Crucial Conversations Breakfast

Program: Crucial Conversations Breakfast

Speaker: Judith Waxman, Vice President of Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women’s Law Center

Co-sponsored by our friends at NCWU, NC NOW, and Women AdvaNCe
$5 fee & space is limited
CCL Training Room

 

Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Center for Community Leadership
711 Hillsborough St. Room #104 (map)
8:15 AM

Breakfast will be available at 8:00 AM

The Center for Community Leadership is in the Junior League of Raleigh building. There is parking behind the building — enter from St. Mary’s St.

October Branch Meeting

October Branch Meeting

Program: Be a Friend First (BFF) – anti-bullying program

Speaker: Shawna Peaks of Wake County division, Girl Scouts of the Coastal Pines

Shawna will speak on “Be a Friend First” (BFF), an anti-bullying program that the branch will deliver to scout troops in 2015.  Please feel free to bring a friend!

Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Center for Community Leadership
711 Hillsborough St. Room #104 (map)
5:30 – 7:00 PM

Light refreshments served at 5:15. Program starts at 5:30.

The Center for Community Leadership is in the Junior League of Raleigh building. There is parking behind the building — enter from St. Mary’s St.

September Meeting, 2014

September Meeting

Meeting of AAUW’s Raleigh/Wake County Branch

Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Center for Community Leadership
711 Hillsborough St. Room #104 (map)
5:30-7:00pm

Agenda:

  1. Welcome

2. Project Planning Team Report
Project Possibilities—both immediate and on the horizon
Ballot as (Female) Voice — Denny McGuire, Public Policy Chair, NC AAUW

• GOTV in November by means of a letter-writing campaign
• AAUW grant-funded campaign: Elect Her (on college campuses)

Mentoring youth & college women – Beth Norris, Branch Program Chair
Terry Wall, Branch Membership Chair

• YMCA Mentoring programs for Wake County school children
• Opportunities through NC Coastal Pines Girl Scouts
• Living-Learning Villages (residence life) at NC State
• NC 2020: RTP initiative funded by White House Science Fair

3. Discussion of Projects

4. Presentation of Slate of Officers
• President: Treka Spraggins, Wake County Public Schools
• Treasurer: Lisa Lowe, Lockheed Martin

5. Discussion and adoption of slate

6. Adoption of 2014-15 Calendar

7. Adjournment

The Center for Community Leadership is in the Junior League of Raleigh building. There is parking behind the building — enter from St. Mary’s St.

June Meeting

June Meeting

Program: Survey of Possibilities for Community Collaboration in the Year Ahead

We hope to get a reading from members (& friends & prospective members) on how to prioritize projects we have identified as consistent with AAUW’s mission.

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There will also be a brief recap of the Critical Issues Seminar on Public Education, hosted June 16 in Chapel Hill by the NC Council of Churches.  

Please feel free to bring a friend, as well as your own additional ideas for future programs and projects.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Center for Community Leadership
711 Hillsborough St. Room #104 (map)
6:00 – 7:30

Light refreshments served at 5:45. Program starts at 6:00.

The Center for Community Leadership is in the Junior League of Raleigh building. There is parking behind the building — enter from St. Mary’s St.

 

Celebration, *Remarkable Women, Remarkable YOU!, *

NC MomsRising and the American Association of University Women

Invite you to attend our Women’s History Month celebration

Remarkable Women, Remarkable YOU!

To be held Sunday, March 23rd from 1-3:30pm at the Marbles Children’s Museum in Raleigh.

To honor the accomplishments of women in history, as well as emphasize the work that still needs to be done to ensure economic security for families in North Carolina, NC MomsRising is planning a fun and educational event.

Many children love to play dress up, and what better way to look into the future than to ask our children: What do you want to be when you grow up?

While the children are learning about women’s progress and contributions, we will educate their parents about how they can get involved in ensuring that their daughters have the same opportunities as their sons. 50 years after the Equal Pay Act was signed, women still make only 77 cents to every man’s dollar, and for African American and Hispanic women it is even worse.

What can we tell our children about how their future dreams of being a doctor, a lawyer, or a teacher look for them in North Carolina? In 2012, median earnings for men in our state were $41,859 compared to $34,421 for women.

At the current rate, the pay inequality gap for women is not expected to close until

 Almost 45 more years of pay inequality for our daughters is simply not acceptable. Local elected officials will be present at the party and will read stories about remarkable women in history. We will have fun craft tables set up and activities for the children as well as snacks. Media will also be invited to attend.

It promises to be a fun and educational event for all!

 

Please email us if you’d like to help volunteer at this event! – lisalenorelowe_at_gmail_dot_com

OWL Potluck

OWL Potluck

Tuesday March 18th, 5PM at the Village Green Clubhouse in Cary

Please join us for a Potluck

Joan Robertson, former AAUW president, will be speaking.

There will be a joint meeting of OWL and AAUW at 5pm on Tuesday March 18 at the Village Green Clubhouse in Cary. Please bring food items for a potluck dinner, then we will celebrate our 2014 Wonderful Older Woman, Joan Robertson, who will tell us about her life. You do not need to RSVP – just come. 
 
Village Green Clubhouse is just off Maynard Rd., north of Cary Towne Center. From Cary Towne Blvd, turn right at the light onto Maynard Road, then shortly turn right on Village Greenway, go around the circle and turn on Kensington and you will see the clubhouse on the left just after Hampshire Ct on the right. A sign on the metal gate says “Private Pool For Village Green Residents.” 

The address for the clubhouse is:   826 Kensington Drive, Cary, NC 27511

Hope to see many of you there on Tuesday.
 

April Meeting

April Meeting

Treka Spraggins

will lead us in discussion of

Alarming patterns in use of force in Wake County Schools

Treka Spraggins is an AAUW member and an experienced Wake County educational specialist in school discipline, especially with reference to long-term suspension. Treka will guide us in a conversation about what has led to a federal inquiry into alarming patterns in use of force in Wake County schools.

The most recent issue of the  Independent Weekly includes a relevant article:  http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/federal-complaint-alleges-police-in-wake-county-schools-target-black-and-disabled-students/Content?oid=3902764

 

Tuesday, April 22, 2013
Center for Community Leadership
711 Hillsborough St. Room #104 (map)
5:15 – 7:00

Light refreshments served at 5:15. Program starts at 5:30.

The Center for Community Leadership is in the Junior League of Raleigh building. There is parking behind the building — enter from St. Mary’s St.

 

May Meeting

May Meeting

Speaker TBD

Primary School Education Issues

Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Center for Community Leadership
711 Hillsborough St. Room #104 (map)
5:15 – 7:00

Light refreshments served at 5:15. Program starts at 5:30.

The Center for Community Leadership is in the Junior League of Raleigh buidling. There is parking behind the building — enter from St. Mary’s St.

 

Chocolate for Change! AAUW is represented at NCSU’s annual Chocolate Festival.

On Friday, September 27 from 4 to 7pm, Friends of the Women’s Center—an NC State Foundation Fund—presented the 10th Annual Chocolate Festival. Four members of the Raleigh/Wake branch of AAUW were there: Barbara Ann Hughes, president; Denny McGuire, state treasurer; Terry Wall, membership; and Janet Weber, branch treasurer.

Chocolate flowed freely from a fountain and tables were lined with samples of truffles, decadent chocolate cakes and raspberry cream cradled by a shell of melt-in-your mouth milk chocolate.

The Chocolate Festival isn’t just about chocolate, however. It’s also about women—especially safeguarding women’s health with early detection of breast cancer. Attendees were provided with information about resources for women, including especially the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. AAUW was there not only in support of women’s health, but also to promote the optimal development of women all over the globe!

Festival guests were promised they could:

  • Learn more about breast cancer and other’s women’s issues. (Our literature addressed the salary gap and the presence of women in math and science careers.)
  • Find a special gift for someone at the silent auction
  • Purchase—and eat—quality chocolate from some of the Triangle’s finest vendors.

We happily informed undergraduates that their campus Women’s Center is a university affiliate of AAUW.  That means they enjoy free membership and get all the benefits thereof simply by staying in touch with educational exhibits and programs at the campus center.  

Advanced undergraduates and graduate students eagerly accepted our brochures about the Grants and Fellowships that are available on a competitive basis every year.  We invited faculty and staff to either affiliate with the center or come to our meetings on third Tuesdays at the Center for Community Leadership.  Several people signed up to get our emailed invitations to future meetings. On the whole, we were very glad we participated and will do so again in the future.

The annual Chocolate Festival is a fund-raiser for the NC State Women’s Center with a portion of the proceeds going to Breast Cancer Education and the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.