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.

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’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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Financial Literacy $tart $mart

Get Training at Workshops in March!

• Near Sacramento: Friday, March 18, from 1:00-6:00, at Sierra College, in Rocklin, near Roseville and about 30 miles east of Sacramento.  Registration form HERE.

• Southern CA: Saturday, March 19, at 9 A.M. at Mt. San Jacinto College in Manifee, located south of Riverside. Registration form HERE.

Donna Lilly           donnalilly@roadrunner.com

Annie Houle from WAGE(Women Are Getting Even), a non-profit organization, will lead the student workshop and train the facilitators. . Please complete  the registration form and e-mail back to us. 

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

On September 26, 9:00-5:30, at CSU Sacramento the Sacramento Branch joins many like minded organizations to present their 3rd annual Money Wi$e Women conference as a community outreach program on Financial Literacy for women and girls.

This is the best investment money can buy for our members. The registration fee includes Marcia Brixey's book "Money Therapist" and lunch. 

I encourage all the branches in the area to attend it.  For more information please click here for the flyer or contact Financial Literacy Committee member Gail Reed: gail@gailreed.com

Bakula Maniar, Financial Literacy Director

San Diego Branch of AAUW is presenting a Mother's Day gift for San Diego women with a workshop on May 9th,  "Seven Life Defining Financial Decisions".  This Financial Literacy workshop is designed to empower women from first job through retirement. For more information please click here to see the flyer or get in touch with Eunis Christensen, President of San Diego Branch at eunis@aauwsandiego.org.

Eunis, a member of the Financial Literacy Committee  also did a presentation on March 21 in Simi Valley Branch with Simi Valley branch member Marietta Spotts. It was a very interesting session concerning Financial Literacy on Retirement and how it impacts women. The outline and material used for this session can be duplicated by anyone who has some basic knowledge of insurance, investment and health care needs. You can get in touch with Eunis at eunis@aauwsandiego.org  to get more information.

Bakula Maniar
AAUW CA Financial Literacy Director

Congratulations to Ginny Hatfield and the San Fernando Valley Branch!

To celebrate Financial Literacy month the SFV branch showcased a very successful Financial Literacy 101 pilot project on April 2nd. Three AAUW CA Directors volunteered and had the great pleasure of doing a worthwhile community service while fulfilling AAUW’s vision of education, research and advocacy.

Junior Achievement provided a daylong workshop with the collaboration of a number of entities and provided the facility used. Four high schools of the L.A. Unified School District participated by sending more than eighty students from their 11th and 12th grade classes.

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