Mardi Gras Fundraiser

Our annual Scholarship Fundraiser was a great success!

Thanks to all of you for your support and participation.

Our Mardi Gras event was attended by 185 people. They were entertained with the music provided by the Hamilton High School Maroon Jazz. Justina Burks spoke about the importance of the collaboration between Chandler Gilbert Community College and AAUW. Guests enjoyed the specialty drinks, and the room was filled with lively chatter.

There were 21 raffle baskets, 17 silent auction baskets, and a 25/75% cash raffle. Almost $12,000 dollars was raised!

Many young women will benefit from our AAUW SEV efforts.

Holiday Funds Luncheon – December 2024

Our December Red Envelope Fundraising Brunch was another successful event. A Big Thank You to the planning committee of Susan Bliss, Karen Bliss, and Beth Zdeblick. Thanks to Sharon Gale for allowing us to raffle her wonderful centerpieces and to Barb Moser for donating the raffle baskets for the San Marcos teacher manuals.

As part of the event, we honored the AAUW SEV Branch past presidents. We thank these women for sharing their talents and time with our branch. We appreciate each of you!

This Fall we raised enough money to provide San Marcos Elementary School with 11 teacher reading manuals.

San Marcos now owns eleven teacher manuals to support their reading curriculum! Carey Paulo, the reading specialist at San Marcos, shared the amazing news with the teachers, her principal, and even the office staff. To quote Carey, “We appreciate all of you at the Southeast Valley Branch of AAUW, and your efforts to raise the money for our teachers and students. You are amazing!”

The UFLI (University of Florida Literacy Institute) manuals will provide the San Marcos teachers with lesson plans, assessment profiles, center activities, apps, and decodable passages. So . . . not only do the teachers benefit and thank us, but most importantly, so do the students.

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