AAUW Fund – Internal

As a branch leader or member of a Fund Committee, you play a key role in educating members, branch leaders and the community about the benefit of donating to AAUW Funds.

These tools are provided to help you.

How to Support AAUW’s Mission

Thank you for promoting equity for women and girls by supporting AAUW’s critical work! When supporting the following funds, you give AAUW the ability to carry out its bold, strategic vision for the future.

Note: FY26 Five-Star Criteria includes the following funds

9110-AAUW Greatest Needs Fund
  • The Greatest Needs Fund is a vital source of unrestricted support that allows AAUW to respond quickly and effectively to emerging challenges and opportunities. When you support the Greatest Needs Fund, you enable AAUW to sustain core operations, advocacy efforts, and program expansion. You support initiatives like economic empowerment programs, voter engagement campaigns, and policy advocacy, ensuring AAUW can amplify its impact, adapt to evolving needs, and continue leading the fight for gender equity. Your contributions to this fund are crucial for AAUW’s agility and long-term sustainability, empowering the organization to drive meaningful change. These funds are carefully managed to maximize impact, ensuring every dollar serves AAUW’s mission.
4513 – Defend Higher Education
  • The Defend Higher Education Fund will enable AAUW to elevate the critical higher education issues impacting women, mobilize advocates across the country, provide strategic resources to students, staff and faculty on campus, and fuel investments in the infrastructure and technology necessary to move our mission forward. Your support ensures AAUW can effectively fight on behalf of women on campuses across the country and ensure that AAUW remains a trusted and powerful voice for equity.
4514 – Public Policy General
  • The Public Policy Fund is focused on increasing the impact of our Action Network through growing the number of advocates across the country and providing timely, accurate, and actionable information about our key issues. This fund helps equip branches across the country with timely, customized talking points on core policy issues like Title IX, student debt, and pay equity. Support to this fund enables AAUW to reach and energize new advocates-strengthening our collective impact in the fight for gender equity in education and the workplace.

Contributions to AAUW are fully tax-deductible and can be sent to the address below or made online at www.aauw.org/contribute.

P.O. Box 98045

Washington, DC 20090-8045

800.326.2289 | connect@aauw.org

www.aauw.org