Mary Peterson and Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo introduced the Young Advocates Toolkit project to the attendees at the AAUW NC 2007 summer meeting. This project is funded in part by an AAUW public policy impact grant and is a collaboration with NC Action for Children. All branches are encouaged to use the project to make connections to at least one local campus with this project whose goal is empowerment of the students.
Kay White, president of AAUW Chapel Hill, attended the Association Convention in Phoenix, but was not able to be at our summer meeting. Here is her report on the National Girls Collaborative Project Workshop
We’ll be talking more about the National Girls Collaborative Project at the AAUW NC Summer meeting, but the message I took from Phoenix was that the most important thing for branch members to do is to find the programs in our communities that are helping girls move towards science, technology, engineering and math and get…
Here’s the agenda for the meeting on Saturday, July 14, 2007: Agenda for July 14, 2007 You may also want to review the meeting rules (which includes a cheat sheet for RROR) and the list of members of the AAUW NC board. Note that the board meeting is scheduled to end at 10:00 and the…
Here are the financial reports for the July 14 meeting: 7/1/06 – 6/30/07 Actuals vs. Budget DRAFT of the FY07 Financial Report – this has not yet been reviewed Proposed FY08 Budget We will be voting to approve the budget at the Saturday morning board meeting.
Here are the minutes from the Spring Board Meeting – State Board Minutes from Convention on 4/20/07 To be approved at the 7/14/07 meeting in Gastonia.
The discussion and adoption of the 2007-2009 AAUW Public Policy program was an excellent example of the interplay between the proposals of the committee members and the strong feelings of the delegates. For an excellent summary of the discussion, see Sandy Kirkpatrick’s summary on the CA Online Blog.
I just got a phone call from Nancy Shoemaker and we have received the grant for our state project…I am excited and hope that you are too.Come to Gastonia and learn more about this project that should: Enable us to mentor young advocates Attract younger members who want to work on a project Work with…
Here’s a picture of most of our gang: Front: Millie, Nancy, Mary Fran Back: Lois, Sandy, Kay, Connie, Beth, Pam, Grace, Judy, Lola, Doris Yes, we’re having a good time! The convention dailies are online, and I’ll try to post more tomorrow…