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Archive: Advocacy Skills

Summer 2009 Tar Heel News

This issue of the AAUW NC newsletter includes information on the spring convention, the summer meeting, public policy updates, and more.

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Six Key Requirements for Effective Collaboration

These tips came from a STEM-related event, but apply in a much broader context.

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Thanks to the branches who used the Young Advocates Toolkit

This project encouraged collaboration with local campuses and building the students’ advocacy skills.

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Feedback request: Young Advocates Project

Request for feedback on the Young Advocates Toolkit Project.

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Presentation to the NC Community College SGA

Here are the slides that Mary Peterson and Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo used at the presentation to 27 Community College Student Government Association student leaders on Friday, Nov. 2, in Raleigh.

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Presentation on the Young Advocates Toolkit

Slides for the presentation Mary Peterson and Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo made at the AAUW NC meeting on October 20.

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Fall 2007 Tar Heel News has been posted

The Fall edition of the AAUW NC newsletter, the Tar Heel News, has been posted. Highlights include

A Women’s History Quiz (with answers)
Information on the Young Advocates Toolkit project
A directory of state and branch leaders (available to members)
Information on the Fall meeting in High Point, October 19-20

See www.aauwnc.org/00THN

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Advocacy Skills Training Project resources

As previously announced, AAUW NC is partnering with the Action for Children NC to distribute their Young Advocates Toolkit, especially on the campuses across the state.

Here’s additional information about how the branches can participate in this project.

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College/University representatives in North Carolina

College/University partners are institutional members of the Association. Each campus may name a faculty or staff member as its representative to the “broader” AAUW efforts. The representatives are encouraged to tap the branch resources when that makes sense, and the branches may contact the representatives with information about projects such as the Youth Advocacy ToolKit.

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Information on the Young Advocates Toolkit project

Mary Peterson and Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo introduced the Young Advocates Toolkit project to the attendees at the AAUW NC 2007 summer meeting. This project is funded in part by an AAUW public policy impact grant and is a collaboration with NC Action for Children. All branches are encouaged to use the project to make connections to at least one local campus with this project whose goal is empowerment of the students.

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