The state of Virginia was awarded a Public Policy grant for 2011-12 of $1000.00 from our national office. This is a grant to improve the number of women as registered voters.
Each district was asked to recruit a minimum of 3 volunteers to work on this project. Volunteering involves the following:
1. There are monthly conference calls with all 15 states that were awarded grants.
2. There will be a 6-hour training which some states are tying to the statewide events/meetings this fall. Ours will be in April in Newport News - Friday April 20th. While we don't have an agenda with details yet we know the time frame. They will be hiring part-time field coordinators for each state. They will be based out of their homes and work on administrative and organizational duties to help us with voter registration drives. The grant is based on using the Woman-to-Woman voter turnout guide.
3. What we need are AAUW members that are interested and available in setting up a community campaign to register more voters. The training will be in late April so that means getting as organized as possible before that and being ready to move quickly next spring.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED by October 30th. If you would like to volunteer, please contact aauwcharlottesville@gmail.com
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