay tuned for further information.

Our inaugural presentation will be by Elahe Amani, former AAUW-CA International Chair, and a world renowned activist for women's issues, especially in the Middle East. 

You are welcome to try the Online branch through this presentation without joining. Please mail caralex@verizon.net to be added to this exciting and current presentation.   We have a full schedule of programming in which you can fully participate without having to leave your home!

On Thursday, August 26, the Benicia-Vallejo Branch celebrated the 90^th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the US constitution which granted women the right to vote.  Organized by B-V's Public Policy chair, Nancy Parent-Smith, the very successful event was attended by a number of elected officials, a reporter from the local newspaper and 40-50 branch members. Sue Miller, AAUW CA Vice President/Public Policy Director was a featured speaker.

 Have you visited the new AAUW California Facebook page?  Take a look at it today at Facebook AAUW California.

Please mark your calendars!  Save these dates!

AAUW CA Convention -- Celebrate 90 Years

April 8-10, 2011 at the Irvine Marriott Hotel, Irvine

AAUW Funds Luncheons

Southern: October 23, 2010 at the Irvine Marriott Hotel, Irvine

Northern: October 24, 2010 at the Crow Canyon Country Club, Danville

AAUW Funds Director, Lorelei Self, reports that new forms for 2010-11 have been posted under AAUW Funds in the Forms & Documents section of this website. 

These new forms are to be used as we send branch and individual contributions to the national office of AAUW, a recent change in the process for donations to the funds.

Lorelei advises branch AAUW Funds chairs to download and begin using these forms right away.

The online process for reporting 2010-11 branch officers was streamlined this year and 105 branches had completed the form by June 29.  The form can be found HERE and a required username and password were sent to 2009-10 branch presidents.

Deadline for submitting the report is July 1, 2010.  If your branch has been unable to complete the form, please contact webteam@aauw-ca.org.

We are happy to introduce Financial Literacy’s new endeavor, $tart Smart, to AAUW CA.  $tart $mart Campus Initiative empowers young women starting their careers to avoid the gender wage gap. The collaboration between WAGE and AAUW provides college junior and senior women, the knowledge and skills for approaching the job market. They learn how to negotiate salaries and benefits so that they are able to receive fair and realistic compensation.

As planned, we are going to have the first two workshops before the end of June. On Saturday, May 15th our first $tart $mart Campus workshop will be offered at Las Positas College in Livermore. The second workshop will be held on Sunday, May 16th at UCSD in San Diego.

For more information about these workshops, contact Bakula Maniar financialliteracydir@aauw-ca.org

At the AAUW CA convention held April 30-May2, new officers and directors were elected by the members in attendance.

Co-Presidents (2010-2012)          Judy Pfeil and Gloria Taylor         

Vice President (2010-2011)          Sue Miller

Secretary (2010-2012)          Laurie Dennen (floor nomination)

CFO (2010-2011)          Bakula Maniar  (floor nomination, withdrew from Director race)

Director (2010-2012)        Ginny Hatfield

Director (2010-12)        Lorelei Self

Director (2010-2012)        Harriet Tower

Director 2010-2011)        Sherry Ludwig

Continuing directors with one year (2010-2011) remaining in their terms are:

Kris Downey, Cathy Foxhoven, Jo Harberson, Anne Henke, Carlynne McDonnell, Shelley Mitchell, Megan Smock.

We regretfully announce that the Gloria Weston Campus Outreach Program scheduled for Monday, April 19th at the Claremont Colleges, has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

We hope to be able to reschedule the event.

Rozanne Child, AAUW-CA AAUW Funds Director