Financial Literacy for Equal Pay Day

Posted At : March 31, 2013 9:40 AM

 April 9 is “Equal Pay Day” and to coincide with that throughout California, we are having workshops for both our projects. Following are some of those workshops of Money Trek Project and $tart $mart.

  • March 25: $tart $mart workshop at CSU Northridge – 30 students, three AAUW CA Directors and two Faculty members were present.  Barbara Brogan and Lynn Janeway facilitated the workshop.
  •  April 6: $tart $mart Workshop at Mount San Jacinto College in Manifee
  •  April:  $tart $mart workshop at Humboldt State University in Arcata
  •  April 7:  Money Trek Overview is scheduled for Tustin Branch
  •  May 4: San Jose Branch along with Santa Clara County Office of Women’s Policy is presenting a “Strong Girls/ Strong Women” conference for girls of which a forty five minutes segment is given to Money Trek Module 1 & 2

Numerous other workshops are scheduled by branches that have not reported them to us.

Roseville-South Placer Has Campus Visibility

Posted At : March 6, 2013 7:02 AM

 Roseville-South Placer branch leadership directors, Michele Stark and Sue Orvis, maintain AAUW visibility on campus at Sierra College as they continue their campus connections with the faculty, administrators. 

  • Last fall they presented four $tart $mart workshops in Career Planning and Sociology classrooms. 
  • Sierra College signed a 3-year contract with WAGE (Women Are Getting Even) which entitles the campus to unlimited offerings of $tart $mart.

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$tart $mart in The New York Times!

Posted At : December 18, 2012 8:50 AM

After publication of the new AAUW report, “Graduating to a Pay Gap,” and the Watch Party at UC Merced, $tart $mart has now been featured in the Business Section of the New York Times. Click HERE to read the article.

 
$tart $mart Campus Initiative is a partnership between WAGE and AAUW.  AAUW California selected this project to be part of our Financial Literacy Program to bring pay equity by teaching our young college women to speak out and ask for what they deserve when they go for their first professional job interview. 
 
Using our Community Action Grant and working for three years, AAUW CA has trained many members to be Facilitators and twenty-two workshops all over California have trained many students. Now two members who worked with WAGE and AAUW CA to become Field Managers are our State Coordinators. If you are planning a $$ workshop please let them know.
 
North: Elena Noble from Pleasant Hill-Martinez branch mailto:enoble@aauwca.org 
South: Tracey Clark from Santa Ana-Orange mailto:tclark@aauw-ca.org 
 
Our second project is Money Trek Project (HERE), which is our own design. Branches may use it at no cost for workshops to improve the basic financial literacy of our college students.  Financial Literacy is a Mission Based State Program of AAUW CA. If you have questions about either project, please contact Financial Literacy Director, Bakula Maniar bmaniar@aauw-ca.org

$tart $mart Brings Financial Literacy to Women and Girls

Posted At : September 26, 2012 7:10 AM

Bakula Maniar, Financial Literacy Director, reports that the $tart $mart Campus Initiative Project is progressing very well throughout the state. More than 125 AAUW California members have been trained as facilitators who can approach their nearby colleges about presenting workshops. We used our AAUW Community Action Grant to give more than twenty-two workshops in the last two years and now we will fund the workshops ourselves.

 
We have two Regional Field Managers who will work closely with WAGE, under our Financial Literacy Program, to coordinate $tart $mart workshops and report to the board.  
  • Northern Cal, Elena Noble (Pleasant Valley) enoble@aauw-ca.org. Elena's team member is Barbara Brogan (San Luis Obispo) 
  • Southern Cal, Tracey Clark (Anaheim) tclark@aauw-ca.org.  Tracey works with Eunis Christensen (San Diego).
 
If you need information to plan a Financial Literacy program, we are all ready to support you, guide you and if necessary do a workshop for you. Please contact Bakula bmaniar@aauw-ca.org.
 

Money Trek is Rolling Out!

Posted At : August 30, 2012 10:32 AM

Is your branch looking for an exciting new program? Many AAUW members who attended the Financial Literacy convention workshop on our Money Trek project were very excited and eager to bring it to their branches.

The training modules have been posted on this website in the Forms & Documents section (HERE).  All six modules are in Power Point format, ready for you to present in the community or in your branch. You can also modify the modules to fit the needs of your audience. We hae prepared a workbook that will be on the website within weeks. 

There are no program fees and anyone can present the workshop.
 
We have two team members who can guide you on how to present Money Trek workshop. 
Jan Cook (Victor Valley Branch)
Ursula Garrett (San Jacinto Branch) 
 

$tart $mart is a Huge Success

Posted At : June 2, 2012 8:01 PM

Director Bakula Maniar says, "$tart $mart Campus Initiative has progressed beyond our expectations! Our WAGE trainer has presented nine training workshops at four-year colleges around the state, and our trained facilitators presented four more in northern California during the week of “Equal Pay Day” to increase awareness that a woman still makes only 77% of what a man makes and we have a long way to go." 

Needless to say, many students were trained as well as many AAUW members, college faculty members,and community members who passionately believe in pay equity.

The workshops were held at CSU Fresno, CSU East Bay, San Jose State,and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

 

We are happy to train members who can help us to carry on the programs in community colleges too. If you want to know more please contact Bakula at financialliteracydir@aauw-ca.org

   

$tart $mart Offers Facilitator Trainings in April

Posted At : March 18, 2012 2:58 PM

$tart $mart for Equal Pay 

If are you passionate about “Equal Pay”, you have one last chance this year to get trained as a facilitator for $tart $mart. The facilitators’ training will prepare you to train students on how to negotiate salary and benefits when taking a new job. 

Choose one of the locations from the list below and fill in the Registration Form, found on the website in Forms & Documents (click HERE) and send it with your check to the contact person for that location to reserve your spot. We have a limited number of seats as colleges are requesting the attendance of their own staff to be trained.            

Mon April 16  9 -3:00  at CSU-Fresno,  Jan Drenth,   acybrarian@gmail.com

Wed April 18  3 -7:30 at CSU East Bay,  Jean Simutis,   jean.simutis@csueastbay.edu

Fri   April 20   9 -3:00 at  San Jose State,  Linda Baliman,  lbaliman@comcast.net

Sat. April 21    9 -3:00 at Cal Poly SLO,  Lynn Janeway,   lynnjaneway24@gmail.com

 

For more information, contact Bakula Maniar, Financial Literacy Director 

Financial Literacy Projects Going Strong!

Posted At : February 23, 2012 1:25 PM

Bakula Maniar, Financial Literacy Director, reports that both Financial Literacy projects are moving forward.

Money Trek  Two Money Trek workshops have been presented recently,  on January 21 to our student affiliates at Mt San Jacinto College and on February 12 to girls aged 12-18, an Advisory Committe for the Santa Clara County Office of Women's Policy.

A third one is scheduled for the same girls in Santa Clara County on March 13.

The Financial Literacy Committee will present a Money Trek workshop at our state convention in April.

$tart $mart  Four facilitator training workshops were held in November in So. California and five more are scheduled.

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$tart $mart Workshops in Southern California

Posted At : October 14, 2011 7:00 PM

Currently Scheduled Workshops

Nov 10 12:00-5:00 CSU San Marcos
Nov 12 9:00-3:00 CSU Channel Islands
Nov 14 9:00-3:00 UC Irvine
Nov 16 9:00-3:00 UC Riverside

 

Annie Houle, WAGE trainer, will conduct training workshops for AAUW members and students in Southern California in November.

For complete information about this Financial Literacy program and these upcoming workshops, please click HERE.

It's Program Planning Time; Financial Literacy Can Help!

Posted At : June 13, 2011 7:22 PM

Are you looking for a new, exciting and challenging branch program for next year? Financial Literacy offers two new mission based programming ideas. After the recent economic debacle Financial Literacy is everywhere from White House to Wall Street to Main St.

To provide young women with proper tools to face the world once they get out of the college, we came up with two programs. The first program is  “Basic Personal Money Management” for students in the first two years of college. The second program, for graduating students, is called “$tart $mart”.  AAUW presents the program in partnership with WAGE (Women Are Getting Even).

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Financial Literacy: $tart $mart Presented Three Workshops

Posted At : March 25, 2011 9:42 AM

Financial Literacy’s $tart $mart program completed three workshops in March. The program is designed to provide college students with the information needed to bridge the “Gender Wage Gap”. Director Bakula Maniar is pleased that the program is off to a good start and says it was thrilling to see how hungry the students are for financial literacy.

Pictured above, clockwise from the upper left, are: 1) Sierra College students, with local AAUW members and Annie Houle, registering for the workshop; 2) students and members role-playing at Sierra workshop; 2) Director Bakula Maniar, three student sisters at Mt. San Jacinto College with Houle; 4) Houle conducting the training at Mt. San Jacinto.

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