Welcome!

Join us for an informal Happy Hour
Thursday, November 21st, 4 p.m. at Jake’s Grill, 611 SW 10th Ave.
Enjoy conversation over special drinks and a selection of bar foods (no host event).
RSVP to portlandaauw@gmail.com by Tuesday, November 19th.

Save the Date:

Holiday Luncheon
Thursday, December 5, 1:00 p.m.
Mother’s Bistro, 121 SW 3rd Ave.
https://www.mothersbistro.com/

RSVP to portlandaauw@gmail.com before Saturday, November 30th.

Our speaker will be Lisa Schroeder, C.C.P., executive chef and owner of Mother’s Bistro. Lisa was named the 2023 Small Businessperson of the Year in Oregon. In 2009, she was named Civil Rights Champion by the Oregon Bureau of Labor Industries. She is one of the founders of the Bridges of Hope Campaign for the Bradley Angle House, honorary chair of the Our House Dinner Series, represented downtown small businesses on the Street Access for Everyone (S.A.F.E.) Committee and frequently donated her time to a variety of other local organizations such as Basic Rights Oregon, the Cascade AIDS Project, and Taste of the Nation.

 

Please Donate to our Branch Scholarship at PCC

Every year Portland Branch actively raises funds for our scholarship endowment at Portland Community College. Our local scholarship is administered by the PCC Foundation and goes to a returning student in the STEM field, who demonstrably supports the mission of AAUW, and who has plans to transfer to a 4-year institution.
PCC welcomes every student who wants to learn and provides exceptional support to help them create better futures for themselves, their families and their communities. Scholarships remove financial barriers for students, empowering them to focus on what truly matters: their education, their goals and their futures.
As you know, only the interest is used for scholarships from an endowment, leaving the principal intact. But our endowment was established only recently, so the principal is still quite small and our scholarship was minimal this year*. We need to continue donating to our endowment so we can provide more help to students.

Please make our endowment grow by adding your annual donation**. Click HERE to give online or mail your check to PCC Foundation, P.O. Box 19000, Portland, OR 97280. Be sure to indicate that it is for “AAUW Portland Endowed”.

Thank you!

* Endowment balance and scholarship amount are available upon request.
**Are you over 70 1/2 and subject to required minimum distribution from your IRA?  If so, you can direct your IRA administrator to distribute a tax-free gift directly to the PCC Foundation, which reduces your taxed RMD amount.

 

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Program Theme for 2024-25 is “Civic Engagement”.

At its start, the mission of Portland Branch was to provide a place where women with college degrees could socialize, and to raise money for a scholarship to support a high school girl to go to the state university. Today, it remains fundamentally the same: to provide opportunities to meet and make friends, and to support our local colleges and the community. We invite you to join us!