Hello new members! Welcome to our Southshore Branch New members get together with board members will be June 20 at 1:30 p.m. at Susan’s home, 373 Club Manor Drive, Sun City Center.  For more information AAUWSCCSouthShore@gmail.com

On Saturday April 1, these two AAUW (American Association of University Women) branches are presenting B.E.S.T.-X, Better Empowered Self Training Experience and Expo at the USF Marshall Center, Oval Theatre Room located at 4103Cedar Circle, Tampa. Everyone is invited to come out and enjoy an empowering and uplifting session on April 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., box lunch included.

The mission of AAUW is to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy. Our goal with the B.E.S.T.-X Women’s empowerment Conference is to bring more than 100 women in the Tampa Bay Area together for professtional development with a motivational speaker, network, and panel discussions on how to navigate transitions such as leaving or reentering the workplace, going back to school, making career changes or entering retirement. All will be inspired by our motivational speaker, Dr. Kimberly-Ventus Darks, , a motivational mogul that will bring us “Dr. Kim Experience.” The day will also include a salary negotiation information, business networking opportunity, and vendor booths as well as a takeaway souvenir booklet featuring local women owned businesses. In addition, there will be basic health screenings, which brings awarenss of the importance of women’s health.

Participants can register on Evenbrite at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/best-x-better-empowered-self-training-experience-and-
expo-tickets-465731093237. Cost of the conference is $40.

Registration by mail should include $40 check made out to AAUW Tampa Inc., at P.O. Box 172715, Tampa, FL 33672 with your name, email, and lunch preference (turkey, ham or veggie sandwich). Please send this before March 25, 2023 and notify aauwtampafinance@gmail.com.

We have an exciting year ahead for 2023.  In January we will hear from Lou Anne Rossdeutsher on how the Campaign Against Human Trafficking is providing shelter and help to women who were caught in that terrible web.  Then in February the Pelican Players will present their play “Murder at Flontrachet Vineyard on Sunday afternoon at Community Hall to help raise money for our scholarships and theirs.  In March we will honor as our Woman of Distinction Janet Smith, founder of Haven of Hope to help former women prisoners.  She will also tell us of her helping Ukranian families this past summer as they took refuge in Poland.

Our AAUW has been supporting HCC for years by giving 2-3 $1,000 scholarships to women who are at least 24 years old to give an opportunity for mature women to improve their lives through education. In March or 2021 our branch honored Dr. Jennifer China, president of the SouthShore HCC campus, as our Woman of Distinction. Since then we have had an even closer relationship and have been invited to be on the HCC advisory board.

The password to the members only section of this website is at the bottom of the emails distributing branch newsletters  and other branch distributions such as membership lists.

Several members have noced that their address, email or phone number is incomplete or incorrect on our members-only section and the lisng that was emailed out to members. Since we did not publish a printed directory this year, we are using the member database at AAUW Naonal for our directory. So, any missing or incorrect address, email, or phone number informaon needs to be updated with them.

At the top of the members only page, there is a a link to instructions to easily and quickly update you information on the AAUW.org website.

Alternavely, if you’re not comfortable doing the update that way, you can call AAUW at
at 800-326-2289 or email the request to connect@aauw.org

The Members-Only tab now has links to the branch bylaws and budget, in addition to the branch directory listing.  The password is at the bottom of branch emails. Click here to go to the members only tab.