Leadership: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Joan S. Monk Special Projects Director Summer Caze July 2015

NY/NJ WILD Project Women In Leadership Development MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Save the dates 3 rd 8 pm

7 Facts You Didn’t Know about Eleanor Roosevelt & AAUW October 31, 2014 By: Suzanne Gould Suzanne Gould AAUW is proud to have called Eleanor Roosevelt a member, supporter, and friend. It is, of course, impossible to list all of the ways the famous first lady connected with us over the years, so here are some of the highlights… 1. She joined AAUW in Her first speech to an AAUW audience was in She attended AAUW branch meetings throughout the country. 4. Her close friend was an AAUW leader in New York. 5. She believed that women were written out of history. 6. She spoke at the AAUW National Convention in 1959 on the United States as a Democratic Leader. 7. Eleanor Roosevelt and AAUW were a natural fit from the start! Thanks for the fond memories, Eleanor; you continue to inspire us! Read the entire article at: Leadership Yesterday

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United Nations Resolution 66/170 “Empowerment“Empowerment of and investment in girls are key in breaking the cycle of discriminationdiscrimination and violence and in promoting and protecting the full and effective enjoyment of their human rights” “

International Day of the Girl 2015 Information/Resources Application due July 31, Months of Action: May-Anti-bullying/June-Girls not Brides/July-See Jane Webcast info Rally Toolkit Events Toolkit Actions Toolkit – Working Group on Girls* International Day of the Girl Speak Out Nelson Mandela Day – July 18th

International Day of the Girl Background Information on International Day of the Girl The Girl Effect Create a Birthday Club for ER or Malala Get Girls Involved in National Model UN - NMUN Conferences Get Girls Involved in Leadership Let’s Hear It For The Girls – 11 Girls Everyone Should Know! 11 Days/Weeks/Months of Action in honor of ER & Malala Primer on Girls Issues* Individual/Personal Plan of Action Branch Plan of Action to Honor Eleanor/Celebrate IDG Additional Resources * from

11-12 Days/Weeks/Months of Action  Girlcott! Use your power as a consumer to force multi-national corporations to pay attention to you.  Make magazines pay for their dirty deeds. Peeved about negative portrayals of girls, say so!  Wear it on your sleeve. Make a statement about your personal passions.  Preach it, teach it! Reach out to others girls; share your knowledge & talents  Rule the school. Put yourself in a position of power.  Make sure the playing field is even. Know the score for gender equity at your school – share it.  Flip the switch on sexist entertainment. Do something audacious: change the channel!  There ‘oughta’ be a law. Contact your lawmakers to tell them what you want them to do!  Read them the riot act. Get into the habit of sounding off by writing letters to the editors!  Share your story, drop the shame. Stand up for yourself & other girls!  Be a link in the chain. Become part of a network of girls who are plugged into the world & watching out for girls in it.

Resources for Malala  10 Lessons We Can All Learn from Malala  AFT Human Rights Resources for the Classroom Lesson Plan – Stand with Malala for Girls Education World Wide  BBC Profile  Biography – Bio.  Great Titles about 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Malala Yousafzai  Celebrate Malala Day - July 12  TED Talk – My Daughter Malala by Ziauddin Yousafzai  Vanity Fair Article – April 2013  Study Guides for I am Malala  Malala Fund Infographics  Malala on You-tube  Malala Quotes  One Community – One Book  One Day Event – Buffalo Branch

One Community – One Book Interfaith Council LWV – The Courage to Do Good Library – Movie – Girl Rising Local Summit – Women, Education & Culture What are we doing in our community to help young women reach their potential? Friends of the Library – Empowering the World’s Women YWCA Collaboration – Youth Empowerment – The World We Want Hadassah – Three Viewpoints: The Literary, Sociological and the Jewish Perspective

“He Named Me Malala!” October 2, 2015 Directed by David Guggenheim An Inconvenient Truth Gracie The Road We’ve Traveled

Malala Celebrated Her 18th Birthday By Opening a Girls’ School On July 12, Malala opened a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon. “Today on my first day as an adult, on behalf of the world’s children, I demand of leaders we must invest in books instead of bullets, ” she said during a speech.Malala opened a school

An estimated 62 million girls worldwide are not in school, and half of those are adolescents. With that statistic in mind, the White House introduced a new education initiative — spearheaded by first lady Michelle Obama and the Peace Corps — dedicated to helping adolescent girls around the globe enroll in school and complete their educations.Michelle Obama The Perfect Partner for Peace Corps & Let Girls Learn

Celebrating Malala Day Community Picnic Intergenerational Book Club Outreach Walk/Run for Malala Essay Contest – She-roes for Human Rights Exploring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights #Campaigns – Stronger than/Stand with Malala/Books not Bullets Movie Night with an Action Plan Celebrate Human Rights Day with Malala “Gifts for Malala” – What can you do to support girls education? Let Girls Learn Malala inspires me to… Partner with UNA-USA to promote Model UN

NY/NJ State Project Summary – Leadership: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Branch_________________ Name /Board Position_____________________ Leadership: Yesterday Eleanor Roosevelt Today Malala Yousafzai Tomorrow Young Women & Girls Please list any mission based programs/projects/initiatives that you have developed during on the local or state level that furthers leadership development of women and girls and helps us to grow AAUW. Please forward this completed form to me by Friday, 3/15/16. (Supporting documentation -flyers, agendas, programs, evaluations and such can be included.) Send to or Joan Monk, 18 Devonshire Drive, Yorktown NY