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Empowering women in Michigan

AAUW has been empowering women as individuals and as a community since 1881. For more than 130 years, we have worked together as a national grassroots organization to improve the lives of millions of women and their families.

AAUW of Michigan Mission

AAUW advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

AAUW’s Vision

Equity for all.

AAUW’s Values

Nonpartisan. Fact-based. Integrity. Inclusion and Intersectionality.

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Public Policy and Advocacy

AAUWMI’s public policy and advocacy work seeks to empower women and girls in Michigan.

AAUW Public Policy Priorities	Be a Two-Minute Activist!	Michigan Voter Information Center
AAUWMI Public Policy Principles	AAUW's Policy Center	Connect with State Government
Public Policy Director's Message	AAUW's Advocacy Toolkit	Connect with Your US Legislators
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Branch Leadership Playbooks

AAUW of Michigan is producing a series of branch leadership playbooks to assist branch officers and the collaborative teams they assemble, both formal and informal, to assist in performing their responsibilities. These playbooks are designed to be scalable for use by small, medium, and large branches. We hope the playbooks will help branches recruit new officers by making the jobs appear manageable, satisfying, and occasionally even fun. We welcome suggestions for updates and additions to future versions of the playbooks. Please send comments to .

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Community Connection

Welcome to the Community Connection, a place to view our e-blasts from your state organization. We promise to keep theCommunity Connection short, timely, and geared toward our members (that’s YOU) with what YOU might want to know or do to be an active AAUW member.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Toolkit

The AAUW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) resources in the DEI Toolkit aim to identify best practices for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within AAUW. These resources present guidelines for how AAUW branches, national members, student members and individual members can demonstrate an understanding of AAUW’s mission, values, goals and strategic plan. It is meant to start the inclusion conversation. We encourage all members to seek ways to incorporate inclusive practices into their branches and daily life.

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AAUW of Michigan Webinars

AAUW of Michigan presents Webinars on topics related to our mission. See some of our most recent presentations below. Find our complete archive of recordings on YouTube. For information about upcoming webinars and other events, see our calendar.

Revisiting the 2022 Election and the Future of Democracy, 2/9/2023

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Ranked Choice Voting for Michigan, Ron Zimmerman of Rank MI Vote, 9/14/2023

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As we near the 250th birthday of the U.S., we are pushing back on the impulse to mythologize our country's history and ignore the darker parts of our past. The Declaration of Independence inspires complicated emotions for many Americans. Yesterday we focused on reasons why African Americans might find July 4th celebrations difficult. Today we want to consider how Native Americans might think about the 4th of July and the Declaration of Independence, which refers to their ancestors as "merciless Indian Savages."Rebecca Nagle is a citizen of Cherokee Nation, an award-winning native rights advocate, journalist, and writer. She has a new podcast called First America. The first episode, titled "Merciless Indian Savages," recounts how the Declaration of Independence is essentially a breakup letter listing all the reasons why the American colonies decided to end their relationship with the King of England. According to Nagle, many scholars believe that the order of the grievances is from least consequential to most important. The complaint about the "merciless Indian Savages" is the final grievance in the long litany and the issue that the colonists were most mad about. The British were blocking White settlers from further western expansion because they were reserving that land for the Indigenous peoples. Colonists were eager to remove the Native people in order to move into those territories themselves. When you understand this history, it's easy to understand why today's Native Americans might choose not to participate in July 4th observances. You can listen to the podcast here: www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/first-america#episodes If you prefer to read, here's a transcript of an interview with Rebecca Nagle discussing the podcast: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/06/30/history-of-america-founding-native-americans#IndependenceDay #250thAnniversary #4thofJuly #nativeamericans Image credit: Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=621811 ... See MoreSee Less

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