AAUW sponsored a Bisnow event about women in media that took place this past Tuesday morning, just hours before our monthly happy hour Cocktails and Convos. Before the panel discussion featuring Gannett President Gracia Martore, PBS CEO Paula Kerger, and PBS NewsHour Anchor Judy Woodruff, AAUW Chief of Marketing and Communications Cindy Miller spoke about [...]
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The Cameras Just Keep Rolling
Posted in A Women's Nation, AAUW in the News, Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund, Bisnow, c-span, Cindy Miller, Cocktails and Convos, Community Action Grants, Gracia Martore, Holla Back DC!, Holly Kearl, Judy Woodruff, Martha Ann Miller, media, news, Paula Kerger, PBS, politics, Washington D.C., Washington Post, women leaders on August 15, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Project Profile: Sisters Empowering Sisters
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Community Action Grants, domestic violence, Following the Fellows, mentor, Project Profile on September 25, 2009, | 1 Comment »
On August 27, after a three-week delay, Chris Brown’s sentence for his felony assault conviction was handed down: five years’ probation and 180 days of community labor. He was convicted of abusing the singer Rihanna, repeatedly punching her in the face and threatening to kill her. Teenagers nationwide followed the story on TV and in [...]
Help SAFER Make College Campuses Safer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Sexual Harassment, tagged Community Action Grants, contest, SAFER, sexual assault on September 4, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Last year AAUW supported the amazing organization Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) through our Community Action Grants program. The grant helped SAFER develop the online College Sexual Assault Policies Database, which provides information about schools and their sexual assault policies and programs. The database gives students a chance to see examples of sexual assault [...]
Project Profile: Community, Empowerment, Leadership, and Self-Awareness (CELA)
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged CELA, Community Action Grants, Community Empowerment Leadership and Self Awareness, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, KIPP, project, project profiles on May 15, 2009, | 1 Comment »
KIPP is a San Francisco Bay area public middle school established in 2003 that boasts the highest performance rate of all middle schools in San Francisco. Programs like Community, Empowerment, Leadership, and Self-Awareness (CELA) have helped KIPP excel. The goal of CELA, a 2006–08 Community Action Grant project, was to give girls “the space to [...]
Addressing Sexual Assault on College Campuses
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, tagged college, Community Action Grants, rape, SAAM, sexual assault, sexual assault awareness month on April 8, 2009, | 2 Comments »
One course I am taking as part of my master’s in international media and conflict resolution is Communication and Social Change. This hands-on course provides students practical skills through the planning and implementation of a social change (social marketing) campaign over the course of one semester. The issue we chose to focus on for the [...]
Project Profile: 2002–03 Girl Scout Summer Day Camp
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Community Action Grants, Educational Programs, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Girl Scouts, grants and awards, Marianne North, project profiles, STEM on October 24, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
In a recent interview, 2002–03 Community Action Grantee Marianne North talked about her work with the Girl Scout/Tech Trek Summer Day Camp in Wyoming. An active AAUW member, having served as both a branch and a state president, Marianne was familiar with the research findings that men are more likely than women to choose STEM [...]
Project Profiles: Latina Fashionista
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women & Economic Security, tagged college and career opportunities, Community Action Grants, fashion, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, fga, Following the Fellows, graduation, grants, Grants & Awards, High School, Latina, project profiles, Research and Grants on September 26, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
The first grant Roseanna Garcia, 2007–08 Community Action Grantee, ever wrote was to AAUW for her project Latina Fashionista, aimed at helping Latina youth understand college and career opportunities for minority women interested in the fashion industry. She told me she couldn’t believe it when she received the large acceptance envelope in the mail. The [...]
Introducing Project Profiles
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Community Action Grants, Community Action Projects, Fellowships and Grants, fga, Grants & Awards, project profiles, Research and Grants, STEM on September 5, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
As a kid, I didn’t spend summers in front of the TV — there was never time. If I wasn’t at 4-H or church camp, I was wading through the local creek studying crayfish with a high school science group or riding horseback through the Sierra Nevada Mountains with the Girl Scouts. These experiences not [...]
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