Welcome to AAUW’s Harrisburg, Pennsylvania branch. AAUW is an organization of more than 100,000 members who value education and equal rights — and together provide a powerful voice for women and girls.
NEXT EVENT
Wednesday, June 19: Free Screening of the film Miss Representation, co-sponsored by AAUW Harrisburg. Click here for details.
NEWS: GATEWAY TO EQUITY AWARD
The Harrisburg Branch of AAUW honored Kathy Silks with the Gateway to Equity Award on March 23rd. Kathy’s life work has been dedicated around the foundational values held dear to AAUW: equity for women through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. She is a long-time member of AAUW (1978) and has worked many years raising funds for AAUW’s Educational Foundation. More….
ABOUT US
Formed in 1921, AAUW Harrisburg is a branch of the AAUW national organization. Our mission is advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research.
Many know of AAUW locally through our support of scholarship and community programs. Our scholarship program helps assists local college students as well as women returning students. We also support national AAUW scholarships and research toward educational equity for women and girls.
The branch program calendar and special interest and community service groups offer more than one hundred local activities over the membership year. Read More
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
The American Association of University Women was founded in 1881 by a group of 17 women who defied conventions of the times and earned college degrees. Founders Marion Talbot and Ellen H. Richards envisioned an organization uniting female college graduates to play it forward, helping other women attain higher education and finding opportunities to put their education and training to use. Read More