Tamara Brown
NYS Educational Foundation Vice President

Try one of these wonderful fundraising programs to help raise money for the Educational Foundation—and share YOUR great ideas with us! When planning your fundraising efforts, challenge your Branch to meet the Foundation's goal of $25 per member per year.

Equity Futures is a special way to support the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund for Women and Girls, a NYS vehicle for donating to the Foundation. An individual may want to honor or memorialize someone, and can do so with a $25 gift. A lovely card is sent to the family or honoree, naming the donor and explaining where the money will be used. Forms for ERF gifts are available and will be included in mailings to EF chairs.($500 is needed to name an honoree)

Can you think of a better way to have a birthday celebration for Eleanor Roosevelt in October than to sponsor an Eleanor Roosevelt Walk: Making Strides for Women and Girls? Open up the Walk/ Run to your community. Participants don't have to be AAUW members. Your Branch or several area Branches could sponsor a walk/run to benefit the ER Fund. The more people involved the better. Spread the word about what the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund is doing. Have everyone get as many sponsors as they can and don't forget corporate donors, it never hurts to ask. The Foundation has put together a walk/run kit to help with this. To find out more, contact the Foundation at (202) 728-7602 or foundation@aauw.org.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Fund pin campaign is another way members can help support this Foundation Fund. For a $100 donation to the ER Fund the donor receives the current pin and becomes a member of the Eleanor Roosevelt Honor Roll. They can honor or memorialize someone (a card is sent to the designated person) and the money goes to the ER Fund. This is an excellent way to honor or remember someone and also a way to support this important Fund. The purchase of four Equity Futures makes one a member of the ER Honor Roll. This has been a successful fund raiser in several NY State Branches.

Have a Branch anniversary coming up in the next decade? Several Branches have found that starting a new fellowship, grant or named unit creates an excellent goal and has been a great fund raising tool. NYS Educational Foundation Vice President has information on this or you can contact the Foundation.