Support the 2010 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders to ensure that women can attend a conference that encourages them to be successful leaders and gives them the skills to do so. Make the 25th conference our best one yet!
Your support enables the AAUW community to present outstanding student leader conferences. In 2009, more than 400 women from 44 states, the District of Columbia, Jamaica, and Tibet attended NCCWSL. Many students attended through scholarships that you — AAUW's members, branches, and states — funded. Nearly 70 additional students received scholarships from the generous gifts you made to the NCCWSL Scholarship Fund.
To view pictures and hear testimonials of 2009 scholarship recipients, click here.
In 2010 we expect even more women to attend the conference. To make the 25th NCCWSL a success and to ensure that limited financial means are not a barrier to women who want to develop their leadership potential, your support is needed more than ever this year.
For detailed information that explains how you can support the 2010 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, either as an individual AAUW member or with your branch and state, read the NCCWSL Program in a Box.
In brief, here are three great ways that you, branches, and states can support women student leaders and this unique, leadership-building conference:
- Pay the registration fee and help with transportation expenses for a college student from your community to attend the conference. Many individual members, branches, and states allocate funds to provide local scholarships; you may want to consider allocating funds to send a student from your community to the conference. When the students you are sponsoring register online, they should indicate that their payment will be made by check. You can then mail in a check made payable to AAUW – NCCWSL Registration and identify the names of these students you are supporting. Please remember that, because you are paying a fee for a specific individual, this payment is not tax deductible.
- Make a tax-deductible gift to National Conference for College Women Student Leaders Fund. Make checks payable to AAUW Funds – NCCWSL. In the memo section, please write Fund 2505. By donating to this fund, you ensure a high-quality conference for every attendee, and your gift is fully tax deductible.
- Make a tax-deductible gift to the NCCWSL Scholarship Fund. Make checks payable to AAUW Funds – NCCWSL Scholarships. In the memo section, please write Fund 2504. Of course, your gift is fully tax deductible. The Scholarship Committee uses this money to provide scholarships to as many deserving women as possible. Preference is given to women who have financial need. Women who want to be leaders should not be left out of this important conference because they cannot afford to attend.
Please mail all checks and forms to
AAUW
P.O. Box 98045
Washington, DC 20090-8045
Note: If you are contributing specifically to the Ruth Z. Sweetser NCCWSL Scholarship Fund, please make checks payable to AAUW Funds and write Sweetser Fund on the memo line. To contribute online, visit our secure website and choose from the Other Special Funds drop-down menu.
Need to know more? Here are some important facts about the 2010 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders:
- In recognition of NCCWSL's 25th anniversary in 2010, the conference will feature special events to celebrate our dedication to young women's leadership.
- The conference will take place June 3-5, 2010, at the University of Maryland, College Park.
- The conference features more than 50 dynamic workshops, high-profile keynote speakers, networking opportunities, community service projects, and an opportunity to meet and visit with Women of Distinction award recipients.
- Individuals, branches, and states that support the conference will be recognized on the conference website, in the program book, on signs at the event, in electronic mailings to members, and in a future issue of AAUW Outlook magazine.
- Some students who receive conference scholarships make presentations about the conference for the branches and/or states that support them.
- AAUW keeps track of conference alumnae after the event. NCCWSL alumnae stay in touch with AAUW through Facebook. This is an engaging and exciting way to get young women involved with AAUW.
- Campus Action Project winners will attend the conference and will present projects that engage young women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- In 2009, students from 44 states, the District of Columbia, Jamaica, and Tibet attended the conference.
- Of the 2009 attendees who completed the NCCWSL evaluation, 83 percent said they would like to attend again and nearly half of the attendees asked for more information about AAUW!
For more information, visit www.nccwsl.org or contact Connect2AAUW at 800/326-AAUW (2289).
Thank you for your support of the 25th NCCWSL!
