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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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Perks and Benefits of AAUW Membership

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
Key Executive Orders and Actions in Trump’s First 100 Days

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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 .

AAUW of Michigan Newsletters

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

Screen shot from Recruiting and Engaging Younger Members Panel Discussion Recruiting and Engaging Younger Members Panel Discussion, 6/26/2023

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

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For Women’s History Month, a team of reporters revisited women’s obituaries in The New York Times over the past 100 years. Not to rank them, retrofit them as heroes, but to re-examine them with the benefit of time and distance to see what was emphasized, what was minimized, what was maybe left unsaid."There were women whose deaths reopened arguments — figures who collided with power, scandal and reckoning. Their obituaries did not settle the debate; they extended it."There were women who survived and molded the aftermath of something history recognized for a moment: War. Displacement. Violence. Illness. The news cycle marched on. The cameras were packed up. These women went on living — sometimes for decades — carrying stories that outlasted the moment that briefly made them visible."There were firsts, onlys and lasts — barrier breakers whose achievements were framed as singular events that defined them, narrowing how they were remembered."There were women who reshaped culture from the margins, whose ideas traveled widely whether or not their names did."There were those for whom art could not be disentangled from life, whose creations, often read as confessions, were intrinsically connected to their identities."There were women who were introduced to the public in the shadows of famous men — wives, partners, collaborators, mothers — whose influence proved foundational, even when history saw them as supporting characters.Read their stories: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/06/obituaries/archives/notable-women-deaths-obituaries.html?u...#WomensHistoryMonth #womeninhistory #NotableWomen ... See MoreSee Less

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