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| Community Action Grants provide seed money to women, AAUW branches, AAUW state organizations, and local community-based nonprofit organizations for innovative programs or nondegree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls. Recipients must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. |  | |
SEARCH FOR RECIPIENTS
Since the inauguration of the Research & Projects Fund in 1972, the Educational Foundation has provided support to hundreds of communities around the United States to advance education and equity for women and girls. Early projects focused on public interest issues, including women's struggles to balance home and work life, the establishment of women's resource centers on college campuses, and the emergence of women's political involvement in the antinuclear movement.
As the program evolved and grew, the Educational Foundation explored ways to strengthen support for community-based programs that further its mission. Projects have become increasingly collaborative and girl-focused, bringing together AAUW branches and local community groups, such as the Girl Scouts, YWCA, and Girls Incorporated, to support girls' healthy development and educational achievement.
The 2008 grant recipients are undertaking exciting projects, such as building a professional network for women living in rural Illinois, offering an afterschool program for at-risk girls to increase self-esteem, developing a residential computer camp to increase technology skills for young girls, and designing a school-based engineering program for girls that will encourage them to consider nontraditional careers.
The AAUW Educational Foundation thanks the following 2008 Community Action Grant panelists: Julia Triplett (MO), chair, Margo Hamm (KY), Kathy Kremer (MI), Shelley Mitchell (CA), and Mary Tyler Browne (NE) Guest Panelist: Augustine Pounds (MD).
